@jonas thank you for the reply, sorry I responded a little late , I have done a clean installation of latest strawberry 1.0.23 and experinced the same issue, thankfully your guide worked for me, I hope you solve this problem in future releases.

OS: windows 11 pro

the solution is to hit esc

@jonas thank you so much for your time! Many thanks for all the work you do for the FOSS music loving community!

@jonas Someone in the KDE bug discussion pointed out that this is a known issue involving QT with a relatively straightfoward fix (as far as I can tell, but I'm nowhere close to an expert). Here is a discussion of the issue and a description of the fix:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471941

there is option enable delete from disk option in playlist also but selecting option only removes from the list but not from list disk in windows 10.

I prefer to oraganaze file like deleting or editing(info) while listening to music or quickly.

The player is nice, simple native style

@PeterB
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE 6) seems to do the trick. That version of Linux Mint actually has qt6ct in the software channel, although an older version, 0.7-3. I installed your newer version, 0.9-2, and it seems to work fine for the most part.

Interestingly, it would not allow me to set the font as Ubuntu Regular; instead insisting on Ubuntu Light Italic. It allowed me to use Noto Sans, which is close enough. But any insight on that font issue would be appreciated.

Thanks again for helping me out with this!

@jonas Thanks for the reply. Well... turning off the "playing widget" doesn't solve my problem, because although it makes the metadata go away, it also makes the cover art go away. What I want is to keep the art, but without the metadata. Now, they come and go together.

Let's talk about "playing widget". I don't see this in Clementine. I never noticed it in the Strawberry settings, probably because the meaning of it is unclear. In practical reality, this term seems to refer only to the display of the cover art (and its metadata). How is that a "widget"? To me, a widget is something with some functionality, not just a display. If this term was introduced in Strawberry, I really think it needs to be changed. It is not understandable, at least to average English speakers. Finally, is there any real purpose to turning off this widget/display? It's not replaced by anything else. Either the art is displayed, or it is not. I feel like this is an area where the UI of Strawberry could use some careful thinking-through.

@acroadglide
After spending time comparing folders, permissions, etc. I finally discovered that the CD ripper for this particular folder had not included the .m3u playlist file. Re-ripping the CD corrected the scanning and indexing of this folder/title for both Strawberry and the miniDLNA server running from my RapsberryPi.

@jonas
Thanks. I tried that, didn't work, but it did cause me to wonder if there was something about the track (that I wasn't previously familiar with) that might be causing the problem. I put the output settings back to the wrapper sink, tried to play another track, and...it worked. The track that had me convinced something was wrong just had a significant period of silence at the beginning for some reason.

Complete pilot error. Mea maxima culpa.

@astrovark
If you have enabled to save album covers as embedded covers under the covers settings, this can happen, since the cover is saved at the same time the track is played if you have the "Automatically search for album cover" option on.

@Heron2318
I'm not so sure 7th gen iPods will work, I think it might be because Apple changed their database to use encryption to prevent other software from using it.

@jonas Many thanks for your reply and the pointer to the other issue. I have GStreamer 1.22.10. It does appear to be related to issue 1376. That gave me an idea. If I un-tick "Fade out on pause / fade in on resume", the problem does not occur. Excellent!

Thanks again.
Regards Stephen

@collapsinghrung
You need to enable the rating column, right click on the playlist columns (track, title, album, artists, etc), and check rating, it's in the bottom of the list.

@jpirie
That looks like a different issue than @rlkeeney had.
What version of GStreamer do you have?

@VSofter

I can reproduce the issue with wasapi exclusive mode playing low distorted audio, reported here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues/3339

I can periodically reproduce a issue with ASIO where the track is played at lower speed, have to look more into that.

@jonas udisksctl dump as user works fine

@animatedjay: Which is the playback state when you restart Strawberry or the whole machine, Playing, Paused, Stopped?

I'm running a Mini PC with Manjaro Linux as my "stereo" with a playlist containing the whole music collection in random order, Strawberry in autostart, and have "Resume playback on start" activated as well.
In Paused mode, restarting the program or rebooting the computer makes Strawberry starting playback immediately, in Stopped mode it also starts in Stopped mode again, so for me that option works as expected.

@jonas Thanks; I'll try to redo the tags with EasyTag