Posts made by collapsinghrung

Sooooo... is there a way to stop this? Known bug? Intended behavior?

It kind of defeats the purpose of repeat mode, as far as I can tell, to just stop playing.

@apistoletov

There definitely is a tagging convention; ffmpeg / ffprobe treat language as a tag that applies to every media stream. If you're creating or editing a file, you can set that tag to whatever arbitrary value you want.

I believe there's supposed to be a convention of using shortcut codes for languages, but when I create files I intentionally violate that. I use mpv to play videos and when you select an audio or subtitle stream, it will display the language tagged for that stream; I prefer to display "English" than "eng" or "en".

Just informationally, I have this problem on windows. It's less common than the problem of constant spontaneous pausing, though.

@jonas

I put on another playlist; it managed to go for quite a while without doing this, but ultimately exhibited exactly the same problem.

Playlist characteristics:

5 tracks

3:36
4:28
7:13
3:08
5:42

All songs are .opus files, played from local hard drive. "Repeat playlist" is selected.

Strawberry paused playback at 3:04 on the fourth track, without input from me.

@jonas

Audio format: opus ("Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp", according to ffprobe.)

The Output in the Backend settings is "Wrapper audio sink for automatically detected audio sink".

I vaguely recall similar issues with other playlists (featuring other files), but I'll have to experiment for a definitive answer to that question.

In this case, I'm basically looking to play one song on repeat indefinitely.

I have a playlist that contains just the one song. It's 2:46 long. I have repeat mode set to "repeat playlist" in the menu at the bottom of the window (between where it says "1 track(s) - [ 2:46 ]" and the progress bar showing my position in the track).

My general method is to bring up Strawberry, start the playlist, minimize Strawberry, and do other things on my PC. The problem I'm encountering is that while this mostly works, it's pretty frequent that Strawberry spontaneously stops playback when the song gets to the 2:42 mark. It's always at 2:42. I think I can rule out the idea that I'm providing input that causes playback to stop. When this happens, I need to bring the Strawberry window back up and resume playback; hitting space causes playback to resume from 2:42, which would make sense in most contexts, but here it'd be better to "resume" from 0:00.

How do I stop this from happening?

Version information:

Windows 10 Home 10.0.19045
Strawberry 1.0.23

@spider-mario

There is a tag for "sort order"; if you're willing to tag your music, you can probably achieve this without changing anything about Strawberry. (Unless Strawberry ignores sort order tags.)

It might be worth observing that where the embedded image is smaller, Strawberry seems to display a background image that is restricted by the size of the embedded image - but it isn't the embedded image, it's the Strawberry-backround-image version with lots of pixelation.

@jonas

Here's what ffprobe has to say:

Input #0, ogg, from '.\08 - Tír Na nÓg.opus':
  Duration: 00:03:08.75, start: 0.007500, bitrate: 255 kb/s
  Stream #0:0: Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp
    Metadata:
      TITLE           : Tír Na nÓg
      ORIGINALDATE    : 2015-10-23
      ALBUM           : Destiny
      album_artist    : Celtic Woman
      MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID: b48e1f40-e287-4d60-ba2f-18594397393f
      ISRC            : USUG11501506
      ARTIST          : Celtic Woman feat. Oonagh
      ARTISTS         : Celtic Woman;Oonagh
      track           : 8
  Stream #0:1: Video: png, rgb24(pc), 1080x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 1:1], 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc (attached pic)
    Metadata:
      comment         : Cover (front)

There's only one embedded image. It displays correctly in context. I think it's just the background.

(Both image uploads yielded an "error" message, and what I assume was meant to be a link to the uploaded file came out as the text "error". I'll try again if someone knows how to upload a file.)

I've configured Strawberry to use the album cover as a background image in the playlist view.

The only problem is that the quality of the image Strawberry displays is awful. Here's a screenshot of Strawberry displaying some embedded artwork:

Here's a screenshot of mpv playing the same file:

mpv is displaying the image at a larger size than Strawberry is. And I had to shrink it; the embedded art is so large that my original screenshot exceeded the limit on file upload sizes.

Why is the image so degraded when Strawberry presents it as background art?

I think Strawberry is supposed to support user ratings for individual songs. I have only been able to find one piece of functionality related to this: when I edit a song's tags, there is a rating field measured in half-stars. But I don't want my rating to be stored as a tag on the file; I want it to go into Strawberry's database for use and display within Strawberry. There is a setting that implies Strawberry-only ratings exist, but I haven't found more than just the setting.

So:

1. How do I provide a rating for a song, without tagging the file?
2. Can I get that rating to be displayed in the playlist view? It'd be more useful than e.g. the bitrate, which is an automatic column.