@ank99

Looks like the article is marked for deletion: "An editor has nominated this article for deletion.": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Strawberry_(software)

With the reason "Fails WP:GNG The only references are to Github and other hosting sites. It does not demonstrate any sort of notability. My searches have come up empty on anything more substantial".

I don't understand the reasoning, but if someone who's not heard of it attempt to google "Strawberry" to find anything, that's obviously too generic word to return anything about "Strawberry Music Player". even "strawberry software" just returns the official website. For some reason there is no mention of the official full name of Strawberry in the Wikipedia article.
Maybe the article should use the the full official name "Strawberry Music Player" instead of just "Strawberry"? That's what's done for Guayadeque (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_player_software), although Wikipedia mostly have articles for old discontinued players.
But I don't know the reason why it's listed as simply "Strawberry (Software)" in the first place

Solved!?
Maybe I misunderstand what the "Collection" is for. I moved my music files from a separate partition to the linux music folder and now Strawberry automatically sees them in "Files". They are sorted exactly how I want them by genre/artist/album. I'm happy!

@Popmartijn said in Group by Album function not working correctly:

Hi,

I've noticed that for a while (certainly since 1.1.1) that the Group by Album functionality is not working correctly. Though I understand the rationality behind making separate entries for artists in the situation that two (or more) artists have the same album name (Live or Greatest Hits) it makes the overview unworkable with compilations. Can the functionality please be returned so that Group by Album again has one entry for each album name? In addition there might then be a category like Group by Album/Artist where under an album entry you can then see which artists have albums by that name in case you want to specifically play Greatest Hits by Billy Joel and not have Greatest Hits by Queen included.

You should be able to work around this by either setting a album artist for the specific album, if it's compilation album you could set this to the same as the album name.
Other alternative is to right click and select "Show in various artists", that will mark the album as a compilation and it should no longer split into separate albums.

Furthermore, I noticed (certainly since version 1.2.6) that in the sorting of the albums in the Group by Album category the sorting doesn't disregard any leading articles (like A or The) anymore. This also seems like a step back to me, to find The Complete Collection, The Joshua Tree or The Seeds Of Love located under T instead of C, J and S respectively. Is this also intentional? And if so, can there be an option to disregard it, like the option available for artists.
Thank you.

It was done intentional. The "Skip leading articles when sorting artist names" option in the collection was previously applied to album names too, since this was incorrect according to the name of the option, I changed it to only apply to artists, but I can make a separate option for albums too.

@ank99
I didn't see any requests for it in Crowdin, but I've added them now so they should be available right now.

I'm new to Strawberry and have the same problem with different album versions. I think this would be a great addition. My current solution for this is to add the catalog number to the grouping field and set it as the third grouping parameter. It would be much easier to add this as a grouping tag and I kinda expected this would already be possible.

Another super happy user here, taking advantage these days of "Song fingerprinting and tracking"; and remembering the days when that feature didn't exist and how the internal playlists got ruined after renaming files or directories. This is so good... Thank you!

Long live Strawberry!

@palvji
I can confirm this, just tested on Linux with HTTP/2, stuck on buffering after 54 seconds into the song when playing a tidal track.
I'm guessing there is regression in one of the recent libsoup versions. I will do some more testing when I have more time.
Luckily the default in Strawberry is still to force off HTTP/2 for streaming unless you manually check the HTTP/2 option in the settings.

@euriloco
Album covers are stored in a special way on the iPod, so Strawberry does not show album covers under devices, if that's what you mean. Strawberry should however store album covers when copying songs to the iPod, but personally I did not get those to show on the iPod, however, I know it worked for others.

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In case you didn't read the tooltip of Settings / Collection / Preferred album art filenames (comma separated), it says:

When looking for album art, Strawberry will first look for picture files that contain one of this words. If there are no matches then it will use the largest image in the directory.

It's more than enough for me, because I use subdirectories for artwork, and there's only a front cover image with the audio files. My list of words is front,cover.

There is no Strawberry option "Only use pictures containing this words", so I'd suggest a workaround when some albums don't have a proper front cover and you don't want Strawberry to display the biggest image:

You might add something like def_image to the list of preferred names (for example, per your preferences, file,Front,cover,folder,def_image), and copy the default CD image from github (or create a custom one) to the album folder as def_image.jpg.

A bit of command line magic will copy that file to every album directory that needs it. Or you may go nuclear and copy it to every album folder, to test and delete easily all of them if needed.

@johann
I have same problem (on Xubuntu 24.04)...

In real problem is not "stream and stop streaming", but after resumed from sleep, is only play remained part from cache/buffer filled before suspend,
after cache is empty, is show this error as Strawberry try seek on SomaFM from "time in suspend" to "time now" and this not supported by SomaFM 😉

@cdhacker
This seem to have to do with the client ID which the tidalapi script uses, and quality set to "HI_RES_LOSSLESS" and stream URL method set to "playbackinfopostpaywall".

HI_RES_LOSSLESS was missing for quality, added now.

I'm able to stream with some albums with 96/24 and some with 192/24 without any other modifications to the authentication code.