Strawberry Music Player fork from Codeberg have been taken down (github.com)

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following this URL https://feddit.nl/post/32689004. it looks like the software taken down the source and the codeberg is gone

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[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bit strange, the Strawberry app itself already mentions how to donate in the Help/About Strawberry window. Maybe the dev could distribute the Windows/MacOS binaries and simply code in a massive donation pop-up when the OS detected <> Linux.

[-] chamomile@furry.engineer 9 points 17 hours ago

@brickfrog @far_university1990 The dev saying it's about "information on how to fund the project" is being... misleading. Windows binaries from the project are paywalled, so alternate builds being distributed via Winget presents a pretty clear threat to that funding by being free and more convenient.* They're well within their right to not distribute their own builds for free, but the misleading way it's framed here is not endearing... especially given this is a fork of another piece of FOSS software that will happily provide you Windows builds.

* As an aside, it really is so much better to have stuff distributed by a package manager. Who the hell wants to download an installer from Patreon for every new release, honestly. Some devs drive me crazy with their insistence on asinine distribution channels.