musiX

[Brandon H Supervisor]

^ If you want to do the associations settings tab still you could set it up similar to how MPC-HC has theirs set up. it has a button to temporarily put the window in admin mode (actually it opens a new settings window that's in admin mode)

 

 

notice the Modify button under Association, that's what puts the settings window in admin mode to allow modification

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Teaser of the notifications:

 

 

For now they display at the bottom right of the screen, but in the next build the position can be chosen by the user (all corners of the screen). Notifications can also be disabled.

[_dandy_]

First time I've stumbled upon this thread.

 

First thing that caught my eye in some of the screenshots:  You *must* have been a Zune software user in the past...right?

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

First time I've stumbled upon this thread.

 

First thing that caught my eye in some of the screenshots:  You *must* have been a Zune software user in the past...right?

 

The Zune software is actually installed on my computer at the moment, but I never used it for anything else than looking around. I find it quite a mess to be honest...

But I like some elements and indeed, musiX is inspired by Zune-like UI's and metro in general. Actually, the trigger for creating musiX was this foobar2000 skin: http://foobarskins.com/metro-foobar2000-skins/. I don't know why, but soon after seeing it, my brain was triggered to create something like this :) I think I wanted something similar, but without the need to have foobar2000 in the background (I only need a fraction of what foobar has to offer to listen to my music).

[Skiver Veteran]

Love the teaser pops!

 

I quit making shrink to taskbar because occasionally I would hear a track and not remember the name etc and got bored of opening and closing, looking forward to this feature.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Love the teaser pops!

 

I quit making shrink to taskbar because occasionally I would hear a track and not remember the name etc and got bored of opening and closing, looking forward to this feature.

 

You'll be able to test them very soon :) More info: when the mouse is over the notification, it stays visible until the mouse is not over it anymore.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

i think the default notification position should be in the upper right as it is on windows 8 (or possibly access the notification api when on 8+. i think this is possible since i noticed outlook 2013 does this or emulates it when on 8)

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

^ If you want to do the associations settings tab still you could set it up similar to how MPC-HC has theirs set up. it has a button to temporarily put the window in admin mode (actually it opens a new settings window that's in admin mode)

 

assoc.PNG

 

notice the Modify button under Association, that's what puts the settings window in admin mode to allow modification

 

Thanks for the idea. I have however chosen to not do it this way and let windows manage associations. I like the "Set default programs" button though, but wasn't able to call the Windows API function which opens the "Default programs" control panel dialog from .NET. Maybe later...

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

i think the default notification position should be in the upper right as it is on windows 8 (or possibly access the notification api when on 8+. i think this is possible since i noticed outlook 2013 does this or emulates it when on 8)

 

If will be upper right by default. I won't use the Windows 8 notifications yet (but might be in a later stage) as I'd like to add functionality to the popup too (I have some ideas for later).

[fintechfooty]

Awesome design

[Skiver Veteran]

You'll be able to test them very soon :) More info: when the mouse is over the notification, it stays visible until the mouse is not over it anymore.

 

But I need it now!!! :p

 

[Prototype1864]

Really impressed by this, so impressed!! can't wait for the next build!

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

musiX 1.0 Build 267 is available here

 

These are the changes:

 

• Added multi-song drag & drop
• Added bulk-tagging
• Added file associations
• Added notifications
• Removed tagging by variables (was limited and buggy)
• Lots of changes under the hood
• Bugfixes

[rjgtav]

Hi Raphael,

 

I've been using your music player in the last few months and I have to say that this is a really well built piece of software.

 

I'd like to report a bug that has been happening lately here on my side.

Basically, Musix isn't able to play some of the songs on my collection, reporting "Sorry, I can't play this song.".

 

After doing some tests, I've concluded that this only happens on .flac songs whose name has non-trivial characters (on my specific case, japanese characters).

 

I'm attaching here the logs after starting musiX and trying to play one of those problematic songs:

2014-07-02 20:01:50.6994|Info|musiX.Application.OnStartup|### STARTING musiX, version 1.0 (Build 267) ###
2014-07-02 20:02:02.6517|Error|musiX.Managers.PlayManager.TryPlay|Exception FLAC: Could not open stream for reading!

The name of the song I tried to play is "???"

 

If you need any more details, feel free to ask.

 

Best regards and keep up the good work :)

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

 

Hi Raphael,

 

I've been using your music player in the last few months and I have to say that this is a really well built piece of software.

 

I'd like to report a bug that has been happening lately here on my side.

Basically, Musix isn't able to play some of the songs on my collection, reporting "Sorry, I can't play this song.".

 

After doing some tests, I've concluded that this only happens on .flac songs whose name has non-trivial characters (on my specific case, japanese characters).

 

I'm attaching here the logs after starting musiX and trying to play one of those problematic songs:

2014-07-02 20:01:50.6994|Info|musiX.Application.OnStartup|### STARTING musiX, version 1.0 (Build 267) ###
2014-07-02 20:02:02.6517|Error|musiX.Managers.PlayManager.TryPlay|Exception FLAC: Could not open stream for reading!

The name of the song I tried to play is "???"

 

If you need any more details, feel free to ask.

 

Best regards and keep up the good work :)

 

 

That's a nice one :) Thanks for reporting. I've tracked it and will look into it soon. I might have more questions then. From a quick try here it looks it's only happening with flac, not mp3 (haven't tried other formats though). I really have to replace the flac component, it has a lot of problems. 

Your bug report also showed me an infinite loop in the last build (only happens when shuffle is enabled and when opening a file with japanese characters from a double click in windows :)). I'll fix that asap.

[rjgtav]

That's a nice one :) Thanks for reporting. I've tracked it and will look into it soon. I might have more questions then. From a quick try here it looks it's only happening with flac, not mp3 (haven't tried other formats though). I really have to replace the flac component, it has a lot of problems. 

Your bug report also showed me an infinite loop in the last build (only happens when shuffle is enabled and when opening a file with japanese characters from a double click in windows :)). I'll fix that asap.

 

Good to know :)

 

I've also only tested with mp3s and flacs, and only the flacs are failing.

If you need further information from me or if you need me to send some of the songs, just PM.

 

Cheers

[Skiver Veteran]

Thanks Rapha?l :D

 

Just to note, when I ran the upgrade a few settings were lost. I don't think it was everything but I can't be sure what's set as default and what isn't however I was reset back to Dark Theme and one of the default colours whereas I had Light and follow windows theme selected.

 

I didn't take note of what versoin I was running before I upgraded but it was the latest available preview. Let me know if you want anything else from me.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Thanks Rapha?l :D

 

Just to note, when I ran the upgrade a few settings were lost. I don't think it was everything but I can't be sure what's set as default and what isn't however I was reset back to Dark Theme and one of the default colours whereas I had Light and follow windows theme selected.

 

I didn't take note of what versoin I was running before I upgraded but it was the latest available preview. Let me know if you want anything else from me.

 

That's possible indeed. I reorganized the settings a bit, and is normal the themes revert to the default with this upgrade. Sorry, I forgot about it as it was one of the first changes I did after the last build.

It should only be the themes which revert to default. Other settings should be remembered.

[Skiver Veteran]

Another thing I've just noticed - the Now playing side has probably been like this for a while but the notifications just highlighted the use of capitalisation (or not in some cases)

 

If you see, in Windows Explorer the track playing is;

 

London Grammar - Metal & Dust

 

Now Playing shows correct on Artitst but Title is all capitalised

 

Notification shows same all capital Track name but Artist name is all lower case.

 

 

 

I know this is quite a minor graphical issue only but when you have such a beautiful looking application, these things matter :)

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Another thing I've just noticed - the Now playing side has probably been like this for a while but the notifications just highlighted the use of capitalisation (or not in some cases)

 

If you see, in Windows Explorer the track playing is;

 

London Grammar - Metal & Dust

 

Now Playing shows correct on Artitst but Title is all capitalised

 

Notification shows same all capital Track name but Artist name is all lower case.

 

 

 

I know this is quite a minor graphical issue only but when you have such a beautiful looking application, these things matter :)

 

Done! :) Capitalization of songs is now respected throughout the application. And, good choice of music btw :)

[jackslade]

Just installed the latest version (first time installed), and I can't see any of my album art.  All of my album art is embedded into the files (using mainly mp3tag, itunes, and tag & rename).  They show up in winamp/mp3tag, but not in musiX.  Any ideas why?

 

Thanks, seems like a good player so far, keep up the good work.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Just installed the latest version (first time installed), and I can't see any of my album art.  All of my album art is embedded into the files (using mainly mp3tag, itunes, and tag & rename).  They show up in winamp/mp3tag, but not in musiX.  Any ideas why?

 

Thanks, seems like a good player so far, keep up the good work.

 

Embedded art is not support yet, only images in the same directory as the files. I'm creating a feature request.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Don't like the song that's coming up? Skip it!

 

 

Notification controls are optional. The previous style notifications (from the previous build) are also available.

I've also made massive improvements to the performace of playlist handling for the next build. No more playlist delays now.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Hello again,

 

I've been busy. Here's build 277. This is the changelog:

 

• Added optional controls to the notifications
• Drastically improved performance of playlist handling
• Added file associations for m3u playlists (double-clicking them in windows loads the playlist in musiX)
• Added a workaround (until a better .NET FLAC component comes around) for FLAC files with unknown characters in the file name. This should solve the problem with Japanese characters in the file name
• improved file associations (you might have to remove and re-add associations due to the changes in this build)
• Added Windows Jumplist support (recently opened files)
• MusiX now respects capitalization of song information throughout the application

Info: this build upgrades your collection to a new version. Don't panic when musiX informs you about that :)

 

Next I'd like to add support for embedded album art. Let's see how that goes...

[Hardcore Til I Die]

I use Rdio so I don't have any use for native software, but I just wanted to say it looks absolutely gorgeous! Keep it up :D