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Unsurprising given that their repo's license was a contradictory mess
Anyways I'd recommend using Strawberry instead
It's an actual Free and Open Source music player:
Strawberry doesn't support about a dozen audio formats I use, so until it's got wider support I have to pass.
You have support for .wav .flac .mp3 .opus, why would you use anything else?
If it doesn't play Amiga era .mod files, is it really even a music player?
Funny enough, it does. Here's the full list of supported formats. Line 54:
Although like .spc, it doesn't support seeking, you have to listen to the whole file in order or restart for the beginning.