When Alwin announced the Music Collector price increase of course I wasn’t happy about it considering it’s very unlikely it will ever receive any new features (I’d love a robust AI driven runout list), but I use it all the time and it still provides a ton of value to me. Researching releases and cataloging them with this software is one of the reasons why I enjoy record collecting.
I doesn’t look like there are other good alternatives out there, so for only $30 per year (less coupons), it’s not worth my time right now to build a comparable solution.
I’m not sure if my account is grandfathered (in which a renewal wouldn’t be needed), but even if it was I’d probably try to support the team another way.