Posts made by smeatheringham

@jonas Many thanks. That is it.

The modification time of the files was being changed. However, the that of the directory under which they sat was not being updated. A "touch" of that directory, and then "Update Changed Collection Folders" works perfectly.

Thanks again.

Regards
Stephen Meatheringham
Canberra, Australia

Good Evening Strawberry Users

I am running Strawberry (1.2.11) under Manjaro Linux.

I believe I have found a bug, but would like others to confirm same before I submit a bug report.

Here's is my scenario...

1. Open an MP3 ID tag editor (I use Kid3)
2. Select an album that does not have a cover associated with it.
3. Add an ID tag for the embedded album cover (for example, from Discogs).
4. Save that ID tag update.
5. In Strawberry, look at the track information. The cover art will be displayed. That is as expected.
6. In Strawberry, "Update Changed Collection Folders" to update the DB.
7. In Strawberry, look at the updated artist/album list. The cover does not show up. Not what I would have expected.
8. Add the album to a playlist and play the tracks. The album cover does not show up under "Context". Not what I would have expected.

The only manner in which I can get this to work as I expect it should, is to update another field. For example, when adding the album cover, also add a <space> character to the "Comment" ID tag, and then "Update Changed Collection Folders". The album cover then shows up correctly in steps 7 and 8 above.

In summary, it appears that adding only a cover image does not prompt Strawberry to update the DB entries.

Am I correct in believing this to be a bug?

Thanks in advance for any thought/suggestions/etc.

Regards
Stephen Meatheringham
Canberra, Australia

Good Afternoon All

Just a quick suggestion: perhaps you could consider installing something like VirtualBox (it runs under MS Windows) and creating a Linux VM on which to run Strawberry.

regards
Stephen M
Canberra, Australia

@jonas Many thanks for your reply and the pointer to the other issue. I have GStreamer 1.22.10. It does appear to be related to issue 1376. That gave me an idea. If I un-tick "Fade out on pause / fade in on resume", the problem does not occur. Excellent!

Thanks again.
Regards Stephen

Good Evening All

I am running Strawberry (1.0.23) under Manjaro Linux (most recent update [Stable Update] 2024-02-21). I have Strawberry installed, and updated, through Pamac (Manjaro's update manager). I have two non-identical computers on which Strawberry is installed.

Everything has been working well with Strawberry since I started using it (about version 1.0.10, I think).

However, as of the most recent set of Manjaro updates (see above), applied on 1 March, I have a problem with Strawberry.

When I pause a track on a playlist, it pauses, then I see a "buffering" message flickering on/off, and Strawberry flips to the next track in the playlist. It continues in that fashion until the end of the playlist, or a different album is encountered.

I have downloaded Strawberry versions 1.0.22 and 1.0.23.28 and built both from source. The problem persists.

I am guessing that the problem is due to an interaction with an updated Manjaro library. Trying to determine which one may be difficult.

I am wondering if anyone else running Manjaro updated to the most recent stable release is able to replicate the issue.

If it is of any help I have included a few lines of debugging output from Strawberry. Most of this output is from GstEnginePipeline. This may be normal, as I do not have an older system to test it on - although I could build a VM if required.

Firstly, on pausing a track (File1.mp3), I firstly get a number of screens with the following:
Setting pipeline state to "Paused"
Pipeline state changed from "Playing" to "Paused"
Pipeline state changed from "Playing" to "Paused"
Setting pipeline state to "Playing"
3 event latency

This is then followed by output (names edited to make things clearer) which includes:
Stream from URL "file:///File1.mp3" about to finish.
Setting next URL to "file:///File2.mp3"
Setting pipeline state to "Playing"
3 event latency
Pipeline state changed from "Paused" to "Playing"
Pipeline state changed from "Paused" to "Playing"
Got stream info for "file:///File2.mp3:" "MPEG"
Stream changed from URL "file:///File1.mp3" to "file:///File2.mp3"
Waiting on ID 3
Song changed to "Artist" "Album" "File2"
Loading art from "/File2.mp3"
Releasing ID 3 (finished)
Acquired ID 3

The same two series of outputs are repeated until the playlist finishes (if the same artist/album), or until a new album/artist, and then that track begins playing.

I would be interested in hearing any thoughts/suggestions from the Strawberry community.

Regards to all
Stephen Meatheringham
Canberra, Australia

@jms I find ^h the easiest and quickest way to shuffle a playlist. There's no need to move the mouse and click.

Good Morning Forum Members

I am surprised that I have not heard from the developers regarding this suggestion. Should I submit it another way?

Regards
Stephen Meatheringham
Canberra, Australia

Good Evening Forum Members

I have recently moved to Strawberry (from Clementine). I am running Strawberry 1.0.18 under Manjaro Linux.

A problem exists with searching for sub-strings in the "collection" search area. If, for example, I search for "etude" it will return the results that I expect. However, if I search for "tud" it will not return the correct results. This same problem is seen in Clementine.

I do not know if this a Linux-only problem. As I do not use MS Windows I cannot test it there.

It would be extremely useful to have sub-string searching. Even better, would be to have regexp-based searching.

I hope to see this included in a future release.

Regards
Stephen Meatheringham
Canberra, Australia