Nevermind, I'm a complete idiot and i forgot that's the album I duplicated to test TakeFive's suggestion.

I'm just a dork.

Thanks again everyone for your time and help.

Happy New Year!!!

@silver-sun FYI: I'm using mp3 files.
I haven't experimented since my original post.

@jonas
Is this it?
gstreamer-plugin.x86_64 1.2.8-8.fc40

@James Happy Days! The update I just got today fixed the problem. Sort by artist now displays all the songs in alphabetical order which is PERFECT.
Thanks again for all your work !!

James Janzen

@jonas - Nope, it is not muted, and still does not audibly play anything. I tried all combos of audio output and device in the backend settings and nothing has changed, hence my confusion. As said, all other playback (games/Spotify/browser) works, so I am really unsure what happened.

EDIT: Seems this was on me, I used the x86 build which was not working. Downloaded x64 this time and it works just fine. So sorry! Appreciate your time.

@jonas Thanks! Great to be rid of this. A minor irritation in theory, but these things get to me more than they really should do.

@mipper

The issue with Strawberry leaving open pipelines which leads to open files should be fixed in version 1.2.1. However the new version won't work on Ubuntu 22.04 as Strawberry now requires a newer Qt version than is available on that Ubuntu version, consider upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble).

The "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in" error could be a GStreamer bug, maybe a newer GStreamer version solves that.

The 1.2.1 release should fix the caps lock crash.

Thanks @jonas !

@jonas
Sorry for the late reply,

The output is:

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/plasma-kglobalaccel.service; static) Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/service.d └─10-timeout-abort.conf Active: inactive (dead)

Not sure what the dead inactive status means in this case.

@jonas Issue Resolved, sorry to post on all three but just in case anyone else was wondering
This fixed the issue with the long username!
Thanks again Jonas!

@jonas Thank you for the answer. I'll wait for the new version, as I think other Debian Bookworm users (yes, MX is based on Bookworm) will also have problems compiling the plugin. That's the only downside to Debian - it's stable, but some packages are older (cargo-c is version 0.29 on Ubuntu, 0.14 on Debian).

But I'm very happy that the plugin can otherwise simply be turned off (with Clementine it got stuck in the login when Spotify no longer supported the plugin). Strawberry is otherwise really great, I'll stick with it. Thanks!

Same problem here. This music player seems amazing but font size is quite small.

@jonas No, I don't think the album is marked as a compilation. I've never marked albums as compilation when ripping them (with Asunder or whatever I used previously). I'm not using the Album Artist tag either (never had to). When I group by Artist/Album (the other grouping I often use besides Album) I see the artists all with their own entry and then the (compilation) albums below them. Apart from 3 or 4 songs I don't have anything labelled as Various Artists.

@pillo1914
There is an issue open for this here: https://github.com/flathub/org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry/issues/94