Is this project still alive?

[Martin-Herlov]

I will follow the forum and wait for a more robust release. can see that agent_kith has his hands full. really hope that he has other programmers to help him out.

This is what is required for the future stability of the project to be honest. More developers are needed. Please look into the backlog and pick up tickets. Once I release 1.4.4 will look into creating a development environment that's easier for people to get in. Realistically I did not focus on that before since nobody wanted to help on the development side. 

The monthly donations coming in to the project is not even enough to cover the monthly costs of renting the computer equipment, let alone my time. This might get harder down the stretch if I do not land a new job . 

Right now I can continue to put up time and money to keep this going, but the pace will not be as quick given this is mostly a 2 person show (@"Snoopy8" doing the documentation and me on everything else - and there is a lot to do in everything else).

So is this project still alive? yes, however, "for how long" is the question. If everybody just sits back and expect to get something for nothing, then the project will die once I run out of money (i.e. I cannot afford to pay for the infrastructure).

My passion for music listening will not go away though, so I will continue to write code to improve the way on how I listen to music. Just that the code will not be shared since i don't have the infrastructure to host them.

I am a C# and devops developer and has been programming for close to 30 years. I wish I could help out, but linux and C is not my expertise.
When you talk about infrastructure is it, the cost for the web servers? I think you more or less can host code and CI/DI free on github or Azure devops.
But I guess that you already have looked into that.

There are many OS developers that are struggling and it's hard to find a solution. I guess a one-time download fee of 20$ would be acceptable for all, but properly not enough to live on.