Looking for a place to find the Windows version of this without paying $20 for a single version or $5/month for regular updates
EDIT: which one of you mad lads did this? https://codeberg.org/WetOtter44/StrawberryMusicPlayer
Looking for a place to find the Windows version of this without paying $20 for a single version or $5/month for regular updates
EDIT: which one of you mad lads did this? https://codeberg.org/WetOtter44/StrawberryMusicPlayer
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.
Yeah I don’t have an answer for the thing you’re actually asking (sorry) but this is 100% a reasonable take and honestly I fully approve of their approach here. Strawberry is licensed under the GPL, it is libre software and can be packaged in any FOSS operating system without issue. This adds to the free software community. They are explicitly only selling to people who don’t value free software enough to use a free operating system.
And to be clear, I can guarantee that no one loses sleep over piracy of their GPL software, otherwise it wouldn’t be GPL. I see it more as a way for the devs to wash their hands of troubleshooting for operating systems they don’t want to care about - anyone on windows/mac who cares enough about strawberry to pay gets listened to, but otherwise you’ve created an easy excuse for ignoring the extra work.
As an aside it’s my preferred player on linux, good software.