@rlkeeney

It could be bug that only appears on certain harddrives, ie.: if the harddrive is a slower mechanical HDD.
You can set the GST_DEBUG environment variable to get more debug output.
Something like:

GST_DEBUG=*:5 GST_DEBUG_FILE=/tmp/gstreamer-debug.log strawberry

However, the file will grow huge, so make sure you have enough space on /tmp, or change the path to somewhere else.

@rik
You can use a file sharing service such as dropbox or onedrive and send me the link in a private message on the forum.

@sardior (Sorry, I'm an incurable pedant - not being rude!) Fyi, all audio formats (bar 'raw') are encoded (even stuff like FLAC). M4P files are encrypted - that's the issue (with Strawberry).

Kind Regards, Jon

@MMnoMore
What OS?

@Dan-cer
Can you share the m3u playlist you used?

@strawbeson
You only need to build and install the spotify plugin if it's older than 0.14.0. meson and ninja are usually found in the package repositories if you are on Linux. macOS and Windows already have the plugin bundled with the installer.

@sigiken
What specific data do you need?
If it's only play counts and last played, it should be supported directly if they are saved to the file tags. If it's only stored in the database, you need to import it using SQL commands, if Mediamonkey uses sqlite3, it should be possible to attach both databases and import it using a single sql UPDATE command, you can use the following as reference (https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Import_collection_library_and_playlists_from_Clementine), but you need to use UPDATE instead of INSERT.

@tricolor3377
Album art does not work with Discord because it requires a remote URL to the cover.
The moodbar only works with local files.

@dj-style

I noticed that the service had been unresponsive for a long time, so I did a little research and noticed the website had been replaced with "Time is running out.", "The web is being destroyed from within by companies harvesting the creative work", links to "1800www.com" and other weird stuff. Typical stuff for a site that has been hacked, so to be honest, I thought the site was hacked.
When researching more, I found several sources confirming that the libre.fm was shut down.
Including Wikipedia.org who had already listed it as "Closed": it says: "Libre.fm closed on May 28, 2025, with account registration shut down and the website put into maintenance mode", not that Wikipedia itself is a trustworthy source, but I also saw other articles confirming that libre.fm had been shut down, so that's why I've removed it.

I think it would look like this:

{Disc %disc/}

@ruinspc IIRC you fix this on a per-tracks basis by unclicking "compilation" in the track's properties. Or similar option.

FYI https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/pull/1837

@henk
The startup could be slower because of the way Strawberry initializes objects earlier at startup, I fixed bugs and even rewrote many parts of the code where Clementine did things unsafe thread-wise, ie.: reading and modifying GUI things from a another thread than the main thread, which will be faster, but it's broken code, and just a coincidence that it doesn't crash.
One thing you can try is to turn off "Grey out unavailable songs in playlist on startup" in Settings / Playlist, this feature will lag the startup significantly.

Strawberry has a little delay at the beginning of the scan, it's because it iterates through the directories to find the number of files for the progress % status.
Clementine calculates the progress only based on the number of directories, which makes the progress inaccurate, and often stuck on 97-99% for a long time.
Other than that, then scan speed should be pretty much identical.

I would also love to see this feature. I was using Strawberry (and Clementine before that) years ago, and just recently discovered that it has subsonic support. However, the ability to stream via UPnP to my stereo would complete the experience. Currently there's only one subsonic client on Linux that can do that, and it doesn't always work very well.

For an "every thing but the kitchen sink..... well alright, the kitchen sink too" type app like Strawberry, it seems odd for this to be missing. (likely because UPnP is an absolute mess of a protocol, so understandable.... but you can do it... I believe in you)

Thanks!

On Linux Mint 22.2, there is Settings > User interface > Appearance > Style: gtk, which enables dark theme (I think I installed it via apt install strawberry instead of downloading deb file from website).

On Mint 21, there's no such option, I think I'll just wait until I need to upgrade this Mint installation. I'm avoiding the flatpak distribution since it's non-official.

@iceman @iceman I did not use itunes to create my m3u playlists but an android player called Musicolet and receive the exact same message on Linux Mint. However it won't play one song despite them all being in my library. I installed from the Linux Mint store as well.

I'm on Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.2 Zara. The following config just worked for me:

Tools > Settings... > User interface > Appearance > Style > Style: gtk2

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