Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer for Linux, macOS and Windows. It is aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. With Strawberry you can play and manage your digital music collection, or stream your favorite radios.

Features

  • Play and organize music
  • Supports WAV, FLAC, WavPack, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, MPC, TrueAudio, AIFF, MP4, MP3, ASF and Monkey's Audio
  • Audio CD playback [*]
  • Native desktop notifications
  • Playlist management and playlists in multiple formats
  • Smart and dynamic playlists
  • Advanced audio output and device configuration 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 and Spotify
  • Song lyrics from AudD AudD, Genius, Musixmatch, ChartLyrics, lyrics.ovh and lololyrics.com
  • Audio analyzer
  • Audio equalizer
  • Transfer music to mass-storage USB players, MTP compatible devices and iPod Nano/Classic [*]
  • Scrobbler with support for Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz
  • Streaming support for Subsonic-compatible servers

* Audio CD and device support is not available on Windows.

About

Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. With Strawberry you can play and manage your digital music collection, or stream your favorite radios. Strawberry is free software released under GPL. The source code is available on GitHub. It's written in C++ using the Qt toolkit and GStreamer. Strawberry is compatible with both Qt version 5 and 6.

Sponsor Us

If you enjoy Strawberry, please consider sponsoring the project.
Strawberry is free software, both free as in freedom and as cost, but is depending on donations from our users. There are few developers, and most of the development is done by one person. Strawberry has become very popular over the past few years with hundred of users. Maintaining the application, running all the services, providing releases and dealing with bugs and technical issues is a time-consuming job.

There are currently 3 options for sponsorship:

Monthly donations through GitHub Sponsors or Patreon is preferred, but it is also possible to donate once using Paypal.

Screenshots

Main player window showing song playing with lyrics.

Main player window showing song playing with lyrics.

Fullscreen player window.

Collection view.

Streaming from Radio Paradise.

Tidal search and streaming.

Album Cover manager, easily get covers for all of your albums.

Manual cover search.

Downloads

Current version: 1.0.9

Release date: 2022.09.03

Newer experimental development builds can be found for Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia, Debian, Ubuntu, macOS and Windows on https://builds.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

For Windows, see Wiki for explanation of MinGW vs MSVC

macOS releases are for 64 bit Intel based machines. Running them on Apple Silicon might not work. There currently isn't any macOS developers working on Strawberry so there are no plans to support Apple Silicon.

Help

For documentation see Wiki

For help, questions and discussion join our forum on https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

There currently isn't any macOS developers actively working on this project, so we might not be able to help with issues specific to macOS.

Participate

Since Strawberry is an free and open-source project, it is possible and encouraged to participate in the development. The development takes place on GitHub.
You can also participate by answering questions, reporting bugs, or helping with documentation.

Repositories

Strawberry is available in the package repositories on most Linux distributions including Fedora, openSUSE and Arch.
However, Strawberry is currently not available on Ubuntu. For Ubuntu and derivatives, we have an official PPA repository.

To add the PPA repository on Ubuntu use the following commands:
add-apt-repository ppa:jonaski/strawberry
sudo apt update
sudo apt install strawberry

For the latest development changes you can use ppa:jonaski/strawberry-unstable instead.

Repositories containing the latest development changes is also available for Fedora, openSUSE and Mageia through openSUSE buildservice

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