Strawberry (macOS-focused fork)

This repository is a macOS-focused fork of upstream Strawberry.

The goal of this fork is to make Strawberry build cleanly and repeatably on macOS, with:

• Homebrew dependency installation via Brewfile
• local Homebrew formulas (tap) for missing dependencies
• build / deploy / signing / notarization helper scripts under build_tools/
• Sparkle feed configuration knobs so you can publish your own updates

Upstream vs this fork (macOS distribution)

Upstream Strawberry is where ongoing development happens:

• Upstream: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry

This fork’s source (the code you are building here):

• Fork: https://gitea.dryark.com/dryark/strawberry

This fork is intended for people who want to:

• build from source on macOS without guesswork
• produce signed + notarized binaries themselves (and optionally distribute them)

General safety note: whether you use upstream builds, your own builds, or someone else’s, only install software from sources you trust and prefer signed + notarized releases.

Quick start (macOS)

Install Homebrew dependencies:

./build_tools/macos/install_brew_deps.sh

Build:

./build_tools/macos/build_app.sh --release --clean
open ./cmake-build-macos-release/strawberry.app

Build + deploy + sign + notarize (+ DMG):

./build_tools/macos/build_sign_notarize.sh --run --release --clean --deploy --dmg \
  --identity "Developer ID Application: Your Name (TEAMID)" \
  --notary-profile "<profile-name>"

Features

• Play and organize your music collection
• Supports formats: WAV, FLAC, WavPack, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, MPC, TrueAudio, AIFF, MP4, MP3, ASF, and Monkey’s Audio
• Audio CD playback
• Bit-perfect playback on Linux
• Native desktop notifications
• Advanced playlist management
• Smart and dynamic playlists
• Loudness analysis and EBU R128 normalization
• Editing tags and fetching missing tags via MusicBrainz
• Album art from: Last.fm, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Musixmatch, Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify
• Lyrics from: Genius, Musixmatch, ChartLyrics, lyrics.ovh, lololyrics, songlyrics, azlyrics, elyrics, letras, LyricFind and lrclib.net
• Audio analyzer and equalizer
• Transfer music to USB, MTP and iPod devices
• Scrobbling to Last.fm and ListenBrainz
• Streaming from Subsonic-compatible servers
• Unofficial integrations: Tidal, Spotify, and Qobuz
• Discord Rich Presence

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✅ Tested on Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows.

⚙️ Requirements

To build Strawberry from source, you’ll need:

Dependencies:

• CMake ≥= 3.13
• C/C++ compiler (GCC, Clang, or MSVC)
• pkg-config or pkgconf
• Boost
• GLib
• Qt ≥= 6.4 (Core, Concurrent, Gui, Widgets, Network, SQL, D-Bus)
• SQLite ≥= 3.9
• ALSA (Linux only)
• GStreamer
• TagLib ≥= 1.12
• ICU
• KDSingleApplication ≥= 1.1.0

Dependencies for optional features:

• Fingerprinting & tagging: Chromaprint
• Moodbar: FFTW3
• PulseAudio integration: PulseAudio
• Audio CD support: libcdio
• MTP devices: libmtp
• iPod Classic: libgpod
• EBU R128 normalization: libebur128
• Discord presence: RapidJSON

Also install GStreamer plugins base, good, and optionally bad, ugly and libav for full codec support.

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🔧 Build from Source

Get the code (this fork):

git clone --recursive https://gitea.dryark.com/dryark/strawberry

Build and install:

cd strawberry
cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build --parallel $(nproc)
sudo cmake --install build

For building on Windows with Visual Studio 2022, see: 👉 https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry-msvc

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📦 Packaging status