Thanks - the database integrity check passed, shut down strawberry, and recreated songs_fts but on restarting I see the same problem. Full collection rescan?

Maybe related after the restart I was trying various strings in the search bar and SMP crashed on me. Last line on .xsession-errors (maybe from SMP) was kf.i18n: "1 instead of 2 arguments to message {by %1 (%2)} supplied before conversion."

I agree with this idea too.

Yes, disabling Pulse and Pipewire fixes a lot of problems, I'd done that for years to allow Kodi to see my AV Receiver as a soundcard. However, I lose browser audio.

But I think I found a solution, after running Strawberry, using:

systemctl restart --user pipewire

And I get back audio on the Opera browser.

@jonas said in Strawberry kills browser audio:

I just saw you mentioned pipewire-pulse, but I guess you are using PipeWire without PulseAudio then.
My experience has not been great with pipewire either, when openSUSE first came with Pipewire, it was installed automatically without my knowledge, I had a similar or identical issue, the browser stopped working when I had my hw:0,0 setup in Strawberry. I did some testing back then, and found that PipeWire was wasn't working at all without PulseAudio (or at least not with hw), removing PipeWire fixed the issue for me. I always lock pipewire and pulseaudio packages so they can't be installed even after a distro update. I don't know if PipeWire have fixed the issue or not.

@Miguel-Ruiz
Clementine is not URL encoding / decoding the file paths according to the specifications. Clementine is doing it wrong, and is probably unable to load the playlists saved by strawberry for this reason, since Strawberry URL encodes some characters.

Another difference is that Clementine is saving metadata. For Strawberry, there is a setting for enabling saving playlists with metadata, in the settings, under playlist. If you enable that setting it will save metadata like Clementine does.

@jonas Guess I'll have to stick to Clementine.

@jonas Got it. Thanks.

@remelach
I've added lyrics from stands4 (lyrics.com) now if you want to test you can try the latest from https://builds.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

@drichard58
This is probably related to gvfs, I suggest to mount the SMB in fstab.

@drbldrbl
You need to give more information about the problem if you want help here.
What audio files and tags, does the taglib utility read the files?
Try dragging a file to the playlist and see what error you get there.

@donkatsu
I'm not sure this will work with gvfs. Try mounting the SMB share in fstab.

@Starmanager
I don't understand what you mean here. I don't plan to make a new release any time soon unless one or more critical issues are found.

@shankaraya
You need to enable it in Settings / Context.

I don't see the benefit; please enlighten me.

The gap may be inserted during compression/encoding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapless_playback#Compression_artifacts

Interesting topic as also looking for a way to exclude of those @eaDir from Synology music folder 😕