To follow up on my testing, I did not have good results setting Strawberry volume slider to 50 percent, if that, indeed, equates to -3 dB.

70 percent seemed better to my ears. Computer master volume remained at 100 percent. DAC is connected to my computer via USB.

Incidentally, on further reading about this topic, the term(s) used is "intersample peak clipping", or "intersample overs".

@mike_jones Try using Rating < 0.5 instead of Rating = 0 stars. I have found that Rating = 0 stars does not work for me.

Just wanted to set the record straight, I can't really pinpoint it, but I would point at changing icon theme for fixing the startup times? Maybe this doesn't make any sense, but it's but it's been as fast if not faster than Clementine.

Shoutout to the maintainers!

@lynkiii Have you looked at https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Main_Page#Troubleshooting ?

@davidsmind <img width="783" height="288" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e44b06c7-b497-4658-8716-34a9002cffc2" />

Ok, so I used a hex editor to change the api key and secret, still bails at around the same point . I suppose the page pulls are too agressive.

@new_user
Playcounts and ratings only work for collection songs. The songs aren't linked to the collection for some reason indicated by the "folder" icon, the collection songs should have a vinyl icon. Maybe you dragged the songs from a file manager or the file tab before the folders were added to the collectiob? You need to re-add the songs from the left collection panel, then it should work.

@rlkeeney
If you look at the screenshot, the rating column is already there.

@dustinhuman Bump please

@jonas
Sorry for the late reply. I thought I would be notified by email if someone replied.

OK, I understand that the replay gain data is not displayed in Strawberry, but I have another reason to believe that it is not being applied at all : I mainly listen to randomized playlists with a large number of tracks, and the output volume varies significantly from one track to the next. I often have to adjust the volume manually, which I don't need to do in foobar2000, for example. To me, it really sounds like there is no replay gain at all. I also hear no difference when I set it on and off in the settings.

@jonas Thank you.

@asenz I have the same problem on linux. It appears to be an issue with the Pipewire output. Some more searching finally led me to:

https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/issues/1668

tl;dr: Change the output to PulseAudio, and the problem should go away (assuming you have pipewire-pulse installed).

@jonas Perfect, thanks

@Camber
Edit ~/.config/strawberry/strawberry.conf with a text editor (like Kate), and delete the entire [SerializedSmartPlaylists] section.

@jonas

Thank you for the clarification. Tuxedo OS is based on Ubuntu with the KDE desktop on top, that may the reason why it runs more recent versions of Qt.

Out of curiosity I checked the Strawberry Player on my Mac, it runs with Qt6.10. So the Linux/Ubuntu version is a bit behind.

So for the time being, I have installed Clementine on my Tuxedo machine, it's a bit dated, but as it only requires Qt5.X, it runs.

@jonas Hmm...
After checking that everything's up to date, and using the MSVC installer (which I believe I had previous), Strawberry is up and running once more. Even remembers which files I had in my playlist!

Thanks for your timely suggestions and forbearance! I truly appreciate it.