![]() ![]() Snakeoil OS is completely free and unlocked. This sort of people deserves none of my time. Let me make it clear. For me that is an insult - as he felt disgusted about a $1 donation, but happy to spend thousand times more on other things. What makes me angry that this same person may well not hesitate to spend thousands on his hifi gear. I am bewildered that a person can be so negative over $AUD 1. Some of you may have the perception that I am deceptive and somehow managed to trap you into installing Snakeoil, and then extort you into 'paying'. Some of you may feel I am running a con here. Unfortunately because this is free - the people expectations are different. Where else can you find a audiophile software with an in depth manual the likes of Snakeoil OS?Īll this takes up a lot of my time, and I am doing it for free, because for some strange reason I like doing so. This 6 VM cluster took up more than 60% of my homelab resources (in terms of CPU and RAM). A total of 6 virtual machines (think of this like 6 computers) is required for Snakeoil OS development, build and test. There's also the computer infrastructure to get all this working. There are a lot of modules involved (called projects in Gitlab), and within each project, there are branches. I can tell you this is a lot of work involved. ![]() The 'Average per day of 0 commits' is a bug. To give you an idea just how big this project is, here're just two samples: I am happy to use my free time to code and to write.Īnd this project takes up a lot of my free time - time I could have used to listen to music. My development and documentation time are free.anybody can contact me via various methods to get support) Except for some quick support, I will not do anything Snakeoil during my working hours (that's from 8 am to 5 PM weekdays).Except for the first round, I will not spend any of my own money for domain, web hosting and ancillary equipment costs.These are my baselines when I decided to release Snakeoil OS to the public: Quite frankly, nothing will happen without the generosity of audiophiles, and while I am humbled by the support received so far, there is always a line I have to draw. ![]() The donations will eventually fund for one, and when that happen I can finally get to the bottom of this. There are still problems with UEFI, it's not something I can fix because my UEFI computer have no problems booting the ISO. Without the donations I would never have got native DSD to work. As an example my DAC (DC-37) do not support native DSD, so I had to buy one that does. Right now the donated money is used to fund the web hosting for Snakeoil OS, and to buy supporting gear. I would also like to take this chance and make something clear about donations. This feature will be added in the Blind Testing - where you can run both Minimserver and upmpdcli on one Snakeoil OS computer, making your CAP a 'all in one' UPnP box. Unfortunately Golden Ears do not support both UPnP server and renderer in one. This allows you to stream music to any 'UPnP media renderer' in your network (e.g. Running Minimserver will turn your Snakeoil OS computer into what is known as a ' UPnP AV music server'. ![]()
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