@orbvs
Strawberry works with both Qt 5 and 6.

@philevans
This is probably related to the same issue with high CPU as some others have experienced on macOS, while it works fine for others. Performance in in general is worse on macOS then on Linux and Windows.
Unfortunately there has not been much interest in contributing to Strawberry from the macOS community over the past 3 years Strawberry has been developed.

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.

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

@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.

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.

@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.