Strawberry Music Player
A Clementine fork aimed at collectors, with proper support for high-resolution files and CD ripping.
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Package managers
- winget
winget install --id StrawberryMusicPlayer.Strawberry - Chocolatey
choco install strawberrymusicplayer - Flathub
flatpak install flathub org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry
About Strawberry Music Player
Strawberry is a music player and collection organiser written in C++ and Qt, forked from Clementine in 2018 and still actively released. It handles the formats a collector actually has, including FLAC, WavPack, DSF and DSD, plays gapless, and can rip a CD straight into the library.
It edits tags, fetches covers and lyrics from several sources, and scrobbles to Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz. There is no phone app and no cloud service; it is a desktop program pointed at a folder of files.
Strengths
- Plays FLAC, WavPack, DSF and DSD alongside the common formats
- Rips audio CDs directly into the collection
- Tag editing, cover art and lyrics lookup built in
- Native builds for Windows, macOS and most Linux distributions
Limitations
- No mobile app or sync service of any kind
- Feature requests are not accepted on GitHub, only on the forum
- The interface follows Clementine's older layout rather than anything modern
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the GPL 3.0.
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Developer
- Strawberry Music Player
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- A local library of lossless files that you tag and play yourself
- Categories
- Audio tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Audio); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.
Alternatives to Strawberry Music Player
Compare allSoftware that can replace Strawberry Music Player for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
foobar2000
A light, deeply configurable audio player for people who care about their local music library.
foobar2000 is free but closed source, adds Android and iOS apps, drops the official Linux build, and extends through third-party components for formats and DSP.
MusicBee
A Windows music manager for people with a large local library and opinions about tags.
MusicBee is a free, closed-source Windows-only manager with bulk tag editing, WASAPI and ASIO output, and syncing to phones, but no macOS or Linux version.
DeaDBeeF
A light, plugin-driven music player for Linux, Windows and macOS that stays out of the way.
DeaDBeeF is an open-source Zlib player with very low resource use and chiptune support, though its library management is weaker than Strawberry's collection features.
AIMP
A long-running Windows music player with an 18-band equaliser, internet radio and a built-in converter.
AIMP is a free, closed-source player for Windows and Android with an 18-band equaliser, converter and internet radio, but no macOS or Linux build.
HQPlayer
Play audio with configurable digital filtering and resampling.
HQPlayer is paid, closed-source software focused on configurable filtering, resampling and DSD processing, and can demand substantial computing power compared with Strawberry.
Strawberry Music Player as an alternative
Listings that name Strawberry Music Player as an alternative.
Plexamp
A music player from Plex for listening to and exploring the music library on a Plex server.
Strawberry Music Player is open source and plays local files, including hi-res and DSD, on Windows, macOS and Linux, but has no mobile app or sync service.
Super Audio CD Decoder
A foobar2000 input plugin that plays Super Audio CD ISO images and DSD audio files.
Strawberry Music Player is a standalone open-source player for Windows, macOS and Linux that plays DSF and DSD files without needing foobar2000.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Mp3tag
A tag editor that fixes the metadata of a whole music folder at once, with online database lookups.
Kid3
Edit audio-file tags individually or in batches.
MusicBrainz Picard
The official MusicBrainz tagger, which identifies music by its audio fingerprint and fills in the tags.
beets
Organize a music library from the command line.
Flacon
Split a full-album audio file into separate tagged tracks.
Supersonic
Play music from your Subsonic or Jellyfin server.
