@trincowski I'll correct it. This seems like a bug with strawberry since it is considering things it should not be. I would really like if it only obeyed the sync options used.

Tested again today with the latest. I also looked into each album that ended up getting put into the various artists folder incorrectly.

It seems that the sync to device feature takes into account ALL tracks in an album regardless if they are all being synced or not.

What I would like strawberry to do is only consider the information of the tracks being synced to the device when applying the sync options.

@Mei93
Yes that setting is disabled. From what I'm aware that setting only applies to how the collection is displayed in the application. This issue is how strawberry and previously clementine sort tracks that are being synced to a device.

The issue still occurs on Version 1.2.18.

@jonas
I have enabled that logging. This is the output. Is there a way I can trigger strawberry to look for devices to mount? I've notice there is a console option under tools.
The volume name on the device I'm testing with is 16GB, it is a FAT32 formatted USB flash drive.

03:25:49.153 DEBUG unknown Socket name is "kdsingleapp-user-strawberry"
03:25:49.153 DEBUG unknown Lock file path is "/tmp/kdsingleapp-user-strawberry.lock"
03:25:49.153 DEBUG unknown Primary instance
03:25:49.154 INFO main:180 Strawberry 1.2.16 Qt "6.10.1"
03:25:49.154 INFO main:181 "Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 43 - (linux 6.18.5-200.fc43.x86_64) [x86_64]"
03:25:49.300 DEBUG unknown Icon theme "" not found.
03:25:49.390 DEBUG unknown Socket name is "kdsingleapp-user-strawberry"
03:25:49.390 DEBUG unknown Lock file path is "/tmp/kdsingleapp-user-strawberry.lock"
03:25:49.390 DEBUG unknown Primary instance
03:25:49.410 INFO Application:288 Creating GLib main event loop.
03:25:49.516 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:166 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Next"))
03:25:49.517 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:166 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Play"))
03:25:49.518 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:166 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Previous"))
03:25:49.518 ERROR GlobalShortcutsBackendKGlobalAccel:166 KGlobalAccel returned QList() when setting shortcut QList(QKeySequence("Media Stop"))
03:25:49.608 INFO UrlHandlers:38 Registered URL handler for "subsonic"
03:25:49.610 INFO UrlHandlers:38 Registered URL handler for "tidal"
03:25:49.624 INFO UrlHandlers:38 Registered URL handler for "qobuz"
03:25:50.656 DEBUG unknown service is "org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-155744-1"
03:25:50.656 DEBUG unknown Registering a client interface to the KStatusNotifierWatcher
03:25:50.925 INFO DeviceManager:264 Database device: "TACOTUNES"
03:25:50.925 INFO DeviceManager:264 Database device: "X1"
03:26:18.143 DEBUG unknown Loaded plugin "/usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/kf6/kwindowsystem/KF6WindowSystemKWaylandPlugin.so" for platform "wayland"
03:28:26.704 DEBUG unknown languages changes from QList("en_US", "en_US") to QList("en_US", "en_US")
03:28:26.704 DEBUG unknown languages changes from QList("en_US", "en_US") to QList("en_US", "en_US")

Unfortunately when launched from the terminal strawberry outputs nothing. Is there a flag I can launch it with to output something that could help show what is going wrong?

I've tried multiple formats, NTFS, FAT32, and none of them show up. All of the discs work fine as I can manually copy files to and from them.

Syncing music to a device is the main reason I use strawberry as was the main reason I used clementine. Whatever isn't working also effects clementine.

It would be nice to also have some way of refreshing the devices tab instead of quitting and starting strawberry every time to check.

For more information, these USB devices are being mounted in the normal expected directory of /run/media/user/Music

Strawberry 1.2.16 cannot see USB devices to sync a playlist to. This worked in Fedora 42.
The device is one I have always used when syncing, it is remembered by Strawberry, a FAT32 formatted 256GB USB flash drive.

Had another instance of this happen today. This bug is very annoying. Just revert back to the old behaviour of listening to the correct tag.

@jonas
I have already gone through my library and removed all entries in the "Album Artist Sort" tag using a tagging tool to mass delete these entries.
The behaviour I saw was if there was an entry in the "Album Artist Sort" tag that did not agree with the "Album Artist" tag, the Sort tag was given priority when sorting the tracks. On my playlist I use the Album Artist tag to sort and do not have the Album Artist Sort tag displayed.

As for the second issue; https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/1431/album-synced-to-various-artists-folder-incorrectly

What was found in that issue strawberry was taking into account tracks that were not on the playlist when copying tracks over.