[thaumasiotes]

I tried using Strawberry a couple years ago. It suffered from a bug where every so often, playback just stops.

(Another bug was that the album art Strawberry displays is a severely downscaled, and then enlarged-with-obvious-pixelation, version of the art embedded in the file. It would be easier, and look better, to just display the embedded art.)

Shortly after I reported this, they decided they wanted to turn into a paid service.

https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/1848/pay-for-t...

I was not left with a very positive impression.

[aarroyoc]

It is still GPL, it is still free software, the source code is there. Only the Windows and macOS binaries are behind a paywall, but you can build yourself the binaries, or use it on Linux. RedHat does this and is "an example of free software monetization", Strawberry does it "and it should no longer be called free software".