@jonas Just tried that. Db and backup are okay and not corrupted.

From what I've read/seen I think the issue wasn't corruption but just a bizarre mistimed save. I removed my primary music folder from the inclusion list so I could more easily compare other music folders in Strawberry, and after that was done I added it back. Bc it was added back it required a full rescan, so I cancelled the scan and enabled EBUR128 bc I might as well. In the playlists, removing the primary folder made every song disappear. At some point, maybe when I closed Strawberry prematurely or whatever, Strawberry saved the playlists to the DB, and since the missing tracks were still not in the database, saved blank entries into all the data cells, wiping any data. Or it happened some other bizarre way IDK.

TLDR (most of) the data was overwritten with empty tags because of a weird niche save mechanic.

So unless someone really involved in Strawberrys development knows how to use the collection_id data to reverse engineer the individual tracks the data is completely lost. C'est la vie.

@jonas I was able to file the ticket on the gstreamer-plugin-rs gitlab and get help about that. Is there any reason that the steps in the wiki don't mention the need to install the development libraries as part of the command steps for installing the plugin? Where can I contribute to the wiki? I couldn't find an option for that anywhere.

I'm pretty sure that Strawberry sorts by metadata. A song needs a track number, independent of the file name. The suggestion of renaming files numerically is a good idea. Organizing your album folders alphabetically, by song name, runs counter to the way albums are presented -- which is numerically, by track number.

Right click on a song and select "Edit track information". There should be a number in the "Track" field at the right. Don't change anything yet, until you figure out the root of your problem, but if there is no number, that might be of concern.

Hope that helps.

@silver-sun I've adjusted the headset volume and its helped. But the volume slider is directly connected to the application volume control so adjusting it on there adjusts the volume slider and vice versa. There is no other point on the chain besides those two. (I'm using pipewire for context)

@jonarmst_303
Have you tried adding a directory with audio files to the collection in Tools / Settings / Collection? Does anything show up?

I believe this is normal, seeking isn't supported with Spotify.
Strawberry mainly has one developer me, so it's not possible for me to reply to everything, there are too many issues to reply to.

Look for Menu -> Tools -> Settings... -> Playlist -> Use alternating row colors

I too would be interested in TAK playback.
Any plans to add it to the roadmap?

@paul2berry
The played track history (clicking previous track button) will reset if you stop playback, or do you mean it's resetting while still playing?

Sounds good. I hate having to turn to VLC or other players to get features like this. I also see this (musical lyrics in .lrc) as the camel's nose in the tent for podcast transcripts in .vtt. Whether it is music (lyrics) or podcasts (transcripts), text is very important for the hard of hearing and for people like me, with excellent hearing for music but not-so-excellent listening for words in other languages. I am sure that my neighbors through the wall would like if I did not have to occasionally scrub back over the same five-second passage ten times.

I have the same problem. It can show up randomly but if I choose next in the playlist it will happen then. If I double-click the selected song it will resume. I use ALSA and have used both HW and PCM with no change between them.

I use Linux Mint Mate.

@Sharky-PI this would be incredibly useful.