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!

@scubaboyc said in MP3 Player suggestion?:

Good Evening,
I'm thinking of purchasing the below MP3 player.
It's Android based and I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with it.
What I wanted to know was if I'm running Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon, will my computer be able to see it and will I be able to generate playlists and add them to it via Strawberry?
If not, does anyone have any suggestion?
Thanks,

Hello! Compatibility with Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon for the Android MP3 player may vary. Check the device specifications and seek community advice. Ensure Strawberry supports file transfer to the player.

@jonas Not on the list. I disabled pulse so not sure if that's a problem.

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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@peter
It should be available

After some thought I've decided to switch to a different Windows player (MusicBee). I feel it will have better support (well it hasn't been updated in a while so we'll see) and has more of the features I want.

I used to be an Linux user and I'm happy that these user have a quality player (Strawberry) they can use. I wish you all the best.

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.

@jonas compiled the latest version, definitely works now, thank you very much!

@jonas StopForumSpam is very good but not sure it around anymore but here is website https://www.stopforumspam.com/

@jonas Ah,thanks. My problem is solved as well now. Installing the Qt TLS Plugin again makes Strawberry scrobble again. Now, I can ditch Rhythmbox again!

@msrex I checked this now. I see that there is a bug, not updating the song when disc is changed, but I see it's correctly updating when title and track is changed.
But I don't know if that bug could explain what you saw happening, it could happen if the song was ripped while strawberry was running, and disc was updated after the song was initially read from disc.
If you manually tagged the disc later, or the ripping program tagged it later.
If you see way to still reproduce the bug without updating the disc, I'd like to know so I can fix it.

@leo
Can you try the latest (currently 1.2.3-43) from https://builds.strawberrymusicplayer.org/debian/trixie/ and see if it fixes this crash.

@MrDowntempo Personally what I like about strawberry is that it just works. Foobar is too much work to setup for a casual user to make it look good and make it functional!

@Sharky-PI adding info to this thread: searching the collection by
genre:microhouse
does find the example track, as does searching by
genre:clownpenis
So manual search works for semicolon-separated-subgenres, just not the GUI dropdown system.

@jonas Just tried that. Db and backup are okay and not corrupted.

From what I've read/seen I think the issue wasn't corruption but just a bizarre mistimed save. I removed my primary music folder from the inclusion list so I could more easily compare other music folders in Strawberry, and after that was done I added it back. Bc it was added back it required a full rescan, so I cancelled the scan and enabled EBUR128 bc I might as well. In the playlists, removing the primary folder made every song disappear. At some point, maybe when I closed Strawberry prematurely or whatever, Strawberry saved the playlists to the DB, and since the missing tracks were still not in the database, saved blank entries into all the data cells, wiping any data. Or it happened some other bizarre way IDK.

TLDR (most of) the data was overwritten with empty tags because of a weird niche save mechanic.

So unless someone really involved in Strawberrys development knows how to use the collection_id data to reverse engineer the individual tracks the data is completely lost. C'est la vie.

@jonas Jonas: I complete understand, and this bug does not seem to be a strawberry bug. My son suggested I consult OpenAI Codex for a solution. It did not provide a solution, but did diagnose the problem and developed a kludgy workaround. Most of the following text is written by Codex:

The issue seems to be tied specifically to Strawberry being left in the Paused state under WSLg, if I swtich to another window or open Settings. If I Stop playback before changing settings, playback can be restarted normally. If I Pause playback, then either change settings or sometimes just switch away from Strawberry and come back, playback can become unresponsive.

While debugging, pactl sometimes showed Strawberry’s PulseAudio stream stuck/corked, and other times Strawberry had no active sink-input even though the app still thought it could resume. Plain GStreamer playback of the same MP3 worked when run outside Strawberry, so the strongest clue is that Strawberry/GStreamer’s paused pipeline does not survive some WSLg/PulseAudio state transition.

The workaround Codex developed for me is:

launch Strawberry with explicit WSLg-safe environment: QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb PULSE_SERVER=unix:/mnt/wslg/PulseServer XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/mnt/wslg/runtime-dir keep Strawberry output as pulsesink disable playbin3, crossfade/fade effects, loudness normalization, and Strawberry volume control run a small user service that watches Strawberry’s MPRIS state. If Strawberry stays paused for more than ~10 seconds, or if settings are saved while paused, it records the playback position, sends Stop, and then seeks back to the saved position when playback starts again.

This is definitely a workaround, not a real fix. The practical conclusion is: Stop is safe, but Pause is fragile under WSLg.

This makes Strawberry on WSLg usable for now, but it confirms the bug is around the paused playback state. I will submit a bug report to WSLg about this (yeah, Codex is helping me on that, too)

@silver-sun thank you for notifying me

@jonas Apparently it was fixed by yesterday's GNOME/KDE update.

+1 for this

Wow! That's what I call service! Thank you!
Just tested lyrics with m4a files and the tag editing now works!
I also tested with an ALAC (Apple Lossless) file, which, confusingly (to me, anyway!) is also m4a. It works on that also!

This is great news. For what it's worth, I think that full compatibility with Apple sourced files is important if you want to develop Strawberry for the Mac platform. While I don't have any real evidence, I think a lot of audiophiles own Macs. I used to read Stereophile magazine, and they were always mentioning their Macs when the subject of computers in audio came up.

To this day, iTunes will not play FLAC files, so Mac users that use iTunes will most likely use ALAC, or lossy AAC. iTunes default decoding is 256 kbps AAC, and that is also what you get if you purchase music from Apple.

On a side note, there is a lot of dissatisfaction with Apple these days, even with long time users. I love my iMac, but I am using Linux more and more. It is wonderful that my iTunes collection works well with a player like Strawberry. For Mac expatriates moving to Linux, Strawberry could be a good fit. It could also be a nice alternative to iTunes on the Mac platform.

Cheers