@itunes-refuge I actually found a workaround for this a while back, which I explained here: https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/3567

I think it would look like this:

{Disc %disc/}

@ruinspc IIRC you fix this on a per-tracks basis by unclicking "compilation" in the track's properties. Or similar option.

FYI https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/pull/1837

Update: After giving the iPod to a friend who reformatted it with iTunes for Windows, Strawberry can now read the iPod. However any music written to the iPod seems to disappear as soon as I disconnect it. I can confirm that files placed on the device manually do not disappear

@remelach You're welcome.
Additionally, you can also use MP3Tag to check/edit the metadata of your songs, in case you need another software to do so.

@jonas , exactly! thank you very much!
I installed

gst-plugins-adaptivedemux2

and I can play Tidal streams now with following log:

$ GST_DEBUG=3 strawberry 20:20:07.255 INFO main:180 Strawberry 1.2.13 Qt "6.9.2" 20:20:07.256 INFO main:181 "Gentoo Linux 2.17 - (linux 6.12.21-gentoo) [i386]" 20:20:08.587 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:165 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Next")) 20:20:08.591 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:165 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Play")) 20:20:08.596 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:165 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Previous")) 20:20:08.602 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:165 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Stop")) 20:20:09.499 INFO UrlHandlers:38 Registered URL handler for "subsonic" 20:20:09.529 INFO UrlHandlers:38 Registered URL handler for "tidal" 20:20:09.746 INFO UrlHandlers:38 Registered URL handler for "qobuz" 0:00:23.992780856 22848 0x1b54610 WARN discoverer gstdiscoverer.c:2080:start_discovering: No URI to process 0:00:24.312955998 22848 0xb0df8470 WARN adaptivedemux2 gstadaptivedemux.c:668:gst_adaptive_demux_change_state:<dashdemux2-1> error: Element requires a streams-aware context. 0:00:24.315852177 22848 0xb0df8470 WARN decodebin gstdecodebin2.c:2423:connect_pad:<decodebin0> Couldn't set dashdemux2-1 to READY 0:00:24.344984722 22848 0xb0d19f60 WARN codec-utils codec-utils.c:2833:gst_codec_utils_caps_from_mime_codec_single: Unknown codec 'flac' please file a bug 0:00:24.353183041 22848 0xb0d19f60 WARN structure gststructure.c:1032:gst_structure_set_field: Trying to set empty string on taglist field 'container-specific-track-id'. Please file a bug. 0:00:24.387177797 22848 0xb0df8470 WARN structure gststructure.c:1032:gst_structure_set_field: Trying to set empty string on taglist field 'container-specific-track-id'. Please file a bug. 20:20:33.272 ERROR HttpBaseRequest:180 "Musixmatch" "Received status code 401, switching to URL based lookup." 20:20:33.284 ERROR HttpBaseRequest:180 "LoloLyrics" "Error transferring https://api.lololyrics.com/0.5/getLyric?artist=Massive Attack&track=Paradise Circus - server replied: (203)" 20:20:33.341 ERROR HttpBaseRequest:180 "lyricfind.com" "Empty reply received from server." 0:00:26.587052516 22848 0xb0d05500 WARN flacdec gstflacdec.c:798:gst_flac_dec_handle_frame:<flacdec0> Lost sync, flushing decoder 0:00:26.703255491 22848 0x9caad6f0 WARN adaptivedemux2 gstadaptivedemux-track.c:539:_track_sink_chain_function:<track-audio-0-period0> buffer doesn't have any pts or dts, using segment position (0:00:00.000000000) 0:00:26.705925523 22848 0x9caad6f0 WARN adaptivedemux2 gstadaptivedemux-track.c:539:_track_sink_chain_function:<track-audio-0-period0> buffer doesn't have any pts or dts, using segment position (0:00:00.000000000) 0:00:26.709059511 22848 0x9caad6f0 WARN adaptivedemux2 gstadaptivedemux-track.c:539:_track_sink_chain_function:<track-audio-0-period0> buffer doesn't have any pts or dts, using segment position (0:00:00.000000000) 0:00:26.707080419 22848 0xb0d15bd0 FIXME decodebin3 gstdecodebin3.c:1305:gst_decodebin_input_unblock_streams:<decodebin3-0> Re-use existing input streams if/when possible 0:00:26.711201823 22848 0xb0d15bd0 FIXME decodebin3 gstdecodebin3.c:1305:gst_decodebin_input_unblock_streams:<decodebin3-0> Re-use existing input streams if/when possible 0:00:27.574134043 22848 0xb0d280b0 WARN flacdec gstflacdec.c:798:gst_flac_dec_handle_frame:<flacdec1> Lost sync, flushing decoder

@jonas
belatedly thanks.

@maybl8
Musicbrainz has rate limiting, Strawberry tries to respect it, by delaying requests, but there might be cases where it glitches causing it to stop working for a while.

@Sharky-PI Ah, yeah, I know about the spanner, thanks anyways! but if I change it to genre, then I'd have to change it to artist when I want to see artists, and so on.
I'll try the playlist workaround, seems like it could work. Thank you!

More sleuthing has uncovered something. Puddletag shows various files with Playcounts with 2 values e.g. 0\0, 0\258, up to 0\65335.

I tried to delete those screwy counts in puddletag by overwriting them with 0 but it doesn't seem to have taken. Or they've regenerated.

Checking in kid3 it turns out that one of those files, with 0\258 has
FMPS_PLAYCOUNT=0
FMPS_Playcount=258.

If I listen to it once in strawberry:
FMPS_PLAYCOUNT=0,
FMPS_Playcount=259.
So strawberry increments FMPS_Playcount but not FMPS_PLAYCOUNT.

I wonder what the official/correct tag name is?
https://www.exiftool.org/TagNames/ID3.html this says it's "PCNT" for id3 v2.4
According to https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/issues/1074 , FMPS_Playcount (Strawberry spelling) is CORRECT, so logically something else has been using FMPS_PLAYCOUNT.

But why do they (second entry, FMPS_Playcount) go up to 65335?
And does overwriting them with 0 in puddletag not work because it's displaying 2 variants of the same tag?
In puddletag I can't create separate columns for the 2 spellings because it automatically uppercases them but displays both.