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There is an unstable PPA for Ubuntu here: https://launchpad.net/~jonaski/+archive/ubuntu/strawberry-unstable
It gets updated with the latest code from git.
If Linux Mint is compatible with one of the Ubuntu versions there it might work for you, I'm not familiar with Linux Mint.

We were removing all characters including spaces except for letter and numbers from the filename using a \W regex, it's fixed now:
https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/commit/944cd020af7275e84d8d1a92a4c51ec298e0f896

We already have a column called album_id, which is primarily used to separate albums in the models. Currently this is not in use for local files, only Tidal and Qobuz. So basically all you need to do is to update the tagreader code to read the musicbrainz id's:
https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/blob/master/ext/libstrawberry-tagreader/tagreader.cpp

Bugfixes:

• Fixed updating playing widget song details in small cover mode.
• Fixed file extension when transcoding songs.
• Fixed updating album cover to collection in edit tag dialog when pressing save.
• Fixed songs with empty artist in collection.
• Fixed possible crashes with stream discovery.
• Fixed setting engine state to null.
• Fixed tagreader crash with empty APE tags.
• Fixed a gstreamer memory leak.

Enhancements:

• (Windows) Added WASAPI plugin.

Strawberry has added compilation tag to the edit tag dialog in the new versions.

Looking in a VM here I used to test the snap, I found the files in the following locations.

/home/jonas/snap/strawberry/5581/.config/strawberry/strawberry.conf
/home/jonas/snap/strawberry/5581/.local/share/strawberry/strawberry/strawberry.db

I can confirm that

snap remove strawberry

wiped the files. That's horrible.

I'll add that to the warning dialog in Strawberry.

I plan to discontinue the snap, but there currently is a process packaging strawberry in debian, I'll wait until that is complete.
The snap has caused so many complaints and bad reviews because of restrictions and slowness.

Thanks. The version number doesn't mean much, but I actually thought that we should have called 0.8.1 version 1.0 instead since it is pretty complete.

I think that the grouping tag is mostly used to separate different releases of the same album, and that's the reason it's done. It's always been like this. We adapted this behavior from Clementine. But it's only done when year is included in the group by.

You can change the "group by" to Album Artist / Album.
The way I do is that I set the disc to 0 for albums that have single discs, that way it does not append the disc, that's actually what the ripping program did when I ripped the songs from CD years ago.

Snap uses different directories for configuration. The playlist is stored in strawberry.db.

sudo find / -name 'strawberry.db'

That should give you an idea of where it is, basically you need to copy that to ~/.local/share/strawberry/strawberry/strawberry.db
Make sure you do what while strawberry is not running.
You might also want to look for the old strawberry.conf and copy that to ~/.config/strawberry/strawberry.conf