@MrDowntempo Personally what I like about strawberry is that it just works. Foobar is too much work to setup for a casual user to make it look good and make it functional!

@mrbluebudo
check the old version at github
curl -O -L https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/releases/download/1.1.3/strawberry_1.1.3-jammy_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i strawberry_1.1.3-jammy_amd64.deb

sudo apt --broken install

@rikosi While this isn't exactly what you're looking for, enabling the moodbar feature and setting it to be displayed in the track progress bar does communicate what the track sounds like visually and lets you scrub through it. It does help signify changes to the track like the drop and quiet parts, although it's not quite as easy to interpret as a waveform.

This is a feature I would use too, but for different reasons. I've got an Unsorted/Untagged folder which is mostly just a mess. I also keep my Classical music in a separate folder since It needs to be tagged and handled differently.

I had lots of problems with the FlatPak version 1.0.23.

I'm still running Linux Mint 21.1 Vera (base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy).
When I realized how out of date the package was, I installed from repository.
https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-strawberry-on-ubuntu-linux/

Then I had to move my library and all data to the newer location.

In the old FlatPak version, the following were in ~/.var/app/org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry
albumcovers/
collectionalbumcovers/
strawberry.db
strawberry.db.bak

I uninstalled the FlatPak version of strawberry then installed newer version (1.1.3), from repository, as above.
Then I moved those db files and folders to ~/.local/share/strawberry/strawberry/

And everything works for me.

Good luck!

I have had luck using touch to update the modified date of the artist folder. When I invoke "Update changed collection folders", it then seems to scan all albums and song within.

@jonas said in SQL error when searching for any song/artist since last week?:

@RallyDarkstrike said in SQL error when searching for any song/artist since last week?:

songs_fts

Newer versions do not use songs_fts, did you downgrade strawberry to an old release?

That did the trick! Downloaded the latest Ubuntu deb file (I'm running Linux Mint) and installed it and all is well now!

There must've been a package downgrade when I did the upgrade from Mint 21.3 to Mint 22.1. I believe it does sometimes downgrade packages t what is in the Mint Repos to help prevent issues so that must be what happened.

Thanks for the prompt reply!

@jonas I unmounted it, but the error still occured. I couldn't find anything else that seemed to be using it. Any other ideas?

@jonas
Sorry for the delay,

REM GENRE Rock REM DATE 2011 REM DISCID E00DA811 REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5" PERFORMER "Queen" TITLE "Greatest Hits (1981-2011 Remaster)" FILE "Queen - Greatest Hits (1981-2011 Remaster).flac" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "Bohemian Rhapsody" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Another One Bites The Dust" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 05:55:51 INDEX 01 05:56:01 TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Killer Queen" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 01 09:31:26 TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "Fat Bottomed Girls" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 12:31:13 INDEX 01 12:32:26 TRACK 05 AUDIO TITLE "Bicycle Race" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 15:54:58 INDEX 01 15:55:42 TRACK 06 AUDIO TITLE "You're my Best Friend" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 18:56:45 INDEX 01 18:56:59 TRACK 07 AUDIO TITLE "Don't Stop Me Now" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 21:47:68 INDEX 01 21:49:53 TRACK 08 AUDIO TITLE "Save Me" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 25:19:43 INDEX 01 25:20:00 TRACK 09 AUDIO TITLE "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 01 29:08:04 TRACK 10 AUDIO TITLE "Somebody To Love" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 31:51:28 INDEX 01 31:52:71 TRACK 11 AUDIO TITLE "Now I'm Here" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 36:49:48 INDEX 01 36:49:73 TRACK 12 AUDIO TITLE "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 41:03:24 INDEX 01 41:04:67 TRACK 13 AUDIO TITLE "Play The Game" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 43:57:69 INDEX 01 43:57:71 TRACK 14 AUDIO TITLE "Flash" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 47:29:57 INDEX 01 47:31:31 TRACK 15 AUDIO TITLE "Seven Seas of Rhye" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 50:18:58 INDEX 01 50:19:72 TRACK 16 AUDIO TITLE "We Will Rock You" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 53:07:15 INDEX 01 53:07:36 TRACK 17 AUDIO TITLE "We Are The Champions" PERFORMER "Queen" INDEX 00 55:09:22 INDEX 01 55:09:46

@esophagus3289 said in I could not find the terminal code for installing Fedora or Almalinux. Can you help me? And . It's listed as free on Alternativeto. The download page asks for a "tip". Is it paid for Windows?:

This is not a bug. It's just about information that is not on the github page and not on the wiki page. I didn't manage to download it on Windows 11, so I installed WSL, I installed Almalinux.
I will install Strawberry on Almalinux 9 Cli OS. I don't know if Strawberry is available in the store. I can't open the GUI store because it's Cli. I want to install it (not compile) but I don't know the installation code.
"sudo dnf install strawberry" Is it true?
There is no information about this on your github page and wiki page. Can you add the information?

And

It's listed as free on Alternativeto. The download page asks for a "tip". Is it paid for Windows? Is the information in Alternativeto wrong? When I select free and Windows from the filters, Strawberry is listed. Should Alternativeto be corrected?
Free for Windows or $20?
If it is free, I couldn't find where and how to download it. Can you help me?

Expected behavior
If it is paid, the filter in alternativeto should be edited.
If it is free, it should be explained how and where we can download it.

It's $5 a/month sponsorship or $20 for one version, it's explained on the website: https://strawberrymusicplayer.org/#download
Since we have nothing to do with AlternativeTo, you need to report it there, but "Free" can also refer to "Free Software" as in freedom, not cost.

@jonas - sorry for all the replies --

I figured out how to solve the issue. I vaguely remembered skimming past a comment somewhere that the flatpak version of Strawberry had some kind of issue (and I had downloaded the flatpak). So I uninstalled that, and got the 'true' version via the terminal.

This time, when I added my external drive to the directory, the file path actually looked normal... so that was a good sign. I rebooted the pc, ran Strawberry... and sure enough -- the library remained, and I was able to play songs as expected.

So, TL;DR for anyone stumbling onto this thread with the same issue I had - uninstall the Strawberry flatpak and get it direct from the terminal. I followed the steps on this link: https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-strawberry-music-player-on-linux-mint/
... and get the normal/stable version.

They voted to the delete the article. No-one added any reliable sources and the article was stripped for content by the same guy who nominated it for deletion.
The links on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Strawberry_(software) for "sources" points to "strawberry software", which obviously does not find much relevant for "Strawberry Music Player".
I think there are more references available than many other music players which has a wkipedia page, but I believe this is a result of the article being named incorrectly in the first place and lacking sources, no-one actually pointed to them in the time it was up for discussion.

I've been using Strawberry for a couple of weeks, and the only thing that's missing is a simple delimiter option for multi-genre support, will this ever be added?

Any news on those suggestions? While trying out Strawberry those were more or less the things that I noticed also.
Especially the wasted space when not using the analyser and not being able to hide the menu bar.
When the analyser bar is not used, couldn't the space be used for the progress bar / moodbar?
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