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Messages - wombleywoo

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Yes, you won - congratulations!

Sorry for wasting everyone's time

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Perhaps there's a reason why you keep hearing the term?

I really can't explain it better than "people are willing to pull out at any time and receive a refund". It's pretty hard to be clearer than that, especially with you making false assumptions about what happens with people's money, rather than just simply asking me what my plan is.

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let's knock it off.

I think at this point it's best to just knock the whole thing off; I'll close down the gofundme page later today.

This idea came from a genuine place, in the hope of making Musicbee better for everyone and in the belief that people should be paid for their labour. Beyond fair questions about oversight and accountability (although despite my openness to other forms, nobody seemed to have a better, more decentralised suggestion for managing this than gofundme), it's revealed a level of negativity and toxicity in this community which I was unprepared for.

I'm sorry to have wasted everybody's time

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@hiccup: I understood your healthy skepticism over my authenticity, and trying to protect this community from a potential scam, but everything past that from you has been pedantic, small-minded, and wilfully obstructionist.

Moreover, you're just embarrassing yourself now. The fact that I envisage this crowdfunding campaign to go on indefinitely until a developer is hired is not mutually exclusive with contributors being able to pull out and receive a refund at any time. You're putting words into my mouth and making false assumptions when you talk of people "never getting their money back" or their money "definitely being gone".

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Wow, @hiccup, that's some pretty interesting mental gymnastics you've pulled off there!

Could you point out where, exactly, I've said that contributors would "never get a refund", or that "their money is definitely gone"?

If someone wanted to see this feature and donated money to the crowdfunding campaign, but at any point (before a developer accepted the job) wanted to pull out, they are of course entitled to their money back.

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@phred I was planning on keeping it open indefinitely - i.e., the amount slowly grows until it reaches a point where a developer considers it worth their time to develop, develops it, and gets the money.

I've also said I'm completely open to any other method or platform for organising contribution pledges, if you have any suggestions.

The overwhelmingly negative reaction I've got in this thread, though, is making me reconsider this endeavour. I'm simply trying to get a feature I want implemented, make the software that I love better for everyone, and pay developers for their labour rather than moan in an entitled manner for free stuff in the "feature request" forum.

I'm sorry, but I could, off the top of my head, think up several better "scams" than start a fake crowdfunding campaign for the development of a fairly niche plugin, for a software which has a middling amount of users, for a type of software (music managers) that most people don't use anymore.

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It's certainly not a scam. It's a feature I'm dying to see, one that I'm prepared to pay someone for their labour to implement, and one that I know others are interested in.

@Space Guy: I'm completely open to other, decentralised ways of organising people's contributions which increases oversight and accountability; gofundme was just the first thing that came to mind. Do you have any suggestions? The idea behind crowdfunding before finding a developer was that, over time, contributions will slowly build up until it reaches a point where a developer would say "yes, that is worth my time".

@hiccup: I don't really see how "posting eight times in various threads" is disagreeable to you - posting is the essence of forums. You'll notice that most of the posts were added onto threads made by users who want to see this feature implemented, in the hope of drawing together as many people as possible who want this feature to support a developer to implement it.

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If you're like me, you have thousands upon thousands of MP3/MPEG files with ratings, play counts, and presence in multiple playlists, and you really want to swap these files out for lossless file formats.

Currently Musicbee doesn't have a way to do this aside from manually, which would take months.

Please check out my crowdfunding campaign for more details, and donate if you can afford it. I have already started it off by pledging some of my own money.

Thanks!

https://gofund.me/38c41b2e

EDIT BY MODERATOR: The gofundme campaign has been cancelled.

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If you're like me, you have thousands upon thousands of MP3/MPEG files with ratings, play counts, and presence in multiple playlists, and you really want to swap these files out for lossless file formats.

Currently Musicbee doesn't have a way to do this aside from manually, which would take months.

Please check out my crowdfunding campaign for more details, and donate if you can afford it. I have already started it off by pledging some of my own money.

Thanks!

https://gofund.me/38c41b2e

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: "Copy all metadata" command
« on: February 12, 2023, 01:24:51 PM »
If anyone is interested, I have created a crowdfunding campaign to pay a developer to make a plugin which automates this process!

https://gofund.me/38c41b2e

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Questions / Re: Easiest way to copy track ratings from mp3 to flac?
« on: February 12, 2023, 01:18:13 PM »
If anyone is interested, I have created a crowdfunding campaign to pay a developer to make a plugin which automates this process!

https://gofund.me/38c41b2e

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If anyone is interested, I have created a crowdfunding campaign to pay a developer to make a plugin which automates this process!

https://gofund.me/38c41b2e

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Swaping MP3 with FLAC files
« on: February 12, 2023, 01:16:59 PM »
If anyone is interested, I have created a crowdfunding campaign to pay a developer to make a plugin which automates this process!

https://gofund.me/38c41b2e

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Questions / Re: Upgrading MP3 to FLAC in batches
« on: February 12, 2023, 01:16:39 PM »
If anyone is interested, I have created a crowdfunding campaign to pay a developer to make a plugin which automates this process!

https://gofund.me/38c41b2e

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Questions / Re: Smart way to replace mp3-files by FLAC-files
« on: February 12, 2023, 01:16:01 PM »
If anyone is interested, I have created a crowdfunding campaign to pay a developer to make a plugin which automates this process!

https://gofund.me/38c41b2e

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