By "not working" I mean that Strawberry can't do EBU R128 analysis on these files, since the Track Information - Summary page is reporting EBU R128 values as "Unknown". This is after I've rescanned them and the whole collection a bunch of times.

Formats like MPEG and FLAC works flawlessly, though. Analysis comes through, playback is adjusted. It's great! But for reason, certain Vorbis and Opus files are just not having it. It seems I'm not alone in this 'cause another person also reported this as a bug on GitHub a while ago. Unfortunately, they didn't provide more info so the problem still persists.

A small note, although both Vorbis and Opus suffer, for whatever reason, it seems Vorbis is suffering less with most files working while Opus is suffering more. These non-working files can be forced to work by "transcoding" them into their own format using the built-in transcoder or FFmpeg i.e. Vorbis -> Vorbis or Opus -> Opus. So clearly it's really not inherent to the Vorbis/Opus format. From what I can see comparing the files using opusinfo, I have a sneaking suspicion that the problem comes from GStreamer not playing nice with old versions of Lavf encode for opus.

I'm using the Strawberry version available through the official Debian repo (1.2.10). I also tried the latest version (1.2.19) to see if that helps but no shot. Still same problem.

Anyone else encountered this or got a good idea what could be causing it?

How to disable this annoying red black alternate or strips thing.. i wanted it to be in dark mode so i used fusion style all this turned dark but about this (red black) stripes i can't fix in songs... I want clean black library look like rest of the theme also how to remove this red colour in visualization and the same colour used to highlight selected song... How to change them from red to black consistent or some other very muted colour

Right click on a song and select "Edit track information". There should be a number in the "Track" field at the right. Don't change anything yet, until you figure out the root of your problem, but if there is no number, that might be of concern.

Hope that helps.

It looks like Strawberry can handle .svg icons for some portions of the application, as I select "Use system theme icons" in the "Appearance" settings -- and my system uses Papirus-Dark, which has .svg icons. The sidebar, however, persists in using the original Strawberry icons.

Using the QT configuration tool (qt6ct), I am able to make my Strawberry look pretty nice in Linux Mint, but it won't do anything with the sidebar, and the stock Strawberry icons look so old and dated. Hence, my plans for a full alternative icon set.

So, would I be wasting my time by creating a .svg icon set? And if I can't use .svg, are there any plans to support .svg fully in the future?

What I would propose for Strawberry is a proper waveform visualization that lives in the analyzer area above the progress bar, alongside Block, Boom, Turbine and the others, as just another option in the right-click "Analyzer" menu. Selecting it would render the loudness contour of the entire current track as a horizontal waveform, with a playhead moving across it as the song plays. It would not replace the moodbar (moodbar can stay exactly where it is, painted into the slider groove), and it would not replace the live spectrum analyzers either.

It would just be one more option in that menu, for the users who want it.

I had a look at the code and the feature seems quite feasible without adding any new dependency. The moodbar pipeline already handles the hardest part: running a GStreamer pre-pass over a track on a worker thread and caching the result. A waveform pipeline would essentially be the same pattern, but storing peak/RMS values instead of FFT-derived colours. Other parts of the engine (Chromaprint, EBU R128 loudness analysis) already extract raw PCM from GStreamer in the exact way a waveform would need.

I am planning to open a GitHub issue to gauge the maintainers' interest. Would anyone else here find this useful? Especially curious whether other DJs, or people working with mixes and live recordings, would back this up.

Hello everyone,

Similar to Darkmaster006, I think the easiest solution would be to have an option to display the collection with selectable columns, just like in the playlist.
That would greatly simplify the sorting process.

Yes, it can also be done using a playlist. However, if, for example, a new folder is added, the playlist needs to be updated again.

That would allow users to quickly select tracks from the collection, for example by genre, to add them to the playlist.

But otherwise, it's a really great program, and I love it.

• Drop an album from a folder on disk into the playlist
• Select "Move to collection" from the context menu

This works great! It would be even better though, if the entries in the playlist get updated to the entries from the collection after moving.
Currently they are useless, as they point to the filesystem where the files got moved away from.
So I manually have to open my collection view, search for the album there, drag the album into the playlist and remove the old entries still pointing to the filesystem.

I installed it on a Linux system and upon trying to check/set a different skin, when I click apply nothing changes.

I also tried each skin and restart application.

Then I went to check its config file and I see when I choose any skin and click apply, it does change in config, never changes Strawberry's appearance though

Thanks
M

PS Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit

See if all the albums under The Ventures shows up, and check if there is a difference in naming, ie.: if there is a space before | album.

• Fixed MPRIS2 Play causing playback to restart if already playing (#1995)
• Fixed incorrect use beginInsertRows() / endInsertRows() of when adding / removing devices (#2021)
• Fixed album cover manager save cover to file not working (#2039)
• Fixed repeat and shuffle button sizes (#1838)
• Fixed MPRIS2 resetting previous played track history
• Fixed Qobuz authentication (#2058)

Enhancements:

• Rewrote Discord RPC with Qt and removed RapidJSON dependency
• New grouping shuffle mode
• Use HTTP POST for AcoustID lookup
• Write MusicBrainz Track Id when completing tags using MusicBrainz
• Added rating filter to the collection (#2054)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/releases/tag/1.2.19

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-155927835).