I'm proud to release version 1.0.0 of Strawberry Music Player.

It has been 6 months since the last release (0.9.3). This is the longest delay between a release since the initial release of Strawberry in April 2018. Strawberry has been in development for over 4 years and has grown to a mature state. Most of the players features are finished. To mark this, it is time for version 1.0.

OS support

Linux AppImage:

AppImages are currently no longer available. This might change in the feature. AppImage of version 0.9.3 is still available. But it is recommended to switch to a regular package.

Windows:

Windows 10 is now required, this is not an active decision by Strawberry, it's because Qt 6 have dropped support for older Windows versions. We still provide both x86 and x86_64 releases.
The Windows release includes the newest versions of all libraries including Qt 6.2.0 and GStreamer 1.18.5.

macOS:

macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or newer is required. This is because Catalina is the oldest macOS release available on GitHub Actions. We only provide a release for x86_64, but it should work on ARM64 through Rosetta.

Qt 6

Strawberry has been ready for Qt 6 since August 2020, and have proven to be stable.
This release fixes and improves code related to changes in Qt 6.2 LTS.
Qt 6 is now available on most Linux distros, it is recommended that Strawberry is compiled with Qt 6 instead of Qt 5.
Strawberry can still be compiled with Qt 5.8 or higher, but Qt 5 has not had an open-source release since version 5.15.2 in November 2020. Strawberry is directly affected by semaphore bugs in Qt 5.15.2.
Releases for Windows and macOS now includes Qt 6.2.0, Qt 5 releases are now dropped.

Summary of the most important changes:

ALSA PCM devices:

You can now list and select ALSA PCM devices in the device settings. Using PCM devices instead of hw/plughw enables you to re-sample to the audio to 48 khz to simultaneously play music in Strawberry using ALSA without blocking other applications from using the same sound-card. It also allows you to use the fading options with ALSA.

Song fingerprinting and file tracking:

Strawberry now provides the ability to create a unique fingerprint for all the songs in your collection, this fingerprint is stored in the database along with all the song metadata. The fingerprint is used to track audio files on disk. If you move your music collection, or your music collection becomes temporary unavailable, it is now possible to track where the songs have been moved once they reappear. It is recommended to turn on "Song fingerprinting and track" feature in the collection settings, it will however significantly increase the time it takes to scan your music collection.

Subsonic:

You can now enable MD5 authentication, this is more secure than the old hex method. It is recommended to always enable MD5 unless your server does not support it. MD5 is currently the most secure authentication method available in the Subsonic API.

Changelog:

Bugfixes:

• Fix updating temporary metadata when reloading songs outside of the collection.
• Don't strip off "Live" from song title when sending scrobbles.
• Fix incorrect use of QFutureWatcher.
• Fix compile of Utilities::Hmac with Qt 6.2.
• Fix a memory leak when using right click context menu in internet search.
• Fix a gstreamer bus leak when adding streams and remote playlists.
• Fix "Source ID x was not found when attempting to remove it" error.
• Escape ampersands in playlist tabs.
• Fix analyzer with S24_32LE audio format.

Enhancements:

• Add replaygain fallback gain setting.
• Add option to turn off playlist alternating row colors.
• Make the default tabbbar background color lighter.
• Remove use of deprecated WinExtras Qt module.
• Add CMake test for Qt sqlite support.
• Automatically detect Qt version if BUILD_WITH_QT5 or BUILD_WITH_QT6 is not specified.
• Correct playlist tabbar favorite tooltip from "click" to "double-click".
• Remove scroll over icon to change track option since it does not work reliable.
• Improve resume playback on startup.
• Re-request stream URL for Tidal and QObuz when resuming playback after pausing for more than 30 seconds.
• Add Finnish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Catalan and Portuguese (Brazil).
• Add support for TagParser (https://github.com/Martchus/tagparser) as an alternative to TagLib.
• Add Subsonic option to turn off HTTP/2.
• Fix minor Clang-Tidy and Clazy warnings.
• Use higher resolution images from last.fm API.
• Add MD5 token authentication for Subsonic.
• Use 500 albums per request when receiving albums from Subsonic.
• Use QX11Application with Qt >= 6.2 for X11 global shortcuts.
• Allow fading when a ALSA PCM device is selected.
• Store Tidal MPEG-DASH file in data uri.
• Use XSPF image elements as manually set artwork.
• Make error dialog larger.
• Show error dialog for failed SQL queries.
• Show error dialog when failing to read or write album covers.
• Add module music formats (mod, s3m, xm, it) to detected filetypes.
• Disable gapless playback for module music formats to workaround gstreamer bug.
• Update directory ID and song path immediately when organizing collection songs.
• Add right click option to star a playlist in playlist tabs.
• Use seconds instead of minutes for scrobble submit delay.

New features:

• Add ALSA PCM devices.
• Add song fingerprinting and tracking.
• Add support for native global shortcuts on MATE.
• Add radios view with channels from Radio Paradise and SomaFM.

We now got a new website:
https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

@joysofjoyc4
Qobuz does not accept the signature parameter. It has something to do with the app secret. Either the app secret could be wrong, or revoked, or it could be that QObuz requires that specific app secret to be used in the specific way. I know that there was a app secret that had to be Xor'ed in a special way.
It is not as easy to pick up an app secret for QObuz as they use MD5.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed collection and internet search filter tool button menu arrow overlap (#796).
• Fixed stop after this track button with Qt 6 (#795).
• Fixed not updating the URL when songs were moved on disk when the fingerprinting feature is enabled.
• Fixed SQL query error for songs with an invalid modification time (#815).
• Fixed blocky rendering of the currently playing track with high resolution screens (#794).
• Fixed incorrect playlist column filesize for radio streams.
• Fixed deleting embedded album cover from Ogg songs.
• Fixed parsing of Cue tracks with 1-digit minutes (#836).
• Fixed updating of playlist summary after reloading items when adding songs from files outside of the collection (#848).
• Fixed always saving metadata when saving playlists for Tidal, Qobuz and Subsonic songs independent of playlist setting (#851).
• Fixed setting media shortcuts when using kglobalaccel (#849).
• Fixed parsing of Genius lyrics when they are sometimes received in a different HTML format.
• Fixed saving MP4 specific tags as UTF-8 (#830).
• Fixed clearing "manually set" cover when saving album covers embedded from outside of the tag editor (#858).
• Fixed aborting collection scan when Strawberry exists to avoid hang on exit.
• Fixed resuming collection scan when adding a new directory after collection scan was aborted.
• Fixed excluding hidden songs from the collection.
• Disabled moodbar for CUE songs since they can not be supported properly (#865).
• (Windows) Added gstreamer gstxingmux plugin to fix transcoding to MP3 (#856).

Enhancements:

• Made playlist header column text elided (#801).
• Added support for reading and writing playcounts and ratings from/to tags.
• Added support for setting rating using the edit tag dialog.
• Added setting to enable/disable playlist toolbar (#809).
• Added component type, content_rating type and releases to AppStream data file (#806).
• Removed unused "mark as listened" option in organize dialog.
• Fixed some clazy warnings and narrowing conversions in the source code.
• Replaced uses of macros in the source code.
• Added a more user-friendly error message when receiving encrypted streams from Tidal (#824).
• Added support for port-pattern entered in the device textbox when using Jack as output (#828).
• Added Spanish (Spain) translation.
• Added support for more CUE filenames (#835).
• (Windows) Add gstreamer dash plugin.

@tyco72
Try the qt6 one first, if it doesn't work try the qt5 one.

Nice job.
I made a guide now to import most data from Clementine:

https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/wiki/Import-collection-library-and-playlists-data-from-Clementine

This is useful for users who want to import all their playlists from Clementine, since playlists are based on ROWID's from the collection library, it is necessary to import the collection too.

It would be great if you want to make a script.

@silver-sun
I changed it to double-click instead of single-click because I was annoyed by how easy it was to click the star if you just wanted to switch playlist.

You should be able to install it by just double clicking the DMG and drag the Strawberry folder over to "system". It's the same way similar dmg's are installed on macOS.
However we only provide experimental development builds for macOS since we don't have any developers with mac active in the project. You can download here: https://builds.strawberrymusicplayer.org/macos/

@chaseadam
You need to enable "Write metadata when saving playlists" in the playlist settings.

@rlkeeney
To avoid losing ratings when moving or renaming files on disk you need to enable the fingerprinting feature in the collection setting (and re-scan the collection, beware that it is extremely slow to scan), another alternative is to enable writing ratings to files in the collection settings.
Writing ratings to tags is probably what you used if it worked with Clementine.

@ldxza
Are you sure that the Kvantum plugin you got is using Qt 6 and not Qt 5?

@deresient

Can you start strawberry from the terminal and see if there is a crash on exit, if so do a gdb backtrace:
https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/wiki/Backtrace

@mandiv
You need faad2 or fdk-aac part of the gstreamer bad plugins. Not all distros include them, you might need to add a 3rdparty repository.

@kg333
ASF (WMA) audio is part of libav (ffmpeg) which isn't included in the MSVC release, try the MinGW release instead.

@nitro322 said in Library support for DSF files:

Would it be possible to add library support for DSF files? Strawberry seems to be able to play DSF files via gstreamer just fine, and even read the tags when playing the file:

I wouldn't count on DSD/DSF being added to taglib, the author of the library has made it pretty clear that he does not want to support more audio formats.
It's possible if we use our own code to read DSD/DSF or a static version of taglib, I did that earlier which is why Strawberry was able to read DSD/DSF before. However we lack contributors so I'm not keen on adding it back and maintain the code outside of taglib as I have limited knowledge of the format, there were also too many support requests related to it, many related to distro's not using our static copy of taglib.

@soulwarriors said in Library support for DSF files:

@nitro322 for version 1.0.4, Strawberry Music Player unable to play DSF files. Not sure why. So, I have downgraded my version to 1.0.1.

There is no difference in code between those versions related to file format support. However, if you are using Windows, the MSVC release does not have DSF/DSD support, because it's through ffmpeg, and it is hard to compile for MSVC, in the last release I switched the default to MSVC, so if you need DSF/DSD support you need to use the MinGW release instead.

@therealgoth
It's a bug, I've fixed it now https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/commit/3f3ae7c38fa073078feb9f7ee3c104bfd8b5ad14

@persco
Strawberry uses Qt so it should be fully wayland compatible.
Make sure you have the qt wayland plugin installed, the files are libqwayland-generic.so and libqwayland-egl.so, package qt6-wayland.

@blofeld
You need to report this to flatpak https://github.com/flathub/org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry

@hehemrin
Fixed now