I don’t think so. There is a thread on the official forums about it from 2023 which indicates it can only read replay gain tags from third party software.

I agree but it is a complaint I’ve read multiple times.

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 served and them paywall. You can see this in the build.yml of the original repo.

Personally I like it because it makes managing my music library really easy. Especially when it comes to keeping everything organized in a way my Plex server likes as well.

It really depends on the individual. Some people really hate the outdated looking UI and don’t have much use for the audiophile features.

Crazy people love to sprinkle in anti semitism in their rants.

They lost me at calling ExpressVPN the gold standard. Even their audit is bs. KPMG is the same company that provides the “always-on” audit to PureVPN.

Any article that still uses the “eyes” as a factor in their evaluation is a massive red flag. Very public intelligence alliances are the least of your worries.

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.