@jonas

Thank you for the clarification. Tuxedo OS is based on Ubuntu with the KDE desktop on top, that may the reason why it runs more recent versions of Qt.

Out of curiosity I checked the Strawberry Player on my Mac, it runs with Qt6.10. So the Linux/Ubuntu version is a bit behind.

So for the time being, I have installed Clementine on my Tuxedo machine, it's a bit dated, but as it only requires Qt5.X, it runs.

@jonas Hmm...
After checking that everything's up to date, and using the MSVC installer (which I believe I had previous), Strawberry is up and running once more. Even remembers which files I had in my playlist!

Thanks for your timely suggestions and forbearance! I truly appreciate it.

Another potentially useful datum:

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All House genre tracks dumped into a playlist, sorted by composer (my 'date added' column): works EXCEPT 2023.01.23, and 2024.10.30, both sort out of order. 2023.01.23 weirdly don't sort next to each other.

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unicode characters are normal for the correctly sorted entries,

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but also the incorrectly sorted ones, so it looks like it's not a characters issue (I've typed all of these manually so inserting unicode seemed unlikely but just in case)

@Dhani_Maurer

They changed the API to not allow localhost anymore, have to use 127.0.0.1 instead:
https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2025-02-12-increasing-the-security-requirements-for-integrating-with-spotify

I've fixed this now https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/commit/9ed89afdb2063baaac694f59e7a97d27871e7a01

@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 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)

@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.

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

Thanks