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

@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.

@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,