It is working now. I had changed some settings on the scrobblers and misunderstood the settings I was changing.

I thought a local file would scribble anything on my hard drive. Apparently, it only scrobbles files I play that are not in my collection. I never do this with Strawberry, and it was the only one selected. I turned on Collection and turned off Local Files.

@olem Could you explain it better, please? I don't get what you're trying to do.

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!

@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

@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.

@jonaski said in Resume Playback On Start:

The resume playback on start should work if you close Strawberry while a song is playing, then reopen Strawberry.
I'm not sure if it would work on system startup.

I know this thread is old but i have this same issue. In my mind turning off the computer is closing the app while a song is playing so why when its in the startup and reopens it doesn't play .. its weird logic .. oddly enough i got it working in clementine but only in mint cinnamon , in xfce it did nothing. also weird tho is it will work when you log out and log back in which again in my mind is the same as turning the PC off and on .. i dunno , i would love to use this app but i need the music to start when i turn on my PC so its janky clementine or quad libet for me.

odd this issues doesn't come up more or hasn't been addressed ever.

@erdbär great news! Thanks for the info