search

prempalsingh / saga-android

🎵 Free music, no strings attached
http://anandchowdhary.github.io/saga-music/
Other
73 stars 23 forks source link

Is this project still active? #6

Open vcidst opened 4 years ago

vcidst commented 4 years ago

Hello the links to download APK from your linked webpage are dead. I don't see any activity on this repo in last 4 years. Is this dead?

prempalsingh commented 4 years ago

This was a side project I made back in college. It's not maintained anymore. You can build the APK from source if you want but I doubt the backend would be still up now.

Happy to help if you have any specific questions.

AnandChowdhary commented 4 years ago

Thanks for opening this issue, @vcidst. If you read the Eplilogue in the README, you'll notice that this project was retired a few years ago. This was primarily because @prempalsingh and I built this project as a educational tool to see what we can do with free music downloading and sharing, but we saw 100,000+ songs downloaded and realized that we don't want to promote piracy. In this post, I explained how free alternatives like Wynk Music and Spotify (which actually compensate artists for their hard work) are a better future.

As @prempalsingh rightly said, the backend APIs are also no longer active (on which this Android app was dependent), so even if you build from source, you'll have to create some endpoints.

On a side note, @prempalsingh: Perhaps we can archive this repository and pin this issue?