@chaz
There is currently no support for devices on Windows so the devices tab isn't there on Windows.

@drbldrbl
Gapless playback is when there is no gap when transitioning to the next song. It's always enabled, and there is no setting for it.
It does not strip the actual silent beginning or ending from a song, that's something else, not what's usually considered gapless playback. There is no option or plans to add any feature to strip off silent parts from a song.

I managed to retrieve a working client id/secret a while back, I don't exactly remember how I did it, but I think there are tools found on GitHub that can do it for you.

@auran64 MusicBee is a great application. That was my choice when I was fooling around with Windows. Wish it was available for other platforms. It's very powerful and full-featured. I'm not surprised it had the features you describe.

But Strawberry is pretty darned good, and in some ways I enjoy its more stripped down interface, now that I've gotten used to it.

I started with iTunes on a Mac, which, in spite of all the complaints about it, I liked very much. Strawberry is focused on playlists. MusicBee and iTunes seemed to be more focused on the library.

Not exactly apples and oranges, but Strawberry, and Clementine, from which it is forked, take a different approach, and it's probably unfair to make direct comparisons.

Cheers.

@jonas

I resolved my problem in Linux Mint by editing preferences in Nemo.

Go to Edit > Preferences > Behavior and in Media Handling uncheck "Automatically mount removeable media when inserted and on startup"

Strawberry now can access files on my phone.

My apologies if I caused any confusion.

@jonas Hi, sorry for the delayed response, this is on Windows 7. I have tested by removing the # from the filename but not the tag, and the file now plays. So the issue is when the # appears in the filename, or the path to the file (for example, I can't play any files in a folder named "#1 Record").

Have you made it successfully? I just download some Spotify music with Tunelf Spotibeat Music Converter. Can I transfer them to strawberry directly? or just need some other tools to help me?

@buffalo
Yes it should work. I used to use a IR remote to control MythTV many years ago.
The config I used: http://files.jkvinge.net/files/lirc/lircrc

@auran64
In ~/.local/share/strawberry/strawberry/strawberry.db

@david-qpr
Are you running Big Sur? If so, make sure you have the latest macOS update, there were issues with the first versions.
Does it occur when playing streams, or just local files?
Do you have any devices under the device tab in Strawberry?

Hello everyone,

I have the same problem with Strawberry version 0.9.3 on Windows 10:

My Subsonic-Server is connected and a lot of music is synced. But since recently, when I hit the "refresh library"-Button (German: Bibliothek erneuern), it says it is receiving songs for 1681 albums and gets stuck at 99%. After canceling the process, the library is again not up-to-date.

Does anyone have an idea how I can figure out why this happens?

Best regards!

@lvsunz37
It depends on the OS.
Linux: ~/.local/share/strawberry/strawberry/strawberry.db
macOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Strawberry/Strawberry/strawberry.db
Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Strawberry\Strawberry\strawberry.db

@jonas I think the HLS decoder is not included in the installer. I would appreciate if you check and include it in the next Windows build. Thank you very much for your time~! 🙂

@jonas OK, thanks. So maybe it's a GStreamer issue then. TagLib reads the metadata, and gets it correct, as it is when the song is stopped. But GStreamer must be doing something wrong as it dynamically reports the info while playing.

I'm just a layman, so forgive me is my interpretation is wrong. Guess it couldn't hurt for me to report this to the GStreamer developers though.

@blushock
It's a workaround for the OAuth authentication, because firefox for a while wouldn't redirect to http://localhost, so I made it possible to redirect to https instead. It's not necessary to enable it unless it doesn't work without. Enabling it will make the browser show a certificate warning as the certificate automatically generated by Strawberry for localhost is self-signed.
It's safe to use http, and not https for localhost because the traffic always stays on your computer, it's basically your own web browser that connects to strawberry and sends a code used for authentication. The traffic that goes to last.fm is always https independent of this option of course.