To follow up on my testing, I did not have good results setting Strawberry volume slider to 50 percent, if that, indeed, equates to -3 dB.

70 percent seemed better to my ears. Computer master volume remained at 100 percent. DAC is connected to my computer via USB.

Incidentally, on further reading about this topic, the term(s) used is "intersample peak clipping", or "intersample overs".

@CharAznableLoNZ This was already included on the latest version: "Added option to turn off the use of sort tags for the collection"

@silver-sun thanks for the reply, my bad, I should have said that I only use GNU/Linux (I did not even know that Strawberry existed for Windows or Mac).
I don't have Qt6. I tried installing it and I got this:
sudo apt install qt6ct
[sudo] password for xxxxxx:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package qt6ct
also, my strawberry is flatpak, so there is that.
okay, thank you, you gave me somethign to work with! 🙂
Kind regards and all the best for 2026
Farik

@new_user
Playcounts and ratings only work for collection songs. The songs aren't linked to the collection for some reason indicated by the "folder" icon, the collection songs should have a vinyl icon. Maybe you dragged the songs from a file manager or the file tab before the folders were added to the collectiob? You need to re-add the songs from the left collection panel, then it should work.

@rlkeeney
If you look at the screenshot, the rating column is already there.

For more information, these USB devices are being mounted in the normal expected directory of /run/media/user/Music

@mike_jones I've been around since 2021, and Jonas has been updating Strawberry consistently. Although Strawberry was conceived a fork of Celementine and Amarok, at this point, it's safe to say that the software has evolved into its own entity, given the number of functions added through the years.

In other words: Yeah, I agree. Is quite a bargain considering the hard work invested.

@echolessowl The GitHub is public, anyone can change the code and submit a Pull Request... then the main developer will decide to include it or not.

@mike_jones Try using Rating < 0.5 instead of Rating = 0 stars. I have found that Rating = 0 stars does not work for me.

What about gapless playback in fast-menu? Maybe with auto-detection!

@lynkiii Have you looked at https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Main_Page#Troubleshooting ?

@davidsmind <img width="783" height="288" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e44b06c7-b497-4658-8716-34a9002cffc2" />

Ok, so I used a hex editor to change the api key and secret, still bails at around the same point . I suppose the page pulls are too agressive.

i really don't like this change, it honestly feels like they're intentionally screwing us over for using windows (even though i use both windows and linux, it still feels like they are dogpiling on all of us)
i just hope they lift it soon.

+1 for this.

I am moving over to strawberry on linux over using dopamine on windows. On dopamine, I have about 300 smart playlists (I have about 18k songs in my collection too). The smart playlists being ordered alphabetically by default, instead of creation order (I assume that's what it uses?) would increase navigability.

It would be really nice if we could make playlist folders too (e.g. i have some playlists based around artists, some based around genres, and so on, and it would be nice to group them), but all of them listed alphabetically would be great!

Just wanted to set the record straight, I can't really pinpoint it, but I would point at changing icon theme for fixing the startup times? Maybe this doesn't make any sense, but it's but it's been as fast if not faster than Clementine.

Shoutout to the maintainers!