Another potentially useful datum:

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All House genre tracks dumped into a playlist, sorted by composer (my 'date added' column): works EXCEPT 2023.01.23, and 2024.10.30, both sort out of order. 2023.01.23 weirdly don't sort next to each other.

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unicode characters are normal for the correctly sorted entries,

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but also the incorrectly sorted ones, so it looks like it's not a characters issue (I've typed all of these manually so inserting unicode seemed unlikely but just in case)

@jonas said in Why was Libre.fm support removed:

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.

The entire time that was on the homepage, there were also Recently Played tracks and I never heard from you. A quick email would have set things correct.

I have a number of people asking me about Strawberry, if you won't add support back do you have a suggestion for an alternative player?

It's a shame two open source projects can't benefit the users.

@musicamaster For the avoidance of doubt, are your audio files indexed as part of a collection, or are they simply in directories? They need to be part of a collection in order to be included in the DB structure. That DB is where many different fields are added, such as the play count.

Regards Stephen M

@allaboutmikey
You need to enable replay gain in Settings / Backend

@jonas
I have already gone through my library and removed all entries in the "Album Artist Sort" tag using a tagging tool to mass delete these entries.
The behaviour I saw was if there was an entry in the "Album Artist Sort" tag that did not agree with the "Album Artist" tag, the Sort tag was given priority when sorting the tracks. On my playlist I use the Album Artist tag to sort and do not have the Album Artist Sort tag displayed.

As for the second issue; https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/1431/album-synced-to-various-artists-folder-incorrectly

What was found in that issue strawberry was taking into account tracks that were not on the playlist when copying tracks over.

@jonas Thank you.

@jonas Perfect, thanks

@jonas

Thank you for the clarification. Tuxedo OS is based on Ubuntu with the KDE desktop on top, that may the reason why it runs more recent versions of Qt.

Out of curiosity I checked the Strawberry Player on my Mac, it runs with Qt6.10. So the Linux/Ubuntu version is a bit behind.

So for the time being, I have installed Clementine on my Tuxedo machine, it's a bit dated, but as it only requires Qt5.X, it runs.

@jonas Hmm...
After checking that everything's up to date, and using the MSVC installer (which I believe I had previous), Strawberry is up and running once more. Even remembers which files I had in my playlist!

Thanks for your timely suggestions and forbearance! I truly appreciate it.

@Dhani_Maurer You rock man, thank you.

@jonas Good call -- I've traced it to the Linux applet Enhanced Sound, as removing that from the panel resolves it instantly! Thanks, I'll get onto claudiux about it, as I thought I'd turned off any features that involve music players...

@blueberry said in Getting really fed up of the Patreon aspect.:

@puffcap I agree with this, the website is outdated and it should not say free since it is $5

Well, if you use Linux, it is free...

@Camber
Edit ~/.config/strawberry/strawberry.conf with a text editor (like Kate), and delete the entire [SerializedSmartPlaylists] section.

@Dhani_Maurer

They changed the API to not allow localhost anymore, have to use 127.0.0.1 instead:
https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2025-02-12-increasing-the-security-requirements-for-integrating-with-spotify

I've fixed this now https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/commit/9ed89afdb2063baaac694f59e7a97d27871e7a01

I don't believe such a guide exists, at least not on the Strawberry Wiki.

I can offer a few basic suggestions for a beginner.

Strawberry plays music in playlists. No matter what the source of the song, it will always open in a playlist. Playlist management is too lengthy to get into here, but you can create, label, save and "favorite" playlists.

Strawberry can play from any folder on your computer by selecting "Files" in the sidebar.

If you go a step further and point Strawberry to a folder in Settings > Collection, it will show the songs as a "library" when selecting "Collection" in the sidebar.

I would hold off with using anything that says "Organzie Files" at first. (There are naming and sorting options that you may want to consider.)

Go through all the settings, slowly and methodically. Make a note of your changes so you can revert if necessary.

Use the tool-tip notes by hovering your cursor over icons, etc.

And use your right click to display the many options available.

@flaun

Gemini was pretty good helping me with connection issues when I was first setting up. I would suggest that first before posting here.

@asenz I have the same problem on linux. It appears to be an issue with the Pipewire output. Some more searching finally led me to:

https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/issues/1668

tl;dr: Change the output to PulseAudio, and the problem should go away (assuming you have pipewire-pulse installed).

@WeeGerGai sorry for the necroposting but i would also love to see this be implemented, their database of (unsynced) lyrics is pretty massive compared to all the other lyric services that strawberry currently supports, and their website (https://lrclib.net) has good insight on its own API and how to implement it.