@totti_777 I just added my Radio to Strawberry... previously, I loaded the contents of the 'Radio' tab and ended up with one or two I liked, but couldn't work out how to 'add radio'.

So then - as with PyRadio which I usually use - I mostly added those by copying the URL from radio-browser.

You can do the same job with an m3u playlist:

#EXTM3U #EXTINF:0,🗫 BBC - Radio 4 Extra http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_radio_four_extra.m3u8 #EXTINF:0,🎵 101 - Smooth Jazz http://jking.cdnstream1.com/b22139_128mp3

I save playlists separate from my media players after having lost some in the past - so this works well (and Strawberry is good at getting Lyrics for many stations) so that I removed my alternative GUI radio player.

@Robbing7423 For a year or so now I used my main desktop for my alarm...

So maybe I want to play music, or watch some TV and have the computer sleep at 9.30pm and then wake up in the morning to play me a tune for waking up.

I use KAlarm, but you can schedule any way...

window_list=$(wmctrl -l | awk '{print $1}') for window in $window_list; do wmctrl -ic "$window" done; amixer set Master 10%; systemctl suspend

I set the volume because last month, I left my mouse on and the computer woke up at 3am and I got a few noisy notifications.

Basically, whatever window is open/playing will get closed so that in the morning, it wakes up with a tune which also helps me remember what day it is.

I'm aware of the limitations, as far as I remember it has to do with the sqlite full text search which is used for the collection.
I plan to get rid of SQL-based search for the collection entirely which means rewriting parts of the collection model and search, which I started on a few years ago, it should get rid of these limitations also. When that is done, the collection search will be similar to the playlist search, search will use a model/proxy and not SQL.

Is BPM still missing? This is key info that music supervisors need in order to use this program.

@cedric
You can try
yt-dlp -x --audio-quality 0 --audio-format flac <URL>

to download as an audio file

@Starcross I agree +1

@jonas Please take a look at this if you've got the time. Personally, I don't mind rebuilding the DB, so what I'm really interested in is having Strawberry's setings in an .ini file rather than in the registry. I'm no Qt dev by any stretch of the imagination, but I believe it has a relatively simple off-the-shelf way of achieving this:
https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.8/qsettings.html#details

https://www.qt.io/blog/dark-mode-on-windows-11-with-qt-6.5

Hallelujah Hallelujah

@rajm PR created - feel free to ignore if you think the composer tag is not sufficiently defined meta data, finding definitions of cue files is hard (for me anyway!)

@rlkeeney A preference switch would be a much better option. Wish I'd thoughth of it. 🙂 People who find it useful can keep it on, those who don't can turn it off.

Coming from iTunes, I found this to be the most confusing aspect of the app. Everything's a playlist. Sometimes I just want to play an album without making it a playlist. Problem is, double-clicking anything essentially creates a playlist so, as @meow notes, it will overwrite or add to whatever's in the current list. I've wiped out a number of playlists that way before I figured it out.

I would love it if the tabs were actually separate and independent views based on the active tab: a "collection view" a "playlist view" and a "smart playlist view"—and the views don't affect each other.

If you're in the Collection view:

Double clicking displays the song/album/artist in the view window and they become just songs that are playing. Default sort for artist is albums in ascending chronological order Songs within albums sort sequentially by disc Selecting any other song/album/arist doesn't affect anything in the playlist views

If you're in the playlist view (standard):

Double clicking a playlist opens it in the "playlist view" and plays it. Appending or replacing songs to a playlist should be a deliberate act; replacing should prompt "are you sure?" Playlists auto-save so there's no need to star anything since it's assumed that creating a playlists means you want it saved. There would be a way to access the collection while in the playlist view to create the playlists.

If you're in the smart playlist view:

Double clicking a smart playlist opens it in the "playlist view" and plays it. The edit criteria dialog is accessible and requires a manual save with a prompt if you close without saving (unlike current which doesn't prompt).

I can confirm that splitting the mbid's by slash and appending them individually to the Json array works. Fixed now (https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/commit/d9c4720a3ee776dde2701eac21fd0b51ae50a78a).

@jonas nevermind its all good jonas i changed the appearance on my system settings now i could see the scrollbar! Thank you so much for an awesome piece of software and thank you for your creativity!