@jonas said in Why was Libre.fm support removed:

I noticed that the service had been unresponsive for a long time, so I did a little research and noticed the website had been replaced with "Time is running out.", "The web is being destroyed from within by companies harvesting the creative work", links to "1800www.com" and other weird stuff. Typical stuff for a site that has been hacked, so to be honest, I thought the site was hacked.

The entire time that was on the homepage, there were also Recently Played tracks and I never heard from you. A quick email would have set things correct.

I have a number of people asking me about Strawberry, if you won't add support back do you have a suggestion for an alternative player?

It's a shame two open source projects can't benefit the users.

@musicamaster For the avoidance of doubt, are your audio files indexed as part of a collection, or are they simply in directories? They need to be part of a collection in order to be included in the DB structure. That DB is where many different fields are added, such as the play count.

Regards Stephen M

@erdbär great news! Thanks for the info

@lvsunz3748
https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005502572-Canceling-a-paid-membership

@jonas
I find it a little troubling that you mention maintaining a list of usernames and passwords. You’re not actually storing anyone’s passwords, are you? This doesn’t sound secure.

Another super happy user here, taking advantage these days of "Song fingerprinting and tracking"; and remembering the days when that feature didn't exist and how the internal playlists got ruined after renaming files or directories. This is so good... Thank you!

Long live Strawberry!

@paul2berry
That seems wrong, I'll fix it now.

@jonas User name is mrrjhrpc@gmail.com.

@econnolly That helped. I was fighting with all the "!=" and the suggestions in the pop-up tip, but actually they don't always work. e.g. "year:!=2" didnt work to filter out year 2xxx where "year:-2" does. I hadn't even thought to use the "-" minus sign, but it turns out to be far superior. Also the $ does nothing as far as I can tell there are no wild cards.

"genre:rock -hard -indie -pop -art comment:-amazon year:-20"

basically gives me all the "rock" genre with any "hard rock", "indie rock", "pop rock", and "art rock" filtered out, while also filtering out anything with "amazon" in the comment and sticking to 19xx for the year.

@jonas Yes I use the last played time (oldest first), fwiw the actual search criteria is here https://imgur.com/a/M5AbzAR (far too complicated!) as I wrote when it skips in the albums I'm thinking of all the tracks satisfy those criteria and on the next edit page are shown sequentially just when they appear on the playlist due to dynamic mode being set, some tracks get skipped.

This drives me crazy. There are solutions to this. Why hasn't anyone contacted this guy? I can use the Qobuz tokens his program generates, but the Tidal ones don't work; however, he may be able provide guidance on that.

https://github.com/nathom/streamrip

@CherryStraw thanks.