What’s cool about Strawberry, besides audio quality? Well, it’s fun to see the spectrum analyzer operating on the bottom of the screen. The sound is glorious, as is customary with well-recorded high-resolution material (for those of you inclined to argue about the merits of high-resolution audio, before you post your opinions, whether pro or con, please read this article, which actually treats the topic in a scientific fashion). Note that the effective bit rate, bit rate, and word length are shown, as well as other useful information. This verifies the details of the currently playing track, as shown in the screen capture to the left. One of the things I found I liked right away is the status button (see the strawberry at the top left of the UI). Once that was all in hand, I started up Strawberry and saw this:Īnd then I got down to some quality listening. sudo dpkg -i strawberry_0.2.1-27-gb2c26eb_bĪs usual, some necessary packages weren’t installed on my system, so I used apt install -f to remedy that.Īpt recommended the following packages: graphicsmagick-dbg gxine xine-uiĪnd installed the following packages: libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 libiso9660-10 liblastfm5-1 libqt5concurrent5 libvcdinfo0 libxine2 libxine2-bin libxine2-doc libxine2-ffmpeg libxine2-misc-plugins libxine2-plugins I grabbed the 6 release for Ubuntu from Jonas’ site. So, given that Jonas and I share an interest in being able to play back high-resolution audio on a dedicated listening device, I thought I’d best give Strawberry, Jonas’ fork of Clementine, a try. But that’s OK Clementine just wasn’t built for me. Back in late 2016, I looked at Clementine, and though it was in many ways delightful, it definitely missed the boat with respect to working with a dedicated high-resolution digital-analog converter (DAC) for music enjoyment.
Jonas and I are definitely working from the same perspective, at least in relation to high-resolution music files. My focus was to create a music player for playing local music files, and not having to maintain support for multiple internet features that I did not use, and some which I did not want in the program at all… I also saw more and more that I disagree with the authors of Clementine and some statements that have been made regarding high-resolution audio. I started to see that I wanted the program development in a different direction.
I had not decided then if I was creating a fork, or contributing to Clementine. I started working on a modified version of Clementine already in 2013, but because of other priorities, I did not pick up the work again before last year. I recently received an email from Jonas Kvinge who forked the Clementine open source music player.
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