* Audio CD and device support is not available on Windows.
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. Strawberry is a fork of Clementine. It's written in C++ using the Qt framework and GStreamer.
If you enjoy Strawberry, please consider sponsoring the project.
Strawberry is free software, as in freedom, and depends 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 4 options for sponsorship:
Monthly donations through Patreon, Ko-fi or GitHub is preferred, but it is also possible to donate once using PayPal.
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.
Strawberry is available in the package repositories on most Linux distributions including Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu and Arch to mention some.
macOS and Windows
Access to macOS and Windows releases are currently restricted to sponsors, a 5 USD monthly sponsorship is required.
You can sponsor strawberry through Patreon for direct access to new releases. If you are sponsoring through GitHub, Ko-fi or PayPal, please e-mail support AT strawberrymusicplayer.org for access to the downloads URL on the left menu.
The reason macOS and Windows releases are closed to sponsors is because Strawberry have mainly had one contributor/developer over several years. Maintaining releases for macOS and Windows is a lot of additional work, and requires hardware and build environments, building and maintaing all libraries Strawberry depends on, and we also have to pay for a Apple developer account for signed macOS releases.
Windows MSVC runtimeThe Windows MSVC version requires Visual C++ runtime version 14.42.34433.0 or higher, normally it should be automatically installed through the Strawberry installer, however, sometimes this can fail if there is an older version of the runtime already installed. If Strawberry does not start, or you experience crashes, please check that you have version 14.42.34433.0 or higher of the runtime installed, you can see this in Control Panel under "Programs" / "Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64)". You can download the latest Visual C++ runtime here.
For documentation see
Wiki
For help, questions and discussion join our forum on
https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
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.
