I'm new to Strawberry and have the same problem with different album versions. I think this would be a great addition. My current solution for this is to add the catalog number to the grouping field and set it as the third grouping parameter. It would be much easier to add this as a grouping tag and I kinda expected this would already be possible.

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@mike_jones Yes! I tried out Strawberry but had to abandon it because I couldn't get the sort of smart playlists that I'm used to. Similar to you, I have a smart playlist that says:

3 star tracks that haven't been played in the last 2 years - Randomize and give me 30

4 star tracks that haven't been played in the last 2 months - Randomize and give me 30

5 star tracks that haven't been played in the last 2 weeks - Randomize and give me 30

Unrated tracks that haven't been played in the last month - Randomize and give me 30

None of the tracks have "[Turn off]" in the description.

Winamp accomplished this (without limiting the # of tracks per pull) by allowing you to edit the search string as a literal text string, and accepting parenthesis. So my WinAmp smart shuffle would look like (([Rating] = 5 and [Last_Played] > 14) or ([Rating] = 4 and [Last_Played] > 60) or ([Rating] = 3 and [Last_Played] > 730) or ([Rating] IS NULL and [Last_Played] > 30)) and [Comment] NOT LIKE '%[Turn Off]%'

MediaMonkey accomplishes this by allowing you to to create smart playlists similar to what Strawberry currently offers, but then you can also create a smart playlist that says "include these other playlists." So each one of those bullet points would be a smart playlist on its own (we'll just say they're named 3Star, 4Star, 5Star, and Unrated), and then you would have a smart playlist that says "Tracks that appear in playlists: [3Star, 4Star, 5Star, Unrated]" I generally tuck the "support playlists" in a folder out of sight, but really enjoy the flexibility of the MM model.

I am currently limping along with MediaMonkey in WINE because none of the native Linux players appear to provide this sort of playlist functionality.

@rajm @mncroc @rlkeeney support this request, would really make sence to be able to sort/order (Smart) Playlists!

It doesn't feel right to fill this thread with noise. Continuing in General Discussion: https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5717/gaps-between-tracks

Yes, that's a good option for the currently played track. But as far as I know, it won't work for the selected track(s): we can't get that list with Strawberry commands or from dbus.

That's why I had done that dirty hack to Clementine's context menu. It got and sent the selection to kdialog, a KDE's zenity alternative that worked like you propose. Another option, which I still use, is drag & drop to a .desktop file or plasma widget that deals with the list.

And you're also right that it would be harder for less experienced and non *nix users to do it. Much easier is "Hey, download my .bat file and create a new User command called ReplayGain that executes C:\somewhere\file.bat %S".

@Gustavo-L-Conte I think Jonas already answered a topic like this in the past, but I'm not entirely sure. Either way, I think captchas are a good idea to control spam.

Linux Mint 22 user here, also getting away from Rhythmbox. Using the GUI in Strawberry ver.1.2.3, here are some observations for using a streaming radio playlist, generally following @ben2talk .

From a blank slate with no playlists loaded, add some streams using Playlist | Add Stream. You'll notice that the title populates with the URL.

Click on a stream in the Title field. Here you can rename the stream to something more human using F2 or context click and select 'Edit tag "Title" ...'

Now save the same playlist to someplace you can find them, saving these three formats:
Christmas1.xspf (the default playlist suggested by Strawberry)
Christmas2.pls
Christmas3.m3u

Open all 3 files in a text app and observe their structures. Of the 3, only Christmas2.pls properly saves the renaming changes done above. Neither the XSPF nor M3U files save the Title changes, and if you reopen those playlist types (with or without tagging them as starred Favorites), the URL repopulates the Title field and you have to do it all over again.

The suggestions here for making changes to the M3U file work good to preserve your edits for that type of playlist. They may present differently in the GUI when compared to the sticky changes in the PLS file (you'll have to fiddle with the M3U #EXTINF and other directives to see what works best for you), but at least the work is preserved when you load the playlist. Again this all needs done by changing the M3U text file directly since the F2 GUI changes only stick for the PLS file.

Strawberry's default XSPF is in structured XML and I haven't dug into manual solutions for that.

As for direct modifications to the Radio tab offerings, if SQL is still the main Strawberry data backend (see @OriNOVet and this forum "Moving collection/config") there may be some opportunity. Christmas wish list to self: Dust off my rusty SQL and XML chops and look under the hood.

+1 for SomaFM. Great stuff.

@memo-dominguez
Second a wish for the ability to customize internal keyboard shortcuts generally.

@8gJwRQ Same here! I do not have the skill to program a music player. But if I could I would built one with the flexibility of Foobar2000 and have Foobar add-on support to make it an extremely smooth switch over. I sorely miss an OpenLyrics panel in Strawberry 😞 For some reason, my Foobar2000 via Wine keeps breaking after a while, even if used via Lutris. Strawberry is one of the best alternatives, but the synced lyrics via OpenLyrics is missed deepy.