strawberry1
Music player and music collection organizer
Usage
strawberry [options]
[URL(s)]
Overview
Strawberry is a music player aimed at music collectors and audiophiles.
- Features:
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- 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
- Playlists in multiple formats
- Advanced output and device options with support for bit perfect playback on Linux
- Edit tags on audio files
- Automatically retrieve tags from MusicBrainz
- Album cover art from Last.fm, Musicbrainz, Discogs, Musixmatch, Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz and Spotify
- Lyrics from multiple sources
- Audio analyzer
- Audio Equalizer
- Transfer music to mass-storage USB players, MTP compatible devices and iPod Nano/Classic
- Scrobbler with support for Last.fm and ListenBrainz
- Streaming support for Subsonic-compatible servers
- Unofficial streaming support for Tidal and Qobuz
- It is a fork of Clementine. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs.
Options
Player options:
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-p, --play -
Start the playlist currently playing
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-t, --play-pause -
Play if stopped, pause if playing
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-u, --pause -
Pause playback
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-s, --stop -
Stop playback
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-q, --stop-after-current -
Stop playback after current track
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-r, --previous -
Skip backwards in playlist
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-f, --next -
Skip forwards in playlist
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-v, --volume <value> -
Set the volume to <value> percent
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--volume-up -
Increase the volume by 4 percent
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--volume-down -
Decrease the volume by 4 percent
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--volume-increase-by -
Increase the volume by <value> percent
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--volume-decrease-by -
Decrease the volume by <value> percent
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--seek-to <seconds> -
Seek the currently playing track to an absolute position
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--seek-by <seconds> -
Seek the currently playing track by a relative amount
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--restart-or-previous -
Restart the track, or play the previous track if within 8 seconds of start.
Playlist options:
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-c, --create <name> -
Create a new playlist with files
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-a, --append -
Append files/URLs to the playlist
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-l, --load -
Loads files/URLs, replacing current playlist
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-k, --play-track <n> -
Play the <n>th track in the playlist
Other options:
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-o, --show-osd -
Display the on-screen-display
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-y, --toggle-pretty-osd -
Toggle visibility for the pretty on-screen-display
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-g, --language <lang> -
Change the language
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--quiet -
Equivalent to
--log-levels*:1
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--verbose -
Equivalent to
--log-levels*:3
--log-levels <levels> Comma separated list of class:level, level is 0-3
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--version -
Print out version information
History
- Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
- Debian 13 (Trixie)
- Debian 12 (Bookworm)