@jonas Thank you - yes, the files are OPUS encoded. For some reason my phone wants to see .ogg extension, my Mac will have different metadata recognition depending on which app I use to open the files and which filename extension I have. I made two batch scripts to rename the files back and forth but obviously that's not the handiest solution. I have what sound to me like good results using the opus encoder and so I'm trying to just stick with that for any lossy encodings I do. Sorry about the terminology mistake - opus is the encoding method.

That did it, thanks!

@jonas
I have justed tested recent V7.0 with Win 10. It still takes longeer than 6.0.9 to update DB but all tracks are now present and it now works fine. It seems a bit less responsive than V.609 when selecting pieces and tracks but this is not a real problem. I tried with OpenSuse Leap 15.2 but cannot get it to install with Discover (repo not available) or Yast. Zypper installs it but the previous (V.0.13) version which has the original problem of cutting tracks. Perhaps it is because I have mainly FLACs which average about eight tracks, so the total is very large.

I've been curious about the same thing. We use taglib library for reading them initially, then when they are played, samplerate, bit depth, bitrate and file type is updated by reading using the gstreamer engine.

Now i will use Strawberry all day long

Me too. It wasn't obvious how to play streams and I was about to put Strawberry in the "check back in a few months" box. However, with fantastic library management AND the ability to play streams, Strawberry is now my go to player. Replacing foobar on Windows and Clementine on Linux.

@snakefinger Nope, no luck. Even tried installing KID3 and overwriting ORIGINALYEAR field there but no change, even after touching it again.
Not sure what the problem is.

@jonaski That's what I thought, too, though it doesn't work in Clementine, either, and hasn't for a couple of Ubuntu versions. I haven't been able to get it to work in Strawberry at all, either by stopping with a song playing and then restarting Strawberry, starting it from the command line with various options including loading a playlist, or using Startup Applications.

I gave up and I'm using Quod Libet.

I've never tested it with that device. But if it's a normal filesystem device that can be mounted it should work. Only removable devices will show up though, otherwise ie: system filesystems mountpoints would show up too.

It won't show video since it's a music player.

Hi @jonaski,

I just wanted to mention that I've been compiling Strawberry and even Clementine recently and all the performance issues and sluggishness have disappeared. It runs smooth and well, there is no difference now between your builds and strawberry compiled by myself

I've no idea why since there hasn't been any change.

Thanks!

@jonas Thank you. The problem I had was locating the files. Looking under the experimental versions i found it and successfully downloaded and am running it. Thanks.

It's not possible with Strawberry. But should be pretty easy to script using bash, just an find command with mv and some regex.
If you don't know find and regex, you can try a program called KRename: https://userbase.kde.org/KRename

You can't use Strawberry to copy the files back. But if you got an old model that you can mount in Linux you can copy the music from the IPOD/iPod_Control/Music/ directory then use strawberry to organize the files back into normal directories and filenames.

We don't have Qobuz support anymore.

Fading won't work properly without dmix/resampling on Linux, that's why the option are disabled when ALSA is used and a device is selected. Because when fading, 2 tracks will be played at the same time and that's not possible without resampling. If you select ALSA but automatic for device or use pulseaudio fading will work since then the audio is resampled to 48k.

@jonas - 🎵 Working A1 for me so far. Keep up the good work 🙂

I've seen similar issues myself. The problem might be in GStreamer, I'm not sure.