:strawberry: Strawberry Music Player

Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer, originally forked from Clementine in 2018. It’s written in C++ using the Qt framework, designed for audiophiles and music collectors.

Screenshot of Strawberry Music Player

:globe_with_meridians: Resources

Website: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org
Wiki: https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org
Forum: https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org
GitHub: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry
Latest builds: https://builds.strawberrymusicplayer.org
openSUSE Build Service:
- Stable: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:jonaski:strawberry/strawberry
- Unstable: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:jonaski:strawberry-dev/strawberry
Ubuntu PPAs:
- Stable: https://launchpad.net/~jonaski/+archive/ubuntu/strawberry
- Unstable: https://launchpad.net/~jonaski/+archive/ubuntu/strawberry-unstable
Translations: https://crowdin.com/project/strawberrymusicplayer

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:moneybag: Sponsoring

Strawberry is free software released under the GPL. If you enjoy using it, please consider supporting development through sponsorship or donation.

Sponsorship options:

Supporting open-source developers helps ensure continued maintenance and improvements.

:white_check_mark: Features

Play and organize your music collection
Supports formats: WAV, FLAC, WavPack, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, MPC, TrueAudio, AIFF, MP4, MP3, ASF, and Monkey’s Audio
Audio CD playback
Bit-perfect playback on Linux
Native desktop notifications
Advanced playlist management
Smart and dynamic playlists
Loudness analysis and EBU R128 normalization
Editing tags and fetching missing tags via MusicBrainz
Album art from: Last.fm, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Musixmatch, Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify
Lyrics from: Genius, Musixmatch, ChartLyrics, lyrics.ovh, lololyrics, songlyrics, azlyrics, elyrics, letras, LyricFind and lrclib.net
Audio analyzer and equalizer
Transfer music to USB, MTP and iPod devices
Scrobbling to Last.fm and ListenBrainz
Streaming from Subsonic-compatible servers
Unofficial integrations: Tidal, Spotify, and Qobuz
Discord Rich Presence

:white_check_mark: Tested on Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows.

Note: macOS and Windows releases are currently available to sponsors only. A monthly sponsorship via Patreon grants direct access to new releases.

:gear: Requirements

To build Strawberry from source, you’ll need:

Dependencies:

CMake ≥= 3.13
C/C++ compiler (GCC, Clang, or MSVC)
pkg-config or pkgconf
Boost
GLib
Qt ≥= 6.4 (Core, Concurrent, Gui, Widgets, Network, SQL, D-Bus)
SQLite ≥= 3.9
ALSA (Linux only)
GStreamer
TagLib ≥= 1.12
ICU
KDSingleApplication ≥= 1.1.0

Dependencies for optional features:

Fingerprinting & tagging: Chromaprint
Moodbar: FFTW3
PulseAudio integration: PulseAudio
Audio CD support: libcdio
MTP devices: libmtp
iPod Classic: libgpod
EBU R128 normalization: libebur128

Also install GStreamer plugins base, good, and optionally bad, ugly and libav for full codec support.

:wrench: Build from Source

Get the code:

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

Build and install:

cd strawberry
cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build --parallel $(nproc)
sudo cmake --install build

For building on Windows with Visual Studio 2022, see: :point_right: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry-msvc-build-tools

Strawberry

Install / Use

README