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@mike_jones
If a song does not appear in the collection try dragging the file from Finder to the playlist and see if it's added or you get an error.

@RallyDarkstrike said in SQL error when searching for any song/artist since last week?:

songs_fts

Newer versions do not use songs_fts, did you downgrade strawberry to an old release?

@mike_jones
Try giving Strawberry full disk access under System Settings / Security

@JoeyPajamas
Usually it's because the device is already mounted or accessed by another process.

@esophagus3289 said in I could not find the terminal code for installing Fedora or Almalinux. Can you help me? And . It's listed as free on Alternativeto. The download page asks for a "tip". Is it paid for Windows?:

This is not a bug. It's just about information that is not on the github page and not on the wiki page. I didn't manage to download it on Windows 11, so I installed WSL, I installed Almalinux.
I will install Strawberry on Almalinux 9 Cli OS. I don't know if Strawberry is available in the store. I can't open the GUI store because it's Cli. I want to install it (not compile) but I don't know the installation code.
"sudo dnf install strawberry" Is it true?
There is no information about this on your github page and wiki page. Can you add the information?

And

It's listed as free on Alternativeto. The download page asks for a "tip". Is it paid for Windows? Is the information in Alternativeto wrong? When I select free and Windows from the filters, Strawberry is listed. Should Alternativeto be corrected?
Free for Windows or $20?
If it is free, I couldn't find where and how to download it. Can you help me?

Expected behavior
If it is paid, the filter in alternativeto should be edited.
If it is free, it should be explained how and where we can download it.

It's $5 a/month sponsorship or $20 for one version, it's explained on the website: https://strawberrymusicplayer.org/#download
Since we have nothing to do with AlternativeTo, you need to report it there, but "Free" can also refer to "Free Software" as in freedom, not cost.

They voted to the delete the article. No-one added any reliable sources and the article was stripped for content by the same guy who nominated it for deletion.
The links on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Strawberry_(software) for "sources" points to "strawberry software", which obviously does not find much relevant for "Strawberry Music Player".
I think there are more references available than many other music players which has a wkipedia page, but I believe this is a result of the article being named incorrectly in the first place and lacking sources, no-one actually pointed to them in the time it was up for discussion.

@wilson
Please share a CUE file that doesn't work.

@jpboston
Make sure the disk is mounted before you open strawberry. To prevent the songs from disappearing if the disk is not mounted, turn off "Update the collection when strawberry starts" Under Settings / Collection, and "Grey out unavailable songs in playlists on startup" in playlist settings.

These well known sites with lists of music/audio players mentions Strawberry, reliable sources with name of the person writing the article:

1. opensource.com: https://opensource.com/article/19/2/audio-players-linux
2. ZDNet: https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/my-5-favorite-multimedia-player-apps-for-linux-and-what-they-can-do-for-you/
3. It's FOSS: https://itsfoss.com/best-music-players-linux/
4. Linux Config: https://linuxconfig.org/best-music-player-for-linux
5. Tecmint: https://www.tecmint.com/linux-music-players/

Reviews of Strawberry from well known sites with the name of the article author:

• https://opensource.com/article/18/8/strawberry-new-open-source-music-player
• https://www.linuxlinks.com/strawberry-audio-player-music-collection-organizer/
• https://itsfoss.com/strawberry-music-player/
• https://www.geeksmint.com/strawberry-music-player/
• https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Audio-Players/Strawberry-Music-Player.shtml

If you google "music player linux" or "audio player linux", the official website for Strawberry comes up 4th, and 6th place in the results, you also find many articles mentioning Strawberry.

@johann
It's known issue (https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Known_Issues), it probably happens in your case because the connection gets interrupted.

@jonhd

That's my impression too. Over half of the music/audio players that actually have a Wikipedia have been abandoned/discontinued for many years, also if you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_player_software, it's almost as they do not want updates.

But it might be worth to address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Strawberry_(software), if someone can comment on it, maybe it's enough to rename the article, or add more references to other articles on the web. I probably shouldn't do it as I'm directly associated

@ank99

Looks like the article is marked for deletion: "An editor has nominated this article for deletion.": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Strawberry_(software)

With the reason "Fails WP:GNG The only references are to Github and other hosting sites. It does not demonstrate any sort of notability. My searches have come up empty on anything more substantial".

I don't understand the reasoning, but if someone who's not heard of it attempt to google "Strawberry" to find anything, that's obviously too generic word to return anything about "Strawberry Music Player". even "strawberry software" just returns the official website. For some reason there is no mention of the official full name of Strawberry in the Wikipedia article.
Maybe the article should use the the full official name "Strawberry Music Player" instead of just "Strawberry"? That's what's done for Guayadeque (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_player_software), although Wikipedia mostly have articles for old discontinued players.
But I don't know the reason why it's listed as simply "Strawberry (Software)" in the first place

@Popmartijn said in Group by Album function not working correctly:

Hi,

I've noticed that for a while (certainly since 1.1.1) that the Group by Album functionality is not working correctly. Though I understand the rationality behind making separate entries for artists in the situation that two (or more) artists have the same album name (Live or Greatest Hits) it makes the overview unworkable with compilations. Can the functionality please be returned so that Group by Album again has one entry for each album name? In addition there might then be a category like Group by Album/Artist where under an album entry you can then see which artists have albums by that name in case you want to specifically play Greatest Hits by Billy Joel and not have Greatest Hits by Queen included.

You should be able to work around this by either setting a album artist for the specific album, if it's compilation album you could set this to the same as the album name.
Other alternative is to right click and select "Show in various artists", that will mark the album as a compilation and it should no longer split into separate albums.

Furthermore, I noticed (certainly since version 1.2.6) that in the sorting of the albums in the Group by Album category the sorting doesn't disregard any leading articles (like A or The) anymore. This also seems like a step back to me, to find The Complete Collection, The Joshua Tree or The Seeds Of Love located under T instead of C, J and S respectively. Is this also intentional? And if so, can there be an option to disregard it, like the option available for artists.
Thank you.

It was done intentional. The "Skip leading articles when sorting artist names" option in the collection was previously applied to album names too, since this was incorrect according to the name of the option, I changed it to only apply to artists, but I can make a separate option for albums too.

@ank99

Since I'm the author/maintainer of the software I shouldn't edit directly, but I see the following:

• "MacOS" should be "macOS"
• "fork of the Clementine program in its version 1.3.1". This isn't actually correct, Strawberry wasn't actually forked from a specific release version of clementine, but various git revisions.
• "Qt toolkit" should probably be "Qt framework", that's what it's officially called from the Qt Company and on Wikipedia.

Under differences:

"compatible with Qt 5 and Qt 6"

Qt 5 is no longer supported, only Qt 6.

Under References:

1. Points to the source code for about.cpp, an older version from 2016 for Clementine, this is probably not relevant, the authors/contributors are listed in the same file in Strawberry.
   4-5. lists the same URL.
2. Contains a broken URL to "differences from Clementine", this URL hasn't worked for many years, the correct URL is https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Differences_from_Clementine
3. Links to the Privacy Policy on the Clementine website, this isn't relevant for Strawberry as far as I can see.
4. Links to a Clementine issue where some users claim it collects data, even though this is a connection, and no data is leaked/collected. In any case it isn't relevant for Strawberry since it does not use the songkick service at all.

@ank99
I didn't see any requests for it in Crowdin, but I've added them now so they should be available right now.

@palvji
I can confirm this, just tested on Linux with HTTP/2, stuck on buffering after 54 seconds into the song when playing a tidal track.
I'm guessing there is regression in one of the recent libsoup versions. I will do some more testing when I have more time.
Luckily the default in Strawberry is still to force off HTTP/2 for streaming unless you manually check the HTTP/2 option in the settings.

@euriloco
Album covers are stored in a special way on the iPod, so Strawberry does not show album covers under devices, if that's what you mean. Strawberry should however store album covers when copying songs to the iPod, but personally I did not get those to show on the iPod, however, I know it worked for others.

@palvji
It most likely has to do with GStreamer or libsoup was upgraded in one of the versions that perhaps has introduced a bug.
Can you try enabling "Enable HTTP/2 for streaming" in Tools / Settings / Backend. The default is to turn off HTTP/2 because of some issues in the past, but that should be resolved. Restart strawberry to make sure it's enabled, as this setting is a bit special, since not a normal setting but rather a environment variable set by strawberry that libsoup picks up.

@cdhacker
This seem to have to do with the client ID which the tidalapi script uses, and quality set to "HI_RES_LOSSLESS" and stream URL method set to "playbackinfopostpaywall".

HI_RES_LOSSLESS was missing for quality, added now.

I'm able to stream with some albums with 96/24 and some with 192/24 without any other modifications to the authentication code.