Thanks to whoever 🙏😁

https://codeberg.org/WetOtter44/StrawberryMusicPlayer

If you look at the releases they are just translation fixes. There hasn’t been any real development in some time.

Originally I just wanted to try a FOSS media player and found Clementine to be the most reliable when it came to importing music and reading the tags. This was especially true when grabbing old music files off an iPod then importing them.

When I realized clementine is basically dead, wanted to see how strawberry compared.

Side note, I enjoy the outdated aesthetic. 😋

I would probably use MediaMonkey if I was going to go the non FOSS route.

I don’t think that’s true, correct me if I am wrong though. There are still other requirements you have to follow for the GPL3 license if you wanted to distribute it legally.

I’m a bit surprised that this request is creating so much friction. This to me, is just a run of the mill “help me find a free download of this software” request that shows up all the time here.

I’m not comfortable trying to build this myself. I am happy to just use the inactive Clementine media player this is forked off of if people are really so offended by my request.

I totally understand why the dev wants to be paid, I’m just not going to be the one to do it.

To each their own.

I think its reasonable that a one man dev team wants a bit of money for their time. They gave good reasons as to why and as others have said you could compile it yourself. I just don’t know how and am a bit intimidated by the tutorial.

To me, personally, paying for this type of program when my use case is very casual, isn’t worth it to me.