For those still looking for free Windows / Mac versions of Strawberry Music Player... (github.com)

submitted 3 days ago by upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Codeberg Mirror: https://codeberg.org/unwanted9855/blended-strawberry

After the codeberg repo was taken down that a lot of people used to use, I wanted to let people know of another one that has popped up.

Enjoy!

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[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

I don't know what this strawberry music player is, but I approve of the fact that I can install it right from the fedora repos in one click but windows users have to build it from source from an unofficial repo on girhub. All programs should be distributed this way to make windows users suffer.

[-] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't think wanting people to suffer is a great goal but to each their own.

To be fair, building the binary is the same regardless of OS. The creator just decided to send the windows and Mac binaries off to a third party server and then paywall access. You can see this in the build.yml of the original repo.

[-] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago

The reason macOS and Windows releases are closed to sponsors is because Strawberry has mainly had one contributor/developer over several years. Maintaining releases for macOS and Windows is a lot of additional work, and requires hardware and build environments, building and maintaining all libraries Strawberry depends on, and we also have to pay for a Apple developer account for signed macOS releases.

From the official website.