@Dhani_Maurer You rock man, thank you.

I don't believe such a guide exists, at least not on the Strawberry Wiki.

I can offer a few basic suggestions for a beginner.

Strawberry plays music in playlists. No matter what the source of the song, it will always open in a playlist. Playlist management is too lengthy to get into here, but you can create, label, save and "favorite" playlists.

Strawberry can play from any folder on your computer by selecting "Files" in the sidebar.

If you go a step further and point Strawberry to a folder in Settings > Collection, it will show the songs as a "library" when selecting "Collection" in the sidebar.

I would hold off with using anything that says "Organzie Files" at first. (There are naming and sorting options that you may want to consider.)

Go through all the settings, slowly and methodically. Make a note of your changes so you can revert if necessary.

Use the tool-tip notes by hovering your cursor over icons, etc.

And use your right click to display the many options available.

@jonas
I have already gone through my library and removed all entries in the "Album Artist Sort" tag using a tagging tool to mass delete these entries.
The behaviour I saw was if there was an entry in the "Album Artist Sort" tag that did not agree with the "Album Artist" tag, the Sort tag was given priority when sorting the tracks. On my playlist I use the Album Artist tag to sort and do not have the Album Artist Sort tag displayed.

As for the second issue; https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/1431/album-synced-to-various-artists-folder-incorrectly

What was found in that issue strawberry was taking into account tracks that were not on the playlist when copying tracks over.

@jonas Good call -- I've traced it to the Linux applet Enhanced Sound, as removing that from the panel resolves it instantly! Thanks, I'll get onto claudiux about it, as I thought I'd turned off any features that involve music players...

Bump! Still unable to properly show audio with no metadata...

@IsItWashable
I've also seen this issue for a long time, looks like Listenbrainz closes the connection too early.

@flaun

Gemini was pretty good helping me with connection issues when I was first setting up. I would suggest that first before posting here.

Hello,
I'm quite new to qobuz and strawberry. I'm looking for an option to scrobble to Listenbrainz. The only solution on Linux (Ubuntu) I found so far is via Strawberry.
But the connection betweeen Strawberry and Qobuz does not work so far. After downloading and installing qobuz-dl with pipx I'm able to download music. Also it is possible to read out my APP ID and Secrets (/.config/config.ini).
Just insert them into Strawberry does not work. Also searching for artists in Strawberry works, just playing Musik does not works. The following error pops up: Invalid Request Signature parameter (request_sig) (Root=1-691ef3f7-6da3b66b0956db2e4c4cbd34) (400)

Do you have any ideas?
(using Strawberry 1.2.14)

@205gti
The author posted in May on https://github.com/mattl/hacienda/discussions/117 that "I have taken the decision in light of recent events to close Libre.fm permanently.", then he changed this statement several times, but until recently it has been pretty clear that libre.fm was more or less closed. Apparently he changed his mind in the last few days and relaunched a new site replacing the bare bone strange site that was in place of the original site.
But this doesn't change the fact that libre.fm has been unstable for years, hardly anyone uses it, and seem to be pretty much a one-man project going nowhere. I've also pretty much lost my trust in libre.fm.
We already got both last.fm and listenbrainz as an alternative, I see no point in adding it back.

Good Evening
There is a column that shows the play count. Right click anywhere on the list of columns in a playlist and select "Play Count". That should be what you need.
Regards Stephen M

@jonas Yes I would do so. However, the issue is gone. I had made a turbulent journey to discover 3 kde distros parallel. One of them produced the issue.
Later it showed some more issues so I deleted that on.e

At the moment I'm happy with Strawberry on Debian 13 with kde plasma and KDE neon, also with plasma.
In both distros Strawberry works like a charme.

Yes it is strange, I don't know where M comes from. The divider key is set from the sort text, but the sort text is the same as composer unless composer sort is set.

Hard for me to figure out since I can't reproduce it, but if someone else can reproduce it, here is where it needs to be debugged:

https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/blob/02d76f17f7f4a862019c360d4f8f61dbb0978208/src/collection/collectionmodel.cpp#L1322

@jonas Please how can I remove this? Or at least can you put an option into "Appearance" to toggle this feature?

Thanks