I don't know what this strawberry music player is, but I approve of the fact that I can install it right from the fedora repos in one click but windows users have to build it from source from an unofficial repo on girhub. All programs should be distributed this way to make windows users suffer.
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I don't think wanting people to suffer is a great goal but to each their own.
To be fair, building the binary is the same regardless of OS. The creator just decided to send the windows and Mac binaries off to a third party server and then paywall access. You can see this in the build.yml of the original repo.
Microsoft's recent efforts to make Windows worse have been great for Linux adoption. Anything that makes using Windows a worse experience is good.
Windows users, not people.
What's so great about this music player?
Its a continuation of the now deprecated Clementine music player, which was aiming to bring the Foobar2000 UI and plugin functionality to a modern FOSS cross platform state. That's off the top of my head, but I followed the Foobar->clementine->strawberry pipeline over the years because I like the Milkdrop2.0 visualizer plugin.
If I remember correctly, Clementine was not trying to bring Foobar to Linux, but trying to preserve the UX/UI of Amarok 1.4 after the release of Amarok 2.0 (which was not well received by the community).
I use it under Linux. Looks descent. Nice for batch encodes. Tagging and library management.
Personally I like it because it makes managing my music library really easy. Especially when it comes to keeping everything organized in a way my Plex server likes as well.
It really depends on the individual. Some people really hate the outdated looking UI and don't have much use for the audiophile features.
Speaking of audiophile features, might one of those features include the ability to adjust track replay gain? I have a ton of music I have to adjust and don't feel like downloading a whole separate program to do it.
I don't think so. There is a thread on the official forums about it from 2023 which indicates it can only read replay gain tags from third party software.
What is windows / mac?