That said, the percentage shown is pretty meaningless: it will get to 63%, for example, and then go backwards to 61%, repeatedly. Not all players do this successfully, so this kind of feedback was good to see. The ‘Updating collection…’ display shows you that the program has found music in the specified folder and is adding it to its collection. Down in the bottom part of that display, you’ll see something like this: You can even point it to a network share directly, using its 'raw' URL:Įither way, click and the focus will return to the main program window. A dialogue appears allowing you to point to your music folder:Īs you can see, there is no problem pointing it to a mapped network drive (which is what my Z: drive is). Click in the left-hand panel where it tells you to ‘click here to add some music’. The first order of business is to point Strawberry at your music collection. It is quite an austere look, with a large, faded strawberry in the back of the main right-hand panel (fortunately, this can be turned off by clicking Tools -> Settings -> Appearance and selecting No background image). When launched, the program main window is displayed: The installer doesn’t offer you the option to launch the program when complete, so you must just close it down and go hunt in your Start menu for the relevant icon with which to launch the program. Once you get that far, however, it’s just two clicks of the button to complete the installation process: it couldn’t really be much easier. You need to click the ‘More info’ followed by the button to make the installer appear: The download is slightly chunky at 66MB and, like several other players reviewed in these pages, triggers Windows’ SmartScreen defender when launched, as it’s unsigned: Again, uniquely, Strawberry comes in 64-bit and 32-bit versions: I installed the 64-bit one. There are lots of distro-specific downloads available at the project’s website, including two for Windows. It is, therefore, a cross-platform player with a strong Linux heritage, which is unique as far as media players in this roundup are concerned. Strawberry is a fork (i.e., a clone) of the Clementine Music Player which itself was a fork of Amarok, the music player that once dominated the KDE desktop in assorted Linux distros.
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