Bugfixes

• Fixed a possible deadlock during gapless track transition when an error occurs loading the next track (#2251)
• Fixed the wrong embedded cover being picked for FLAC/Ogg files with multiple untagged ("Other") pictures (#2250)
• Fixed tag edits made in the playlist not being reflected immediately, and restored the previous metadata if saving a tag edit fails (#2239)
• Fixed the taskbar/dock icon not matching the running window on some desktops (#2242)
• Numerous stability, crash-safety and thread-safety fixes throughout the application

Enhancements

• Added recursive expansion of nested .m3u/.m3u8 playlist references so they load as a fully expanded, flat playlist (#2185)
• Added AppImage packaging

Contributors: @jonaski, @oliverpool and @octaviospain

Linux AppImage, macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-164844310

Full Changelog: 1.2.24...1.2.25

Bugfixes

• Fixed playback hanging with no error shown when trying to play a track whose file no longer exists on disk (#2232)
• Fixed the tag fetcher dialog showing a generic message instead of the actual error when a Musicbrainz/AcoustID lookup fails
• Hardened Chromaprinter decoding against malformed or oversized files and capped its in-memory PCM usage
• Fixed the context menu using the wrong item when invoked via keyboard in the playlist and smart playlists views (#2219)
• Fixed blurry star rating icons by enabling smooth pixmap scaling (#2220)
• Added F64LE (64-bit float) sample format support for the spectrum analyzer
• Numerous stability, crash-safety and thread-safety fixes throughout the application

Enhancements

• Added more keyboard shortcuts for playlist navigation: jump to last/active playlist and close playlist (#2197)

Contributors: @jonaski, @claudiu-mn, @OpsKonekt

Full Changelog: 1.2.23...1.2.24

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-164032938

Bugfixes

• Fixed disabled widgets not appearing greyed out when a custom color set is in use
• Fixed custom palette colors being selectable with the Breeze style, which doesn't support them
• Fixed tab order in appearance settings
• Fixed exclusive mode being selectable in backend settings when not supported by the current output
• Fixed the fader not resuming after being paused (#2204)
• Fixed metadata (title, artist, album) from a radio stream track carrying over to the next track when its own tags are empty
• Fixed a possible division by zero in the FHT spectrum analyzer
• Fixed notifications not working on macOS by replacing the deprecated NSUserNotification API with UserNotifications
• Fixed a possible hang on exit on macOS when a device lister was still running
• Fixed Windows System Media Transport Controls image and timeline handling (#2208)
• Numerous stability, crash-safety and thread-safety fixes throughout the application

Enhancements

• Style changes under appearance settings are now applied immediately, without requiring a restart
• Added support for native dark mode on macOS and Windows
• Added support for sorting radio browser search results by clicking column headers (#2200)

Contributors

• @jonaski
• @mzilinski
• @brhartman

Full Changelog: 1.2.22...1.2.23

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-163325193

Bugfixes

• Fixed editing tags for files on GVFS mounts (SMB, SFTP, MTP) by editing a local temporary copy (#1696)
• Fixed the seekbar treating the mouse as still pressed when playback is stopped while seeking (#2075)
• Fixed the beginning of songs being cut off while the audio device (DAC) is warming up with a new configurable device warm-up delay (default 500 ms)
• Fixed empty available icon size handling for scalable (SVG) icons (#2171)
• Fixed Musixmatch lyrics search
• Removed logging of access tokens
• Numerous stability, crash-safety and thread-safety fixes throughout the application

Enhancements

• All central palette color roles are now configurable under appearance settings, with a dark mode preset (#2063)
• Added System Media Transport Controls support on Windows (#1923)
• Simplified GStreamer pipeline state handling and teardown, playback now starts directly without an intermediate pause
• Turned on Subsonic certificate verification by default
• Apply a default transfer timeout to network requests
• Removed Last.fm import (#1936)

Full Changelog: 1.2.21...1.2.22

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-163000756

• Re-point playlist items that references duplicated songs before removal (#2168)
• Preserve user data before deleting duplicate songs (#2168)
• Check for svg support (#2171)
• Support custom icons from scalable dir (#2171)
• Custom icons take precedence over system theme icons (#2171)
• Add .tak to valid file extensions
• Optional exponential volume
• Fixed build without moodbar and waveform

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-162258330

Bugfixes:

• Defer writing playcount and rating tags for the currently playing MP3 file to prevent playback issues (#1916)
• Fixed volume being reset during gapless playback when the sample rate changes between tracks (#2149)
• Prevent duplicate songs with identical URL (#1341)
• Fixed album shuffle to use the effective album artist
• Fixed collection watcher skipping symlinked directories
• Fixed collection subdirectory path handling when renaming directories
• Fixed songlyrics.com, elyrics.net and letras lyrics parsing
• Fixed SPC (GME) file parsing
• Fixed Tidal session not being cleared on authentication errors
• Fixed global shortcuts to use the first backend that registers successfully
• Prefer the volume UUID when identifying removable devices (#2125)
• Save settings when the session manager requests a commit (#1818)
• Set StartupWMClass in the desktop file to org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry (#1996)
• Fixed two tabs closed when middle clicking on a playlist tab (#2084)
• Allow longer timeout waiting for lyrics
• Fixed scroll wheel changes numeric values (number, disc, year) instead of scrolling the window content in tag editor (#2104)
• Fixed playback stopping on files with embedded subtitle/text streams such as S_TEXT/WEBVTT (#2128)
• Only apply HTTP proxies to streaming, since SOCKS proxies are not supported by GStreamer (#2086)
• Fixed updating device collection path (#2125)
• Numerous stability, crash-safety, memory-safety and detach fixes throughout the application

Enhancements:

• New waveform for seekbar
• New filesystem watcher on Linux and Windows which also detects file changes within directories
• Added radio browser
• Improved MPRIS2 support (TrackMetadataChanged and TrackAdded signals and upgraded playlist track definitions)
• Include release group MBID in ListenBrainz scrobble submission
• FFTW3 fast spectrum plugin for moodbar is now optional
• Removed broken ChartLyrics, lyricfind.com and lololyrics.com lyrics provider
• (Windows|MinGW-W64) Switch back to winpthreads

Contributors

• @jonaski
• @mzilinski
• @Vinzzzze
• @nyakase
• @Jontos
• @Kyuyrii
• @octaviospain

Full Changelog: 1.2.19...1.2.20

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-161639853)

Bugfixes:

• Fixed MPRIS2 Play causing playback to restart if already playing (#1995)
• Fixed incorrect use beginInsertRows() / endInsertRows() of when adding / removing devices (#2021)
• Fixed album cover manager save cover to file not working (#2039)
• Fixed repeat and shuffle button sizes (#1838)
• Fixed MPRIS2 resetting previous played track history
• Fixed Qobuz authentication (#2058)

Enhancements:

• Rewrote Discord RPC with Qt and removed RapidJSON dependency
• New grouping shuffle mode
• Use HTTP POST for AcoustID lookup
• Write MusicBrainz Track Id when completing tags using MusicBrainz
• Added rating filter to the collection (#2054)

Contributors

• @jonaski
• @TheFreeman193
• @PunkPangolin
• @Vinzzzze
• @sebathomas
• @VictorVow
• @mzilinski

Full Changelog: 1.2.18...1.2.19

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-155927835).

• Fixed devices no longer detected with newer GIO versions (#1974)
• Fixed error message appearing when dragging folders with non-audio files to the playlist from files (#1977)
• Fixed clear button for device textfield in Backend settings

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-149676843).

• Avoid re-scan of restored songs unless mtime is changed (#1819)
• Skip existing files when organizing if not overwriting (#1484)
• Fixed cursor highlight disappearing off-screen when using down cursor (#1489)
• Fixed CD playback only working for the first optical drive (#1852)
• Fixed possible race-condition when switching tracks (#1863)
• Fixed possible file descriptor exhaustion by using shared thread pool (#1687)
• Don't automatically sort playlist with the auto sort option before it's fully loaded (#1690)
• Fixed network features stop working after computer suspends and resumes (#1521)
• Fixed crash on exit after Qobuz login
• Added tag editor option to select ID3v2 version (#1861)
• Fixed Qobuz authentication and added automatic credential fetching (#1898)
• Fixed playback stopping after deleting a song from disk via context menu (#1783)
• Added option to restore smart playlists to the defaults (#1848)
• Fixed possible race condition in pipeline destructor (#1875)
• Fixed buffering issue near track end during gapless playback (#1725)
• Fixed duplicate collection entries for the same artist if they have different sort tags (#1899)
• Defer playcount and rating tag writes for currently playing Ogg songs to prevent playback shutter (#1816)
• Fixed tag editing not working for Opus sort tags (#1929)
• Show playlist load errors (#1470)
• Fallback to delete if moving to trash fails (#1679)
• Prefer filenames with "front" or "cover" in the filename for album cover art for songs outside of the collection (#1745)
• Fixed collection enter/return behavior to respect double-click settings (#1691)
• Added tree view mode to files tab (#1922)
• Include .webp in allowed extensions for album covers (#1941)
• Exit gracefully on SIGTERM signal for Unix systems (#1942)
• Optimize the collection scanning process by deferring media file validation from the initial directory scan (#1954)
• Fixed collection scan not finding new directories in the top level collection directory when the mountpoint is restored (#1914)
• Added genre metadata parsing for Tidal, Qobuz and Spotify (#1913)
• Allow editing metadata for stream songs (#1913)
• Optimized collection/playlist filtering
• Added sort tags to collection/playlist filtering (#1966)

Contributors

• @jonaski
• @RobStanfield made their first contribution in #1898
• @manofsticks made their first contribution in #1929
• @alexopus made their first contribution in #1922
• @marcusmueller made their first contribution in #1941
• @Perdu made their first contribution in #1958

Full Changelog: 1.2.16...1.2.17

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-148515540).

• Make Discord Rich presence use filename if song title is missing
• Added better error message when a GStreamer plugin is missing
• Preserve track order in album shuffle mode when restarting playback (#1623)
• Possible fixes for context word wrap
• Added lyrics from lrclib.net
• Added option to turn off the use of sort tags for the collection
• Fixed Spotify login
• Fixed error dialog shown minimized if another Strawberry window than the mainwindow was active
• Fixed seeking to the end of the track and back causing seeking to stop working (#1675)
• Set current index when automatically selecting track (#1825)
• Make icon size for shuffle and repeat buttons adjust to screen resolution (#1838)
• Fixed song being removed from playlist when dragging to another application (#1815)
• Don't automatically scroll on dynamic playlists (#1427)

Constributors

• @jonaski
• @bastimeyer

Full Changelog: 1.2.15...1.2.16

macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/strawberry-1-2-146024729).