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Strawberry for Mac

Music Player and Collection Manager.

Free
In English
Version 1.0.0
3.7
Based on 6 user rates

Strawberry overview

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

  • Play and organize music
  • Supports WAV, FLAC, WavPack, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, MPC, TrueAudio, AIFF, MP4, MP3, ASF and Monkey's Audio
  • Audio CD playback
  • Native desktop notifications
  • Playlists in multiple formats
  • Advanced audio output and device configuration for bit-perfect playback on Linux
  • Edit tags on music files
  • Fetch tags from MusicBrainz
  • Album cover art from Last.fm, Musicbrainz, Discogs, Musixmatch, Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz and Spotify
  • Song lyrics from AudD, Genius, Musixmatch, ChartLyrics, lyrics.ovh and lololyrics.com
  • Support for multiple backends
  • Audio analyzer
  • Audio equalizer
  • Transfer music to iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player
  • Scrobbler with support for Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz
  • Streaming support for Subsonic and Tidal

Strawberry Music Player uses lyrics from AudD

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What’s new in version 1.0.0

Version 1.0.0:
Bugfixes:
  • Fix updating temporary metadata when reloading songs outside of the collection.
  • Don't strip off "Live" from song title when sending scrobbles.
  • Fix incorrect use of QFutureWatcher.
  • Fix compile of Utilities::Hmac with Qt 6.2.
  • Fix a memory leak when using right click context menu in internet search.
  • Fix a gstreamer bus leak when adding streams and remote playlists.
  • Fix "Source ID x was not found when attempting to remove it" error.
  • Escape ampersands in playlist tabs.
  • Fix analyzer with S24_32LE audio format.
  • (macOS) Fix incorrect playlist alternating row colors with dark theme.
  • (Windows) Fix adding songs with Japanese characters from the files tab.
Enhancements:
  • Add replaygain fallback gain setting.
  • Add option to turn off playlist alternating row colors.
  • Make the default tabbbar background color lighter.
  • Remove use of deprecated WinExtras Qt module.
  • Add CMake test for Qt sqlite support.
  • Automatically detect Qt version if BUILD_WITH_QT5 or BUILD_WITH_QT6 is not specified.
  • Correct playlist tabbar favorite tooltip from "click" to "double-click".
  • Remove scroll over icon to change track option since it does not work reliable.
  • Improve resume playback on startup.
  • Re-request stream URL for Tidal and QObuz when resuming playback after pausing for more than 30 seconds.
  • Add Finnish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Catalan and Portuguese (Brazil).
  • Add support for TagParser as an alternative to TagLib.
  • Add Subsonic option to turn off HTTP/2.
  • Fix minor Clang-Tidy and Clazy warnings.
  • Use higher resolution images from last.fm API.
  • Add MD5 token authentication for Subsonic.
  • Use 500 albums per request when receiving albums from Subsonic.
  • Use QX11Application with Qt >= 6.2 for X11 global shortcuts.
  • Allow fading when a ALSA PCM device is selected.
  • Store Tidal MPEG-DASH file in data uri.
  • Use XSPF image elements as manually set artwork.
  • Make error dialog larger.
  • Show error dialog for failed SQL queries.
  • Show error dialog when failing to read or write album covers.
  • Add module music formats (mod, s3m, xm, it) to detected filetypes.
  • Disable gapless playback for module music formats to workaround gstreamer bug.
  • Update directory ID and song path immediately when organizing collection songs.
  • Add right click option to star a playlist in playlist tabs.
  • Use seconds instead of minutes for scrobble submit delay.
  • (macOS) Build with libgpod.
  • (Windows) Fix compile with MSVC.
New features:
  • Add ALSA PCM devices.
  • Add song fingerprinting and tracking.
  • Add support for native global shortcuts on MATE.
  • Add radios view with channels from Radio Paradise and SomaFM.

Strawberry for Mac

Free
In English
Version 1.0.0

What users say about Strawberry

SongMig
By SongMig on Oct 25 2021 for v.0.8.5

Value: 5.0

Cross platform and open Source. Also no vendor lock-in with Strawberry. They just added saving ratings to file tags which is such an awesome feature (not part of 1.0.0) but the next release. That way you can easily switch your music application without loosing ratings or even keep your ratings in sync across different applications.

Other user ratings:

Ease of use | 4.0
Features | 5.0
Reliability | 4.0
Customer support | 5.0
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Strawberry qualities

Value
5.0
Ease of use
4.0
Features
5.0
Reliability
4.0
Customer support
5.0

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3.7

(2 Reviews of Strawberry)

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MichaelOwens
MichaelOwens
May 14 2024
1.0.0
5.0
May 14 2024
5.0
Version: 1.0.0
1.0.23 is out. Great app that keeps improving slowly but surely. https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/releases
chaos_maniac
chaos_maniac
Apr 2 2021
0.8.5
5.0
Apr 2 2021
5.0
Version: 0.8.5
Just what I am looking for, customizable to the right degree, very easy to set up to scan the directories as "collection". Moved on from Vox since their app lately turned too much into freemium to be pleasant even for daily use, and brings an extra edge where Pine Player and Tiny Player couldn't fill the gaps really. A couple of minor quirks to perhaps look into would be that custom Play/pause isn't detected when app is in background. To get the EQ working I needed to go into the settings and choose the system device rather than the software layer. Also, would love to have a menu bar option for quick controls. Very happy anyhow with this little bugger.
MichaelOwens
MichaelOwens
May 14 2024
1.0.0
5.0
May 14 2024
5.0
Version: 1.0.0
lodean
lodean
Mar 15 2024
1.0.0
5.0
Mar 15 2024
5.0
Version: 1.0.0
fallenflower
fallenflower
Sep 29 2023
1.0.0
5.0
Sep 29 2023
5.0
Version: 1.0.0
firewall00110-1
firewall00110-1
Feb 6 2023
1.0.0
1.0
Feb 6 2023
1.0
Version: 1.0.0
firewall00110
firewall00110
Dec 26 2021
1.0.0
1.0
Dec 26 2021
1.0
Version: 1.0.0
chaos_maniac
chaos_maniac
Jan 11 2030
0.8.5
5.0
Jan 11 2030
5.0
Version: 0.8.5