In case you didn't read the tooltip of Settings / Collection / Preferred album art filenames (comma separated), it says:

When looking for album art, Strawberry will first look for picture files that contain one of this words. If there are no matches then it will use the largest image in the directory.

It's more than enough for me, because I use subdirectories for artwork, and there's only a front cover image with the audio files. My list of words is front,cover.

There is no Strawberry option "Only use pictures containing this words", so I'd suggest a workaround when some albums don't have a proper front cover and you don't want Strawberry to display the biggest image:

You might add something like def_image to the list of preferred names (for example, per your preferences, file,Front,cover,folder,def_image), and copy the default CD image from github (or create a custom one) to the album folder as def_image.jpg.

A bit of command line magic will copy that file to every album directory that needs it. Or you may go nuclear and copy it to every album folder, to test and delete easily all of them if needed.

@cdhacker
This seem to have to do with the client ID which the tidalapi script uses, and quality set to "HI_RES_LOSSLESS" and stream URL method set to "playbackinfopostpaywall".

HI_RES_LOSSLESS was missing for quality, added now.

I'm able to stream with some albums with 96/24 and some with 192/24 without any other modifications to the authentication code.

@mini_bomba

I've disabled the OSD Pretty if running on wayland, if you still want to enable it, you can change this line here https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/blob/3fd29c6dcce235b5efcad28a14a9cb172311638a/src/osd/osdbase.cpp#L477 to return true;

@chpichen
It's hard to say for sure, can you open one of XSPF files in a plain text editor such as notepad and see how they look, if you can paste the contents here I can have a look.

@mike_jones Yes! I tried out Strawberry but had to abandon it because I couldn't get the sort of smart playlists that I'm used to. Similar to you, I have a smart playlist that says:

3 star tracks that haven't been played in the last 2 years - Randomize and give me 30

4 star tracks that haven't been played in the last 2 months - Randomize and give me 30

5 star tracks that haven't been played in the last 2 weeks - Randomize and give me 30

Unrated tracks that haven't been played in the last month - Randomize and give me 30

None of the tracks have "[Turn off]" in the description.

Winamp accomplished this (without limiting the # of tracks per pull) by allowing you to edit the search string as a literal text string, and accepting parenthesis. So my WinAmp smart shuffle would look like (([Rating] = 5 and [Last_Played] > 14) or ([Rating] = 4 and [Last_Played] > 60) or ([Rating] = 3 and [Last_Played] > 730) or ([Rating] IS NULL and [Last_Played] > 30)) and [Comment] NOT LIKE '%[Turn Off]%'

MediaMonkey accomplishes this by allowing you to to create smart playlists similar to what Strawberry currently offers, but then you can also create a smart playlist that says "include these other playlists." So each one of those bullet points would be a smart playlist on its own (we'll just say they're named 3Star, 4Star, 5Star, and Unrated), and then you would have a smart playlist that says "Tracks that appear in playlists: [3Star, 4Star, 5Star, Unrated]" I generally tuck the "support playlists" in a folder out of sight, but really enjoy the flexibility of the MM model.

I am currently limping along with MediaMonkey in WINE because none of the native Linux players appear to provide this sort of playlist functionality.

@rajm @mncroc @rlkeeney support this request, would really make sence to be able to sort/order (Smart) Playlists!

@jonas oh gosh, i knew it had to be something simple like that. tysm!!

@jonas Yes, I have enabled Save play counts to song tags.

Thanks. I'll wait for the update to work its way into the repository. I just got 1.2.4.

@allaun

It looks like the path is cut short. Maybe it has to do with some special characters in the path, or the length of the path.
Can you copy and paste the entire path here, right click on the affected song in the playlist and select "Copy URL(s)...", then use CTRL + V to paste the URL here.

I completely agree! "Beats-per-minute" is a crucial filter tag, especially for projects or discussions involving audio processing, heart rate monitoring, or tempo adjustments. It helps categorize and streamline the search for relevant content, making it easier for others to find and contribute to related topics. Adding this tag would definitely enhance organization and accessibility.

Fortunately, it seems nobody broke their systems with the script. If there's no need of improvements, I'll put it on hold as a proof of concept, along with the attempts to the interspersed-track variants. Comments on this are welcome anytime.

For newer testers:

cd ~/tmp wget -O testscript https://pastebin.com/raw/Y2GxuzaY dos2unix testscript chmod a+x testscript less testscript # ---> mind the configurable countdown_step echo ; echo ./testscript -h

@flameche Follow the instructions from @overdress188 but change everything to qt5ct instead. That worked for me

@jonhd
I don't think the maintainers of AUR are active on this forum so it's probably better to report this to AUR directly.