Strawberry Music Player & Organizer Is A Fork of Clementine

Strawberry is a free and open source audio player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors, audio enthusiasts and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs.

Strawberry is written in C++ with Qt 5 framework. It’s based on a heavily modified version of Clementine created in 2012-2013. And it features:

• Supports WAV, FLAC, WavPack, DSF, DSDIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, MPC, TrueAudio, AIFF, MP4, MP3, ASF and Monkey’s Audio.
• Audio CD playback
• Native desktop notifications
• Playlists in multiple formats
• Advanced audio output and device configuration for bit-perfect playback on Linux
• Edit tags on music files
• Fetch tags from MusicBrainz
• Album cover art from Last.fm, Musicbrainz and Discogs
• Song lyrics from AudD
• Support for multiple backends
• Audio analyzer, Audio equalizer
• Transfer music to iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player
• Streaming support for Tidal
• Scrobbler with support for Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz

How to Install Strawberry in Ubuntu:

Installing the audio player is quite easy as it has been made into Snap store.

For Ubuntu 18.04 and higher, simply open Ubuntu Software, search for and install strawberry:

For Ubuntu 16.04, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and install snapd first via command:

sudo apt install snapd

Then install Strawberry music player via command:

sudo snap install strawberry

Uninstall:

To remove the audio player, either use Ubuntu Software or run command in terminal:

sudo snap remove strawberry