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Strawberry Music Player
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README
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Strawberry is a audio player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine created in 2013 with a diffrent goal.
It's written in C++ and Qt5. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs.
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### Features:
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* Play and organize music
* Native desktop notifications
* Playlists in multiple formats
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* Edit tags on music files
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* Fetch tags from MusicBrainz
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* Album cover art from Lastfm, Musicbrainz, Discogs and Amazon
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* Support for multiple backends
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* Transfer music to iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player
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You can obtain and view the sourcecode on github at: https://github.com/jonaski/strawberry
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It has so far been tested on Linux, OpenBSD and cross compiled for Windows. I have not had a chance to test it on Mac OS X since I don't have a mac.
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Requirements
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To build Strawberry from source you need the following installed on your system:
* glib2, glib2-devel, git, cmake, make, gcc and gcc-c++
* protobuf and development packages
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* boost development headers
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* The following Qt5 components are required with additional development packages: Qt5Core, Qt5Widgets, Qt5Network, Qt5Sql, Qt5Xml, Qt5OpenGL, Qt5Concurrent, Qt5Test, 5X11Extras, Qt5WebKit, Qt5WebKitWidget and Qt5DBus.
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* ALSA and libasound2 with development files
* SQLite3 with development files
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* TagLib 1.8 or higher with development files
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* libchromaprint with development files
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* libglu with development files
Either GStreamer, Xine or VLC engine is required, but only GStreamer is fully implemented so far.
You should also install the gstreamer plugins: gstreamer-plugins-base, gstreamer-plugins-good and gstreamer-plugins-bad
* The Qt5 specific LastFM library and development files are required for fetching album covers from LastFM.
* To enable CD support for playing audio cd's you need libcdio.
* If you want MTP support you need libmtp.
* If you need iPod Classic support you need libgpod.
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Compiling from source
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### Get the code:
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git clone https://github.com/jonaski/strawberry
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### Compile and install:
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mkdir strawberry-build
cd strawberry-build
cmake ../strawberry
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make -j8
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sudo make install
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(dont change to the source directory, if you created the build directory inside the source directory type: cmake .. instead).
