* 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 toolkit and GStreamer. Strawberry is compatible with both Qt version 5 and 6.
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.
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.
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
Some users have reported shuttering / choppy audio using the WASAPI2 (or Auto) output available with the MSVC Windows version, select WASAPI or DirectSound as output instead in Tools / Settings / Backend should fix it
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.
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.
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:
sudo 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
