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🍓 Strawberry Music Player

📃 README

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.

✔️ Features:

Play and organize music
Native desktop notifications
Playlists in multiple formats
Edit tags on music files
Fetch tags from MusicBrainz
Album cover art from Lastfm, Musicbrainz, Discogs and Amazon
Support for multiple backends
Transfer music to iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player

You can obtain and view the sourcecode on github at: https://github.com/jonaski/strawberry

It has so far been tested to work on Linux, OpenBSD and Windows (cross compiled using mingw).

❗ Requirements

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

Required:

GLib, GIO and GObject
POSIX thread (pthread) libraries
CMake and Make tools
GCC or clang compiler
Protobuf library and compiler
Boost development headers
Qt 5 with components Core, Widgets, Network, Sql, Xml, OpenGL, Concurrent, Test, WebKitWidget, X11Extras and DBus
SQLite3
TagLib 1.11.1 or higher
Chromaprint library
libxml library
ALSA library (linux)
DBus (linux)
PulseAudio (linux optional)

Either GStreamer, Xine or VLC engine is required, but only GStreamer is fully implemented so far. You should also install the gstreamer plugins base and good, and optionally bad and ugly.

Optional:

The Qt 5 LastFM library is 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.

🔧 Compiling from source

Get the code:

git clone https://github.com/jonaski/strawberry

Compile and install:

mkdir strawberry-build
cd strawberry-build
cmake ../strawberry
make -j8
sudo make install

(dont change to the source directory, if you created the build directory inside the source directory type: cmake .. instead).

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