@jonas It appears the setting you mentioned which I have disabled only applies to the library. The problem is with Strawberry placing albums into a Various Artists folder to a synced device. The only album that should be here is the first one, the rest are placed incorrectly.
I would like if Strawberry could strictly follow the Naming Options on the sync settings page when syncing songs. Anything else should be ignored.
My sync Naming Options are;
%albumartist/%album/%track %title.%extension
@trincowski Never used kid3, however it does look like they are all the same. I manage the track information from strawberry. Tag 1 is empty, I don't see a compilation checkbox in kid3. Strawberry reports it is not a compilation.
My main request is to disable the Various Artists Folder behavior entirely. I don't want to have to troubleshoot every album that could have this happen for the rest of time.
1.1.3 has the issue as well.
As of 1.1.2 this problem is still occuring.
@Dryst You can still obtain the 1.0.23 version from achive sites and use that. That was released for free and will let you test the software. Then you can decide if that version is good enough and stay there forever like I am on the windows boxes I have or you can decide to pay money for a music app. I backed up this version myself since it works well enough for my needs on the only windows boxes I use.
@CharAznableLoNZ I synced trying the setting suggested however strawberry still incorrectly puts albums into the various artists folder.
Is there any way to disable this functionality entirely?
@Jellby I've noticed it happening more recently. I have it happening despite not pausing the tracks. I have to kill the process since it just locks up when I try to change tracks manually once it's stuck on buffering. I wonder if it's trying to access gstreamer. I have my set to use wrapper audio sink since that is what it was default and it has always worked before.
@econnolly My understanding is that only changes how the library displays songs. I'll try it next time I sync a device. My issue is when I sync a playlist, some tracks will be placed in Various Artists. These tracks are listed under the correct artist in the library and my sync options uses Album Artist instead of just Artist during sync.
@Jellby The tracks are on a USB drive that is mounted at boot. It is treated as a normal HDD compared to a USB drive that gets plugged in later and mounted in /media. I notice it most often when strawberry stops playing music. I don't often pause/unpause my music so I don't know if that is involved.
I also have this problem. It is inconsistent on when it's going to happen. I'm on Version 1.0.23 on Fedora 39 KDE. While it's stuck on buffering I can interact with the window, however if I try to manually play the next track strawberry freezes.
@CharAznableLoNZ Unfortunately after syncing, Strawberry is still putting albums into Various Artists that do not have Compilation box checked.
@econnolly It was checked. Going to disable that on every track in my library. That's highly annoying since there is no mention in the sync settings about that checkbox. Maybe a tweak could be made to ignore the compilation checkbox during sync.
Had another example today. Of the twelve albums of Toho Bossa Nova, the twelfth one was sent to various artists on sync instead of the correct folder the other eleven were. All albums have the same Album Artist Entry. Further I went and investigated the various artists folder and found several more examples.
Is there a way to disable this behavior entirely? I want it to follow my sync options and nothing else.
@jonas
In this case it is a FiiO X1, however Strawberry treats it like a USB drive. I see the same behavior on the USB drive I plug into my truck as well. I believe both are formatted as FAT32 since that is what both players prefer.
For this album, I guess I fixed this album by doing some minor corrections to the tags. However I did not touch the Album Artist tags as that was already populated as the same for all tracks on the album. I still see it on other albums.
I mostly want to figure out what triggers this and if there is a way to force strawberry to ignore this behavior and just follow the sync Naming Options.
I have multiple albums that have more than one artist listed. However I am using the Album Artist tag to be sure that albums with multiple artists do not get split up on sync. This works quite well.
I have a few albums that I've found when synced to a USB device will get put into the various artists instead of under the correct album artists folder. Under the collection tab they are grouped correctly.
What causes this sync behavior, is there a way to disable this redirection to the Various Artists folder?
Below is the album, Mirror, that is exhibiting this behavior.
My sync Naming Options are;
%albumartist/%album/%track %title.%extension
It would be nice if I can manually set device file format limits for synced devices that cannot be queried or are unknown. Two examples;
Example 1
My truck technically supports FLAC 96KHz at 24 bit, however if the bit rate is too high, it stutters.
If I convert this track to a 48Khz 24 bit FLAC file, it plays just fine. It would be nice if Strawberry could do this conversion upon syncing.
Example 2
My FiiO does not support WMA, I forget this and sync my library to it and as it plays it will display the unsupported format error and skip the track. It would be nice to be able to have Strawberry convert this to a different format upon syncing.
TLDR, manual File Format options for devices that cannot report their limitations, like a USB stick.
Strawberry 1.0.4 on Fedora 35
256GB FAT32 Samsung USB Flash Drive
Format flash drive to FAT32.
Mount flash drive in Strawberry.
Highlight all tracks on playlist with 9496 tracks.
Copy to device.
Naming options;
%albumartist/%album/%title.%extension
Remove problematic characters from filenames
Restrict to characters allowed on FAT filesystems
Restrict characters to ASCII
Allow extended ASCII characters
Example Image showing the settings.
Click OK
Process completes, no error message is shown.
Strawberry reports 9391 songs exist on flash drive.
Changing the copy settings has made no difference.
I went through all my music and translated all titles so that all characters are supported by FAT32 to be sure that wasn't the issue.
@jonas
Without the playlist the issue does not occur.
With the playlist it stops responding.
This also happens when loading the playlist on a clean start.
The setup:
Laptop with MinGW-W64 1.0.2 Strawberry installed.
Library on network drive, k:\music configured on Strawberry.
Playlist with 9.5k songs saved from previous use.
The issue:
Open Strawberry
Click anything, the first thing works.
Next click Strawberry goes unresponsive and uses 30% CPU
Must kill Strawberry in Task Manager.
I run Strawberry on linux as well and have only had a couple crashes, on this W10 laptop it's unusable. On a W10 desktop with a local library, it's been stable. Both were installed using the same installer file.
I've tried the other build and found Strawberry started and quit before ever showing a window.
This setup is identical to how it was setup for Clementine and I never had an issue when Clementine was used.
Being able to analyze with a tool similar to spek would be extremely useful when comparing tracks. It allows a quick visual comparison of tracks.
Why not just use spek? The spek project has been dormant for a few years now, I fear it may never get updated to be available on newer distributions.