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Seeing a number of complaints about Jonas basically putting Strawberry on a subscription model for Windows (it's been that way for Mac for a while), and I just want to say that I have zero problem paying $5/month for a music player that isn't perfect but does a lot more of what I want than anything else I've found. I've developed software for a living and have a good idea of how much work goes into something like Strawberry and I'm happy to support future development of it.

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
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 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?

@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.

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