Linux Distro: Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon 6.4.8 I was also running into this today. Have to set album art twice for every album, since the first never applies correctly. I'm editing audio files with no metadata so I've been adding song name, artist, and album info before searching for and applying the album art, then saving. Sometimes it appears to have stuck, and then I'll see the song again later and the album art has reverted back to what it was before I changed it, which seems to be an image randomly chosen from the album art directory.

@mrbluebudo check the old version at github curl -O -L https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/releases/download/1.1.3/strawberry_1.1.3-jammy_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i strawberry_1.1.3-jammy_amd64.deb sudo apt --broken install

I had lots of problems with the FlatPak version 1.0.23. I'm still running Linux Mint 21.1 Vera (base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy). When I realized how out of date the package was, I installed from repository. https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-strawberry-on-ubuntu-linux/ Then I had to move my library and all data to the newer location. In the old FlatPak version, the following were in ~/.var/app/org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry albumcovers/ collectionalbumcovers/ strawberry.db strawberry.db.bak I uninstalled the FlatPak version of strawberry then installed newer version (1.1.3), from repository, as above. Then I moved those db files and folders to ~/.local/share/strawberry/strawberry/ And everything works for me. Good luck!

I have had luck using touch to update the modified date of the artist folder. When I invoke "Update changed collection folders", it then seems to scan all albums and song within.

@jonas said in SQL error when searching for any song/artist since last week?: @RallyDarkstrike said in SQL error when searching for any song/artist since last week?: songs_fts Newer versions do not use songs_fts, did you downgrade strawberry to an old release? That did the trick! Downloaded the latest Ubuntu deb file (I'm running Linux Mint) and installed it and all is well now! There must've been a package downgrade when I did the upgrade from Mint 21.3 to Mint 22.1. I believe it does sometimes downgrade packages t what is in the Mint Repos to help prevent issues so that must be what happened. Thanks for the prompt reply!

@jonas I unmounted it, but the error still occured. I couldn't find anything else that seemed to be using it. Any other ideas?

@jonas Sorry for the delay, REM GENRE Rock REM DATE 2011 REM DISCID E00DA811 REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5" PERFORMER "Queen" TITLE "Greatest Hits (1981-2011 Remaster)" FILE "Queen - Greatest Hits (1981-2011 Remaster).flac" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "Bohemian Rhapsody" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Another One Bites The Dust" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 05:55:51 INDEX 01 05:56:01 TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Killer Queen" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 01 09:31:26 TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "Fat Bottomed Girls" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 12:31:13 INDEX 01 12:32:26 TRACK 05 AUDIO TITLE "Bicycle Race" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 15:54:58 INDEX 01 15:55:42 TRACK 06 AUDIO TITLE "You're my Best Friend" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 18:56:45 INDEX 01 18:56:59 TRACK 07 AUDIO TITLE "Don't Stop Me Now" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 21:47:68 INDEX 01 21:49:53 TRACK 08 AUDIO TITLE "Save Me" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 25:19:43 INDEX 01 25:20:00 TRACK 09 AUDIO TITLE "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 01 29:08:04 TRACK 10 AUDIO TITLE "Somebody To Love" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 31:51:28 INDEX 01 31:52:71 TRACK 11 AUDIO TITLE "Now I'm Here" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 36:49:48 INDEX 01 36:49:73 TRACK 12 AUDIO TITLE "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 41:03:24 INDEX 01 41:04:67 TRACK 13 AUDIO TITLE "Play The Game" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 43:57:69 INDEX 01 43:57:71 TRACK 14 AUDIO TITLE "Flash" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 47:29:57 INDEX 01 47:31:31 TRACK 15 AUDIO TITLE "Seven Seas of Rhye" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 50:18:58 INDEX 01 50:19:72 TRACK 16 AUDIO TITLE "We Will Rock You" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 53:07:15 INDEX 01 53:07:36 TRACK 17 AUDIO TITLE "We Are The Champions" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 55:09:22 INDEX 01 55:09:46

@jonas - sorry for all the replies -- I figured out how to solve the issue. I vaguely remembered skimming past a comment somewhere that the flatpak version of Strawberry had some kind of issue (and I had downloaded the flatpak). So I uninstalled that, and got the 'true' version via the terminal. This time, when I added my external drive to the directory, the file path actually looked normal... so that was a good sign. I rebooted the pc, ran Strawberry... and sure enough -- the library remained, and I was able to play songs as expected. So, TL;DR for anyone stumbling onto this thread with the same issue I had - uninstall the Strawberry flatpak and get it direct from the terminal. I followed the steps on this link: https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-strawberry-music-player-on-linux-mint/ ... and get the normal/stable version.

@Popmartijn said in Group by Album function not working correctly: Hi, I've noticed that for a while (certainly since 1.1.1) that the Group by Album functionality is not working correctly. Though I understand the rationality behind making separate entries for artists in the situation that two (or more) artists have the same album name (Live or Greatest Hits) it makes the overview unworkable with compilations. Can the functionality please be returned so that Group by Album again has one entry for each album name? In addition there might then be a category like Group by Album/Artist where under an album entry you can then see which artists have albums by that name in case you want to specifically play Greatest Hits by Billy Joel and not have Greatest Hits by Queen included. You should be able to work around this by either setting a album artist for the specific album, if it's compilation album you could set this to the same as the album name. Other alternative is to right click and select "Show in various artists", that will mark the album as a compilation and it should no longer split into separate albums. Furthermore, I noticed (certainly since version 1.2.6) that in the sorting of the albums in the Group by Album category the sorting doesn't disregard any leading articles (like A or The) anymore. This also seems like a step back to me, to find The Complete Collection, The Joshua Tree or The Seeds Of Love located under T instead of C, J and S respectively. Is this also intentional? And if so, can there be an option to disregard it, like the option available for artists. Thank you. It was done intentional. The "Skip leading articles when sorting artist names" option in the collection was previously applied to album names too, since this was incorrect according to the name of the option, I changed it to only apply to artists, but I can make a separate option for albums too.

@palvji I can confirm this, just tested on Linux with HTTP/2, stuck on buffering after 54 seconds into the song when playing a tidal track. I'm guessing there is regression in one of the recent libsoup versions. I will do some more testing when I have more time. Luckily the default in Strawberry is still to force off HTTP/2 for streaming unless you manually check the HTTP/2 option in the settings.

@euriloco Album covers are stored in a special way on the iPod, so Strawberry does not show album covers under devices, if that's what you mean. Strawberry should however store album covers when copying songs to the iPod, but personally I did not get those to show on the iPod, however, I know it worked for others.

In case you didn't read the tooltip of Settings / Collection / Preferred album art filenames (comma separated), it says: When looking for album art, Strawberry will first look for picture files that contain one of this words. If there are no matches then it will use the largest image in the directory. It's more than enough for me, because I use subdirectories for artwork, and there's only a front cover image with the audio files. My list of words is front,cover. There is no Strawberry option "Only use pictures containing this words", so I'd suggest a workaround when some albums don't have a proper front cover and you don't want Strawberry to display the biggest image: You might add something like def_image to the list of preferred names (for example, per your preferences, file,Front,cover,folder,def_image), and copy the default CD image from github (or create a custom one) to the album folder as def_image.jpg. A bit of command line magic will copy that file to every album directory that needs it. Or you may go nuclear and copy it to every album folder, to test and delete easily all of them if needed.

@cdhacker This seem to have to do with the client ID which the tidalapi script uses, and quality set to "HI_RES_LOSSLESS" and stream URL method set to "playbackinfopostpaywall". HI_RES_LOSSLESS was missing for quality, added now. I'm able to stream with some albums with 96/24 and some with 192/24 without any other modifications to the authentication code.

@chpichen It's hard to say for sure, can you open one of XSPF files in a plain text editor such as notepad and see how they look, if you can paste the contents here I can have a look.

@jonas oh gosh, i knew it had to be something simple like that. tysm!!

@allaun It looks like the path is cut short. Maybe it has to do with some special characters in the path, or the length of the path. Can you copy and paste the entire path here, right click on the affected song in the playlist and select "Copy URL(s)...", then use CTRL + V to paste the URL here.

I completely agree! "Beats-per-minute" is a crucial filter tag, especially for projects or discussions involving audio processing, heart rate monitoring, or tempo adjustments. It helps categorize and streamline the search for relevant content, making it easier for others to find and contribute to related topics. Adding this tag would definitely enhance organization and accessibility.