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.

@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

@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!

@desputin I would love to see this as well. I was an iTunes user before switching to Strawberry and made extensive use of this in my smart playlists.

@maverick While I am not generally a fan of most of the suggestions promoted here, I like this one.

I, too, have had a similar issue with the USB flash drives I use in my truck. If the directory structure is deep, the system in my truck will skip the track or complain about it. Both of which is annoying.