I have a large music collection and when I play my collection on random and I don't like a song, there is no way in to control Strawberry remotely

I have written a very basic enhancement which allows minimal remote control (Next, Previous, Pause, Play) of Strawberry via a remote client (Linux & Android)

While the maintainer reviews my PR, you can try/test this enhancement

You can access my repos via ssh

my Strawberry fork: git@github.com:poldi171254/strawberry.git

the Linux client: git@github.com:poldi171254/StrawberryRemote.git

the Android client: git@github.com:poldi171254/Strawberry-Remote-Android.git

I used Qt Creator 18.0.0 to build the Strawberry and the Linux client and Android Studio Narwhal to build the Android client

Leo

https://cables.gl/

Cheers,
Peter

I've disabled the OSD Pretty if running on wayland, if you still want to enable it, you can change this line here https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/blob/3fd29c6dcce235b5efcad28a14a9cb172311638a/src/osd/osdbase.cpp#L477 to return true;

After adding some new tracks, I was playing them when I noticed that if a "Collection Rescan" was in progress when the song ended, the "Last Played" field was not updated, but the play count was. After the rescan was completed, playing the tracks again would update the field.

This is easily repeatable. However, I was unable to determine if this happened while adding new tracks because I could not get the timing right.

This is easily avoidable by not doing a rescan while something is playing. So it is not that big of a problem for me.

Thanks
Robert in currently frozen Tallahassee Florida

Thanks. I'll wait for the update to work its way into the repository. I just got 1.2.4.

https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5712/transfer-to-a-device-configured-with-transcoding-to-a-compressed-format-is-useless

I managed to play music from spotify premium apk using strawberry in one of the first versions that supported spotify. However, now I can't play the song anymore.

help me!

Some advantages:

• Simplifies CMake files.
• We can use automoc.
• No longer need gettext utilities.

Are there any disadvantages?

• Use own thread for lyrics parsing -> this surely fixed something regarding to that

I don't remember other commits, but the cover/context ones surely made a huge benefit.

So here's my cheers for that, we don't need to post just trouble here but its good to recognize when things improve, its a lot of effort from Jonas to keep this a stable project with so many features to deal with at the same time. Strawberry RuleS!

Thank you for looking at this problem.
This is not a major bug preventing me from using Strawberry, but just annoying.
I know how to get round the problem but I am not sure my sister or some of my friends would.
This could deter them from using it.

for that matter, neither the general shuffle function nor the shuffle playlist function do anything for me in that regard. i am simply unable to make the player choose a random playback order for any given playlist. it will always follow the album order, even if i manually pick a random track to start with...

Really, from ALL of the radio apps with built in stuff - I'm very happy to escape them. There are just too many issues - so it's better to leave Strawberry for music if you want a GUI Radio player.

With the way that, for example, BBC make it tough to track down URL's - and when you see the streams, it's easier to hunt down the prized OPUS ones and leave out the archaic mp3 or m4a streams... most music players can't keep up.

The website absolutely can, if a station stops playing then I go back to the browser and find the next stream.

I think I had one afternoon searching and finding stuff I liked on there, and it's really very trivial even for a grandmother - or even your wife.

However, the absolute best Radio GUI application IMO - the one I left behind (preferring the playlist) was Shortwave - which is something that Strawberry isn't ever going to come close to emulating...

It's very simple to look at, with BIG icons to click, and easy 'Browse' and 'Search'... though I found it only 95% reliable compared to the above website - which gives you the actual stream, so you can copy and paste it into your list.

Really, once she has a dozen stations - why would she need anything else hard-coded?

https://itsfoss.com/content/images/wordpress/2020/03/shortwave-screenshot-1.png

SourceFromURL

The SourceFromURL function is used to determine source from URL when importing playlists.

Reading lyrics from a file should not be implemented as a lyrics provider, but added to the collection watcher (https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/blob/master/src/collection/collectionwatcher.cpp).
However, someone else might be working on this: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/issues/1351

I went making https://github.com/guprobr/WakkaQt instead to learn a bit more Qt before resuming this task
The last ideas we discussed, I never tried... but the last post on projectM made me feel second toughts on the viability of the idea.... anyway, i want to resume this task someday I don't think we should give up but certainly something is missing in the backend inner parts of how Qt works with OpenGL and how projectM works with OpenGL, as it was discussed on the thread on github.

But the first thing i would do is trying with latest Qt LTS, before anything.
Second thing, to try with the same version on Windows!
We have to figure where the problem is. Obviously its a Qt issue, but what made me stop working on it was when SDL window version showed the same issues. That was very disappointing.

PS: sorry to take so long to answer, I just saw this today

kernel32.lib

This is not the same error as the first.
Maybe something wrong with the linker configuration in Visual Studio.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39514632/error-cannot-open-file-kernel32-lib

@half-fast
You can listen to the message bus using D-Bus.

Thank you

Reading through loudgain's documentation, I came across this remark : https://github.com/Moonbase59/loudgain#uppercase-or-lowercase-replaygain_-tags

"File bug reports for any player you use that doesn’t handle ReplayGain tags at all or in a case-sensitive manner!"

And this got me thinking : how does Strawberry handle Replaygain tags (for the concerned formats, namely mp3) ? Upper-case (as it should be) ? Lower case (as it's often encountered) ? Or case-insensitively ?

I appreciate ur answer