Another vote for ratings stored in file tags. It's great to have if the collection needs to be rebuilt from scratch without having to rate all those tracks again 🙂

@olivermitchell said in Strawberry vs. Clementine:

Hi guys! First of all, I can say that the MacOS is very convenient to work, and secondly, I can't open the link to Reddit, which you have discounted 😞

I am having the same issue.

I think we'd all like this functionality.

@lindsey
We got nothing to do with the flatpak, you need to report that to flatpak.
The regular releases and the PPA repository is compiled with libgpod.

@jonas said in How to restore stats:

I plan to make a new release soon, there will be an option to turn on song fingerprinting and tracking to prevent losing playcounts and ratings.

The recent release (Version 1.0) still doesn't fix this issue.

Thank you jonas. The double-clicking to star my favourite playlists did the trick.

But I still cannot save preferences. I closed and re-opened the app earlier this evening after changing my preferences, and they are still not saved.

@jakespeed-org
What gstreamer version?

@cherrystraw Exactly. In fact, radio stations that transmit data on the current stream get a search for a cover from online sources by Strawberry and often a cover will be shown. It is often not the correct one (different album or artist, depending on the tag data sent by the streamer), but a cover at least.

If I wanted to make my own compile I could replace the baked in cdcase.png with my own, but I do not want to get involved in that. I assume the developer group scouts this forum and will see the suggestion and hopefully find some value in it.

A bunch of Qt updates came through Pacman last night, a few for Qt6 too, and it seems like the icon appears now, so this is resolved 😄

@fatso AWESOME! Thank you so much. I'm a total newb with this streaming stuff...can ya tell? LOL

I guess this is the same: https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/776/prevent-automatic-collection-update

@sissou To do just that, I wrote a simple script:
https://github.com/SirYaro/scripts/blob/main/strawberry-play-random-album.sh

For sure, it is not an optimal solution, but it works fine for me for a couple of weeks now.

@jonas Got it. Thanks.

Yes! I love the built-in sleep timer feature on Spotify. This post introduces alternative ways to set the sleep timer for Spotify across multiple devices.

Hi, now I tried to activate Pulse and then choose "Output to a sound card via ALSA" in Strawberry and under "Device": "Automatically select" instead of the name of my sound card.

Now audio seems to work simultaniously in firefox and strawberry.

But pulse is active. Is that a problem for sound quality despite the fact that I have chosen "Output.... ALSA" in Strawberry?

OAuth login works here both with Firefox and Chrome, Linux and Windows. I've tested on macOS with Safari, but that was a while back.

On linux the critical part is that the .desktop file is installed and the "mimetype" entry contains x-scheme-handler/tidal.

For Windows Tidal must exist as a URL Protocol in the registry, this should be done by the setup https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/blob/db6aac603c7f557731a1ba3a13817e9c3b69770a/dist/windows/strawberry.nsi.in#L701
This conflicts with the official Tidal app, so if you installed the Tidal app after you installed Strawberry, it will probably stop working with Strawberry.

But this doesn't get triggered before you get a successful login on Tidal when forwarded to Tidal by Strawberry. if you get an error there, the App ID could be wrong.

I don't remember where I got the App ID from. It was long ago, 2018 I think.

@dhinaghena Hello, almost all previous versions of the program are available on GitHub, but I have not been able to see which version would be correct either. I also don't understand why developers don't take into account those who can't or don't want to update.
One thing is that due to the changes that occur over time and the different libraries and functions used, they are forced to raise requirements. That's right. But if there are fully functional previous versions, which are also available to users, as in this case (fantastic, it is one of the best reasons to use these programs), the logical thing to do is to indicate both on the download page and in the version notes. when those changes happen.
What's more, those notes include thousands of notes that developers love and understand, but not the common user. But nothing in relation to the actual use of the program. And the first step is that: indicate the requirements and when they change.

@jonas Wow, thank you :). Will do so for sure.