Access to macOS and Windows releases are currently restricted to sponsors, a 5 USD monthly sponsorship is required.

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 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.

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

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.

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.