# strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry

:strawberry: Strawberry Music Player

Repository: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/strawberrymusicplayer-strawberry
Homepage: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: strawberry, strawberry-music-player, audio, audio-player, music, music-player, high-end, bitperfect, bitperfect-player, c-plus-plus, qt, flac, wavpack, linux, linux-desktop, alsa, musicbrainz, lastfm
Last push: 2026-08-26T19:35:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4265, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 14, "n_releases_24m": 30}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3919, forks 335 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:29.684899+00:00)

## What it is
Strawberry is a cross-platform music player and music collection organizer written in C++ with Qt and GStreamer, forked from Clementine in 2018. It targets audiophiles and music collectors with support for many lossless and lossy formats, tag editing, MusicBrainz metadata, cover art, streaming, and bit-perfect audio output on Linux.

## Use cases
- play and organize a large local music collection
- play FLAC and other lossless audio files
- edit tags on audio files and fetch metadata from MusicBrainz
- get bit-perfect audio playback on Linux with ALSA
- manage smart and dynamic playlists
- scrobble to Last.fm and ListenBrainz
- stream music from Subsonic-compatible servers
- transfer music to USB mass-storage players and iPods

## When to choose
- you want a powerful desktop music player for large local libraries
- you care about lossless formats and bit-perfect playback on Linux
- you need automatic tag lookup, cover art, and lyrics from multiple sources
- you liked Clementine and want a more actively maintained fork

## When to avoid
- you need audio CD or device support on Windows
- you want a mobile or web-based player
- you need a minimal, lightweight player without library management
- you rely on Flatpak support from the project itself

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: audio-processing, gui
- domain: media, desktop-applications, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: music-player, audio-player, music-collection-organizer, qt, gstreamer, bit-perfect, audiophile, musicbrainz, lastfm, clementine-fork, linux, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:29.684899+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:25:01.306894+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:29.684899+00:00, sha 7a7571b65703)
  - homepage: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:18:52.795550+00:00, sha 1e1e82294e21)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.