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.

@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.

+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!

@mike_jones Try using Rating < 0.5 instead of Rating = 0 stars. I have found that Rating = 0 stars does not work for me.

Just wanted to set the record straight, I can't really pinpoint it, but I would point at changing icon theme for fixing the startup times? Maybe this doesn't make any sense, but it's but it's been as fast if not faster than Clementine.

Shoutout to the maintainers!

@silver-sun thanks for the reply, my bad, I should have said that I only use GNU/Linux (I did not even know that Strawberry existed for Windows or Mac).
I don't have Qt6. I tried installing it and I got this:
sudo apt install qt6ct
[sudo] password for xxxxxx:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package qt6ct
also, my strawberry is flatpak, so there is that.
okay, thank you, you gave me somethign to work with! 🙂
Kind regards and all the best for 2026
Farik

What about gapless playback in fast-menu? Maybe with auto-detection!

@rlkeeney Thank you. I'll experiment with the 50 percent value. I actually haven't noticed any audible artifacts on my system. This is more out of curiosity, to see if I notice any difference.

@lynkiii Have you looked at https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Main_Page#Troubleshooting ?

@davidsmind <img width="783" height="288" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e44b06c7-b497-4658-8716-34a9002cffc2" />

Ok, so I used a hex editor to change the api key and secret, still bails at around the same point . I suppose the page pulls are too agressive.

@new_user
Playcounts and ratings only work for collection songs. The songs aren't linked to the collection for some reason indicated by the "folder" icon, the collection songs should have a vinyl icon. Maybe you dragged the songs from a file manager or the file tab before the folders were added to the collectiob? You need to re-add the songs from the left collection panel, then it should work.

@rlkeeney
If you look at the screenshot, the rating column is already there.

@dustinhuman Bump please