I coincidentally just signed up at $5/month support then ran across this thread. I'm a MacOS user and really appreciate being able to avoid iTunes. How are you doing on the donations for the system?

@jonas
Thanks. I tried that, didn't work, but it did cause me to wonder if there was something about the track (that I wasn't previously familiar with) that might be causing the problem. I put the output settings back to the wrapper sink, tried to play another track, and...it worked. The track that had me convinced something was wrong just had a significant period of silence at the beginning for some reason.

Complete pilot error. Mea maxima culpa.

@jonas - I'm in for $38. Can you post your paypal address here and I'll send it that way?

@mike_jones Okay, made some progress. By deleting Strawberry from the accessibility features list and adding it back I've convinced it that it does have the access it needs.
For some reason I still can't reload my music library, though. I'm mounting it to my Mac as an SMB share and it always worked before the upgrade. I've tried adding the mount point on my mac and navigating to the network share and adding it that way. It doesn't add any music, I don't get any message about scanning the collection folders, nothing seems to happen at all.
Interesting note: I can open a directory inside the share and add it directly to a playlist, just can't seem to add anything to the collection.

I seem to remember Amarok at least trying this at one point, but I'd really like the ability to have a smart playlist that would (for example) build a playlist that's

• 10% 2-star rated tracks
• 50% 3-star rated tracks
• 30% 4-star rated tracks
• 10% 5-star rated tracks
  Obviously the percentages would be adjustable, but it would be a nice ability over at least track ratings and genres.

@mike_jones Okay, made some progress. By deleting Strawberry from the accessibility features list and adding it back I've convinced it that it does have the access it needs.
For some reason I still can't reload my music library, though. I'm mounting it to my Mac as an SMB share and it always worked before the upgrade. I've tried adding the mount point on my mac and navigating to the network share and adding it that way. It doesn't add any music, I don't get any message about scanning the collection folders, nothing seems to happen at all.
Interesting note: I can open a directory inside the share and add it directly to a playlist, just can't seem to add anything to the collection.

Since upgrading to Strawberry 1.2.3 on my Mac (Ventura 13.7.2) every time I try to change anything in preferences I get a popup saying "strawberry" would like to control this system using accessibility features". I can open System Settings and see that I've already allowed that, but when I close System Settings the preferences window disappears as well.
I tried clearing out my old install (moved the strawberry.db file, deleted the application from Applications and reinstalled, but the problem is still there. I'm willing to believe I broke something, but am looking for help figuring out what. At the moment I can't add any music to my now-empty library because of this.

@memo-dominguez
Second a wish for the ability to customize internal keyboard shortcuts generally.

@jonas
Thanks. I tried that, didn't work, but it did cause me to wonder if there was something about the track (that I wasn't previously familiar with) that might be causing the problem. I put the output settings back to the wrapper sink, tried to play another track, and...it worked. The track that had me convinced something was wrong just had a significant period of silence at the beginning for some reason.

Complete pilot error. Mea maxima culpa.

Strawberry 1.0.22, MacOS 13.6.4 (Ventura).
I've been using Strawberry with all my music mounted via an SMB share for months now. It was working on Tuesday. I left it sitting, paused, on Tuesday night. On Wednesday I was away from home all day. Thursday morning, I came back to my computer and hit play and....no music. I can see the track timer incrementing at the bottom of the window. I get sound for notifications and other things.
As far as I can tell, there haven't been any changes to the system (no OS updates, for instance) in the last couple of days.
Have tried

• rebooting my Mac
• making sure the share is mounted and I can access files in it
• killing strawberry and starting it in a terminal window with --verbose

Any suggestions for troubleshooting/fixing this?

@jonas - I'm in for $38. Can you post your paypal address here and I'll send it that way?

I coincidentally just signed up at $5/month support then ran across this thread. I'm a MacOS user and really appreciate being able to avoid iTunes. How are you doing on the donations for the system?

I'm trying to put together a smart playlist that will skip anything with a 1, 2, or 3-star rating (yes, that's weird). I built one with three conditions: rating not equal <1 star>, rating not equal <2 stars>, rating not equal stars> with AND to match all conditions.
It keeps adding songs with 3-star ratings to the playlist.
I'm willing to believe there's something odd for ratings in the database, particularly since when I looked at it with a SQLite editor it says that the "ratings" field is INTEGER but the values are...not integers, but also not exactly .2, .4 and so on. I expected them to be 0-5, or at least 0, .2, .4 exactly.
Any advice? If there are values the ratings "should be" to make this work I have no problem editing the database.