@mp14
I've not tried AC4 before, or seen Tidal streams using it, but I think it might be supported in GStreamer 1.22 by mpegtsdemux part of gstreamer bad plugins.
@mncroc
Do you know when / how the duplicates occurred?
If you used the organize feature prior to 1.0.23, it might be caused by a bug that is fixed in 1.0.23, but the duplicated are not removed automatically.
To manually remove duplicates, see.: https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Find_and_delete_duplicates_from_the_collection_database
I suggest to make a backup of the database file (~/.local/share/strawberry/strawberry/strawberry.db) before attempting to modify it.
@MovingSounds
That does not sound normal. Although it's not the bitrate or the size of the collection that makes the most difference, it's the number of files.
For me with a collection of 24432 FLAC files (625GB), a scan is usually done in under 15 minutes on an SSD disk.
But with the song fingerprinting or ebur128 analysis options on it will take much longer.
Is your source a local disk? Is it an SSD disk? How many files do you have in total under the directory added in Collection, including all files not just audio files? What audio formats? Do you have the fingerprinting or ebur128 options on?
I'd had my last.fm account since 2011 and I noticed that it hadn't updated for some time. So, I deleted the account and created a new one, connected it to Strawberry and it immediately started keeping track, in fact it even back-peddled and added tracks from the last couple of weeks.
I tried to compile the qt6ct utility mentioned there, but my version of Mint did not meet the required dependencies. But I'm a relative newbie to Linux so maybe I missed something.
I don't think there is currently a version of Strawberry available with Qt 5.
