@rlkeeney @jonas thanks lads, sorry, only just saw these replies.

Ok so for MP3 ID3v2.4 I shouldn't need to do anything given I have those 4 options ticked, i.e.:

Once a track has finished playing in Strawberry
-- if I've rated it in Strawberry, Strawberry should save the rating to the file
-- Strawberry should increment the playcount +1 and save that to the file If I edit a track externally (for reference, I would only be saving other tag fields, never rating nor playcount) Strawberry will re-read the track... so if I listen to a track in Strawberry, rate it, the track ends and the rating and playcount are updated by Strawberry to the track's ID3, then I change the track's comment externally, Strawberry should subsequently re-read the track's info (when it does a full scan?) and see the updated comment, and the rating & playcount should still be correct?

I might need to do some testing on that last one. For some reason it seems I have LOADS of tracks I've definitely played countless times, which have playcount=0, and similarly loads I've played and rated which have blanks for both. In the meantime I've edited various ID3 details for those tracks, but as I understand it, that should never compromise the playcounts and ratings, so it seems something is behaving incorrectly...

@jonas fabulous stuff, sorted, cheers mate

@jonas Thank you

Little update. It appears even on non-exclusive outputs (such as WASAPI2) Strawberry does use the samplerate set by the Windows mixer.
I guess this causes forced resmapling in all playback cases, thus noticeably reducing sound quality.

@jonas ah shoot that sucks thank you

@Jellby I don't think it is related. The symptoms do not match.

Last night, it hard-locked. I could not click on anything, so I had to kill the process and restart. There was an error window, but instead of an error message, there was a chunk of a video that was playing in another window.

@mike_jones Update: after another 45 minutes, it's up to 5% so not completely stuck, just very slow.

I've found solution. After updating fedora 41 to 42, extension "AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support" stopped working because it has not been updated yet to support Fedora 42. This extensions is responsible adding the support for tray icons. After installing the newest version from another source and enabling it I'm able to run Strawberry in background.

@strawt
I notice that the appindicator is installed in /home/tony/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions, maybe the extension needs to be updated or reinstalled after upgrading to Fedora 42 and a new Gnome version?
I suggest to ask Fedora or Gnome, they probably know this better.

I know this topic is quite old but I'm having the same issue today but the "offline mode" setting is unchecked/disable and yet it still doesn't scrobble, what do I do when that is the case?

(I'm running Strawberry on NixOS however, no flatpak)

hello, I'm having the same issue where strawberry can't find the ipod database - using strawberry version 1.2.10, linux mint, and a 7th gen ipod classic. it's a new to me ipod that's never had music installed on it, and strawberry can interact with my 5th gen classic (which already had music on it) just fine.

It seems to be a taglib issue as well.
Is there anything we can do to add these columns to Strawberry?
It would be very helpful for many.