[SOLVED] I thought this was a free player! Or at least free to try...

[agent_kith]

Snakeoil is free and will always be free. Some options hidden behind activation are really beta features (implemented but generally untested). The idea of doing things this way is:

1. Reduce support time as only a small subset of people will get access to these features
   
2. I'm hoping somebody will do a Snakeoil password generator and release it into the dark web.
   

The registration scheme is actually pretty straight forward so anybody with assembly knowledge can easily reverse engineer the REST code to work out it.

Anyway, Snakeoil will move on from the current implemention. From now on new features designed for the next release will be hidden behind the activation. This way I hope I can roll the current release + next release beta into a single firmware file. Reducing the filespace required.

2018 was kind of a dud with me having to grapple with several personal and health issues. Here's hoping Snakeoil will make more progress in the year 2019!