1. Find an album name with a hyphen/dash in it, e.g. "Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)"
2. Make 2 new playlists with that album in it.
3. From playlist 1, copy that name exactly (I love that you can hit F2 to make editable)
4. In playlist 2, paste that name in the search bar. Nothing is returned until you delete the hyphen/dash.

@rlkeeney Thanks for the idea RL. Sadly some of the culprits don't have 2 comments, e.g.:

Top track, resident advisor 956, Comment = 0.

But as you can see, the file has 2 comments which I manually populated - the track list and the description (FWIW: please LMK if there's a better place to put track lists so that I can search for tracks and they'll appear either as individual files or as part of podcasts. AFAIK only putting track names (and lyrics?) in Comment allows this? Should I move the description out of Comment2 and to Description?).

The only field with "0" as the entry is Gapless Playback.

From the top image, Death Cab's "I will possess your heart" has the proper comment, and has no Gapless Playback field.
I just deleted the Gapless Playback field from the resident advisor tag, waited a while, restarted Strawberry, waited some more, and it's fixed:

Further diagnostics from that screenshot: various other tracks have the same issue, but:

Some of them have normal comments despite having Gapless Playback = 0. In the case of this one, Joker, it only has 1 Comment, I guess because the tracklisting wasn't available. However Fumiya Tanaka has the 0 issue and only 1 Comment and Gapless Playback, so maybe the 2 Comments thing is a dead end...

Some of the tracks above have "00000..." as the comment, e.g. Rey Collino: 2 Comments, Gapless Playback, but now Strawberry is drawing from the iTunSMPB field for some reason:

LMK if there's any more info I can gather which would be helpful for diagnoses. Xubuntu 24.10, Strawberry 1.2.2, Qt 6.4.2.

The multimedia buttons on my keyboard (Logitech G213) work at startup but conditions seem to be able to make them stop working for Strawberry. The volume/mute keys still work.

Condition candidates:

• Standby & resume
• Add new HDMI source (TV turned on, causes screen config changes, screws up Strawberry window a bit, resulting in double mood/progress bar)

Notable: If I open Rhythmbox, the multimedia key functionality is repaired for Strawberry.

@rlkeeney RL do you happen to know if one can search the lyrics field?
I've started to manually enter lyrics for lots of deep house tunes which typically only have a few lines, and often an unrelated track name, so being able to search for
"specific sentences of lyrics"
would be really useful. The default search bar searches multiple fields including Comment but not lyrics, it seems.
Thanks for any intel!

1. Find an album name with a hyphen/dash in it, e.g. "Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)"
2. Make 2 new playlists with that album in it.
3. From playlist 1, copy that name exactly (I love that you can hit F2 to make editable)
4. In playlist 2, paste that name in the search bar. Nothing is returned until you delete the hyphen/dash.

@jonas sorry to tag you / bump this mate; any chance you have an idea why Strawberry is behaving this way?

The playlists are in the Collection folder (/Music) subfolder (/Music/playlists) and auto-imported fine. But saving new playlists doesn't populate them to the Playlists tab list.

I tried a full rescan, but I don't have to do this for new music.

I just tried saving the playlist as m3u8 instead of m3u but that didn't change things either.

Thanks for any intel!

Hi Jonas, I have a similar thing, just tried integrity check, came back clean. Might be I'm doing something wrong but it seems like it should be simple.

I think Strawberry auto-loaded my old existing .m3u playlists from /music/playlists, which is nice.

I created a new one, added a few tracks, and saved as .m3u in the same folder. But it doesn't show up in the playlists left tab list. I can load it manually, it'll open as a tab (playlists tabs are great btw!), I can edit & save it. But it's never in the playlists left tab list upon re-open. I believe it IS present in the playlists top tabs if I left it open.

Do you have any info on the background process which causes the playlists left tab to be populated - or not? Thanks!

@rlkeeney great news, thank you sir!

The search function seems very powerful, evidently searching within the ID3 comments field, and (per a github issue) the filename also, but I'm failing to work out how to search specific fields, e.g. track name, as opposed to searching everything. Is this possible? If so this would be great, not only to avoid getting various lower-quality hits (e.g. where the artist or filename of interest is mentioned in the comments of every track in a various artists album), but also to allow searching specifically comments or lyrics fields.

Thanks in advance!