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🍓 Strawberry Music Player Build Status

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Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. It's written in C++ using the Qt toolkit.

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‼️ Opening an issue

  • Read the FAQ: https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/FAQ
  • Search for the issue to see if it is already solved, or if there is an open issue for it already. If there is an open issue already, you can comment on it if you have additional information that could be useful to us.
  • For technical problems, discussion, questions and feature suggestions use the forum (https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/) instead. The forum is better suited for discussion.
  • We do not take feature requests from users on GitHub. Any issues related to feature requests will be closed. This does not necessarily mean that we won't add new features, but we don't have time to take feature requests or answer questions about new features from users. It is still possible to suggest or discuss new features on the forum (https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/).
  • We do not maintain the Flatpak package. Do not report issues related to Flatpak unless the issue can be reproduced with a native package, use Flatpak support instead https://flatpak.org/about/

💰 Sponsoring

The program is free software, released under GPL. If you like this program and can make use of it, consider sponsoring or donating to help fund the project. There are currently 4 options for sponsoring:

  1. GitHub
  2. Patreon
  3. Ko-fi
  4. PayPal

Funding developers is a way to contribute to open source projects you appreciate, it helps developers get the resources they need, and recognize contributors working behind the scenes to make open source better for everyone.

✔️ Features

  • Play and organize music
  • Supports WAV, FLAC, WavPack, Ogg FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Opus, Ogg Speex, MPC, TrueAudio, AIFF, MP4, MP3, ASF and Monkey's Audio.
  • Audio CD playback
  • Native desktop notifications
  • Playlist management
  • Smart and dynamic playlists
  • Advanced audio output and device configuration for bit-perfect playback on Linux
  • In-player song loudness analysis and song playback loudness normalization, as per EBU R 128
  • Edit tags on audio files
  • Fetch tags from MusicBrainz
  • Album cover art from Last.fm, Musicbrainz, Discogs, Musixmatch, Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz and Spotify
  • Song lyrics from Genius, Musixmatch, ChartLyrics, lyrics.ovh, lololyrics.com, songlyrics.com, azlyrics.com and elyrics.net
  • Support for multiple backends
  • Audio analyzer
  • Audio equalizer
  • Transfer music to mass-storage USB players, MTP compatible devices and iPod Nano/Classic
  • Scrobbler with support for Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz
  • Subsonic, Tidal and Qobuz streaming support

It has so far been tested to work on Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows.

macOS releases are currently limited to sponsors. This is because Strawberry mainly has one contributor/developer and supporting macOS requires Apple hardware, building libraries Strawberry depends and a Apple developer account for signing releases. If you are sponsoring strawberry through Patreon, releases are available directly on Patreon, if you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or Paypal, please e-mail support@strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to downloads.

Requirements

To build Strawberry from source you need the following installed on your system with the additional development packages/headers:

Optional dependencies:

You should also install the gstreamer plugins base and good, and optionally bad, ugly and libav to support all audio formats.

🔧 Compiling from source

Get the code:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry

Compile and install:

cd strawberry
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DBUILD_WITH_QT6=ON
make -j $(nproc)
sudo make install

Strawberry is backwards compatible with Qt 5, to compile with Qt 5 use:

cmake .. -DBUILD_WITH_QT5=ON

To compile on Windows with Visual Studio 2019 or 2022, see https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry-msvc

🐧 Packaging status

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