<![CDATA[Feature Suggestions]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/category/6RSS for NodeThu, 21 May 2026 16:41:57 GMTMon, 11 May 2026 01:27:39 GMT60<![CDATA[The ability to sort a playlist by a custom field]]>In the columns context menu, there can be a custom option for me to sort by a custom field and rename said column to whatever, similar to how something like puddletag does it. would be useful to sort albums by exact date without having to used comments or the year tag.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/6003/the-ability-to-sort-a-playlist-by-a-custom-fieldhttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/6003/the-ability-to-sort-a-playlist-by-a-custom-fieldMon, 11 May 2026 01:27:39 GMT<![CDATA[Group by album, sort by year]]>I had library grouping by Artist -> Year -> Album, but that broke a bit when I got my hands on compilation album where different tracks are from different years.
It'd be nice to group by Artist -> Album only, but sort albums my the year.
Right now only grouping option is available, sorting is implicit.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/6000/group-by-album-sort-by-yearhttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/6000/group-by-album-sort-by-yearMon, 04 May 2026 14:23:16 GMT<![CDATA[Option to sort within the collection like in the playlist]]>Re: Ability to have two tabs for music library (for different sortings) #7416

Hello everyone,

Similar to Darkmaster006, I think the easiest solution would be to have an option to display the collection with selectable columns, just like in the playlist.
That would greatly simplify the sorting process.

Yes, it can also be done using a playlist. However, if, for example, a new folder is added, the playlist needs to be updated again.

That would allow users to quickly select tracks from the collection, for example by genre, to add them to the playlist.

But otherwise, it's a really great program, and I love it.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5997/option-to-sort-within-the-collection-like-in-the-playlisthttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5997/option-to-sort-within-the-collection-like-in-the-playlistThu, 30 Apr 2026 07:58:15 GMT<![CDATA[After "Move to collection" switch track source to library]]>A very common task for me is the following:

  • Drop an album from a folder on disk into the playlist
  • Select "Move to collection" from the context menu

This works great! It would be even better though, if the entries in the playlist get updated to the entries from the collection after moving.
Currently they are useless, as they point to the filesystem where the files got moved away from.
So I manually have to open my collection view, search for the album there, drag the album into the playlist and remove the old entries still pointing to the filesystem.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5994/after-move-to-collection-switch-track-source-to-libraryhttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5994/after-move-to-collection-switch-track-source-to-librarySat, 25 Apr 2026 13:59:59 GMT<![CDATA[Sort or group collection by date added]]>@frostypaw I assume you've tried the "Newest tracks" Smart Playlist?

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5984/sort-or-group-collection-by-date-addedhttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5984/sort-or-group-collection-by-date-addedSun, 29 Mar 2026 18:44:49 GMT<![CDATA[Strawberry player - how to cut and paste track/song in playlist?]]>It is not practical to reorganize tracks in a long playlist using mouse drag&drop because it takes too much time. Easier would be to cut and paste. But is there such menu entry or a keyboard shortcut? I do not see it and Ctrl+C/V does not seem to do anything.

My only idea is to manually edit playlist file (export, import).

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5981/strawberry-player-how-to-cut-and-paste-track-song-in-playlisthttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5981/strawberry-player-how-to-cut-and-paste-track-song-in-playlistSat, 21 Mar 2026 06:56:30 GMT<![CDATA[Anyway to transfer playback statstics and playlists from Foobar2000?]]>Hello,

So I've used Foobar2000 for over 14 years. 14 years of perfect playlist management and playback statistics and also uploads to Last.FM.

Is there a way I can import this data into Strawberry Music Player? The answer is always no when I try and switch to other products. But I thought I'd check.

Kind Regards

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5980/anyway-to-transfer-playback-statstics-and-playlists-from-foobar2000https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5980/anyway-to-transfer-playback-statstics-and-playlists-from-foobar2000Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:04:38 GMT<![CDATA[Design]]>Hi!

I really like Strawberry!

I made this quick mockup in Penpot for a refresh of the logo and UI. If there is any interest, I can create the rest of the views and specify a new design manual and UI guide.

strawberry.png

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5970/designhttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5970/designWed, 25 Feb 2026 21:02:39 GMT<![CDATA[Select folder to copy music to in device properties.]]>I've looked everywhere in options and can't find this. It's very important for devices like the PSP where music is stored in the MUSIC folder rather than the root of the drive.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5966/select-folder-to-copy-music-to-in-device-propertieshttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5966/select-folder-to-copy-music-to-in-device-propertiesWed, 18 Feb 2026 23:40:37 GMT<![CDATA[Add setting to allow caching Subsonic songs]]>I really like the distraction free interface of Strawberry and would like to use it on my laptop but I self host a Subsonic server only locally (not exposed to the internet) and as far as I can tell, Strawberry does no caching so when I am on another network my music is inaccessible.

I would love a setting to enable caching of music for Subsonic. Tempus, the Android client I use to connect to Subsonic, does this nicely.

Could be implemented most simply by just caching the most recently played songs, allowing a configurable cache size and removing items from cache when the limit is reached.

A more complicated but ideal solution and something that Tempus supports is caching starred albums/tracks from Subsonic.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5962/add-setting-to-allow-caching-subsonic-songshttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5962/add-setting-to-allow-caching-subsonic-songsThu, 12 Feb 2026 22:15:19 GMT<![CDATA[Musicbrainz tags]]>I would like to know if my songs have musicbrainz tags on them. It would be nice if I could add to the columns shown musicbrainz tags then I could see which songs have the tags and which ones I need to add the tags to them.
Hope that makes sense.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5961/musicbrainz-tagshttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5961/musicbrainz-tagsWed, 11 Feb 2026 15:34:42 GMT<![CDATA[Have an option to use .lrc files instead of online lyric providers]]>Have an option to use .lrc files instead of online lyric providers

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5955/have-an-option-to-use-lrc-files-instead-of-online-lyric-providershttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5955/have-an-option-to-use-lrc-files-instead-of-online-lyric-providersSun, 01 Feb 2026 17:34:28 GMT<![CDATA[Hide specific file extensions from filesystem indexing]]>After adding .lrc files to my songs (not even 4000 tracks) with a mass downloader, the collection rescan was painfully slow (<1%/minute).
It would therefore be nice to have an option to ignore *.lrc files during file indexing so that you could have decent scan speeds again with lyrics.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5954/hide-specific-file-extensions-from-filesystem-indexinghttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5954/hide-specific-file-extensions-from-filesystem-indexingThu, 29 Jan 2026 18:59:42 GMT<![CDATA[AND & OR In the Same Smart Play List]]>I use smart playlists almost exclusively. Most of the time, they do exactly what I want, but on occasion, I need both to get the results I want. In these cases, I have to manually create the list.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5953/and-or-in-the-same-smart-play-listhttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5953/and-or-in-the-same-smart-play-listWed, 28 Jan 2026 15:08:18 GMT<![CDATA[Playlist As Source For Smart Playlist]]>Here is a feature that I require--

When I create a new Smart Playlist, I must have the source of criteria to be an existing pre-created playlist. It appears this is not possible with Strawberry. Please add the ability to allow an existing playlist to be the source for Smart Playlists criteria.

Why I need this--

I have created several playlists that identify a single preferred song in my entire library that eliminates all duplicates. I play these playlists to hear the preferred version of the same song that exists in my music library. These playlists are the only source for my music that I primarily play.

Everyone has duplicate songs. Deleting music from my library is not a solution in this case. This is why I created playlists. Smart Playlists currently cannot use existing playlists as their source. This feature request would solve this issue.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5952/playlist-as-source-for-smart-playlisthttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5952/playlist-as-source-for-smart-playlistWed, 28 Jan 2026 09:11:04 GMT<![CDATA[Support Atmos Playback]]>Re: MKV MKA M4A
Really just touching base on what this old post was originally about.
Hoping at some point Strawberry could add configuration options like available in Kodi to enable Passthrough to the AV device and play back mkv or mka encoded Atmos files.
TIA Sal1950

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5950/support-atmos-playbackhttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5950/support-atmos-playbackSat, 24 Jan 2026 08:09:00 GMT<![CDATA[Prevent duplicate playlist additions]]>@Sharky-PI this would be incredibly useful.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5949/prevent-duplicate-playlist-additionshttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5949/prevent-duplicate-playlist-additionsWed, 21 Jan 2026 02:02:41 GMT<![CDATA[Support for TAK (Tom’s lossless Audio Kompressor) audio files]]>Hello,
First of all, thank you for your great music player. I really enjoy using it on Linux.
I would like to kindly ask if it would be possible to add support for the TAK (Tom’s lossless Audio Kompressor) audio format (*.tak) in a future version.
TAK is a lossless audio codec similar to FLAC, but it is currently not widely supported by Linux audio players. Many users still have music collections archived in this format, and native playback support would be extremely helpful.
If your player uses FFmpeg or GStreamer, perhaps TAK decoding could be enabled through the appropriate backend plugin or library.
Thank you for considering this request and for your continued work on the project.
Best regards

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5944/support-for-tak-tom-s-lossless-audio-kompressor-audio-fileshttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5944/support-for-tak-tom-s-lossless-audio-kompressor-audio-filesSat, 17 Jan 2026 19:07:23 GMT<![CDATA[Album Art in Discord Rich Presence]]>@echolessowl The GitHub is public, anyone can change the code and submit a Pull Request... then the main developer will decide to include it or not.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5943/album-art-in-discord-rich-presencehttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5943/album-art-in-discord-rich-presenceThu, 15 Jan 2026 02:48:43 GMT<![CDATA[List all songs by current artist]]>I wish I could right click a song in the playlist and then choose something like "browse artist" which then would take me to a search for the artist in the collection. Currently I'm using "Show in collection", but if playlist are selected on the left menu, the app does not automatically switch to collection view. Also it obviously shows only the current album.
Maybe this is already possible?

I'm on Kubuntu

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5939/list-all-songs-by-current-artisthttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5939/list-all-songs-by-current-artistSun, 04 Jan 2026 12:38:01 GMT<![CDATA[Find/Replace system for replacing characters automaticly on the lyrics "autofinder".]]>I find I'm using the "Find Lyrics" button in the metadata editor a lot lately, to add the lyrics to my files, rather than always relying on an online lookup.

One thing that I'd like is a way to set certain characters to be replaced if they're found within the online lookup.

The actual task I was doing that made me think of this, I was adding lyrics, and many of them from online databases use "Fancy Quotes" or "Backticks" rather than a regular single quote (').

So at the minute I'm using the button, if the lyrics exist copy them to clipboard, put them in Kate, and use Kate's find and replace for the character.

A list of user defined swaps for whatever characters they'd like to replace would be fab, if this is possible.

Thank you 🙂

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5927/find-replace-system-for-replacing-characters-automaticly-on-the-lyrics-autofinderhttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5927/find-replace-system-for-replacing-characters-automaticly-on-the-lyrics-autofinderSat, 06 Dec 2025 22:43:15 GMT<![CDATA[Custom encoder]]>Is it possible to create the ability to set a custom encoder?

Currently I use qaac to encode FLAC files to AAC from within foobar2000 on the fly when I synchronize my library to my old 6th gen iPod Classic.

This requires me to use a windows VM, as I run linux on my workstation, this option would allow me to synchronize my iPod to my workstation directly, omitting the VM. I would run qaac using wine.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5925/custom-encoderhttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5925/custom-encoderThu, 04 Dec 2025 11:04:00 GMT<![CDATA[md5tool]]>Hi!

I made this script and I find it useful. It creates and checks md5 checksum files in a directory structure. Like when you have ripped a couple of albums and want to ensure that the data integrity is intact.

https://gitlab.com/ismyren/md5tool

Why not integrate it into Strawberry.

Regards, Fredrik Ismyren - Sweden

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5922/md5toolhttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5922/md5toolMon, 01 Dec 2025 02:47:29 GMT<![CDATA[Automatic Install Of Missing GStreamer Plugin]]>It isn't a feature that exists yet in gstreamer, but something to keep an eye on for when this feature can be set up in strawberry: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues/4758 (a link to the draft of the implementation is at the bottom)

I don't quite know how that would work out for sudo elevation.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5915/automatic-install-of-missing-gstreamer-pluginhttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5915/automatic-install-of-missing-gstreamer-pluginFri, 21 Nov 2025 14:14:53 GMT<![CDATA[Spotify "Refresh Catalogue" Limits to 20 artists]]>I made the mistake of clicking on 'Refresh Catalogue' in the Spotify Tab and it reloaded 20 random artists (including some that are not in my Spotify Artist List).
I can find no settings to increase this number, only the Search Limit on Artists, Album Search Limit, and Song Search Limit (All in the settings)

I even downloaded the source code in an attempt to find it there, though I have little C++ programming experience, but no luck there.

Running Debian 12, current version of Strawberry 1.2.14

Thank you for all the hard work you do for all of us.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5907/spotify-refresh-catalogue-limits-to-20-artistshttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5907/spotify-refresh-catalogue-limits-to-20-artistsTue, 11 Nov 2025 16:26:00 GMT