@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.

@rlkeeney

Allows using calls from dbus to rate a currently playing song without having to open up the player and click the star rating.

This is useful for media playing from a second computer (laptop, media machine)

It also allows you to bind alt-f1-f10 to half a star to 5 stars

It also allows apps like kde connect to have a ratings ui function in multimedia control, so you can rate a currently playing song with your phone