@hahahahanothing I was mad searching for an answer to this problem. You helped me a lot. I was searching for a problem with Strawberry this is why I was not finding anything. Thanks

@friTTe
What OS and version of Strawberry is this?

I'm aware of an issue with the playlist row colors on Windows using the windows11 style. You can change the style in Settings / Apperance / Style, set the style to windowsvista, or turn of the alternating row colors like already suggested.

@jonas when is this likely to be? as i'm not happy going through the Windows mixer as it ruins the sound.
I'm quite happy to test out beta versions if you want a tester?
As it stands now I have bought the latest version which gives me no benefit than to the last free one for my use case.

@PhilipL

Flatpak is not just a version, it's a completely different packaging system on it's own which makes strawberry run in a sandbox environment, all features might not work and there might be restrictions such as permissions. I do not recommend it.
Linux Mint 22.1 is compatible with Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble), so you can use the PPA package repository (https://launchpad.net/~jonaski/+archive/ubuntu/strawberry) to get updates.

There isn't a sync with mobiles (where does it say that?), but you can manually copy or delete songs from a mobile phones supporting the MTP protocol. If you go on the the devices tab and double click to connect it, then you can go on the collection tab, right click on songs and select "Copy to device". In the the device tab you can delete songs by right clicking.

There isn't any help documents.

@paul2berry I thought I tried that . It did work as I wanted.
Thanks so much.

@MrDowntempo Personally what I like about strawberry is that it just works. Foobar is too much work to setup for a casual user to make it look good and make it functional!

@esophagus3289 said in I could not find the terminal code for installing Fedora or Almalinux. Can you help me? And . It's listed as free on Alternativeto. The download page asks for a "tip". Is it paid for Windows?:

This is not a bug. It's just about information that is not on the github page and not on the wiki page. I didn't manage to download it on Windows 11, so I installed WSL, I installed Almalinux.
I will install Strawberry on Almalinux 9 Cli OS. I don't know if Strawberry is available in the store. I can't open the GUI store because it's Cli. I want to install it (not compile) but I don't know the installation code.
"sudo dnf install strawberry" Is it true?
There is no information about this on your github page and wiki page. Can you add the information?

And

It's listed as free on Alternativeto. The download page asks for a "tip". Is it paid for Windows? Is the information in Alternativeto wrong? When I select free and Windows from the filters, Strawberry is listed. Should Alternativeto be corrected?
Free for Windows or $20?
If it is free, I couldn't find where and how to download it. Can you help me?

Expected behavior
If it is paid, the filter in alternativeto should be edited.
If it is free, it should be explained how and where we can download it.

It's $5 a/month sponsorship or $20 for one version, it's explained on the website: https://strawberrymusicplayer.org/#download
Since we have nothing to do with AlternativeTo, you need to report it there, but "Free" can also refer to "Free Software" as in freedom, not cost.

They voted to the delete the article. No-one added any reliable sources and the article was stripped for content by the same guy who nominated it for deletion.
The links on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Strawberry_(software) for "sources" points to "strawberry software", which obviously does not find much relevant for "Strawberry Music Player".
I think there are more references available than many other music players which has a wkipedia page, but I believe this is a result of the article being named incorrectly in the first place and lacking sources, no-one actually pointed to them in the time it was up for discussion.

Fortunately, it seems nobody broke their systems with the script. If there's no need of improvements, I'll put it on hold as a proof of concept, along with the attempts to the interspersed-track variants. Comments on this are welcome anytime.

For newer testers:

cd ~/tmp wget -O testscript https://pastebin.com/raw/Y2GxuzaY dos2unix testscript chmod a+x testscript less testscript # ---> mind the configurable countdown_step echo ; echo ./testscript -h

Hello,

Other users including me have had the same thought. I know some C++, so I will attempt to add more customization to the collection view in the coming months.

I am a student and I am quite busy, so I cannot promise anything yet.

Cheers,

About the aforementioned playlist behavior with cue sheets: now it correctly moves to the next track, but sometimes, after having played one from a regular file, it doesn't start the next one from a cue sheet, just stops playing.

When this has happened, Strawberry was not the active window; it had been some time without user interaction. The media files of the stopped tracks were both flac and mp3. I'll report if I find more info.

By the way, thanks also for fixing the UTF-8 encoding.

Just wanted to weigh in here to see if I could supply any useful info. I have been a Linux user for a long time and have just switched to Strawberry from Guayadeque, which is no longer maintained. I have a CD collection of about 1000 discs so I like to be able to sort things to my tastes to make searching easier

I have never used my music player to rip - maybe since you are coming from IOS that might be a feature of iTunes which is something you are used to? I have no experience with IOS except for a brief ownership of an iPod that totally rearranged my mp3 collection. Apple has there own way of doing things...

I have always used another program to rip my CDs. A portion of my CD collection had a been ripped on Windows using Exact Audio Copy (I rip everything to FLAC) and later imported those files into Linux. Up until Strawberry it had been a bit of a mess, mostly due to genre tags being inconsistent and wonky. I have been updating my collection with the recent change to Strawberry and things have never been neater.

Here are some Linux tools that I use to rip - Asunder, RipperX. I don't mind ripping with a different program, it allows me edit and check the files before they get added to my main collection

The collection editor built into Strawberry is powerful (right click, edit track information...). You can batch edit entire artist folders as well as individual albums and tracks. There is also an auto complete function which uses some database (not sure which) to fill out all fields. This may help.

In the "re-grooming" of my CD collection I have also been using several Tag editors. Puddletag is awesome, Kid3-qt is also useful. Picard Music Brainz may help in look up and auto-fill a but it's not super intuitive. Again, as I am finishing up sorting my CD collection I am just using the editor in Strawberry.

I am a new user to Strawberry like you and I am very happy with it so far, it does a lot of things really well - check out Smart Playlists. The only thing I miss is browsing via cover art - in Windows I used Album Player and in Linux I used Guayadeque (Lollypop is another cover art based player but I had issues with genre tags that made it unusable).

Finally, just a word of caution: you may want to drag a few of your collection folders to the desktop to experiment before going at the full collection.

Hope this helps you get your music sorted.

Just passing by to say that since last month

WakkaQt gone v1.0!

WakkaQt is a multiplatform karaoke application built with C++ and Qt6, designed to record vocals over a video/audio track and mix them into a rendered file.

This app features webcam recording, YouTube video downloading, real-time sound visualization, and post-recording video rendering with FFmpeg. It automatically does some mastering on the vocal tracks. It also has a custom AutoTuner class I programmed called VocalEnhancer that provides slight pitch shift/correction and formant preservation. more info here:

https://gu.pro.br/wakkaqt/

Merry christmas ppl

Currently, you can only decrease the cover size by moving the splitter so the context window size gets smaller, this should be saved on exit, if it's not saved, please start strawberry on the terminal under gdb to see if it crashes when you exit the application (https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Backtrace).

@knuxify It's still in development, 1.1.3 is the last release.

@Jellby I considered that, but the date would be false, and playing through the list would allow me to listen to some music I haven't listened to in a long time.