musiX

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

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

 

Thanks! And, I will :)

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Well I solved some annoyances this week:

 

- I found a new audio component for FLAC, which means musiX now fully supports FLAC with seeking.

- I've massively improved the spectrum performance. It's now follows the music much more closely.

- musiX now uses wasapi for sound output instead of DirectSound.

 

Other small things which happened:

 

- Added loop and shuffle to the notification controls

- Misc. GUI changes

- New icons

 

I think these improvements alone deserve a new preview. Stay tuned.

 

After that I really should go back to implementing support for embedded cover art  :)

[Art_X]

Not bad although the spectrum animation needs a bit of a look over, it is rather slow, and seems to be slightly out of sync with the audio, another little issue is, say you have a 2/3 or 4 CD set, and you have it set to Album view, it will list the songs in numerical order, so instead of it grouping the songs by album, you end up getting

 

01. song name - disc 1

01. song name - disc 2

01. song name - disc 3

01. song name - disc 4

02. song name - disc 1

02. song name - disc 2

02. song name - disc 3

02. song name - disc 4

 

 

etc etc

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Not bad although the spectrum animation needs a bit of a look over, it is rather slow, and seems to be slightly out of sync with the audio, another little issue is, say you have a 2/3 or 4 CD set, and you have it set to Album view, it will list the songs in numerical order, so instead of it grouping the songs by album, you end up getting

 

01. song name - disc 1

01. song name - disc 2

01. song name - disc 3

01. song name - disc 4

02. song name - disc 1

02. song name - disc 2

02. song name - disc 3

02. song name - disc 4

 

 

etc etc

 

Thanks for reporting this! I added the ordering by disc some builds ago and then broke it. I just fixed it for the next build.

The spectrum will be faster in the next build, when using WASAPI as output device.

[Robot Emas]

Superb great works mate!
Easily become my main and best music player, thank you!

Here's my screenshot :

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Superb great works mate!

Easily become my main and best music player, thank you!

Here's my screenshot :

 

I'm very glad you like it. Thanks for the screenshot! It's always nice to see musiX in action somewhere else :)

[tsupersonic]

Keep up the great work! :)

 

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Keep up the great work! :)

 

musix.png

 

Nice minimalistic setup! :)

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Embedded album art is now supported in musiX (only displaying of art, not yet adding or editing art). Once I stabilize what I've added this week, I can release a new build. Here is another teaser:

 

[tsupersonic]

Nice minimalistic setup! :)

It's a trick! I hid the few desktop icons to make it clean. Teaser looks good!

[Skiver Veteran]

Have you considered maybe adding a volume control display/control built into the notification? I'm not sure if it would add too much and loose some of the beautiful simplicity but its worth considering, I made a very crude edit in paint to try and show you what I mean;

 

 

I think the black is a little too harsh but I'm sure you could tie the theme in somehow if you think it works.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Have you considered maybe adding a volume control display/control built into the notification? I'm not sure if it would add too much and loose some of the beautiful simplicity but its worth considering, I made a very crude edit in paint to try and show you what I mean;

 

 

I think the black is a little too harsh but I'm sure you could tie the theme in somehow if you think it works.

 

That is definitely possible and easy to add. So I'll add it :) The notifications were already going the way of some screenshot someone posted here some time ago. And on that screenshot there was a volume control.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Another teaser. Instead of just letting musiX decide what type of cover art to display, I wanted options like foobar2000 offers. So that's how it now is:

 

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Hey everyone. We're almost there. A new preview is imminent. In the meantime, a teaser of the volume slider on the notifications and embedded album art:

 

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

And all status messages now appear at the top right:

 

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

I improved he "edit song" window a bit:

 

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Hi everyone. Version 1.0 Build 290 is available. This is the changelog:

 

• Added loop, shuffle and a volume slider to the notification controls
• Added embedded album art support
• Added new icons for file associations
• Replaced the FLAC library. FLAC is now fully supported, including seek
• Changed to WASAPI output and added options to change the output latency (this affects responsiveness of the spectrum analyzer)
• Misc. GUI changes

[FiB3R]

Always takes me a while to find this lol

 

http://raphaelgodart.tumblr.com/downloads

[Skiver Veteran]

I can't be 100% sure if this occured previously or during this upgrade however there seems to be an issue with my collection in that its cutting songs short;

 

 

As you can see the song playing is shown as having 1:08 length but in the playlist it shows 3:50. The file properties also shows 3:50 and in WMP it will play for the correct length. There seem to be a lot of tracks that are all like this, but not all of them

Always takes me a while to find this lol

 

http://raphaelgodart.tumblr.com/downloads

Do you not have the update notification turned on? I just click the link in the app and it takes me straight to the download. I tend to find out through here first but its handy as I can know whether there is an update or not without checking the thread/blog.

[FiB3R]

Still think it should say "re-scanning your collection". Upgrading sounds like you are doing something to my files, which is a no-no.

Also seem to be having the same issue as Skiver. Tracks being cut short.

[Darrian]

With the new build I'm having an issue where even though it detects a song is say 3:42 it only plays like 39 seconds of it and then goes on to the next track.  Is there some new preview song setting I'm missing?  The files are AAC/M4A.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

That's not right. It took me a while to find files in my collection which also produce this bug. I'm working on it and will try to have a new build ready ASAP.

[Skiver Veteran]

Let me know if there is any logs/info you need from me

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Let me know if there is any logs/info you need from me

 

Thanks. Not needed for now. There was a bug in the new audio component I'm using for mp3, m4a and flac. I contacted the developer and he already fixed it (his response time is unbelievable). The fixed component is already in musiX and I'm testing. It indeed seems fixed. I'm doing some more testing and if all goes as planned, a new build will be available tonight.

[Skiver Veteran]

Wow, brilliant. Sound like you have found a kindred developer spirit!