@friTTe
What OS and version of Strawberry is this?

I'm aware of an issue with the playlist row colors on Windows using the windows11 style. You can change the style in Settings / Apperance / Style, set the style to windowsvista, or turn of the alternating row colors like already suggested.

@CherryStraw ok. i forgot that's how you change it.

@jonas
thank you, I have been able to set Strawberry as the default app to open the link and it is now working.
Many thanks

@jonas when is this likely to be? as i'm not happy going through the Windows mixer as it ruins the sound.
I'm quite happy to test out beta versions if you want a tester?
As it stands now I have bought the latest version which gives me no benefit than to the last free one for my use case.

@StrawberryAR
You need to add the folders to the collection in Settings / Collection. And make sure "Monitor the collection for changes" is checked.

I have very eclectic taste in music. I like some of it allScreenshot at 2025-07-02 05-46-40.png . Here are sm stats from last week.

@Sharky-PI TagLib can read any tags. It's easy to do

@korafola
Check the database: https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Database_integrity_check

@ida
Transparency isn't supported for custom background images.

Just looking at one of my FLAC files and its metadata, tagged by SongKong (pulling from MusicBrainz), I see the following pertaining to dates:

<ORIGINAL_YEAR>1976</ORIGINAL_YEAR>
<ALBUM_YEAR>1997</ALBUM_YEAR>
<ORIGINALRELEASEDATE>1997</ORIGINALRELEASEDATE>
<Recorded_Date>1997</Recorded_Date>

thanks for the answer, i have been looking for it for a long time

@hahahahanothing I was mad searching for an answer to this problem. You helped me a lot. I was searching for a problem with Strawberry this is why I was not finding anything. Thanks

@jonas any thoughts about this, chap?