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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[-] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I was wondering when that repo showed up and all of a sudden there were 50k downloads of the windows version if this might happen.

The coderberg fork was linked directly to the main strawberry page where the source code is and it's pretty obvious the downloads were just the same as any subscriber executables.

I highly doubt the story that the person behind the fork was given binaries for testing. My guess is it was just a subscriber sharing their downloaded executables.

The whole malware argument the creator made is fear mongering.

Its odd he charges $7/month for subscribers on Patreon but its only $5 if you pay via Kofi.

[-] Mttw_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Well i've setup a fork and modified the workflow file to build windows and macos: https://github.com/PorcoDio00033/strawberry/actions/runs/17040509548

I've not tested those binaries because i dont use that player, but they should work because entire workflow ran without errors.

The original repo already builds both windows + macos binaries, but it pushes them to a private server, not publically in actions/releases.

Paywalling binaries doesnt make sense lol

[-] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Cloned the repo and ran the actions. Works like a charm. Setup a Kofi I'd much rather give you $5

Note: github will not let you build arm64 as a private repo

[-] far_university1990@reddthat.com 2 points 12 hours ago

Submit to winget under different name ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Patreon takes a 20% cut of your income right off the bat. This is with the 8% platform fee option, and when you stack it on top of the payment processing fees, that's what it comes out to be.

kofi is a bit lower but I don't know the details there.

But it makes sense to pass those fees on to the subscribers.