I stopped trying for the music side.

Right tool for the right job. Switched to navidrome and am consuming it mainly through subsonic clients, such as Symphonium and Feishin.

Even cringe as it always was, still a better product than GitHub. Microsoft drove it into the ground, but it was quite bad before as well, comparatively.

What do you mean bad 80s action movies?

If ffmpeg was not an open source project, and somebody submitted a super obscure ai surfaced bug

The bug would be fixed exactly never

I fail to see how funding them would change that

Sure, if we forget about specifics for a bit, in general terms it does sound reasonable. And they should be sponsoring ffmpeg anyway as they are using it.

However some bug reports should just not happen in the first place