1STRAWBERRY(1) General Commands Manual STRAWBERRY(1)
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6 Strawberry - music player and music collection organizer
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9 strawberry [options] [URL(s)]
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12 Strawberry is a music player aimed at music collectors and audiophiles.
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14 Features:
15 - Play and organize music
16 - Supports WAV, FLAC, WavPack, Ogg FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Opus,
17 Ogg Speex, MPC, TrueAudio, AIFF, MP4, MP3, ASF and Monkey's Au‐
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19 - Audio CD playback
20 - Native desktop notifications
21 - Playlist management
22 - Playlists in multiple formats
23 - Advanced output and device options with support for bit per‐
24 fect playback on Linux
25 - Edit tags on audio files
26 - Automatically retrieve tags from MusicBrainz
27 - Album cover art from Last.fm, Musicbrainz, Discogs, Musix‐
28 match, Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz and Spotify
29 - Song lyrics from Lyrics.com, Genius, Musixmatch, ChartLyrics,
30 lyrics.ovh and lololyrics.com
31 - Support for multiple backends
32 - Audio analyzer
33 - Audio Equalizer
34 - Transfer music to mass-storage USB players, MTP compatible de‐
35 vices and iPod Nano/Classic
36 - Scrobbler with support for Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz
37 - Streaming support for Subsonic-compatible servers
38 - Unofficial streaming support for Tidal and Qobuz
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40 It is a fork of Clementine. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs.
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43 Player options:
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45 Start the playlist currently playing
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47 -t, --play-pause
48 Play if stopped, pause if playing
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51 Pause playback
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53 -s, --stop
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56 -q, --stop-after-current
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65 -v, --volume <value>
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71 --volume-down
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81 Seek the currently playing track to an absolute position
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90 Playlist options:
91 -c, --create <name>
92 Create a new playlist with files
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95 Append files/URLs to the playlist
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98 Loads files/URLs, replacing current playlist
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100 -k, --play-track <n>
101 Play the <n>th track in the playlist
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103 Other options:
104 -o, --show-osd
105 Display the on-screen-display
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107 -y, --toggle-pretty-osd
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110 -g, --language <lang>
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121 --version
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125 Strawberry main developer is Jonas Kvinge <jonas@jkvinge.net>.
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