@edward I figured out the issue with settings not being saved. For some reason the config file, strawberry.conf in .config, was owned by root so Strawberry was denied write permission.. I changed owner to Pi and issue was resolved.

@jonas
Thank you very very much for your very fast answer ! It works perfectly!

Missing bpm and key tag also a lot. Best would be a custom field where you can select a id3 tag of choice.

@zapf2000 Worked for me (with the first secret as Raf-G), thank you so much !

@jonas Tonight I have installed Version 1.0.0-11-gb1f70982 and I am happy to report that despite having volume control disabled, for my 96kbps / L24E flac file, the analyzer is analyzing away! 🙂

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PS dig my crazy color scheme -- it clashes with everything else visually but I think it fits Strawberry motif to a T!

Interesting topic as also looking for a way to exclude of those @eaDir from Synology music folder 😕

Hello,
I am a new user of Linux Ubuntu AND your great Stawberry application. I did the last update. I was a windows user, and used foobar in the past to manage my music, library and play.
If I can play dsf files, have it available in the library is still not possible (?). Is it somehow planed to add it ?
Thanks in advance for your answer
Cheers

@otikscypi said in GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in:

@catch22 I had the same error just a second ago.

Fixed it by entering strawberry settings and reselecting an output device via dropdown. Hopefully this will help you as well.

Yes it certainly did, super thanks! 🙂

@jonas The post was about albums being split into multiple instances. I posted here because the same issue was happening to me and I determined that it was related to the grouping tag field not the sort group by function (except that the group by feature made the issue visible). Changing the grouping tag values stopped the problem so I thought there was value in posting.

Splitting an album by the grouping tag field seems more like a hack to me, not anything intentional. It's fine if there's a feature to enable if someone wants it, but the existing behavior didn't seem to be an intentional feature. I don't see why an album should be broken up at all except possibly compilations into their individual artists.

@remelach You're welcome.
Additionally, you can also use MP3Tag to check/edit the metadata of your songs, in case you need another software to do so.

@pokuston
I've fixed the inline editing now. I will make a new release this summer.

@jonas Switching to Alsa fixed it. Thanks.

@Starmanager
I don't understand what you mean here. I don't plan to make a new release any time soon unless one or more critical issues are found.

@desputin I would love to see this as well. I was an iTunes user before switching to Strawberry and made extensive use of this in my smart playlists.

@jonas I did the mingw version and worked great! Thank you so much! I just joined the patreon for good measure!

@jonas Ah submodules - thanks for the pointer! cmake now works.

This supposed solution didn't last very long. A few days later, the problem returned, and Pipewire appears to be the culprit.

I installed Ubuntu Mate 22.04 (which has PulseAudio instead of Pipewire) on an external SSD, and then installed Strawberry on the installation, and haven't had any cutting-out problems with it. So, perhaps one solution would be to replace Pipewire with PulseAudio. If you want to experiment, you could install your choice of Linux on a USB3 flash drive. Sandisk's small metal drives (64GB or more) work well, and if they get too hot, point a fan at them.

By adopting Strawberry as my player, and preventing resampling further on down the audio chain, my Zen DAC V2 sounds incredible. After hearing the ZDV2, I can't stand my previous DAC (a Topping D10s), which sounds like a toy compared to the Zen. The key seems to be the TI/Burr-Brown Advanced Segment DAC-chip, which is used in many cheap players, and is explained in a review on Amazon which can be found by going to the ZDV2 page and clicking on the waveform-image at the top of the reviews.

I don't understand why this problem with Pipewire hasn't been fixed - it's been known for years, and some of the best Linux coders designed it and presumably should be able to fix it. It shouldn't be included by default in distros as long as this problem exists. The fact that it is included in some distros seems to indicate that the problem is deliberate, and that there is a solution which is being withheld from the general public.

Found a solution!

https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1358882#p1358665

Install all Pipewire packages

Create this file:
~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/swapped_channels.conf

and paste this:

context.modules = [ { name = libpipewire-module-loopback args = { audio.position = [ FL FR ] capture.props = { media.class = Audio/Sink node.name = swapped_channels node.description = "Switched Channels" } playback.props = { node.name = swapped_channels node.description = "my-sink" audio.position = [ FR FL ] node.target = "Switched Channels" } } } ] Then Choose pulseaudio in strawberry in and Choose this device: Switched Channels

@tringtainder
Same problem as the error message, or songs missing? If you do a full re-scan, do you get any errors messages now?

@Psimon
I suggest to report the issue here: https://github.com/flathub/org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry/issues