+1 for this.

I am moving over to strawberry on linux over using dopamine on windows. On dopamine, I have about 300 smart playlists (I have about 18k songs in my collection too). The smart playlists being ordered alphabetically by default, instead of creation order (I assume that's what it uses?) would increase navigability.

It would be really nice if we could make playlist folders too (e.g. i have some playlists based around artists, some based around genres, and so on, and it would be nice to group them), but all of them listed alphabetically would be great!

@WeeGerGai sorry for the necroposting but i would also love to see this be implemented, their database of (unsynced) lyrics is pretty massive compared to all the other lyric services that strawberry currently supports, and their website (https://lrclib.net) has good insight on its own API and how to implement it.

oh yeah this has been really tedious! fixing the metadata in my songs then i add lyrics on the app and the date is gone.... that and the fact you can't group your collection by original release date, only the year. it definitly should be possible. no reason for those things not to be

Bump! Still unable to properly show audio with no metadata...

@jonas Please how can I remove this? Or at least can you put an option into "Appearance" to toggle this feature?

Thanks

I would also love to see this feature. I was using Strawberry (and Clementine before that) years ago, and just recently discovered that it has subsonic support. However, the ability to stream via UPnP to my stereo would complete the experience. Currently there's only one subsonic client on Linux that can do that, and it doesn't always work very well.

For an "every thing but the kitchen sink..... well alright, the kitchen sink too" type app like Strawberry, it seems odd for this to be missing. (likely because UPnP is an absolute mess of a protocol, so understandable.... but you can do it... I believe in you)

Thanks!

On Linux Mint 22.2, there is Settings > User interface > Appearance > Style: gtk, which enables dark theme (I think I installed it via apt install strawberry instead of downloading deb file from website).

On Mint 21, there's no such option, I think I'll just wait until I need to upgrade this Mint installation. I'm avoiding the flatpak distribution since it's non-official.

FYI https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/pull/1837

@jonas
belatedly thanks.

@Sharky-PI Ah, yeah, I know about the spanner, thanks anyways! but if I change it to genre, then I'd have to change it to artist when I want to see artists, and so on.
I'll try the playlist workaround, seems like it could work. Thank you!

non-strawberry solution: if your playlists are in a central location (e.g. /Music/playlists/) then you could 'search within files / search file contents' using whatever OS-default search tool you have handy?

Now if you were feeling INCREDIBLY saucy, you could setup a cron job to

scan all your playlists create a database of songs [track URL] (rows) & playlists (columns), with cells filled by the playlist name; have a final column which concatenates all nonblank playlist columns, separated by semicolon Write that final column to the Performer tag of those files [manually/auto rescan collection in Strawberry then) search "performer:MyPlaylist" if you want the contents of the playlist in whichever Collection grouping scheme you've chosen (potentially useful/interesting), or (your main objective) search for the song and look in the tags for the performer, or display the performer tag as a column.