Hi @spaxton now I understand which posts you were mentioning in the other thread.
IMHO you should not consider any of the features in Volumio Premium as “separate plugins”, but actually as a “whole”. The Volumio Premium concept is to offer the best Volumio experience and this means that all the premium features are somehow interconnected.
An example: you use TIDAL Connect to play your tracks, then we provide extended metadatas and discovery (another premium feature) and you then decide to cast the whole thing in your whole house with multiroom. So, we treat all these features as a coherent set of functionalities and develop, test and maintain them together.
Then, even if we would consider them as separate plugins, each one of them needs constant maintenance and updates (third party APIs keep on changing… just for TIDAL we had to rewrite the whole thing 2 times, and update some internal breaking changes several times… and this trying not to interrupt the service for any of our users).
A simple example of this is the new FLAC streaming for TIDAL connect that we are talking about here:
That being said, we hear you. We know that many people would prefer a one time purchase and then forget about any subscription.
Well, then stay tuned. On October 27th something special (and limited…) will happen…