@Popmartijn said in Group by Album function not working correctly:

Hi,

I've noticed that for a while (certainly since 1.1.1) that the Group by Album functionality is not working correctly. Though I understand the rationality behind making separate entries for artists in the situation that two (or more) artists have the same album name (Live or Greatest Hits) it makes the overview unworkable with compilations. Can the functionality please be returned so that Group by Album again has one entry for each album name? In addition there might then be a category like Group by Album/Artist where under an album entry you can then see which artists have albums by that name in case you want to specifically play Greatest Hits by Billy Joel and not have Greatest Hits by Queen included.

You should be able to work around this by either setting a album artist for the specific album, if it's compilation album you could set this to the same as the album name.
Other alternative is to right click and select "Show in various artists", that will mark the album as a compilation and it should no longer split into separate albums.

Furthermore, I noticed (certainly since version 1.2.6) that in the sorting of the albums in the Group by Album category the sorting doesn't disregard any leading articles (like A or The) anymore. This also seems like a step back to me, to find The Complete Collection, The Joshua Tree or The Seeds Of Love located under T instead of C, J and S respectively. Is this also intentional? And if so, can there be an option to disregard it, like the option available for artists.
Thank you.

It was done intentional. The "Skip leading articles when sorting artist names" option in the collection was previously applied to album names too, since this was incorrect according to the name of the option, I changed it to only apply to artists, but I can make a separate option for albums too.

@Pentoga
Have you tried to trigger a update through Tools / "Update changed collection folders"?

@ank99

Since I'm the author/maintainer of the software I shouldn't edit directly, but I see the following:

• "MacOS" should be "macOS"
• "fork of the Clementine program in its version 1.3.1". This isn't actually correct, Strawberry wasn't actually forked from a specific release version of clementine, but various git revisions.
• "Qt toolkit" should probably be "Qt framework", that's what it's officially called from the Qt Company and on Wikipedia.

Under differences:

"compatible with Qt 5 and Qt 6"

Qt 5 is no longer supported, only Qt 6.

Under References:

1. Points to the source code for about.cpp, an older version from 2016 for Clementine, this is probably not relevant, the authors/contributors are listed in the same file in Strawberry.
   4-5. lists the same URL.
2. Contains a broken URL to "differences from Clementine", this URL hasn't worked for many years, the correct URL is https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Differences_from_Clementine
3. Links to the Privacy Policy on the Clementine website, this isn't relevant for Strawberry as far as I can see.
4. Links to a Clementine issue where some users claim it collects data, even though this is a connection, and no data is leaked/collected. In any case it isn't relevant for Strawberry since it does not use the songkick service at all.

@ank99
I didn't see any requests for it in Crowdin, but I've added them now so they should be available right now.

@palvji
I can confirm this, just tested on Linux with HTTP/2, stuck on buffering after 54 seconds into the song when playing a tidal track.
I'm guessing there is regression in one of the recent libsoup versions. I will do some more testing when I have more time.
Luckily the default in Strawberry is still to force off HTTP/2 for streaming unless you manually check the HTTP/2 option in the settings.

@euriloco
Album covers are stored in a special way on the iPod, so Strawberry does not show album covers under devices, if that's what you mean. Strawberry should however store album covers when copying songs to the iPod, but personally I did not get those to show on the iPod, however, I know it worked for others.

@palvji
It most likely has to do with GStreamer or libsoup was upgraded in one of the versions that perhaps has introduced a bug.
Can you try enabling "Enable HTTP/2 for streaming" in Tools / Settings / Backend. The default is to turn off HTTP/2 because of some issues in the past, but that should be resolved. Restart strawberry to make sure it's enabled, as this setting is a bit special, since not a normal setting but rather a environment variable set by strawberry that libsoup picks up.

@cdhacker
This seem to have to do with the client ID which the tidalapi script uses, and quality set to "HI_RES_LOSSLESS" and stream URL method set to "playbackinfopostpaywall".

HI_RES_LOSSLESS was missing for quality, added now.

I'm able to stream with some albums with 96/24 and some with 192/24 without any other modifications to the authentication code.

Bugfixes

• Fixed strawberry exiting when clicking tray icon.
• Fixed Clementine import script errors.
• Disabled OSD Pretty on Wayland since it's not working properly.

Enhancements

• Only maximize error dialog if Strawberry is the active window (#1627).
• Added QPA Platform Native Interface as optional component.

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-7-121202250).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

@mini_bomba

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;