@jonas

Thank you for the clarification. Tuxedo OS is based on Ubuntu with the KDE desktop on top, that may the reason why it runs more recent versions of Qt.

Out of curiosity I checked the Strawberry Player on my Mac, it runs with Qt6.10. So the Linux/Ubuntu version is a bit behind.

So for the time being, I have installed Clementine on my Tuxedo machine, it's a bit dated, but as it only requires Qt5.X, it runs.

@jonas Hmm...
After checking that everything's up to date, and using the MSVC installer (which I believe I had previous), Strawberry is up and running once more. Even remembers which files I had in my playlist!

Thanks for your timely suggestions and forbearance! I truly appreciate it.

@Nobody, I've had the same problem for a while now. I have never got to the bottom of it.

Just like you, it behaves as if there are no replay gain tags to be found. I've verified them in other players (Audacious, DeaDBeeF) and command line tag utilities, they are there.

Some of the help I've seen suggests that it is a gstreamer issue, but I don't even have gstreamer as an engine option on mine (Version 1.2.7), it's using "Plays to a Pulse Audio Server" (I'm using pipewire for sound).

I'm about to give up and find another player. Pity, I quite like the interface, especially the lyric finder works quite well for me.

Another potentially useful datum:

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All House genre tracks dumped into a playlist, sorted by composer (my 'date added' column): works EXCEPT 2023.01.23, and 2024.10.30, both sort out of order. 2023.01.23 weirdly don't sort next to each other.

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unicode characters are normal for the correctly sorted entries,

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but also the incorrectly sorted ones, so it looks like it's not a characters issue (I've typed all of these manually so inserting unicode seemed unlikely but just in case)

@jonas If you don't mind me asking, what is the procedure to restore the smart playlists, if I use Linux and not Windows?

@WeeGerGai sorry for the necroposting but i would also love to see this be implemented, their database of (unsynced) lyrics is pretty massive compared to all the other lyric services that strawberry currently supports, and their website (https://lrclib.net) has good insight on its own API and how to implement it.

oh yeah this has been really tedious! fixing the metadata in my songs then i add lyrics on the app and the date is gone.... that and the fact you can't group your collection by original release date, only the year. it definitly should be possible. no reason for those things not to be

@Dhani_Maurer

They changed the API to not allow localhost anymore, have to use 127.0.0.1 instead:
https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2025-02-12-increasing-the-security-requirements-for-integrating-with-spotify

I've fixed this now https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/commit/9ed89afdb2063baaac694f59e7a97d27871e7a01