@beescopy It works for me, ask libre.fm why they reject your scrobbles.

High CPU usage on Mac is due to a macOS-specific QT5 problem with the Track/Playlist screen and scrolling/interacting with it when on a high resolution display (such as your Retina screen on your MacBook) - you should find that CPU usage will drop and performance will noticeably improve if you resize your Strawberry window to something very small.

I did have an issue ticket raised on this issue on the Strawberry GitHub page, which was closed as it was deemed to be unresolvable under QT5, and I'm trying to get it reopened/looked at again, now that QT6 has been released (which may have a fix for this CPU usage/performance issue).

https://macpaw.com/how-to/allow-apps-anywhere#:~:text=Go to System Preferences > Security %26 Privacy > General.,download any and all apps.

@philevans
This is probably related to the same issue with high CPU as some others have experienced on macOS, while it works fine for others. Performance in in general is worse on macOS then on Linux and Windows.
Unfortunately there has not been much interest in contributing to Strawberry from the macOS community over the past 3 years Strawberry has been developed.

@erik
It's not possible on Linux, don't know about other OSes.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19473676/qfilesystemwatcher-with-nfs-mount

@lvsunz37
Your problem is unrelated to the above topic which is solved, so I suggest to open a new topic for your problem
All plugins in the Windows installer should be bundled, so if they suddenly disappear along with your music files, then I would suspect a hardware disk failure.

@johnsv
I'm getting a message the GStreamer plugin is missing but the link you used isn't working. Many of my music files were wiped out. I have them backed up but I don't know how to reload from backup. Can you help? Thank you.

@atomtm on Linux it might work if you mount the sftp through fstab.

@terrior In Tools / Settings / Behavior. "When double clicking a song will..", you can change "Never start playing" it to start playing.
It will then immediately play the song, although it will still be added to the playlist.

@yvanxx55 Not sure how this happened, but removing and re-adding the collection directories should fix it.
Otherwise you need to run SQL queries to remove the duplicates.

@arooni The equalizer settings will only be applied once you check the enabled checkbox before starting playback.

@orbvs
Strawberry works with both Qt 5 and 6.

@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.