In the next article we are going to take a look at Strawberry. This is a free and open source audio player with which the user can organize his music collection. This player is a fork of clementine which was launched in 2018 and which from the beginning was aimed at music collectors, audio enthusiasts and audiophiles.
The Strawberry player is written in C ++ using the Qt 5 framework. It is based on a heavily modified version of Clementine which was created a few years ago. As I said, this music player is aimed at fans who want to buy or download high-quality audio files or who want to make copies of their CDs in formats such as FLAC or WavPack on their computers. Though can handle the vast majority of audio formats supported by engines such as gstreamer, xine or VLC.
General features of Strawberry Music Player
- Its GUI is clean and simple. The main window will show us the information about the music tracks.
- It's compatible with WAV, FLAC, WavPack, DSF, DSDIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, MPC, TrueAudio, AIFF, MP4, MP3, ASF and Monkey's audio.
- Allows playing audio CDs.
- All the native desktop notifications they will show users the information about what is being played.
- this player supports playlists in multiple formats.
- We will find a advanced audio output. We will have the possibility to configure the device for a perfect reproduction in Gnu / Linux.
- This player will give us the possibility to use tags to organize music files.
- We are going to count on him Album Cover Manager which will allow users to manage album covers. The covers of these are obtained from Last.fm, Musicbrainz and Discogs.
- The program will show us song information and its corresponding lyrics. Song lyrics are to be taken from AudD.
- Support for various backends.
- The application will give us the possibility to use a audio equalizer and analyzer.
- We will have the possibility of transfer music to an iPod, iPhone, MTP or USB mass storage player without a problem.
- Support of transmission for Tidal.
These are just some of the features of this program. They can consult more in detail all of them from project website.
Install on Ubuntu
The installation of this audio player is very simple. Its corresponding package in the snap store.
If we use Ubuntu 18.04 or higher, we just have to open Ubuntu software option. Once there, there will be no more to look for and install the corresponding package for Strawberry:
If we use Ubuntu 16.04 we will be able to install this player by opening a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and installing snapd first typing the following command:
sudo apt install snapd
After this, we can install Strawberry music player writing in the same terminal the following command:
sudo snap install strawberry
If you prefer compile Strawberry from source, some extra packages will be needed on your system. Required packages can be check on the project's GitHub page. After having the requirements ready, you can follow the instructions to compile this program are listed on its GitHub page.
Who wants can get the latest development versions on the project website.
Uninstall Strawberry
We will have the possibility to uninstall the program of this player from the Ubuntu software option. If instead you prefer remove audio player from command line, in a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) you just have to write the following command:
sudo snap remove strawberry
According to its creators, Strawberry is free software so it can be redistributed and / or modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License. as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
Well, it really is an excellent player, the twist that clementine lacks, and that gives a sound of a superior quality.