Mysticism! 🙂
Everything worked out today.

Output: "c:\data\projects\strawberry\msvc_\build_release\strawberry\build\StrawberrySetup-1.2.13.3.gce4f2ece-msvc-x64.exe" Install: 7 pages (448 bytes), 12 sections (24864 bytes), 933 instructions (26124 bytes), 509 strings (88228 bytes), 1 language table (318 bytes). Uninstall: 4 pages (320 bytes), 1 section (2072 bytes), 490 instructions (13720 bytes), 350 strings (14474 bytes), 1 language table (282 bytes). Datablock optimizer saved 55686 bytes (~0.0%). Using lzma (compress whole) compression. EXE header size: 64512 / 38912 bytes Install code: (140446 bytes) Install data: (181707820 bytes) Uninstall code+data: (122942 bytes) Compressed data: 73031100 / 181971208 bytes CRC (0xAEF4CE05): 4 / 4 bytes Total size: 73095616 / 182010124 bytes (40.1%)

@frostypaw
Not as far as I know - But I would also love tat feature!

In the new release we made use of sort tags for sorting, but the plan is to make an option for it.

@normanb
The cause of this issue is that Strawberry does not find hidden album art in the album folder but amarok and clementine do.

I have taken the Clementine patch issued in 2012 and modified it for the current gentoo release of Strawberry and raised it as an issue on the strawberry github. https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/issues/1809

Strawberry stopped two times today, about 15 minutes apart.

@Sharky-PI adding info to this thread: searching the collection by
genre:microhouse
does find the example track, as does searching by
genre:clownpenis
So manual search works for semicolon-separated-subgenres, just not the GUI dropdown system.

I see this feature has been (re)implemented in Release 1.2.12. The Settings --> Collection menu now has an item to skip leading articles when sorting albums.
Thank you!!!
🙂

Switched the style to Fusion, looks great now.

See? If you just don't respond they'll solve their own problems.

Okay, well, I think I've made some config tweaks that have helped the SMB performance. The full collection rescan still takes forever, but it always did and that's expected. The update changed, however, is now as fast as it was on linux. That was the important one.

@jonas Many thanks. That is it.

The modification time of the files was being changed. However, the that of the directory under which they sat was not being updated. A "touch" of that directory, and then "Update Changed Collection Folders" works perfectly.

Thanks again.

Regards
Stephen Meatheringham
Canberra, Australia

@NiceTortoise77
In settings / Backend. Try setting output to WASAPI instead.