@firutoddo
It's pretty much how you explain it, it's up to you how long you subscribe or how often you want to pay for a release.

@mike_jones not sure how you can call it a bargain. If you actually pay to keep the player updated on windows or mac it might be the most expensive consumer media player on market at $60/yr and @jonas doesn't event take feature requests.

I like the player a lot but the pricing is wild.

@trincowski I was going to mention that.

I don't believe such a guide exists, at least not on the Strawberry Wiki.

I can offer a few basic suggestions for a beginner.

Strawberry plays music in playlists. No matter what the source of the song, it will always open in a playlist. Playlist management is too lengthy to get into here, but you can create, label, save and "favorite" playlists.

Strawberry can play from any folder on your computer by selecting "Files" in the sidebar.

If you go a step further and point Strawberry to a folder in Settings > Collection, it will show the songs as a "library" when selecting "Collection" in the sidebar.

I would hold off with using anything that says "Organzie Files" at first. (There are naming and sorting options that you may want to consider.)

Go through all the settings, slowly and methodically. Make a note of your changes so you can revert if necessary.

Use the tool-tip notes by hovering your cursor over icons, etc.

And use your right click to display the many options available.

@itunes-refuge I actually found a workaround for this a while back, which I explained here: https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/3567

@remelach You're welcome.
Additionally, you can also use MP3Tag to check/edit the metadata of your songs, in case you need another software to do so.

@maybl8
Musicbrainz has rate limiting, Strawberry tries to respect it, by delaying requests, but there might be cases where it glitches causing it to stop working for a while.

@NiceTortoise77 its still basically free except you have to continue to keep spending money to update it and the website says its totally free on the front page despite literally not being free. If you have never used the product before you need to pay, and if you want new features and bug fixes you also have to pay. Sounds free to me for suuure

Hmmm, after several restarts, the sorting in my previous comment changed to be correct with all 4 being under H, and others fixed as well.

So ignore that.

But I like this, having them in Sort Order, as that's how I also keep my file collection folder names.

@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.