I don’t disagree. I am not sure I am at the point where I need to pay $20 yet. I do question whether clementine is actually dead or not though.
I host jellyfin on my server and then I have a bunch of apps that are compatible w/ Jellyfin to access my library on my LAN (or away from home via tailscale)
Desktop
Feishin - Great UI. Basically in maintenance mode for the last 6 months or so as the creator wants to spin off onto a new music player project
Mobile
Symfonium I have bought maybe 10 Android apps in my life, this is the only one I still use daily
FinDroid - I use this more for video watching IIRC. It’s been a while
I believe there was a time where development on Clementine slowed to a hault, and Strawberry picked up where it left off. They have different feature sets at this point.
Looking at recent commits for Clementine seem to show mainly language translations updates, build fixes, and maintenance stuff. Looking at Strawberry I see very active development of features and bug fixes.
Any easy way to export a whole iTunes library to some of these programs?
I agree it does not look like there is any real active development going on but to @anonymous322 point paying $20 for a single version of an app or being stuck paying $5/month for updates could be considered a bit of a steep price for casual music library management.
Just to halt disinformation on this:
- Linux builds are free for everyone, only Mac and Windows you pay for
- You can build from source for free for any Mac and Windows, just requires some setup to do
- 20/ post is not ideal. Just do a 5$ membership and then cancel it for the software.
- Unless there is an atrocious bug, you also don’t have to be an update junky. It’s still quite stable.
I paid for a membership as it supports a FOSS developer and 5$ a month is a non issue for me for use on Windows.
Otherwise, just use Linux and then it’s free.
I hope @anonymous332 finds that process worth it then.
I am personally not a fan of mandatory donations. Note that I do recognize the hard work they do for their projects. It’s just that it ruins the “FOSS” philosophy somewhat even if the destination OS isn’t FOSS itself.
Couldn’t they implement a suggested donation/pricing model that projects like ElementaryOS has?
This is more disinformation about what is and is not FOSS.
If the church of the FSF says it’s fair play, it’s about as official as you can get. Free as in freedom, not free as in beer.
Except for one special situation, the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) has no requirements about how much you can charge for distributing a copy of free software. You can charge nothing, a penny, a dollar, or a billion dollars. It’s up to you, and the marketplace, so don’t complain to us if nobody wants to pay a billion dollars for a copy.
If you don’t want to pay, you certainly don’t have to. But this is a valid business model for FOSS and is a FOSS thing to do. In this case you also get the source code and a means to build it yourself without needing to pay, which is a bonus.
Thanks for correcting, I did not know that!
As an aside, I actually think it’s quite hard to use this model in the modern age, and am actually surprised to see a live example of it. Typically if you try this model, someone else will automate the build process and distribute binaries circumventing the payment, as is the FOSS right. The most common model nowadays is a web service AGPL licensed, but you pay for someone else to deal with hosting it.
I am a little unclear about what ‘disinformation’ you were originally referring too.
It does feel a bit disingenuous to force Mac and Windows users to “donate” if you are offering the application for free to Linux users, especially when the dev is already creating the exe and dmg files on patreon which is counter to his point thats its to much work to do.
I realize the application could be compiled for free but, my guess is the dev understand most users are not going to be willing to try that on their own.
I will never understand why tags have not been integrated as a feature in cloud services. As an example, imagine you have a big movie library in the cloud. Wouldn’t it be nice if you can add tags like the genre (e.g.: comedy), name of actors (e.g.: Meryl Streep), medium (e.g. live action), etc…
Even cloud services that are not E2EE don’t have this feature, and I don’t understand why.
Sometimes, I don’t remember the name of a movie, but I remember the genre and who directed it. Tags could really come in handy.
And again, I’m just using movie files as an example, but it can be any type of file or folder, e-books, music, home videos & photos, work stuff, etc…Tags can really come in handy when you’re searching for a file.
You can try using Tagspaces
Local or Internet
Tags and Folders
This looks interesting, but doesn’t look like what I’m looking for. In my opinion, tags should be an inherent feature of all cloud services. I don’t want to rely on a third party. The UI also doesn’t look great.
We’ve side tracked quite a bit. Perhaps disinformation had too much strong connotation, just wanted to clear up confusion.
For ID3tag easy mass editing, I recommend mp3tag
- Data collection when using Mp3tag: We’re not tracking any usage statistics when you’re using Mp3tag. If checking for updates at startup is enabled at ‘Options > Updates’ or when you explicitly trigger the check via the ‘Help’ menu, Mp3tag sends a request to one of our servers. This request doesn’t contain any information about your installation other than the Mp3tag version that gets sent in the user-agent header.
Usually I wouldn’t post something like this but, considering the GPLv3 license of the software I don’t think there is an issue. Someone created another repo that offers the latest version for Windows and Mac free.
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