@athoopen https://www.radio-browser.info/search?page=1&order=votes&reverse=true&hidebroken=true&name=radio 4 extra

Really, from ALL of the radio apps with built in stuff - I'm very happy to escape them. There are just too many issues - so it's better to leave Strawberry for music if you want a GUI Radio player.

With the way that, for example, BBC make it tough to track down URL's - and when you see the streams, it's easier to hunt down the prized OPUS ones and leave out the archaic mp3 or m4a streams... most music players can't keep up.

The website absolutely can, if a station stops playing then I go back to the browser and find the next stream.

I think I had one afternoon searching and finding stuff I liked on there, and it's really very trivial even for a grandmother - or even your wife.

However, the absolute best Radio GUI application IMO - the one I left behind (preferring the playlist) was Shortwave - which is something that Strawberry isn't ever going to come close to emulating...

It's very simple to look at, with BIG icons to click, and easy 'Browse' and 'Search'... though I found it only 95% reliable compared to the above website - which gives you the actual stream, so you can copy and paste it into your list.

Really, once she has a dozen stations - why would she need anything else hard-coded?

https://itsfoss.com/content/images/wordpress/2020/03/shortwave-screenshot-1.png

@jonas thank you so much for your time! Many thanks for all the work you do for the FOSS music loving community!

@jonas

After re-configuring the my disk drives several times i have found that if the strawberry collection is not in the path ~/Music strawberry will requires rebuilding the collection, regardless of disk type (i.e. sdd, or hdd) ... since i have an SDD partition dedicated to my music library i just mount is at ~/Music/my_music and it seem to work

Thanks for the help

Hello Gustavo & Jonas,

Thank you for looking at this problem.
This is not a major bug preventing me from using Strawberry, but just annoying.
I know how to get round the problem but I am not sure my sister or some of my friends would.
This could deter them from using it.

@jonas No, I don't think the album is marked as a compilation. I've never marked albums as compilation when ripping them (with Asunder or whatever I used previously). I'm not using the Album Artist tag either (never had to). When I group by Artist/Album (the other grouping I often use besides Album) I see the artists all with their own entry and then the (compilation) albums below them. Apart from 3 or 4 songs I don't have anything labelled as Various Artists.

@8gJwRQ Same here! I do not have the skill to program a music player. But if I could I would built one with the flexibility of Foobar2000 and have Foobar add-on support to make it an extremely smooth switch over. I sorely miss an OpenLyrics panel in Strawberry 😞 For some reason, my Foobar2000 via Wine keeps breaking after a while, even if used via Lutris. Strawberry is one of the best alternatives, but the synced lyrics via OpenLyrics is missed deepy.

@Jellby I considered that, but the date would be false, and playing through the list would allow me to listen to some music I haven't listened to in a long time.

@Ivypreston said in Spotify - Switching to access token:

I managed to play music from spotify premium apk using strawberry in one of the first versions that supported spotify. However, now I can't play the song anymore.

help me!

It doesn't feel right to fill this thread with noise. Continuing in General Discussion: https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5717/gaps-between-tracks

@mini_bomba

I've disabled the OSD Pretty if running on wayland, if you still want to enable it, you can change this line here https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/blob/3fd29c6dcce235b5efcad28a14a9cb172311638a/src/osd/osdbase.cpp#L477 to return true;

@jonas Thank you

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

@jonas , exactly! thank you very much!
I installed

gst-plugins-adaptivedemux2

and I can play Tidal streams now with following log:

$ GST_DEBUG=3 strawberry 20:20:07.255 INFO main:180 Strawberry 1.2.13 Qt "6.9.2" 20:20:07.256 INFO main:181 "Gentoo Linux 2.17 - (linux 6.12.21-gentoo) [i386]" 20:20:08.587 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:165 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Next")) 20:20:08.591 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:165 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Play")) 20:20:08.596 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:165 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Previous")) 20:20:08.602 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:165 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Stop")) 20:20:09.499 INFO UrlHandlers:38 Registered URL handler for "subsonic" 20:20:09.529 INFO UrlHandlers:38 Registered URL handler for "tidal" 20:20:09.746 INFO UrlHandlers:38 Registered URL handler for "qobuz" 0:00:23.992780856 22848 0x1b54610 WARN discoverer gstdiscoverer.c:2080:start_discovering: No URI to process 0:00:24.312955998 22848 0xb0df8470 WARN adaptivedemux2 gstadaptivedemux.c:668:gst_adaptive_demux_change_state:<dashdemux2-1> error: Element requires a streams-aware context. 0:00:24.315852177 22848 0xb0df8470 WARN decodebin gstdecodebin2.c:2423:connect_pad:<decodebin0> Couldn't set dashdemux2-1 to READY 0:00:24.344984722 22848 0xb0d19f60 WARN codec-utils codec-utils.c:2833:gst_codec_utils_caps_from_mime_codec_single: Unknown codec 'flac' please file a bug 0:00:24.353183041 22848 0xb0d19f60 WARN structure gststructure.c:1032:gst_structure_set_field: Trying to set empty string on taglist field 'container-specific-track-id'. Please file a bug. 0:00:24.387177797 22848 0xb0df8470 WARN structure gststructure.c:1032:gst_structure_set_field: Trying to set empty string on taglist field 'container-specific-track-id'. Please file a bug. 20:20:33.272 ERROR HttpBaseRequest:180 "Musixmatch" "Received status code 401, switching to URL based lookup." 20:20:33.284 ERROR HttpBaseRequest:180 "LoloLyrics" "Error transferring https://api.lololyrics.com/0.5/getLyric?artist=Massive Attack&track=Paradise Circus - server replied: (203)" 20:20:33.341 ERROR HttpBaseRequest:180 "lyricfind.com" "Empty reply received from server." 0:00:26.587052516 22848 0xb0d05500 WARN flacdec gstflacdec.c:798:gst_flac_dec_handle_frame:<flacdec0> Lost sync, flushing decoder 0:00:26.703255491 22848 0x9caad6f0 WARN adaptivedemux2 gstadaptivedemux-track.c:539:_track_sink_chain_function:<track-audio-0-period0> buffer doesn't have any pts or dts, using segment position (0:00:00.000000000) 0:00:26.705925523 22848 0x9caad6f0 WARN adaptivedemux2 gstadaptivedemux-track.c:539:_track_sink_chain_function:<track-audio-0-period0> buffer doesn't have any pts or dts, using segment position (0:00:00.000000000) 0:00:26.709059511 22848 0x9caad6f0 WARN adaptivedemux2 gstadaptivedemux-track.c:539:_track_sink_chain_function:<track-audio-0-period0> buffer doesn't have any pts or dts, using segment position (0:00:00.000000000) 0:00:26.707080419 22848 0xb0d15bd0 FIXME decodebin3 gstdecodebin3.c:1305:gst_decodebin_input_unblock_streams:<decodebin3-0> Re-use existing input streams if/when possible 0:00:26.711201823 22848 0xb0d15bd0 FIXME decodebin3 gstdecodebin3.c:1305:gst_decodebin_input_unblock_streams:<decodebin3-0> Re-use existing input streams if/when possible 0:00:27.574134043 22848 0xb0d280b0 WARN flacdec gstflacdec.c:798:gst_flac_dec_handle_frame:<flacdec1> Lost sync, flushing decoder

@johnsv
I'm getting a message the GStreamer plugin is missing but the link you used isn't working. Many of my music files were wiped out. I have them backed up but I don't know how to reload from backup. Can you help? Thank you.

@jonas Thank you - yes, the files are OPUS encoded. For some reason my phone wants to see .ogg extension, my Mac will have different metadata recognition depending on which app I use to open the files and which filename extension I have. I made two batch scripts to rename the files back and forth but obviously that's not the handiest solution. I have what sound to me like good results using the opus encoder and so I'm trying to just stick with that for any lossy encodings I do. Sorry about the terminology mistake - opus is the encoding method.

https://github.com/ClaraCrazy/Tidal2Strawberry is a python script that creates a strawberry-formatted xspf file from a Tidal URL. Seems to work, allowing me to play My New Arrivals, for example.

@rlkeeney

Allows using calls from dbus to rate a currently playing song without having to open up the player and click the star rating.

This is useful for media playing from a second computer (laptop, media machine)

It also allows you to bind alt-f1-f10 to half a star to 5 stars

It also allows apps like kde connect to have a ratings ui function in multimedia control, so you can rate a currently playing song with your phone

@jonas Yes, adding a note about this in the warning dialog would be useful, thanks.
For me, it's no catastrophe, I'll just reconstitute my playlists little by little.

Hello,

I don't know if it's a related script branch but i imported my itunes metadata (playcount, lastplayed, .. first into clementine) and then used the https://musconv.com/itunes-to-clementine/ script which suited me fine!
I have ALL my data in strawberry ...

The manual integrity check lasts less than 1s and gives me a "OK".
All my music files are stored in exFat partition. I have like 400Gb music files mainly ogg.
Everything is fine on Mixxx application.
Regards,