I have Strawberry configured to output to a JACK server. This works for me just fine usually, out_jackaudiosink-xx_1 going into the left system channel, out_jackaudiosink-xx_2 going into the right system channel, as intended with stereo audio files.

However, whenever I play a mono file, out_jackaudiosink-xx_2 disappears (which is understandable, no real use for it with single channel audio), but out_jackaudiosink-xx_1 stays only in playback_1, which is the left system channel.

Of course, the obvious solution is to just link up out_jackaudiosink-xx_1 to playback_2 as well, however doing that every time I hear something in mono is in all honesty quite obnoxious, not to mention it resets if I skip a track or start another one. Is there any way to get around this?

@silver-sun

"First of all, when you say "album artist" are you referring strictly to the "Album Artist" tag, or the "Artist" tag?"
Artist tag, yeah.

"If this was the way Strawberry worked, think about a group like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The behaviour you seek would create four different groups, and if it created duplicate albums for each of the four artists, there would be a lot of redundancy in your library."
About CSNY, as far as I know most people consider them a group in their own right rather than just the four individuals, but that's besides the point.

"By the way, which music players sorted in the manner you described? And did they support metadata tags? Or was there some sort of master database where all the sorting took place, and just pointed to the actual songs?"
It was MusicBee, I simply tagged the album artist as "Brian Wilson; Dennis Wilson" (the semi-colon being the separator characters in MusicBee, some programs interpret it as "\\" or individual tags or something else entirely), and the album would appear both under Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson. In the actual folder system it'd be organized under the "Brian Wilson; Dennis Wilson" folder but it would be grouped properly in the program itself.

Anyways, if that's the case I guess I'll just begrudgingly accept it and get used to it, maybe change how I tag things to accommodate for that, we'll see! Thank you.

I'm having an issue with albums that have more than one album artist. In most other music players I've tried, when an album has more than one album artist, it appears in the catalog of both artists. For instance, The Cocaine Sessions by Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson would appear both in Brian Wilson's catalog and Dennis Wilson's, which simply isn't the case with Strawberry as far as I can tell.

Is there any way I can fix this?

@jonas Where would that be on Linux?

Does Strawberry have support for managing two or more libraries at once, independent from each other with different folders for music to be organized in and such? I can't find anything online about that. If not (which I'm assuming is the case), what are potential workarounds to this?

Thank you in advance.