For more information, these USB devices are being mounted in the normal expected directory of /run/media/user/Music

@mike_jones I've been around since 2021, and Jonas has been updating Strawberry consistently. Although Strawberry was conceived a fork of Celementine and Amarok, at this point, it's safe to say that the software has evolved into its own entity, given the number of functions added through the years.

In other words: Yeah, I agree. Is quite a bargain considering the hard work invested.

@CharAznableLoNZ This was already included on the latest version: "Added option to turn off the use of sort tags for the collection"

@echolessowl The GitHub is public, anyone can change the code and submit a Pull Request... then the main developer will decide to include it or not.

To follow up on my testing, I did not have good results setting Strawberry volume slider to 50 percent, if that, indeed, equates to -3 dB.

70 percent seemed better to my ears. Computer master volume remained at 100 percent. DAC is connected to my computer via USB.

Incidentally, on further reading about this topic, the term(s) used is "intersample peak clipping", or "intersample overs".

i really don't like this change, it honestly feels like they're intentionally screwing us over for using windows (even though i use both windows and linux, it still feels like they are dogpiling on all of us)
i just hope they lift it soon.

+1 for this.

I am moving over to strawberry on linux over using dopamine on windows. On dopamine, I have about 300 smart playlists (I have about 18k songs in my collection too). The smart playlists being ordered alphabetically by default, instead of creation order (I assume that's what it uses?) would increase navigability.

It would be really nice if we could make playlist folders too (e.g. i have some playlists based around artists, some based around genres, and so on, and it would be nice to group them), but all of them listed alphabetically would be great!