Can verify, Linux Mint 22.3. Started after the last update.
Can also verify it does not happen on a Windows test station (1.0.23)

@athoopen Great! Glad you solved it!

@silver-sun thank you for notifying me

Hi, I have the same problem on a Linux Mint too.

Tested again today with the latest. I also looked into each album that ended up getting put into the various artists folder incorrectly.

It seems that the sync to device feature takes into account ALL tracks in an album regardless if they are all being synced or not.

What I would like strawberry to do is only consider the information of the tracks being synced to the device when applying the sync options.

I don't have an answer for you, but your post got me curious about how my Strawberry was handling this. I rarely use the sort columns feature, so I hadn't noticed it.

But, yes, my Strawberry, (1.2.23) has the same behavior as yours, in the playlist columns. I am using Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon.

I also run an older version of Linux Mint 21.3 on another computer, and use an older version of Strawberry (1.0.23) from the package manager. There, the behavior in the playlist columns is what you would expect, ignoring articles like "the" in artist names, and sorting The Beatles as under "B", not "T".

That older version of Strawberry doesn't even have the "Skip leading articles..." options, but everything works fine.

To be fair, the options you referenced are under "Collection" in settings, but one would expect the same behavior in playlists.

Here's the log since I couldn't attach it, and was too long to post:

https://paste.chapril.org/?51e9191f2cfea3aa#67PWAeg8BnH3uVySzJRUZU2WJXoPJKR8TnEfHFip2KWq

Please note that 13:47:47.291 DEBUG Database:561 Starting database backup seems to never finish.

I closed Strawberry at 14:05:01.037

@zayyad
The song needs to be a local file in the collection, make sure there is a vinyl icon next to the Source column in the playlist, it indicates that it is in the collection.

@arterial
Make sure ALSA or PulseAudio is selected as output in Tools / Settings / Backend, with PipeWire it will use the ALSA, or PulseAudio emulation. Don't select pipwire as output, the PipeWire output doesn't work properly, it's unfinished/buggy.

@Hoshiet
Change some columns, then go to Music / Quit, re-open Strawberry, are they then saved?
if not, please do a backtrace so we can see if it crashes:
https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Backtrace
Or use coredumpctl list and check if it crashed previously.

@thats_a_movie
The new version 1.2.22 released now has an option for dark mode under the appearance settings, you can also configure each individual color on the interface.

The new version 1.2.22 released now has an option for dark mode under the appearance settings, you can also configure each individual color on the interface.

I'd also like to voice some suggestions regarding synced lyrics, it would be best when timestamps are available to use the foobar2000 approach of highlighting the current row or, if timestamps are unavailable, autoscroll the lyrics in sync to the song's progress.