@Gary-K Have you tried renaming your track files, to include a leading track number? E.g.
01 - Hello Goodbye.mp3
02 - We Can Work It Out.mp3
etc.
If that's the case, it's not too difficult to write a (e.g. Linux bash) script, to extract track number from the metadata, and rename the file appropriately. You'd need something like mp3info, or metaflac to get the track number metadata.
Right-click the track, select "Edit track information...", and select the Lyrics tab in the new dialog. Paste your lyrics into the text box, and click "Save".
Re lyrics sources, select the "Tools" main menu item, and select "Settings...". In the dialog box, select the "Lyrics" option (under "General". There you can see all of the lyrics providers available to Strawberry. Select as many as you like! Or maybe just try one at a time until you get the desired lyrics.
If none of the above helps, click on the "Search" icon (magnifying glass), top right-hand side of this forum, and enter "lyrics" - you'll get a list of queries forum members have re lyrics - maybe one of those will help you.
@frostypaw I assume you've tried the "Newest tracks" Smart Playlist?
@sardior (Sorry, I'm an incurable pedant - not being rude!) Fyi, all audio formats (bar 'raw') are encoded (even stuff like FLAC). M4P files are encrypted - that's the issue (with Strawberry).
Kind Regards, Jon
@rlkeeney Any clues in the system log? Maybe leave 'journalctl -f' running in a terminal, and Alt-Tab to it, when the next lock occurs.
@ank99 yeah, did make a plea, shortly before your 'Keep' message...
@ank99 I had one experience of attempting to create a Wikipedia page (it was for a UK local radio station - broadcasting on both FM and DAB - all official stuff - attracts plenty of advertising - basically pretty successful). Once a moderator (or whatever they're called) gets their teeth into your submission, it becomes a labyrinthine nightmare. After months of to'ing & fro'ing, I gave up. Never returned to editing - it was a daunting, hostile, unhelpful experience.
Apologies if this is too trivial to bother with, but the description field for Strawberry Lite on the AUR repositories contains a typo ('fautures', should be 'features'):
$ pamac search -a strawberry
strawberry-lite-git 1.2.3.r1.g8604a39d9-2 AUR
A music player aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors, fewer fautures, Gstreamer and alsa
only
strawberry-lite 1.2.3-1 AUR
A music player aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors, fewer fautures, Gstreamer and alsa
only
strawberry-git 1.2.3.r1.g8604a39d9-1 AUR
A music player aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors
strawberry 1.2.3-1 [Installed] extra
A music player aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors
Re funding Strawberry going forward - Lyrion (LMS) have raised a tidy sum (more than their target), to support hosting costs, development, etc. via the Open Collective initiative. Monthly subscriptions (currently suspended) and one-off donations are simple to do. (I've done the latter.) See https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum/user-forums/general-discussion/1731033-announce-open-collective-fundraising-initiative if interested.
I wouldn't object to a discreet 'Donate' button (maybe in the main interface menu bar?)
@mncroc LMS (Logitech Media Server / Squeezebox server / Lyrion....) keeps it nice & concise (albeit you have to access the information via the 'Settings' webpage):
Library Statistics
Total Tracks: 26,106
Total Albums: 2,399
Total Artists: 5,197
Total Genres: 93
Total Playlists: 0
Total Playing Time: 1987:20:05
It does also have a rather splendid plugin 'Visual Statistics' that tells you pretty much anything you might care to know about your collection.
But, hey, this is all about SMP - and I love it!
Sometimes I like to listen to my most recent purchases, so have tried the 'Newest tracks' smart playlist.
The issue - and I appreciate this is because Strawberry is track (song) oriented - is that the playlist, whilst showing the most recent albums in the correct order, has the tracks in reverse order (the order in which they were encoded). E.g. the first track to play is the last track on the album; the last track to play is the first track on the album.
I can, of course, click on the 'Album' header in the playlist, so that I get the list sorted by albums title, with the tracks in the 'correct' order (Track 1 first). However, this destroys the 'Newest first' nature of the playlist.
I guess this is insurmountable - I guess that it would require multiple (hierarchical) 'Sorting' rules, rather than the single one currently offered in the playlist creator dialog...
Apologies if previously covered... Query relates to the separator for multiple entries in Tag metadata fields such as Composer. Having worked with quite a few media players over the years (long-time LMS [logitechmediaserver / Squeezebox] user), I had plumped for a semi-colon separator.
E.g. my 'composer' tag for "She Loves You" by The Beatles is "Lennon;McCartney" - Strawberry faithfully displays this as "Lennon;McCartney"! LMS (e.g.) displays it as "Lennon, McCartney" - the latter being what was intended, of course.
For me it's a bit lost in the mists of time (I did read an awful lot about the subject, yonks ago), but the argument is that a semicolon was chosen as one of the least likely characters to appear in artist / albumartist / composer, etc. tags. And, should thus be interpreted as a multi-item list separator metacharacter. Up to the developer, but should typically be replaced, for interface display purposes, as comma followed by one whitespace (, ).
Any thoughts, anyone? Had a trawl through strawberry.conf, and couldn't find a setting for a configurable metadata list separator character.