@bunkhouse I also have my music organized in folders. Each "Artist" has its own folder. Contained in the Artist's folder there is a folder for each album by that artist. In the "album folders" are all the album tracks, each as either an mp3 or flac file.

I came to Strawberry from MusicBee (Windows only) which organized based on "album name" in the tracks' metadata.

Unfortunately I am running Strawberry on a new MacOS laptop which has the new Apple M1 chipset. I am not sure if the problems I'm having are due to my inexperience with Strawberry, MacOS or Strawberry not liking the M1 chip.

@jonas I'm new to MacOS and somehow managed to install the current version of Strawberry on my new Macbook Air with the M1 chip. I am having some trouble where I copy new folders (albums) of mp3's or flac's into the folder :"Strawberry Tracks" which Strawberry monitors, re-start Strawberry and sometimes the new tracks show up in the library. sometimes not. I'm new to MacOS snd haven't been able to figure out if my problems are due to Strawberry not liking the M1 chip, or what.

@fruity Changing to playbackinfopostpaywall worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) after I installed gstreamer-plugins-bad e.g. sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad

I think something like this should happen in Windows also

@jonas thank you SO much ! it works, I can access the iPod (an old ipod mini). However I cannot copy from the iPod to the computer. Do you know how I can do this?

@rlkeeney

The easiest to do is to delete the collection directories, and then re-add the them, that will however loose playcounts, ratings and mess up the playlists (if you have any).
So if you need to keep ratings, playcounts and playlists, you can do it with SQL queries.
See:
https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/wiki/Find-and-delete-duplicates-from-the-collection-database

@rolf great work! Moved to this Github gist. People could suggest changes there.
Now getting "Error: no such column: rating" (Clementine 1.4 rc1, Strawberry 0.9.3).

BTW, just to make it easier for others, default locations are

./clementine2strawberry.sh ~/.config/Clementine/clementine.db ~/.local/share/strawberry/strawberry/strawberry.db

This was a Qt bug: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-94839

@linepop
It's possible to adjust the equalizer while playing as long as the enable checkbox is checked before you start playback.

@rlkeeney
There is a setting in the collection and playlist settings to enable if you have Qt version 5.15.0 or higher.

@bobkugler
What OS, file system, audio format and ripper you used?
What version of Strawberry?
If you are on Linux or macOS you can run strawberry on the terminal and do a full rescan, then see if there are any errors shown on the terminal.

@jonas thanks for your answer.

glib-networking is installed, however, I tried with one of the streams and it wasn't working.
maybe I changed something about the root certificates as you told me because I removed the snap version from my pc and installed the deb package and now TIDAL is working again!

Many thanks!

@damian101 I copy the stream of DCA and AC3 streams from a DVD, into mp4a and m4a files, as a last resort, to avoid transcoding. Strawberry can play both of these.

I also compress DSD streams losslessly using WavPack. Strawberry can't play them, compressed or not. But to be fair, its closest GTK alternative Quod Libet, also can't play them. I think the only reliable music library based player for these is MPD. It'll even convert it to DoP if you need it to.

But when the stream is PCM, I just transcode to FLAC. It's lossless anyway, so nothing changes.

If you're not willing to go through the trouble of finding a player that can play TrueHD audio, doesn't it make more sense to transcode to FLAC? Since it's lossless, technically it should be fine. There must be a way to get MPlayer to do this. (It can convert audio to WAV; however by default it downsamples to 2 channels @ 48kHz). FLAC can handle multiple channels, high bit depths, and high sample rates, so long as they're PCM.

It might seem possible to use ffmpeg to transcode the PCM audio, but apparently it only supports one channel configuration for surround, so channels are switched around. Just set the bit depth and sample rate on mplayer, and output to a WAV file.

Here's the command I used for Ola Gjeilo's Piano Improvisations:

mplayer br://[title] -bluray-device [disc mount path] -benchmark -vc null -vo null -aid [audio ID] -chapter [start chapter]-[end chapter] -ao pcm:fast:file=[output path]

You might need to switch things around. Replace the square brackets as needed.

It does the job one chapter and title at a time; if you don't set an end chapter, you'll end up with a file with all the chapters concatenated.

Also, bdinfo will print out the audio IDs on the disc. Some distros have bluray_info instead; I don't know if it does the job.

You'll have to figure out the title and chapter using VLC.

If your Blu-ray is encrypted, you'll have to use MakeMKV. It's not free though. Also, the output is an MKV file, so all commands to extract audio from the MKV file will be different; I haven't figured them out yet. MPlayer is very hard to use...