Strawberry 1.2.1-rc1

This release features major restructuring of the codebase, moving source files,
rewriting CMake build files, dropping Qt 5 support, external tagreader,
and dropping some unmaintained parts such as VLC.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed playback of CUE continuing to play from the same file after the song has finished playing (#1568).
• Fixed updating collection song sort text when disc is changed.
• Fixed current playing file left open when the next track errored (#1582).
• Fixed filter search not finding song containing uppercase "A" (#1599).
• Fixed crash when removing album from playlist when using shuffle albums (#1588).
• Fixed IDv3 MBID's tags with multiple entries being ignored.
• Fixed crash when enabling Tidal, Spotify, Qobuz or Subsonic services.
• Fixed passing filenames to strawberry on command line not resolving to absolute paths.
• (macOS) Fixed program not starting for users with long usernames.

Enhancements:

• Resolve symbolic links when dragging files to the playlist to match collection song.
• Replaced Spotify username/password with access token.
• Require Qt 6.4 or higher and drop support for Qt 5.
• Require TagLib 1.12 or higher.
• Use Qt stringliterals.
• Move gstfastspectrum to src.
• Use standard user temp location for current album cover.
• Removed old MacFSListener.
• Removed external tagreader and protobuf dependency.
• Removed VLC support.
• Ported to Qt translation (.ts) files and removed gettext dependency.
• Removed deprecated Gnome/Mate SettingsDaemon global shortcuts.

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-1-116105907).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

Strawberry 1.1.3

• Fixed gstreamer registry lookup leak in Spotify settings.
• Fixed all songs in a CUE sheet starting playback at the zero position (#1549).
• Fixed playback going to pause and back to play on song change.
• Fixed Genius Lyrics login not working (#1554).
• Fixed slow collection filter search.

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/112512154).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

Strawberry 1.1.2

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Tidal Open API cover provider to only login when needed instead of on startup.
• Fixed KDE added keyboard accelerator characters (ampersands) appearing in sidebar (#1400, #1389, #1476).
• Fixed KDE added keyboard accelerator characters (ampersands) appearing when editing playlist name (#1499).
• Fixed collection "Search for this" adding prefix without value (#1510).
• Fixed play (-p) command line option not working on startup (#1465).
• Fixed scan transaction being started when "Update the collection when Strawberry starts" option is unchecked (#1469)
• Fixed Spotify bitrate being limited 128kbit/s.
• Fixed Spotify returning too many artists and albums.
• Fixed manually switching Spotify songs blocking UI.
• Fixed analyzer not being set.
• Fixed context top text being updated causing selected text to be unselected.
• Fixed filter search to use filename for songs with empty title.
• Fixed missing developer in Appstream appdata file.
• Fixed MPRIS2 DesktopEntry to return desktop file entry without ".desktop" (#1516)
• Fixed WavPack .wvc accepted as valid audio files (#1525).
• Fixed dynamic playlist controls not following system colors (#1483).
• Fixed freeze on playlist right click (#1478).
• Fixed copying songs to a iPod device keeping too many files open (#1527).
• Fixed MBIDs from MP4 being parsed incorrectly causing ListenBrainz errors (#1531).
• Fixed playlist sorting after filename (#1538).

Enhancements:

• Improved volume adjustment and track seeking using touchpad (#1498).
• Use own thread for lyrics parsing.
• Added url and filename columns to collection and playlist filter search.
• (macOS) Added Spotify.

Contributors

• @jonaski
• @v1993 made their first contribution in #1498
• @luzpaz made their first contribution in #1511

Full Changelog: 1.1.1...1.1.2

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-1-2-111944142).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

Strawberry 1.1.2-rc1

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Tidal Open API cover provider to only login when needed instead of on startup.
• Fixed KDE added keyboard accelerator characters (ampersands) appearing in sidebar (#1400, #1389, #1476).
• Fixed KDE added keyboard accelerator characters (ampersands) appearing when editing playlist name (#1499).
• Fixed collection "Search for this" adding prefix without value (#1510).
• Fixed play (-p) command line option not working on startup (#1465).
• Fixed scan transaction being started when "Update the collection when Strawberry starts" option is unchecked (#1469)
• Fixed Spotify bitrate being limited 128kbit/s.
• Fixed Spotify returning too many artists and albums.
• Fixed manually switching Spotify songs blocking UI.
• Fixed analyzer not being set.
• Fixed context top text being updated causing marked text to be unmarked.
• Fixed filter search to use filename for songs with empty title.
• Fixed missing developer in Appstream appdata file.
• Fixed MPRIS2 DesktopEntry to return desktop file entry without ".desktop" (#1516)
• Fixed WavPack .wvc accepted as valid audio files (#1525).
• Fixed dynamic playlist controls not following system colors (#1483).
• Fixed freeze on playlist right click (#1478).
• Fixed copying songs to a iPod device keeping too many files open (#1527).
• Fixed MBIDs from MP4 being parsed incorrectly causing ListenBrainz errors (#1531).
• (macOS) Fixed missing Spotify.

Enhancements:

• Improved volume adjustment and track seeking using touchpad (#1498).
• Use own thread for lyrics parsing.
• Added url and filename columns to collection and playlist filter search.

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-1-2-111604341).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

Strawberry 1.1.1

Bugfixes:

• Fixed compilation songs being split into different albums when using album grouping.
• Fixed adding playlist columns not working when stretch mode is disabled (#1085).
• Fixed resetting playlist columns.
• Fixed adding songs to playlist adding all songs instead of filtered songs.
• Fixed collection filter matching entire text instead of individual words.

Enhancements:

• Use same code for collection and playlist filter search.

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-1-1-108632702).
If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

Strawberry 1.1.0

Bugfixes:

• Fixed crash when pressing CTRL + C (#1359).
• Pass on scroll events to page in settings to avoid changing settings when scrolling with mouse (#1380).
• Fixed misredered playlist search field with Wayland using scaling (#1255).
• Fixed Azlyrics lyrics provider because of website changes.
• Fixed Musixmatch lyrics provider because of website changes.
• Fixed application exiting when closing file dialog (#1401).
• Fixed playlist shuffle randomness (#707).
• Fixed playlist shuffle order always the same when restarting playback (#1381).
• Fixed dynamic random mix not always ignoring shuffle and repeat mode (#1366).
• Fixed manual shuffle while playing not setting current song to new index (##1353).
• Fixed volume sync with PA when output is set to auto (#1123).
• Fixed mpris:trackid type with KDE 6 (#1397).
• Fixed open in file manager feature not handling missing XDG_DATA_DIRS variable.
• Fixed collection pixmap disk cache and moodbar cache with newer Qt versions.
• Fixed reading common metadata CUE's with multiple files (#1463).
• Fixed playlist header stretch mode to only resize the right column of the column being resized.
• Fixed adding columns to playlist header not working when not using stretch mode (#1085).
• Fixed severe memory leak (!) in context album cover fading (#1464).
• Separate albums by different artist in album groupings (#1276).
• Removed -new-window parameter from dolphin command for open in file manager (#1412).
• Only use playbin3 with GStreamer 1.24 and higher, not with GStreamer 1.22 or lower.
• (macOS/Windows) Fixed dash and hls streaming, plugins were missing.
• (Windows) Fixed incorrect colors in smart playlist wizard with Fusion in dark mode (#1399).
• (Windows) Fixed update window blocking sponsor window on startup.

Enhancements:

• Improve error messages when connecting and copying to devices.
• Allow enter to be used with multiselection to add songs to playlist (#1360)
• Add song progress to taskbar using D-Bus.
• Use API to receive Radio Paradise channels.
• Added button for fetching lyrics to tag editor (#1391).
• Added option not to skip "A", "An" and "The” when sorting artist names in collection (#1393).
• Improved album and title disc, remastered, etc matching and stripping (#1387).
• Save volume to settings when adjusting (#1272).
• Resolve song from collection using track with Cue in XSPF (#1181).
• Added background image to sidebar.
• Read metadata from RIFF WAV files (#1424).
• Use original path instead of canonical path when adding directories to the collection.
• Only apply added/removed collection directories when settings are saved.
• Detect and handle different text encodings when reading CUE files (#1429).
• The collection has been rewritten and improved (model/filter/search) (#392).
• Improve error messages from tag reader.
• (Unix) Add experimental GStreamer pipewire support.
• (Windows) Add experimental exclusive mode for WASAPI.
• (Windows MSVC) Added experimental ASIO support.
• (Windows MSVC) Add back WASAPI2.

New features:

• Letras lyrics provider.
• Open Tidal API (openapi.tidal.com) cover provider.
• Turbine analyzer.
• WaveRubber analyzer.
• Spotify streaming support.

Removed features:

• Removed now broken lyricsmode.com lyrics provider because of website changes.

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-1-0-108113604).

Strawberry 1.1.0-rc4

New since 1.1.0-rc3:

• Fixed slow collection search.

New since 1.0.23:

Bugfixes:

• Fixed crash when pressing CTRL + C (#1359).
• Pass on scroll events to page in settings to avoid changing settings when scrolling with mouse (#1380).
• Fixed misredered playlist search field with Wayland using scaling (#1255).
• Fixed Azlyrics lyrics provider because of website changes.
• Fixed Musixmatch lyrics provider because of website changes.
• Fixed application exiting when closing file dialog (#1401).
• Fixed playlist shuffle randomness (#707).
• Fixed playlist shuffle order always the same when restarting playback (#1381).
• Fixed dynamic random mix not always ignoring shuffle and repeat mode (#1366).
• Fixed manual shuffle while playing not setting current song to new index (##1353).
• Fixed volume sync with PA when output is set to auto (#1123).
• Fixed mpris:trackid type with KDE 6 (#1397).
• Fixed open in file manager feature not handling missing XDG_DATA_DIRS variable.
• Fixed collection pixmap disk cache and moodbar cache with newer Qt versions.
• Fixed reading common metadata CUE's with multiple files (#1463).
• Fixed playlist header stretch mode to only resize the right column of the column being resized.
• Fixed adding columns to playlist header not working when not using stretch mode (#1085).
• Fixed severe memory leak (!) in context album cover fading (#1464).
• Separate albums by different artist in album groupings (#1276).
• Removed -new-window parameter from dolphin command for open in file manager (#1412).
• Only use playbin3 with GStreamer 1.24 and higher, not with GStreamer 1.22 or lower.
• (macOS/Windows) Fixed dash and hls streaming, plugins were missing.
• (Windows) Fixed incorrect colors in smart playlist wizard with Fusion in dark mode (#1399).

Enhancements:

• Improve error messages when connecting and copying to devices.
• Allow enter to be used with multiselection to add songs to playlist (#1360)
• Add song progress to taskbar using D-Bus.
• Use API to receive Radio Paradise channels.
• Added letras lyrics provider.
• Added Open Tidal API (openapi.tidal.com) cover provider.
• Added button for fetching lyrics to tag editor (#1391).
• Added option not to skip "A", "An" and "The” when sorting artist names in collection (#1393).
• Improved album and title disc, remastered, etc matching and stripping (#1387).
• Save volume to settings when adjusting (#1272).
• Resolve song from collection using track with Cue in XSPF (#1181).
• Added background image to sidebar.
• Read metadata from RIFF WAV files (#1424).
• Use original path instead of canonical path when adding directories to the collection.
• Only apply added/removed collection directories when settings are saved.
• Detect and handle different text encodings when reading CUE files (#1429).
• The collection has been rewritten and improved (model/filter/search) (#392).
• Improve error messages from tag reader.
• (Unix) Add experimental GStreamer pipewire support.
• (Windows) Add experimental exclusive mode for WASAPI.
• (Windows MSVC) Added experimental ASIO support.
• (Windows MSVC) Add back WASAPI2.

New features:

• Turbine analyzer.
• WaveRubber analyzer.
• Spotify streaming support.

Removed features:

• Removed now broken lyricsmode.com lyrics provider because of website changes.

Strawberry 1.1.0-rc3

New since 1.1.0-rc2:

• Fixed crash when resizing playlist columns.
• Fixed reading tags as UTF-8.
• Fixed updating highlighted song.

New since 1.0.23:

Bugfixes:

• Fixed crash when pressing CTRL + C (#1359).
• Pass on scroll events to page in settings to avoid changing settings when scrolling with mouse (#1380).
• Fixed misredered playlist search field with Wayland using scaling (#1255).
• Fixed Azlyrics lyrics provider because of website changes.
• Fixed Musixmatch lyrics provider because of website changes.
• Fixed application exiting when closing file dialog (#1401).
• Fixed playlist shuffle randomness (#707).
• Fixed playlist shuffle order always the same when restarting playback (#1381).
• Fixed dynamic random mix not always ignoring shuffle and repeat mode (#1366).
• Fixed manual shuffle while playing not setting current song to new index (##1353).
• Fixed volume sync with PA when output is set to auto (#1123).
• Fixed mpris:trackid type with KDE 6 (#1397).
• Fixed open in file manager feature not handling missing XDG_DATA_DIRS variable.
• Fixed collection pixmap disk cache and moodbar cache with newer Qt versions.
• Fixed reading common metadata CUE's with multiple files (#1463).
• Fixed playlist header stretch mode to only resize the right column of the column being resized.
• Fixed adding columns to playlist header not working when not using stretch mode (#1085).
• Fixed severe memory leak (!) in context album cover fading (#1464).
• Separate albums by different artist in album groupings (#1276).
• Removed -new-window parameter from dolphin command for open in file manager (#1412).
• Only use playbin3 with GStreamer 1.24 and higher, not with GStreamer 1.22 or lower.
• (macOS/Windows) Fixed dash and hls streaming, plugins were missing.
• (Windows) Fixed incorrect colors in smart playlist wizard with Fusion in dark mode (#1399).

Enhancements:

• Improve error messages when connecting and copying to devices.
• Allow enter to be used with multiselection to add songs to playlist (#1360)
• Add song progress to taskbar using D-Bus.
• Use API to receive Radio Paradise channels.
• Added letras lyrics provider.
• Added Open Tidal API (openapi.tidal.com) cover provider.
• Added button for fetching lyrics to tag editor (#1391).
• Added option not to skip "A", "An" and "The” when sorting artist names in collection (#1393).
• Improved album and title disc, remastered, etc matching and stripping (#1387).
• Save volume to settings when adjusting (#1272).
• Resolve song from collection using track with Cue in XSPF (#1181).
• Added background image to sidebar.
• Read metadata from RIFF WAV files (#1424).
• Use original path instead of canonical path when adding directories to the collection.
• Only apply added/removed collection directories when settings are saved.
• Detect and handle different text encodings when reading CUE files (#1429).
• The collection has been rewritten and improved (model/filter/search) (#392).
• Improve error messages from tag reader.
• (Unix) Add experimental GStreamer pipewire support.
• (Windows) Add experimental exclusive mode for WASAPI.
• (Windows MSVC) Added experimental ASIO support.
• (Windows MSVC) Add back WASAPI2.

New features:

• Turbine analyzer.
• WaveRubber analyzer.
• Spotify streaming support.

Removed features:

• Removed now broken lyricsmode.com lyrics provider because of website changes.

Strawberry 1.1.0-rc2

Bugfixes:

• Fixed crash when pressing CTRL + C (#1359).
• Pass on scroll events to page in settings to avoid changing settings when scrolling with mouse (#1380).
• Fixed misredered playlist search field with Wayland using scaling (#1255).
• Fixed Azlyrics lyrics provider because of website changes.
• Fixed Musixmatch lyrics provider because of website changes.
• Fixed application exiting when closing file dialog (#1401).
• Fixed playlist shuffle randomness (#707).
• Fixed playlist shuffle order always the same when restarting playback (#1381).
• Fixed dynamic random mix not always ignoring shuffle and repeat mode (#1366).
• Fixed manual shuffle while playing not setting current song to new index (##1353).
• Fixed volume sync with PA when output is set to auto (#1123).
• Fixed mpris:trackid type with KDE 6 (#1397).
• Fixed open in file manager feature not handling missing XDG_DATA_DIRS variable.
• Fixed collection pixmap disk cache and moodbar cache with newer Qt versions.
• Fixed reading common metadata CUE's with multiple files (#1463).
• Fixed playlist header stretch mode to only resize the right column of the column being resized.
• Fixed adding columns to playlist header not working when not using stretch mode (#1085).
• Fixed severe memory leak (!) in context album cover fading (#1464).
• Separate albums by different artist in album groupings (#1276).
• Removed -new-window parameter from dolphin command for open in file manager (#1412).
• Only use playbin3 with GStreamer 1.24 and higher, not with GStreamer 1.22 or lower.
• (macOS/Windows) Fixed dash and hls streaming, plugins were missing.
• (Windows) Fixed incorrect colors in smart playlist wizard with Fusion in dark mode (#1399).

Enhancements:

• Improve error messages when connecting and copying to devices.
• Allow enter to be used with multiselection to add songs to playlist (#1360)
• Add song progress to taskbar using D-Bus.
• Use API to receive Radio Paradise channels.
• Added letras lyrics provider.
• Added Open Tidal API (openapi.tidal.com) cover provider.
• Added button for fetching lyrics to tag editor (#1391).
• Added option not to skip "A", "An" and "The” when sorting artist names in collection (#1393).
• Improved album and title disc, remastered, etc matching and stripping (#1387).
• Save volume to settings when adjusting (#1272).
• Resolve song from collection using track with Cue in XSPF (#1181).
• Added background image to sidebar.
• Read metadata from RIFF WAV files (#1424).
• Use original path instead of canonical path when adding directories to the collection.
• Only apply added/removed collection directories when settings are saved.
• Detect and handle different text encodings when reading CUE files (#1429).
• The collection has been rewritten and improved (model/filter/search) (#392).
• Improve error messages from tag reader.
• (Unix) Add experimental GStreamer pipewire support.
• (Windows) Add experimental exclusive mode for WASAPI.
• (Windows MSVC) Added experimental ASIO support.
• (Windows MSVC) Add back WASAPI2.

New features:

• Turbine analyzer.
• WaveRubber analyzer.
• Spotify streaming support.

Removed features:

• Removed now broken lyricsmode.com lyrics provider because of website changes.

Strawberry 1.1.0-rc1

Bugfixes:

• Fixed crash when pressing CTRL + C (#1359).
• Pass on scroll events to page in settings to avoid changing settings when scrolling with mouse (#1380).
• Fixed misredered playlist search field with Wayland using scaling (#1255).
• Fixed Azlyrics lyrics provider because of website changes.
• Fixed Musixmatch lyrics provider because of website changes.
• Fixed application exiting when closing file dialog (#1401).
• Fixed playlist shuffle randomness (#707).
• Fixed playlist shuffle order always the same when restarting playback (#1381).
• Fixed dynamic random mix not always ignoring shuffle and repeat mode (#1366).
• Fixed manual shuffle while playing not setting current song to new index (##1353).
• Fixed volume sync with PA when output is set to auto (#1123).
• Fixed mpris:trackid type with KDE 6 (#1397).
• Fixed open in file manager feature not handling missing XDG_DATA_DIRS variable.
• Fixed collection pixmap disk cache and moodbar cache with newer Qt versions.
• Fixed reading common metadata CUE's with multiple files (#1463).
• Fixed playlist header stretch mode to only resize the right column of the column being resized.
• Fixed adding columns to playlist header not working when not using stretch mode (#1085).
• Fixed severe memory leak (!) in context album cover fading (#1464).
• Separate albums by different artist in album groupings (#1276).
• Removed -new-window parameter from dolphin command for open in file manager (#1412).
• Only use playbin3 with GStreamer 1.24 and higher, not with GStreamer 1.22 or lower.
• (macOS/Windows) Fixed dash and hls streaming, plugins were missing.
• (Windows) Fixed incorrect colors in smart playlist wizard with Fusion in dark mode (#1399).

Enhancements:

• Improve error messages when connecting and copying to devices.
• Allow enter to be used with multiselection to add songs to playlist (#1360)
• Add song progress to taskbar using D-Bus.
• Use API to receive Radio Paradise channels.
• Added letras lyrics provider.
• Added Open Tidal API (openapi.tidal.com) cover provider.
• Added button for fetching lyrics to tag editor (#1391).
• Added option not to skip "A", "An" and "The” when sorting artist names in collection (#1393).
• Improved album and title disc, remastered, etc matching and stripping (#1387).
• Save volume to settings when adjusting (#1272).
• Resolve song from collection using track with Cue in XSPF (#1181).
• Added background image to sidebar.
• Read metadata from RIFF WAV files (#1424).
• Use original path instead of canonical path when adding directories to the collection.
• Only apply added/removed collection directories when settings are saved.
• Detect and handle different text encodings when reading CUE files (#1429).
• The collection has been rewritten and improved (model/filter/search) (#392).
• Improve error messages from tag reader.
• (Unix) Add experimental GStreamer pipewire support.
• (Windows) Add experimental exclusive mode for WASAPI.
• (Windows MSVC) Added experimental ASIO support.
• (Windows MSVC) Add back WASAPI2.

New features:

• WaveRubber analyzer.
• Spotify streaming support.

Removed features:

• Removed now broken lyricsmode.com lyrics provider because of website changes.