@chrisc
Only audio files will be filtered.
You need to mount the NAS to a mountpoint.

@yelpspoon
Run strawberry from the terminal to see any output. Open a terminal and type:

/Applications/strawberry.app/Contents/MacOS/strawberry

Check that strawberry is enabled/allowed in the accessibility system settings.

@yahyah24
Could be unsupported audio filetypes.
It will also skip any directory that is hidden (.dot), or has files named ".nomedia" or ".nomusic".

@robyn

Make sure the desktop file is installed, normally it should be:

/usr/share/applications/strawberry.desktop

Make sure that strawberry is installed in PATH, and that it isn't a different version from the one you launch.

sudo find /usr -type f -name 'strawberry'

Make sure the "tidal" URL scheme is correctly registered to strawberry, run the following command in a terminal while strawberry is open:

xdg-open tidal://test

This should add "tidal://test" to the active playlist. If that works, then it means authentication with TIdal should be possible.

If it still doesn't work, then try close firefox and reopen, or set a different web browser as default.

@choobs
There was a bug when organizing songs and moving between different collection directories, it was duplicating the songs in the database. It is fixed now.
https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/commit/fb634bc2d41d40e55ecfa23dc39094c007b8e621

@bbroughton
Musixmatch is the only provider we don't use their API directly for searching, because their API requires payment.
So we have to guess the URL for the lyric for a specific song, ie.:
https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Strawbs/Autumn
We probably have to do some sort of conversion for non-latin characters.
If you can find out how to convert the artist and song title to a URL then I can change it in code.

@adityasubathu

The transfer rate from the NAS to the computer is 11 mb/sec
The (Dell) laptop has an SSD, is an i5 and has 16Gb RAM
Since Friday its been "Updating collection"
Running from a terminal window, it gets to 84850 and then stops. JRiver shows there are 86998 tracks
I can play a track if I click on the file name, but cannot create any Smart Playlists

Don't want to keep bothering you with what seems minor problems

@jonas Yes, indeed. Thanks, all compiled just fine and playing nicely now as I write this. So appreciated, thank you again!.

I notice dsun above saying 'I'm running Manjaro ARM on it and Strawberry is in the software repository.' How do we get Raspberry Pi OS to include it too? - Strawberry is so much better than VLC for music. Nicer UI, album covers, remembers playlists etc etc. It would be a real 'plus' for the RPi community.

@rik said in File panel occasionally disappears.:

Kubuntu

I'm not familiar with Kubuntu, what Qt style do they use?
It does not look like standard Fusion style, so maybe they use a buggy custom Qt style.
Try setting the style in appearance settings to fusion.

Again, thank you. I've changed my studio around a bit and basically taken this machine off line. I did learn somethings about using the command line and for that I am very appreciative. Don't worry, as the novice I am I'm sure I'll be back at some point.

Keep well and all the best!

Thanks, going into strawberry.conf and manually changing last_save_playlist did the trick.

I see that the track duration bug was fixed in version 0.7.1, so if you have an older version than that, you're affected by the bug.

I actually notice a problem now with Strawberry and GStreamer 1.18 on Windows where it periodically makes a small "pop" sound (possible jump), not exactly sure what to call it, it occurs circa 4 seconds into the track, but sometimes elsewhere too, similar problem occurs when unpausing consistently each time.
I have only tested with FLAC files, but see that problem only occurs with the FLAC codec, playing the same file works fine using libav codec from within Strawberry. I can't reproduce the problem with gst-launch with either codec.
The problem is gone when downgrading GStreamer to version 1.16.2. So I tried to compile gstreamer using the latest code from git too see if the problem has already been fixed, and the problem appears to be fixed. I can definitely tell it by unpausing. So I'm going to use that until the next stable version of GStreamer is released.
So hopefully this will resolve also the issues reported to by @warbaque and @kaiser_sosai.
The buffering issues are most likely a different problem.

You may have to navigate from the root of the filesystem to the folder your hard drive is mounted in when you try to add the folders to the library. Usually it's mounted under /mnt/<uuid>, but it could be different as I have never used multi-drive setup. You may also have to mount the hard drive

Some resources you might want to read:

Auto mount second hdd in Linux Mint
Check the path of mounted drive

Sorry @jonas, missed the notification that there's activity here.

Just tested https://builds.strawberrymusicplayer.org/macos/bigsur/strawberry-0.8.4.28.gfcd4e5ac-bigsur.dmg and it seems to work. Thanks!

See https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/wiki/Using-MPRIS2-to-get-information-and-control-playback