@jonas still a bug on 1.0.21 from Manjaro community repo qt version 5.15.11

I agree with the rsgain recommendation. In my search for a ReplayGain utility, I had tried MusicBrainz Picard (flatpak), which uses rsgain as its backend for ReplayGain. I found Picard to be somewhat cumbersome, though. I just wanted a simple utility.

Unfortunately, Linux Mint 21.3 (my distro) does not meet the dependencies for the current version of rsgain's deb package. I would need to compile it from source.

Being relatively new to Linux, and not trained in computing, I had hoped for a GUI application (rsgain is command line only), but I've been dipping my toe into the command line more and more, so I waded in a little further -- and with rsgain's excellent instructions, I was able to successfully compile and install the program!

It's a steeper learning curve, to be sure, but once I figured out how to tweak the configuration, I was able to achieve scan results identical to what I had generated using MusicBee or foobar2000.

I think rsgain will be my go-to for volume normalization. Thanks for the recommendation!

@jamesisin

Qt5 Settings in Linux Mint 21.2 doesn't work for Strawberry anymore because Strawberry is built with Qt 6. See this in the wiki:

https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/FAQ#Strawberry_does_not_respect_Qt_style,_KDE_theme_or_icons_on_Linux.

I tried to compile the qt6ct utility mentioned there, but my version of Mint did not meet the required dependencies. But I'm a relative newbie to Linux so maybe I missed something.

I don't think there is currently a version of Strawberry available with Qt 5.

Fusion is part of Qt and the default style in Qt, nothing specific to Strawberry. For any application which doesn't have a setting to change style you can still set this by using the QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE environment variable.
But maybe you didn't have this issue with Clementine because you either used a different style, or there is a bug in the newer versions of Qt. The latest release of Clementine is still using Qt 4 (although you can build Clementine with Qt 5 with the latest source code from git). While Strawberry is Qt 6, but still compatible with Qt 5. Qt 5 is more or less end of life from Qt for open source use, the Qt company have closed the Qt 5 branches.

@br_shadow Hmmm there'd be a problem when the wrong lyrics are pulled then - so I'd still go with manually writing to the tag.

I had, with Guayadeque, a lot of junk written automatically. The problem is that, if loaded into strawberry, which will pull lyrics when there aren't any, it simply displays the note saying that lyrics weren't found.

I'm sure there are still a few tunes with wrongly embedded lyrics still in my collection... I still come across the odd one or two, then I have to open/edit/delete/save to clear, stop and start to pull lyrics, copy and paste and save to fix them in the file.

WIth Guayadeque, even if lyrics are displayed (good or bad) you can click to 1. Search Lyrics, 2. Search in browser (actually the best hit rate if 1. doesn't work) and then 3. Save to the file.

Still hoping for this feature to be added. Literally every other UPnP/DLNA client has this functionality.

@jonas thank you for the reply, sorry I responded a little late , I have done a clean installation of latest strawberry 1.0.23 and experinced the same issue, thankfully your guide worked for me, I hope you solve this problem in future releases.

OS: windows 11 pro

@jpirie
That looks like a different issue than @rlkeeney had.
What version of GStreamer do you have?

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@athoopen https://www.radio-browser.info/search?page=1&order=votes&reverse=true&hidebroken=true&name=radio 4 extra

Really, from ALL of the radio apps with built in stuff - I'm very happy to escape them. There are just too many issues - so it's better to leave Strawberry for music if you want a GUI Radio player.

With the way that, for example, BBC make it tough to track down URL's - and when you see the streams, it's easier to hunt down the prized OPUS ones and leave out the archaic mp3 or m4a streams... most music players can't keep up.

The website absolutely can, if a station stops playing then I go back to the browser and find the next stream.

I think I had one afternoon searching and finding stuff I liked on there, and it's really very trivial even for a grandmother - or even your wife.

However, the absolute best Radio GUI application IMO - the one I left behind (preferring the playlist) was Shortwave - which is something that Strawberry isn't ever going to come close to emulating...

It's very simple to look at, with BIG icons to click, and easy 'Browse' and 'Search'... though I found it only 95% reliable compared to the above website - which gives you the actual stream, so you can copy and paste it into your list.

Really, once she has a dozen stations - why would she need anything else hard-coded?

https://itsfoss.com/content/images/wordpress/2020/03/shortwave-screenshot-1.png

@jonas thank you so much for your time! Many thanks for all the work you do for the FOSS music loving community!

@jonas

After re-configuring the my disk drives several times i have found that if the strawberry collection is not in the path ~/Music strawberry will requires rebuilding the collection, regardless of disk type (i.e. sdd, or hdd) ... since i have an SDD partition dedicated to my music library i just mount is at ~/Music/my_music and it seem to work

Thanks for the help

@flameche Follow the instructions from @overdress188 but change everything to qt5ct instead. That worked for me

Hello Gustavo & Jonas,

Thank you for looking at this problem.
This is not a major bug preventing me from using Strawberry, but just annoying.
I know how to get round the problem but I am not sure my sister or some of my friends would.
This could deter them from using it.

@jonas No, I don't think the album is marked as a compilation. I've never marked albums as compilation when ripping them (with Asunder or whatever I used previously). I'm not using the Album Artist tag either (never had to). When I group by Artist/Album (the other grouping I often use besides Album) I see the artists all with their own entry and then the (compilation) albums below them. Apart from 3 or 4 songs I don't have anything labelled as Various Artists.

@8gJwRQ Same here! I do not have the skill to program a music player. But if I could I would built one with the flexibility of Foobar2000 and have Foobar add-on support to make it an extremely smooth switch over. I sorely miss an OpenLyrics panel in Strawberry 😞 For some reason, my Foobar2000 via Wine keeps breaking after a while, even if used via Lutris. Strawberry is one of the best alternatives, but the synced lyrics via OpenLyrics is missed deepy.

@Jellby I considered that, but the date would be false, and playing through the list would allow me to listen to some music I haven't listened to in a long time.

It doesn't feel right to fill this thread with noise. Continuing in General Discussion: https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5717/gaps-between-tracks

@mini_bomba

I've disabled the OSD Pretty if running on wayland, if you still want to enable it, you can change this line here https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/blob/3fd29c6dcce235b5efcad28a14a9cb172311638a/src/osd/osdbase.cpp#L477 to return true;

@jonas Thank you