GitHub makes binary distribution much easier for me. For example, Cjam is listed on several freeware sites and GitHub helps streamline update notifications and integration with them.

thanks

Official site: https://cjmapp.net

Cjam is scriptable, here’s an example:

https://forum.cjmapp.net/viewtopic.php?t=31

Cjam includes features that don’t exist in other tools, and it’s freeware.

It’s a strong advantage for individual developers like me to distribute binaries on a trusted platform without any hosting cost.

Actually, I posted before using the main site link, and HN doesn’t allow posting the same URL twice, so I used the GitHub link this time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43883180

And yes, Cjam is quite similar to mp3DirectCut. It’s like managing several mdc instances together in one list.

I use MP3 a lot myself, so I built this tool around it.

Cjam is designed in a way that makes it easy to adapt to other small, lossy formats as well, so it has potential to go beyond MP3 in the future.

I rethought MP3 editing without decoding/re-encoding for today’s hardware.

Existing tools tend to focus on one action at a time, like splitting or joining files. But Cjam lets you define multiple actions across multiple files at once using scripts. So it makes it easier to create and share more complex editing workflows.

You can find some example scripts on the forum: https://forum.cjmapp.net/viewforum.php?f=9

Software that my parents or yours can use is definitely a good thing. Not everyone needs to chase the cutting edge.

That was my point but I feel like everyone that replied to me thought I was making the opposite. I think your submission is awesome :)

Thanks for pointing it out. I've updated the license file accordingly.