I'm pretty sure that Strawberry sorts by metadata. A song needs a track number, independent of the file name. The suggestion of renaming files numerically is a good idea. Organizing your album folders alphabetically, by song name, runs counter to the way albums are presented -- which is numerically, by track number.

Right click on a song and select "Edit track information". There should be a number in the "Track" field at the right. Don't change anything yet, until you figure out the root of your problem, but if there is no number, that might be of concern.

Hope that helps.

@amour8440083555 How does you post thematically fit in the current thread?

@Juanma
I don't have a subscription so I can't test. But maybe Spotify changed something causing it to break.

Can anyone else confirm if Spotify still works or not?

@jonhd Thank you!

I find that the best way to handle this is to use the "Album Artist" tag.

For albums that don't have the exact same artist name for every song, (but are not "Various Artists" compilation albums) put the name of the primary artist there.

Then, in the "Group By" setting, select one of the options that sorts by "Album Artist". It seems that with this configuration, albums that don't have an "Album Artist" entry will still be sorted by "Artist".

While one could use the "Album Artist" tag for all albums, I only use it for exceptions, like the example given in the original post.

Side Note (regarding compilations, aka "Various Artists":

For compilations, while some prefer to use "Various Artists" as the "Album Artist" entry, I prefer to check the "Compilation" checkbox instead, and leave "Album Artist" blank. Strawberry honors that tag, and will create a "Various Artists" heading in the library.

This is a hold-over from my years of experience with iTunes, which uses that "Compilation" tag. This may not be a universal solution, but in Strawberry, at least, it works for me.

Hello, same here. I am a Tidal subscriber, I created my app on the developer portal. I set all the scopes for my application and set web platform. I copy and paste my client id into Strawberry, then I click on Login button, but the opened tidal page has error always. It seems the URL coming from Strawberry is not correct. Please help.

@Bluster
Need more info here.
What OS, version of strawberry and what audio format?

@max
It's not normal, try setting the notifications to disabled under Tools / Settings / notifications, in case the native desktop notifications triggers system sounds.

@Kmasx
Did you try to pass CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to the directory where KDSingleApplication-qt6Config.cmake is located like the message suggests?

@witch
It's a known bug with FLAC, there is a workaround for it: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/issues/1422
But it should only affect FLAC.