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    • Add more Radio stations

      The number of radio stations supported is very limited. Access to more radio stations would highly be appreciated. Or just being able to search for a radio station and mark it as a favorite (and pop-up under Radios) would be a great improvement.

      You could use https://www.radio-browser.info/ to get a list of stations. They supply an API. Sadly enough, my C++ skills are to minimal to support you in implementing this.

      posted in Feature Suggestions
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    • RE: Unable to remove album

      @silver-sun @jonas I am not scared .. got my backups ..
      Stopped strawberry and opened sqlite.
      Browsed to the records which are not there any more, deleted them ... short pray ... saved.
      Restarted strawberry .. and it solved my problem. Double checked and just those non existing tracks are removed.

      Thanks for standing by!

      Arjan

      posted in Technical Help
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    • RE: Unable to remove album

      To all: All my tracks are in a directory structure /Media/audio, so there is only 1 source folder.

      My expectation was that if I do a full rescan Strawberry would scan my folder structure and update the database AND it would scan the database and validate if the track is on the disk. If not, then remove it from the database. It seems it does it different .

      So the only thing that needs to be done is removing the tracks from the database (from what I understand). I am not a db admin but I am willing to give it a try by deleting the tracks from the db. It is unique since the album artist is 10CC (my other 10CC albums are by 10cc ... in lower caps).

      If you can give me the instructions .. I am willing to give it a go 😊

      posted in Technical Help
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    • Unable to remove album

      All,

      I have a small challenge. Strawberry has a specific album in the Library but this album is not on disk. I did all the possible scans but it will not remove.
      Any help on how to remove an album from the library which is not any more on disk.

      TIA,
      Arjan

      posted in Technical Help
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    • RE: Sort Smart Play Lists

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

      posted in Feature Suggestions
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    • RE: Add more Radio stations

      @linuxdancer my mistake, this error is Strawberry's way to say that the stream is invalid. My mistake, try https://stream.bnr.nl/bnr_mp3_128_20

      Arjan

      posted in Feature Suggestions
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    • RE: Add more Radio stations

      @linuxdancer as a workaround you can create playlists holding streams. Create an empty file and add following lines to it:

      #EXTM3U
      #EXTINF:0,🎵 BNR Nieuwsradio
      https://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/pls/BNR_NIEUWSRADIOAAC.pls
      

      Replase BNR Nieuwsradio with the title of your stream (e.g. BBC4) and replace the url (https://...) with your url.

      You can repeat the last two lines as often as you like to hold more streams Now save the file with a .m3u extensions (for example Radio.m3u)
      Go into Strawberry and select Playlist - Load playlist (or Ctr+Shift+O) and you can load your playlist.
      Doulbe click on the star in the tab and it will remember this playlist.

      Success!!

      posted in Feature Suggestions
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    • Add more Radio stations

      The number of radio stations supported is very limited. Access to more radio stations would highly be appreciated. Or just being able to search for a radio station and mark it as a favorite (and pop-up under Radios) would be a great improvement.

      You could use https://www.radio-browser.info/ to get a list of stations. They supply an API. Sadly enough, my C++ skills are to minimal to support you in implementing this.

      posted in Feature Suggestions
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    • RE: Added several radio stations

      As I previously mentioned, I agree that it is probably not the best idea to have hard-coded streams into an application (although they don't change that often).
      However, to get into the ideal world and using APIs to search for streams, you first need to have a source where to get the streams (and urls) from. The developers of Volumio have found a way to get to a "directory" holding a large amount of streams. So technically it must be possible.

      Once you have that "source" you can think about how to present this with views to the end-user. And think one step further: how users can add their own streams.

      But let's be honest @jonas, currently there is 1 programmer for Strawberry and that's you. You probably have enough work in maintaining Strawberry and therefore no (or very limited) time to add additional functionality. When will your ideas (which are without any doubt better then hardcoded streams) be implemented? My guess is that it will continue to be a dream for a long time into the future.
      Another way of solving the problem is doing it step by step, first hardcoded, then maybe an external (saved) playlist with a large number of stations which can be loaded into Strawberry (like @ben2talk is using now) and finally getting into a state where Strawberry uses external sources to list radio streams.

      However, maybe the number of users interested in radio streams in Strawberry is very limited and therefore the radio streams feature will more or less die .... who knows ... only the future will tell.

      I tried to be part of the community, spend time on it and contribute (even with my limited C++ programming capabilities) to try to make the application a bit "better" then what it was.

      If you want to go only for the "ideal" world, then be my guest, and I sincerely hope you will get there. But honestly .... I doubt.

      Kind regards,
      Arjan

      posted in Development
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    • RE: Added several radio stations

      @ben2talk The one does not exclude the other. A playlist is more flexible however it does need technial skills. For you and many others no problem, for my wife and many others an obstacle they cannot overcome.

      The (from my point of view) best solution would be that Strawberry uses a directory service with audio streams listed in seach a way that users can select their favorites. Must technically be possible since volumio (volumio.com code at https://github.com/volumio) does it. However I am not skilled enough in C++ to implement that into Strawberry.

      I think jonas has already enough to do with maintaining Strawberry.

      I just tried to increase usability (a little bit) for non-technical Strawberry users.

      posted in Development
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    • Added several radio stations

      @jonas The number of radio stations is limited. I have added in my fork of strawberry a number of radio stations. Compiles and runs smoothly.

      If you are interested in adding this to strawberry then let me know.

      FYI: Code can be found at https://github.com/arjantenhoopen/strawberry in the branch addradio08022024

      posted in Development
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