Thanks - the database integrity check passed, shut down strawberry, and recreated songs_fts but on restarting I see the same problem. Full collection rescan?

Maybe related after the restart I was trying various strings in the search bar and SMP crashed on me. Last line on .xsession-errors (maybe from SMP) was kf.i18n: "1 instead of 2 arguments to message {by %1 (%2)} supplied before conversion."

Yes, disabling Pulse and Pipewire fixes a lot of problems, I'd done that for years to allow Kodi to see my AV Receiver as a soundcard. However, I lose browser audio.

But I think I found a solution, after running Strawberry, using:

systemctl restart --user pipewire

And I get back audio on the Opera browser.

@jonas said in Strawberry kills browser audio:

I just saw you mentioned pipewire-pulse, but I guess you are using PipeWire without PulseAudio then.
My experience has not been great with pipewire either, when openSUSE first came with Pipewire, it was installed automatically without my knowledge, I had a similar or identical issue, the browser stopped working when I had my hw:0,0 setup in Strawberry. I did some testing back then, and found that PipeWire was wasn't working at all without PulseAudio (or at least not with hw), removing PipeWire fixed the issue for me. I always lock pipewire and pulseaudio packages so they can't be installed even after a distro update. I don't know if PipeWire have fixed the issue or not.

@jonas Guess I'll have to stick to Clementine.

@drichard58
This is probably related to gvfs, I suggest to mount the SMB in fstab.

@drbldrbl
You need to give more information about the problem if you want help here.
What audio files and tags, does the taglib utility read the files?
Try dragging a file to the playlist and see what error you get there.

@donkatsu
I'm not sure this will work with gvfs. Try mounting the SMB share in fstab.

@Starmanager
I don't understand what you mean here. I don't plan to make a new release any time soon unless one or more critical issues are found.

@shankaraya
You need to enable it in Settings / Context.

The gap may be inserted during compression/encoding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapless_playback#Compression_artifacts

OAuth login works here both with Firefox and Chrome, Linux and Windows. I've tested on macOS with Safari, but that was a while back.

On linux the critical part is that the .desktop file is installed and the "mimetype" entry contains x-scheme-handler/tidal.

For Windows Tidal must exist as a URL Protocol in the registry, this should be done by the setup https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/blob/db6aac603c7f557731a1ba3a13817e9c3b69770a/dist/windows/strawberry.nsi.in#L701
This conflicts with the official Tidal app, so if you installed the Tidal app after you installed Strawberry, it will probably stop working with Strawberry.

But this doesn't get triggered before you get a successful login on Tidal when forwarded to Tidal by Strawberry. if you get an error there, the App ID could be wrong.

I don't remember where I got the App ID from. It was long ago, 2018 I think.

@jonas Wow, thank you :). Will do so for sure.

It's working fine now, thanks!!