@jonas Guess I'll have to stick to Clementine.

@jonas
gstreamer 1.20.3 on Arch Linux

@wengels464
I tried the CUE sheet idea with my collection. Didn't work. Seems like strawberry simply won't add DSF files to the library, even if it can read the metadata (which, at least on my system, it does perfectly if I try playing a tagged DSF file from my file manager).

Maybe there's some trick that I have yet to discover, though. If you have any luck with your own testing, do please post back here!

@jonas
I've always had cover JPGs in the folders (never auto-downloaded), and this is the only app this has happened on! The folder you've directed me to also doesn't have cached covers (I'd already turned off that tickbox), just "strawberry.db".

I can confirm that Cover Manager shows them separately with the correct covers in the big grid, so it really does seem to be the sidebar with albums as the list that has this issue -- see attached image (RSF are the top set of tracks):

Right Said Fred cover on REM.png

@jonas Thank you for your help and dedication! Let's see how it goes on Ubuntu/Debian's side.

As an additional information, I tried on a Debian test VM I had around, with LXQt installed, and Unstable repositories. It works without any issue.

$ strawberry 22:14:52.825 INFO main:167 Strawberry 1.0.10 Qt "5.15.6" 22:14:52.825 INFO main:168 "Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid unknown - (linux 6.0.0-4-amd64) [x86_64]" 22:14:52.899 DEBUG main:227 Style: "fusion" 22:14:52.903 DEBUG Application:257 Database(0x561360481970) moved to thread QThread(0x561360485fa0) 22:14:52.903 DEBUG SCollection:70 CollectionBackend(0x561360469ce0) moved to thread QThread(0x561360485fa0) 22:14:52.936 DEBUG Application:257 AlbumCoverLoader(0x5613604ed250) moved to thread QThread(0x56136050b260) 22:14:52.939 DEBUG SCollection:107 CollectionWatcher(0x561360502750) moved to thread Thread(0x561360502030) with I/O priority 3 and thread priority 0 22:14:52.939 DEBUG TagReaderClient:56 Using 2 tagreader workers. 22:14:52.939 DEBUG Application:257 TagReaderClient(0x561360521740) moved to thread QThread(0x561360500090) 22:14:52.939 DEBUG NetworkProxyFactory:52 Detected system proxy URLs: ("", "", "", "") 22:14:52.940 DEBUG WorkerPool<HandlerType>:264 Using worker "/usr/libexec/strawberry-tagreader" 22:14:52.940 DEBUG WorkerPool<HandlerType>:309 Starting worker 0x7fd090ff9f30 "/usr/libexec/strawberry-tagreader" "/tmp/strawberry_510004701" 22:14:52.943 DEBUG WorkerPool<HandlerType>:309 Starting worker 0x7fd090ff9f30 "/usr/libexec/strawberry-tagreader" "/tmp/strawberry_1138396723" 22:14:52.950 INFO main:57 TagReader worker connecting to "/tmp/strawberry_510004701" 22:14:52.951 DEBUG WorkerPool<HandlerType>:331 Worker 0x7fd064007180 connected to "/tmp/strawberry_510004701" 22:14:52.952 INFO main:57 TagReader worker connecting to "/tmp/strawberry_1138396723" 22:14:52.952 DEBUG WorkerPool<HandlerType>:331 Worker 0x7fd064008d90 connected to "/tmp/strawberry_1138396723" 22:14:52.957 DEBUG Engine::Base:154 SOUP_FORCE_HTTP1: ON 22:14:52.976 WARN GlobalShortcutsManager:206 No global shortcuts enabled. 22:14:53.527 INFO Player:930 Registered URL handler for "subsonic" 22:14:53.533 DEBUG InternetServices:48 Added internet service "Subsonic" 22:14:53.533 INFO Player:930 Registered URL handler for "tidal" 22:14:53.549 DEBUG InternetServices:48 Added internet service "Tidal" 22:14:53.549 INFO Player:930 Registered URL handler for "qobuz" 22:14:53.565 DEBUG InternetServices:48 Added internet service "Qobuz" 22:14:54.567 DEBUG MainWindow:346 Starting 22:14:54.784 DEBUG CoverProviders:106 Registered cover provider "Last.fm" 22:14:54.785 DEBUG CoverProviders:106 Registered cover provider "MusicBrainz" 22:14:54.785 DEBUG CoverProviders:106 Registered cover provider "Discogs" 22:14:54.785 DEBUG CoverProviders:106 Registered cover provider "Deezer" 22:14:54.785 DEBUG CoverProviders:106 Registered cover provider "Musixmatch" 22:14:54.785 DEBUG CoverProviders:106 Registered cover provider "Spotify" 22:14:54.785 DEBUG CoverProviders:106 Registered cover provider "Tidal" 22:14:54.785 DEBUG CoverProviders:106 Registered cover provider "Qobuz" 22:14:54.801 DEBUG LyricsProviders:105 Registered lyrics provider "AudD" 22:14:54.801 DEBUG LyricsProviders:105 Registered lyrics provider "Genius" 22:14:54.801 DEBUG LyricsProviders:105 Registered lyrics provider "Lyrics.ovh" 22:14:54.801 DEBUG LyricsProviders:105 Registered lyrics provider "LoloLyrics" 22:14:54.802 DEBUG LyricsProviders:105 Registered lyrics provider "Musixmatch" 22:14:54.802 DEBUG LyricsProviders:105 Registered lyrics provider "ChartLyrics" 22:14:54.823 DEBUG MainWindow:397 Initializing player 22:14:54.926 DEBUG MainWindow:407 Creating models 22:14:54.926 DEBUG MainWindow:414 Creating models finished 22:14:54.929 DEBUG DeviceLister:67 CddaLister(0x5613609c7db0) moved to thread QThread(0x5613609d6ca0) 22:14:54.929 DEBUG DeviceLister:67 Udisks2Lister(0x56136094d640) moved to thread QThread(0x5613616a58c0) 22:14:55.055 DEBUG DeviceLister:67 GioLister(0x5613616a58e0) moved to thread QThread(0x5613607eec00) 22:14:55.058 DEBUG logging:85(GLib-GIO) Using cross-namespace EXTERNAL authentication (this will deadlock if server is GDBus < 2.73.3) 22:14:55.060 DEBUG Application:257 PlaylistBackend(0x5613607eb570) moved to thread QThread(0x561360485fa0) 22:14:55.064 DEBUG logging:85(GLib-GIO) Using cross-namespace EXTERNAL authentication (this will deadlock if server is GDBus < 2.73.3) 22:14:55.065 DEBUG Application:257 RadioBackend(0x56136193e3a0) moved to thread QThread(0x561360485fa0) 22:14:55.066 DEBUG RadioServices:67 Adding radio service: "SomaFM" 22:14:55.067 DEBUG logging:85(GLib-GIO) Using cross-namespace EXTERNAL authentication (this will deadlock if server is GDBus < 2.73.3) 22:14:55.067 DEBUG RadioServices:67 Adding radio service: "Radio Paradise" 22:14:55.068 DEBUG MainWindow:434 Creating UI 22:14:55.075 DEBUG logging:85(GLib-GIO) _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation gvfs (GDaemonVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’ 22:14:55.108 DEBUG ScrobblerServices:48 Registered scrobbler service "Last.fm" 22:14:55.108 DEBUG ScrobblerServices:48 Registered scrobbler service "Libre.fm" 22:14:55.108 DEBUG ScrobblerServices:48 Registered scrobbler service "ListenBrainz" 22:14:55.108 DEBUG ScrobblerServices:48 Registered scrobbler service "Subsonic" 22:14:55.262 DEBUG MainWindow:861 Creating playing widget 22:14:55.310 DEBUG MainWindow:913 Loading settings 22:14:55.728 DEBUG MainWindow:1044 Started QThread(0x561360306ff0) 22:14:55.736 INFO DeviceManager:449 Device added: "/dev/sr0" ("/dev/sr0")

So maybe it is an Ubuntu (or KDE) specific bug.

@jonas Hello! I also have a similar problem, though with a different set up.

Ubuntu 20.04 & 22.04 (Just upgraded- same problem on both distros)
JDS Labs Element II DAC/Amp
Brave & Firefox browsers

Strawberry Backend Settings:
Output to a sound card via ALSA
Device JDS Labs Element II USB Audio

hw:1,0

ALSA plugin: hw selected, out of the following options

hw plughw pcm

I'm trying to play high resolution FLAC files (192khz/24bit), so I'd prefer to avoid downsampling to 48khz if possible.

Thank you for your time, and thanks for the work you and the other developers put into strawberry- I wouldn't want to use anything else. 🙂
-GarethFuller

@jonas Found this website that help me resolve my issue.

https://www.vuepilot.com/support/article/fixing-raspberry-pi-audio-issues/

Simple fix. I hope this helps someone else who is having similar issues.

@Miguel-Ruiz
I can't reproduce this issue, I've tested with 2 different DACs on 2 different computers.
As I suggested earlier, try temporarily deactivating PipeWire and PulseAudio and set output to ALSA.
Other gstreamer based players might work because they lower the audio quality and or resample the sample rate using audioresample.

@jonas Downloaded that build and on running LGTM - thanks!

Raising the buffer duration to 8 000ms didn't do a whole lot. But raising it to 30 000ms, and also lowering the low watermark to 0.10 has almost fixed the issue. There is now just the occasional skip (e.g. once every LP play).

Isn't it possible to implement Subsonic in such a way that it buffers the entire song? This is how Sublime works, it actually buffers the playing song plus the two next tracks in the play queue.

@przemhb said in VS2022 build error:

kernel32.lib

This is not the same error as the first.
Maybe something wrong with the linker configuration in Visual Studio.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39514632/error-cannot-open-file-kernel32-lib

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

@jonas still a bug on 1.0.21 from Manjaro community repo qt version 5.15.11

I agree with the rsgain recommendation. In my search for a ReplayGain utility, I had tried MusicBrainz Picard (flatpak), which uses rsgain as its backend for ReplayGain. I found Picard to be somewhat cumbersome, though. I just wanted a simple utility.

Unfortunately, Linux Mint 21.3 (my distro) does not meet the dependencies for the current version of rsgain's deb package. I would need to compile it from source.

Being relatively new to Linux, and not trained in computing, I had hoped for a GUI application (rsgain is command line only), but I've been dipping my toe into the command line more and more, so I waded in a little further -- and with rsgain's excellent instructions, I was able to successfully compile and install the program!

It's a steeper learning curve, to be sure, but once I figured out how to tweak the configuration, I was able to achieve scan results identical to what I had generated using MusicBee or foobar2000.

I think rsgain will be my go-to for volume normalization. Thanks for the recommendation!

@jamesisin

Qt5 Settings in Linux Mint 21.2 doesn't work for Strawberry anymore because Strawberry is built with Qt 6. See this in the wiki:

https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/FAQ#Strawberry_does_not_respect_Qt_style,_KDE_theme_or_icons_on_Linux.

I tried to compile the qt6ct utility mentioned there, but my version of Mint did not meet the required dependencies. But I'm a relative newbie to Linux so maybe I missed something.

I don't think there is currently a version of Strawberry available with Qt 5.

Fusion is part of Qt and the default style in Qt, nothing specific to Strawberry. For any application which doesn't have a setting to change style you can still set this by using the QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE environment variable.
But maybe you didn't have this issue with Clementine because you either used a different style, or there is a bug in the newer versions of Qt. The latest release of Clementine is still using Qt 4 (although you can build Clementine with Qt 5 with the latest source code from git). While Strawberry is Qt 6, but still compatible with Qt 5. Qt 5 is more or less end of life from Qt for open source use, the Qt company have closed the Qt 5 branches.

@br_shadow Hmmm there'd be a problem when the wrong lyrics are pulled then - so I'd still go with manually writing to the tag.

I had, with Guayadeque, a lot of junk written automatically. The problem is that, if loaded into strawberry, which will pull lyrics when there aren't any, it simply displays the note saying that lyrics weren't found.

I'm sure there are still a few tunes with wrongly embedded lyrics still in my collection... I still come across the odd one or two, then I have to open/edit/delete/save to clear, stop and start to pull lyrics, copy and paste and save to fix them in the file.

WIth Guayadeque, even if lyrics are displayed (good or bad) you can click to 1. Search Lyrics, 2. Search in browser (actually the best hit rate if 1. doesn't work) and then 3. Save to the file.

@jonas thank you for the reply, sorry I responded a little late , I have done a clean installation of latest strawberry 1.0.23 and experinced the same issue, thankfully your guide worked for me, I hope you solve this problem in future releases.

OS: windows 11 pro

@jpirie
That looks like a different issue than @rlkeeney had.
What version of GStreamer do you have?

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