Dear @jonas ,
thanks again. I have posted more details on the Linux Mint forum, but so far did not get any help there.
Please have a look at my more detailed description, with links to screenshots (GDebi and Synaptic):
Linux Mint forum thread
Any help is appreciated.

@jonas

I apologize for the late reply.

How can I check if my problem is related to DNS?

@threearmedcow
The rating in Strawberry is from 0.0 to 1.0. A half star is 0.1. So 5 stars would be 1.0.

There are no standardized tags for rating. How the rating are saved to tags depends on the audio file format and the software.
One software can behave one way, and another can behave very differently when it comes to ratings. Another software might use an entirely different tag, and save ratings differently.
So comparing software to see if the rating of stars is read correctly don't always expect to see the same result.

However, when I see you mention some numbers with "192" and "255" I'm only guessing that it could be the POPM tag popularimeter frame for ID3v2 which are not really ratings, but commonly used to store ratings. These are saved by Strawberry too but converted from the rating, 192 should be converted to 0.8 (4 stars), 255 should be 5 stars.
I think it's mostly the same as described by wikipedia. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3#ID3v2_star_rating_tag_issue
Another software might convert these differently though. So might treat both 192 and 255 as 5 stars. But it's hard for me to answer for another software I have no knowledge of. And you don't even mention what audio file format it is. If you saved the rating with strawberry for both files, I'm not really sure how they could be saved with different values.
Other formats that use Vorbis comments uses very different tags, does not have standardized ratings tag either, and no POPM tag.

For MP3 ID3v2 Strawberry saves a "FMPS_Rating" with the 0.0-1.0 rating too.
I found that Strawberry was writing the FMPS_Rating for MP3 but not reading it back, so it was always converting the POPM tag. Should be fixed now, so if the FMPS_Rating frame exists, it will use that instead of the POPM for rating, which will be more accurate for use in Strawberry. But the database rating will take priority, so if a rating exists in the database for the song, it won't re-read it from the tags.

@daethlor
Most likely something else is accessing the phone at the same time, or it is mounted.
See:
https://github.com/libmtp/libmtp/blob/master/README

@snakefinger
Maybe something to do with your account.
Unfortunately errors when fetching lyrics is only logged to the console.
But you can probably see the error if you use the debug version available on https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/releases/tag/1.0.0
There is a console in the background where errors are shown.

@jonas
thanks for the reply. it is the same in clementine and may be a holdover from amarok

@lvsunz37
Run an integrity check on the DB:
https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/wiki/Database-integrity-check

To check if playlist songs are still there:

select * from playlist_items;

@jonas
It works now, thank you 🙂

@jonas
Yeah sorry I don't know anything on how those identification/fingreprinting works for music songs .... So total noob in this area. So is it like a checksum of a file then ?

And all those services have proprietary database then ? or proprietary algorithm to recognize the song?
And I guess shazam doesn't have any API for using their service for that?
So I guess by now you understood what I meant, it's the fact to be able to recognize the song and being able to add the metadata ....
I have some music, which are not that unknown or that for a niche public... and which are then not recognize by tfingerprinting analyzer, can I improve it in some way to make them more recognizable?
That's my ultimate question.

And about ifuse, it came knowledge to me with the pegasus program breach and the amnesty program to alleviate any malware or intrusion on iOS device
https://docs.mvt.re/en/latest/ios/install.html

as you can see there is a specific library there. That's where come ifuse from.
It simply mount the iOS filesystem and of course you have more or less access to things depending if the devices are rooted.
But as I said there are simply two folder to extract the files from. There are also the covers and the plist files. . So it could be useful maybe to merge them together? just an idea like that of course.

@jonas said in How to restore stats:

I plan to make a new release soon, there will be an option to turn on song fingerprinting and tracking to prevent losing playcounts and ratings.

The recent release (Version 1.0) still doesn't fix this issue.

@jonas
Works great, thanks!

I had to rescan my collection after removing the embedded covers.

@fenixfeniks Hi, I am new here & this is my first post.
I use Strawberry on Windows 10.
Can somebody help me getting Tidal to work in Strawberry on Windows 10 Pro.
Software & Drivers fully updated, if that means anything.

@ruben2rl i have not been able to use this method to get my toke from the 25 some odd files in that location. Has this method changed at all to your knowledge?