Posts made by jonas

@205gti
The author posted in May on https://github.com/mattl/hacienda/discussions/117 that "I have taken the decision in light of recent events to close Libre.fm permanently.", then he changed this statement several times, but until recently it has been pretty clear that libre.fm was more or less closed. Apparently he changed his mind in the last few days and relaunched a new site replacing the bare bone strange site that was in place of the original site.
But this doesn't change the fact that libre.fm has been unstable for years, hardly anyone uses it, and seem to be pretty much a one-man project going nowhere. I've also pretty much lost my trust in libre.fm.
We already got both last.fm and listenbrainz as an alternative, I see no point in adding it back.

Yes it is strange, I don't know where M comes from. The divider key is set from the sort text, but the sort text is the same as composer unless composer sort is set.

Hard for me to figure out since I can't reproduce it, but if someone else can reproduce it, here is where it needs to be debugged:

https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/blob/02d76f17f7f4a862019c360d4f8f61dbb0978208/src/collection/collectionmodel.cpp#L1322

@Sharky-PI
What OS is this on, and what locale settings do you have?

@Sharky-PI

Works here:

@Sharky-PI
Can you send me a file that appears incorrectly?

@MMnoMore
What OS?

@Dan-cer
Can you share the m3u playlist you used?

@rlkeeney

It could be bug that only appears on certain harddrives, ie.: if the harddrive is a slower mechanical HDD.
You can set the GST_DEBUG environment variable to get more debug output.
Something like:

GST_DEBUG=*:5 GST_DEBUG_FILE=/tmp/gstreamer-debug.log strawberry

However, the file will grow huge, so make sure you have enough space on /tmp, or change the path to somewhere else.

@rik
You can use a file sharing service such as dropbox or onedrive and send me the link in a private message on the forum.

@strawbeson
You only need to build and install the spotify plugin if it's older than 0.14.0. meson and ninja are usually found in the package repositories if you are on Linux. macOS and Windows already have the plugin bundled with the installer.

@sigiken
What specific data do you need?
If it's only play counts and last played, it should be supported directly if they are saved to the file tags. If it's only stored in the database, you need to import it using SQL commands, if Mediamonkey uses sqlite3, it should be possible to attach both databases and import it using a single sql UPDATE command, you can use the following as reference (https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Import_collection_library_and_playlists_from_Clementine), but you need to use UPDATE instead of INSERT.

@tricolor3377
Album art does not work with Discord because it requires a remote URL to the cover.
The moodbar only works with local files.

@dj-style

I noticed that the service had been unresponsive for a long time, so I did a little research and noticed the website had been replaced with "Time is running out.", "The web is being destroyed from within by companies harvesting the creative work", links to "1800www.com" and other weird stuff. Typical stuff for a site that has been hacked, so to be honest, I thought the site was hacked.
When researching more, I found several sources confirming that the libre.fm was shut down.
Including Wikipedia.org who had already listed it as "Closed": it says: "Libre.fm closed on May 28, 2025, with account registration shut down and the website put into maintenance mode", not that Wikipedia itself is a trustworthy source, but I also saw other articles confirming that libre.fm had been shut down, so that's why I've removed it.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed showing error dialog minimized when main window is not current active window (#1739)
• Fixed Discord timestamp update when seeking (#1813)
• Fixed CD metadata lookup to respect MusicBrainz rate limiting
• Fixed Tidal Open API cover provider
• (Windows) Fixed device selection with WASAPI2

Enhancements/Other:

• Removed libre.fm support
• Rewrote MusicBrainzClient to use Json instead of XML
• Subsonic will now use cover art from album when available
• Added option to remove "Remastered", etc from song titles for Tidal, Qobuz and Spotify
• Added webm to supported file extensions
• (Windows|MinGW) Added WASAPI2 support
• (Windows) Added experimental exclusive mode for WASAPI2

Full Changelog: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/compare/1.2.13...1.2.14

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-142063349).

@rik
It works when testing here,
Can you send me a file that doesn't work in strawberry and I can check?

@henk
The startup could be slower because of the way Strawberry initializes objects earlier at startup, I fixed bugs and even rewrote many parts of the code where Clementine did things unsafe thread-wise, ie.: reading and modifying GUI things from a another thread than the main thread, which will be faster, but it's broken code, and just a coincidence that it doesn't crash.
One thing you can try is to turn off "Grey out unavailable songs in playlist on startup" in Settings / Playlist, this feature will lag the startup significantly.

Strawberry has a little delay at the beginning of the scan, it's because it iterates through the directories to find the number of files for the progress % status.
Clementine calculates the progress only based on the number of directories, which makes the progress inaccurate, and often stuck on 97-99% for a long time.
Other than that, then scan speed should be pretty much identical.

@pavalliavonau said in Tidal: "GstURISourceBin:urisourcebin4: No demuxer element, check your installation":

nAdaptive

I think adaptivedemux2 (not 100% sure).

@maybl8
Musicbrainz has rate limiting, Strawberry tries to respect it, by delaying requests, but there might be cases where it glitches causing it to stop working for a while.

@pavalliavonau

You need the GStreamer dash plugin, should be part of gstreamer-plugins-bad

gst-inspect-1.0 dash

@pavalliavonau
I think it's the same bug as described here: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/issues/1798
There is a workaround adding an entry to the hosts file, but I think it's fixed in the latest librespot release.