<![CDATA[Topics tagged with album]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/tags/albumRSS for NodeSat, 13 Jun 2026 09:23:52 GMTInvalid Date60<![CDATA[Ability to disable album art from being fetched when refreshing Subsonic catalogue]]>Thanks a lot for Strawberry! I've been using it for the past year or so on MacOS and Linux and have really enjoying using it for listening to my music.

I recently started using Navidrome to host my music collection, and I have noticed that whenever I refresh my music catalogue, the album art can take a long time to download. The specific step is the one where users get a message of "Retrieving album covers for X albums..."

I am wondering if there is a way to disable this automatic step of downloading cover art when refreshing my Subsonic catalogue? I'm frequently uploading new music to my Navidrome instance, and so waiting on this step to complete (re-fetching album art) can be a time-consuming process.

In my case, I wouldn't really feel this feature was super necessary if it seemed like the album art cache worked reliably, but it seems that all the album art gets redownloaded anytime I refresh my subsonic music catalogue, but that seems like a separate issue.

Thanks again for all the work!

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5868/ability-to-disable-album-art-from-being-fetched-when-refreshing-subsonic-cataloguehttps://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/5868/ability-to-disable-album-art-from-being-fetched-when-refreshing-subsonic-catalogueInvalid Date<![CDATA[How do I randomly play an album from a playlist?]]>Suppose I have a playlist containing 100 albums. How would I go about having Strawberry select one of those albums, at random, and play it, in order, starting with track 1, then track 2, and so on until the album is done?

I am aware of the "Playlist -> Shuffle mode -> Shuffle albums" function, but that only takes effect if the playlist is already playing. If I open a playlist and just press "Play", it will start playing the first album, or the most recently played song if I have listed to that playlist before. So, it is not shuffling the albums in any way, though it will pick a different random album when the first or most recent album is complete.

How do I start playing the first track of a random album from a playlist?

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