STRAWBERRY(1)

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version 1.2.31 · 5 versions
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🍓 STRAWBERRY(1) 🍓

okay bestie, welcome to the STRAWBERRY manual page — that's section 1, the General Commands Manual corner of the universe, and yes, we are reading a whole manpage together like it's a group chat. grab a snack. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

Strawberry — a music player and music collection organizer 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

strawberry [options] [URL(s)]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So Strawberry is a music player, and it is specifically aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. it's giving curated library, main character energy. 💅

here's the whole vibe, feature by feature, no cap:

  • 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

ngl, it's a fork of Clementine. and the name? inspired by the band Strawbs. the way that's such a cute origin story. 🍓

💅 OPTIONS 💅

🎧 Player options:

  • -p, --play — Start the playlist currently playing ✨
  • -t, --play-pause — Play if stopped, pause if playing 🔥
  • -u, --pause — Pause playback 🫶
  • -s, --stop — Stop playback
  • -q, --stop-after-current — Stop playback after current track
  • -r, --previous — Skip backwards in playlist ⏪
  • -f, --next — Skip forwards in playlist ⏩
  • -v, --volume <value> — Set the volume to <value> percent 🔊
  • --volume-up — Increase the volume by 4 percent
  • --volume-down — Decrease the volume by 4 percent
  • --volume-increase-by — Increase the volume by <value> percent
  • --volume-decrease-by — Decrease the volume by <value> percent
  • --seek-to <seconds> — Seek the currently playing track to an absolute position
  • --seek-by <seconds> — Seek the currently playing track by a relative amount
  • --restart-or-previous — Restart the track, or play the previous track if within 8 seconds of start. literally the "wait no go back" button 🙈

🎀 Playlist options:

  • -c, --create <name> — Create a new playlist with files 🦋
  • -a, --append — Append files/URLs to the playlist
  • -l, --load — Loads files/URLs, replacing current playlist
  • -k, --play-track <n> — Play the *<n>*th track in the playlist 👑

🌈 Other options:

  • -o, --show-osd — Display the on-screen-display
  • -y, --toggle-pretty-osd — Toggle visibility for the pretty on-screen-display 💖
  • -g, --language <lang> — Change the language
  • --quiet — Equivalent to --log-levels *:1
  • --verbose — Equivalent to --log-levels *:3
  • --log-levels <levels> — Comma separated list of class:level, level is 0-3
  • --version — Print out version information

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Strawberry main developer is Jonas Kvinge <jonas@jkvinge.net>.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this one lives in the User Commands manual section — the footer even says User Commands, and it doesn't hand us a date, so we're just gonna assume it's forever iconic. periodt. 💜🍓

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