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.

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.

@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.

@mike_jones Okay, because I'm impatient (and not ragging on you, Jonas -- I'm not expecting immediate responses) I uninstalled Strawberry including all the bits I could find with config information, reinstalled 1.2.7 and It's now reloading my collection. Will update when it's finished to see if it seems to have gotten everything, though it may be hard to tell because there were definitely tracks in the database that weren't showing up in the collection.

@mike_jones Other bits of info: rebooted the Mac, no change. I can add a directory from the file share directly to a playlist and the files play fine.

@jonas Just tried that, no change.

@mike_jones Strangeness continues. Because I'm impatient, I decided to try deleting the directory I had for my library location then adding it back. Now if I go into settings I have a blank window for folders to be scanned, and no matter what directory (local or remote) I try to add to it, the settings window closes when I select the directory and the directory doesn't appear as selected when I reopen it. I made a backup copy of the db before trying this, but even when I quit strawberry, copy the backup back to strawberry.db and restart it fails the same way.
My bad if I broke it, but would appreciate some help troubleshooting.

@mike_jones Further investigation and even stranger. I opened up the config db with sqlite3 and I can query the "songs" table and I find at least some of the missing tracks there, though not the new album I added.

Strawberry 1.2.7, MacOS 13.7.4 (Ventura).
I have a NAS set up with all my music on it, mounted as an SMB share at /Volumes/Music. My Strawberry preferences are set with "/Volumes/Music" as the source for my collection.
Under that mount I have my collection organized as <artist>/<album>/<tracks>
Recently I added a new album from a new artist to my collection on the NAS, then initiated a full rescan on the collection and when it finished the new artist hadn't appeared. I did a little investigating and the owner, group and permissions for the new subdirectories are the same as for other directories that are found by the scan.
I did a little more investigation and discovered that there are other subdirectories that aren't appearing in the collection. I can't find anything "special" about the missing entries.
Is there an easy way to clear the collection and rescan it from scratch without losing all my other settings? Alternately, is there any easy way to get debugging output from the scan process?

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.