Strawberry Music Player fork from Codeberg have been taken down
[Package Issue]: WetOtter44.StrawberryMusicPlayer.MSVC / WetOtter44.StrawberryMusicPlayer.MinGW · Issue #283385 · microsoft/winget-pkgs
following this URL https://feddit.nl/post/32689004. it looks like the software taken down the source and the codeberg is gone
I am the author of Strawberry Music Player and I would like you to remove it from the winget package manager.
\ The source code repository and releases from https://codeberg.org/WetOtter44/StrawberryMusicPlayer that you use as source for these packages are not official. It is an unofficial clone of the official source code repository for Strawberry Music Player (https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry), with misleading releases tagged to the wrong commits. If this was a valid fork, it should be renamed to not misrepresent our community project, and any links should not point to our bug tracker and support forum. The person who uploaded these were given the binary installations files from me for testing purposes, he has since proven willing to harm the project, I won't share his real name, but as you can see by the profile on codeberg he is anonymous for these reasons. He may upload releases containing malicious executables. The official Windows releases for Strawberry Music Player are given to users on request, I do not want it included in a package manager where users can install Strawberry Music Player without any information on how to fund the project.
First part valid, but last sentence lol. Open source go brrrr.
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.
@brickfrog @faruniversity1990 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.
But you could patch it out ¯(ツ)/¯
You can complain to the dev on their official forum https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/category/2/general-discussion. He is quite active there
Post title misleading, Strawberry project still up and running at https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry , coincidentally I had just installed it on Debian 13. Then saw this post saying Strawberry was taken down except that it wasn't.
Like the other comment says this is just about unofficial binaries that were floating around. That said it's kind of a bummer that Windows/Mac users can't download pre-compiled binaries from their github page. Maybe someone can create a script that does the downloading/compiling for those OSes similar to how some ffmpeg scripts do it e.g. https://github.com/UBTL/ffmpeg-windows-build
Yes, I updated the title. But, I do not think the author happy with the fork that promote automated compiling because as it said from the takedown post it disrupt the subscription fees
https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry this not it?
Edit:
The program is free software, released under GPL. If you like this program and can make use of it, consider sponsoring or donating to help fund the project.
Illegal not provide source.
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.
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.
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
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
Submit to winget under different name ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I feel like having stroke reading that title
What the fuck?
Fuck that, isn't this just a maintained fork of clementine??
And I tried this player, it's nothing special
I could understand a permanent nag button like nanazip, but $60/year where most of the hard job (libraries, decoders, base ui) was done by someone else for free?
I'm blacklisting this shit even if I'm a Linux user
I wouldn't even look at it or think of it on windows.
What is wrong with this policy? Strawberry is GPL, this sounds like the dev is committed enough to FOSS to not care too much about issues that come up on proprietary operating systems. This is very obviously not going to bring in a lot of money, how many people do you picture using windows or mac who think strawberry is so much better than other options that it's worth paying for? They're not advertising this in any way, there's no plot to trick poor souls into paying.
It strikes me as an easy and effective way to dismiss without argument bugfix requests on operating systems the developer doesn't care to touch. It's saying we don't want to neglect any users on other platforms that sincerely care about our project, but otherwise we just want to prioritze FOSS, so let's write off essentially all proprietary OS users while providing an avenue in case someone actually does care about our project that much.
if you ask $60/year to each user to support an operating system, then it's better to have first-class support with maximum issue priority
This is the most expensive music player app ever commercialized
what do you think the best local music/mp3 player?
mpd
VLC.
Else it's Jellyfin Web/Jellyfin Media Player on PC or for smartphone it's Symfonium and Finamp
I've been using Audacious for a while, basically a WinAmp clone for Linux.
Recently switched to DeaDBeeF since it's a bit easier to sort multiple large playlists.
Big fan of MusicBee, been using it for years.
Tauon.
Failing that mod+cantata (although I think this is not really maintained anymore).
Not the person you responded to, but on Linux, i think quod libet is the best for me. On Windows, (still) foobar2000.
Literally just use Winamp. You’re on windows, it’s windows amp. Winamp.
cmus the cli C music player.
On Android: Musicolet or Oto music
fooyin. It's foobar2000 clone but fully FOSS. It's also adding a lot of features that foobar2000 does not have.
I've been using Rhythmbox since the first time I tried linux in 2016 on Ubuntu.
Tauon and audacious are the only ones I've found that handle large libraries well. I use Tauon(or mpv if just playing a single file).