musiX

[Skiver Veteran]

Will the same colour theme work with the dark theme? Love that new feature!

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Will the same colour theme work with the dark theme? Love that new feature!

 

Yes, the follow-windows-color feature works with the light and the dark theme.

[metallithrax]

Not a major thing, but I noticed that the playlist doesn't scroll as songs are played.  Any chance to get the list to scroll down as songs are played?

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Not a major thing, but I noticed that the playlist doesn't scroll as songs are played.  Any chance to get the list to scroll down as songs are played?

 

Have you activated the feature "Follow song" in the Settings -> Features screen?

[metallithrax]

Have you activated the feature "Follow song" in the Settings -> Features screen?

Not noticed that.  Thanks

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Not noticed that.  Thanks

 

No problem. It's disabled by default. I've just changed it from now on to be enabled by default.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Build 211 is available as usual here.

 

It adds the light theme and an option to follow the windows color for the dark and light theme.

 

It also fixes a nasty tag saving bug. If you haven't experienced an infinite closing loop, you haven't experienced the bug :)

[+Raze Subscriber²]

Wow!  Incredible app, Rapha?l, great job!    (Y)

[Darrian]

Just keeps getting better and better.  I love the new build.

[FiB3R]

App would not launch after installing Build 211, it would hang on the splash screen.

 

A repair install didn't fix it.

 

Removing first, then reinstalling did fixed the problem (Y)

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

App would not launch after installing Build 211, it would hang on the splash screen.

 

A repair install didn't fix it.

 

Removing first, then reinstalling did fixed the problem (Y)

 

It was probably upgrading your library structure after changes since the last build you had installed. Depending on the amount of files in your collection that can take a while. There is no indication to the user though what musiX is doing at that time. I'll have to improve that.

Good to hear a clean install fixed it though.

[FiB3R]

You have to manually restart the app for theme changes to take effect?

 

Would be nice if the change was instant. If not, then an Apply button would be ok.

[FiB3R]

It was probably upgrading your library structure after changes since the last build you had installed. Depending on the amount of files in your collection that can take a while. There is no indication to the user though what musiX is doing at that time. I'll have to improve that.

Good to hear a clean install fixed it though.

Only a very small part of my collection is indexed at the moment (1135 files), but I suppose I wasn't very patient :blush:

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

You have to manually restart the app for theme changes to take effect?

 

Would be nice if the change was instant. If not, then an Apply button would be ok.

 

For the moment yes, because the color resources are loaded at startup. But that might improve in the future.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Hello everyone,

 

Build 216 is available here. This is a maintenance build (no new features, just fixes and fine-tuning). These are the changes:

 

- Fixed a bug when sorting by artist

- Fine-tuned the light theme

- Improved error messages (added more specific errors instead of just one general error message)

- Better collection management (in the xml, not visible to the user)

- Added a notification when the collection is being upgraded at startup (so now it won't hang on the splash screen anymore when upgrading the collection takes a long time)

 

This build upgrades your collection on the first startup due to small changes in the main xml file.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

musiX changing themes without restart is now a fact:

 

[FiB3R]

If you install an update while the app is running, the installer will offer to close and restart it for you.

 

It does close the app and complete the installation, but it does not launch the app for you once it's finished.

 

Not big deal at all, just thought I'd mention it.

 

Edit: "upgrading your collection" doesn't sound right. "re-scanning" or something along those lines would be more accurate, I think.

 

Why does it need to be re-scanned again anyway? If I point it to my full collection, I can imagine this taking quite a while.

 

Edit 2: When sorting by Album or Year, I think those things should be the prominent heading in the list, where at the moment, it keeps the same layout as if you were sorting by Artist. (hope that made sense)

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

If you install an update while the app is running, the installer will offer to close and restart it for you.

 

It does close the app and complete the installation, but it does not launch the app for you once it's finished.

 

Not big deal at all, just thought I'd mention it.

 

Edit: "upgrading your collection" doesn't sound right. "re-scanning" or something along those lines would be more accurate, I think.

 

Why does it need to be re-scanned again anyway? If I point it to my full collection, I can imagine this taking quite a while.

 

Oops never tried installing an update while already running. I'll check if that's something I can do anything about.

 

Upgrades of the collection occur when musix.xml has structural changes (for example, extra fields in the xml, which are required due to new functionality which was added in the new build, or improvements to the xml because I have learned new things :)) compared to the build you have installed. Without automatic upgrade, musiX would crash when trying to access the outdated xml. Once the major features are implemented, and the final xml structure is defined, upgrades won't be necessary anymore.

 

I actually had 2 options concerning xml changes:

 

Option 1: force my users to delete their collection before installing an upgrade and restart from scratch (not user friendly)

Option 2: automatic upgrade of the collection xml (more user friendly, but you have to wait for the upgrade to finish)

 

Your "Edit 2" makes a lot of sense and sound like a nice idea. I'll try something out :)

[FiB3R]

A totally automated update process would be cool, but I suppose there are more important things to deal with first :)

 

The collection updating makes sense now, thanks for pointing that out.

 

Hope you don't mind me nit-picking, I think what you are doing is great (Y)

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

A totally automated update process would be cool, but I suppose there are more important things to deal with first :)

 

The collection updating makes sense now, thanks for pointing that out.

 

Hope you don't mind me nit-picking, I think what you are doing is great (Y)

 

Automated update would be great. :) But indeed, there are other things to deal with now.

That's not nit-picking. I can't think of everything, and that's where your or user feedback is priceless. Also, most ideas and requests have been pushing the boundaries of my knowledge a little further each time. That's really good :)

[Jub]

You're developing this at a remarkable speed. Imagine what a company with a handful of you's could achieve!

 

How does this handle libraries with 20,000+ songs? I suppose I'll try but I don't have a Windows machine available yet. Might convert one tonight just for this! Clone thyself and write a Mac version!  :woot:

[allannyholm]

Great program! Thank you for coding it.

 

Now I've just begun using my Windows 8 PC and right away took musiX to heart. Now I'm in the situation that all tracks that I have taken out directly from my iTunes library which appear correctly as being on seperate albums in iTunes doesn't appear as being on the second album for example within musiX.

 

For instance I have an album from Miss Kittin that has is purchased in iTunes but has tracknames like "2-02 Cosmic Love Radiation.m4a" and so forth. This track comes right after the 2nd track on the first album.

 

How can this be done better? Is there a way around it while still keeping my iTunes installation as is?

 

Edit:

I think I have got it all wrong. The track mentioned comes before the actual second track on the first album. I've seen similar behaviour within the Music application on Windows 8. Sorry about the confusion and poor explanation on my part.

Edited May 29, 2014 by allan.nyholm

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Great program! Thank you for coding it.

 

Now I've just begun using my Windows 8 PC and right away took musiX to heart. Now I'm in the situation that all tracks that I have taken out directly from my iTunes library which appear correctly as being on seperate albums in iTunes doesn't appear as being on the second album for example within musiX.

 

For instance I have an album from Miss Kittin that has is purchased in iTunes but has tracknames like "2-02 Cosmic Love Radiation.m4a" and so forth. This track comes right after the 2nd track on the first album.

 

How can this be done better? Is there a way around it while still keeping my iTunes installation as is?

 

Edit:

I think I have got it all wrong. The tracks mentioned comes before the actual second track on the first album. I've seen similar behaviour within the Music application on Windows 8. Sorry about the confusion and poor explanation on my part.

 

Thanks!

 

musiX doesn't take the "Disc" tag into account yet. These track probably have the same album name but a different disc number. MusiX doesn't understand that and just puts all these track under the same album header. Could you verify in Itunes is the disc tags for these albums have values?

 

 

I've been meaning to add disc tag support, but forgot about it. I'll plan it for the next build.

[Haggis Veteran]

I dont use windows at all let alone windows 8 but this is one of the first threads i check on a daily basis

 

the speed you are updating is amazing and the program looks amazing

 

I actually want to go out and buy windows 8 just to use your app

 

keep up the great work

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

You're developing this at a remarkable speed. Imagine what a company with a handful of you's could achieve!

 

How does this handle libraries with 20,000+ songs? I suppose I'll try but I don't have a Windows machine available yet. Might convert one tonight just for this! Clone thyself and write a Mac version!  :woot:

 

Haha thank a lot! :)

I have no idea how it would react to that amunt of songs (I've tested with 6000+ only). Please let me know how it goes.