musiX

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

how's the recoding going Raph? getting close to releasing any of those teasers? :p

 

 

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Hi everyone. Coding is going well. Due to some choices I made (read: new libraries I've added), I had some technical challenges to tackle. But I got through the difficult stuff, I've rebuilt the core, and am now rebuilding the UI. Code-wise, everything is now structured in cleaner and more maintainable modules. That was needed to go forward with this project.

 

So as I'm now rebuilding the UI, there might be some teasers soon. But you'll still need some patience... :)

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Hi everyone.

 

I have some annoying news today. Last Friday someone broke into our house while we were at work and stole 2 camera's, jewels, a ridiculous amount of money (3 euro's :| ), 2 extension cords :|  :| and last but not least, my laptop (on which I develop musiX :cry: ). Luckily I store all my source code on my TFS server, which they didn't care to take :shifty: . So the good news is, musiX is not lost  :) However I'm now planning to do regular backups in the cloud, just in case this happens again. I'm still trying to figure out the easiest solution though. Right now I can't think of anything else than manually copying to OneDrive... 

 

So, the plan now is to buy another laptop (probably next weekend). I'm also very busy securing the home (I've installed an IP camera and planning to add more. This week I also plan to add movement detectors, an alarm siren, some light outside which react to movement :shiftyninja: ). So this means I have my hands full right now and development will get delayed a bit more :(  It's starting to feel weird, not having written any code for several days :)

 

Anyway, I'll probably have better news next time! As soon as I have my new laptop, things should get rolling again :)

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Hi everyone.

 

I have some annoying news today. Last Friday someone broke into our house while we were at work and stole 2 camera's, jewels, a ridiculous amount of money (3 euro's :| ), 2 extension cords :|  :| and last but not least, my laptop (on which I develop musiX :cry: ). Luckily I store all my source code on my TFS server, which they didn't care to take :shifty: . So the good news is, musiX is not lost  :) However I'm now planning to do regular backups in the cloud, just in case this happens again. I'm still trying to figure out the easiest solution though. Right now I can't think of anything else than manually copying to OneDrive... 

 

So, the plan now is to buy another laptop (probably next weekend). I'm also very busy securing the home (I've installed an IP camera and planning to add more. This week I also plan to add movement detectors, an alarm siren, some light outside which react to movement :shiftyninja: ). So this means I have my hands full right now and development will get delayed a bit more :(  It's starting to feel weird, not having written any code for several days :)

 

Anyway, I'll probably have better news next time! As soon as I have my new laptop, things should get rolling again :)

 

If you and your family members are safe then its only thing which matters actually, heck with other stuff. Take Care of yourself and your family.

[tsupersonic]

Hi everyone.

 

I have some annoying news today. Last Friday someone broke into our house while we were at work and stole 2 camera's, jewels, a ridiculous amount of money (3 euro's :| ), 2 extension cords :|  :| and last but not least, my laptop (on which I develop musiX :cry: ). Luckily I store all my source code on my TFS server, which they didn't care to take :shifty: . So the good news is, musiX is not lost  :) However I'm now planning to do regular backups in the cloud, just in case this happens again. I'm still trying to figure out the easiest solution though. Right now I can't think of anything else than manually copying to OneDrive... 

 

So, the plan now is to buy another laptop (probably next weekend). I'm also very busy securing the home (I've installed an IP camera and planning to add more. This week I also plan to add movement detectors, an alarm siren, some light outside which react to movement :shiftyninja: ). So this means I have my hands full right now and development will get delayed a bit more :(  It's starting to feel weird, not having written any code for several days :)

 

Anyway, I'll probably have better news next time! As soon as I have my new laptop, things should get rolling again :)

Hopefully you and family are ok! While it is a hassle to lose those goods, they are all replaceable! 

[FiB3R]

Sorry to hear that, Rapha?l.

I have had my home broken into before, and had my mountain bike stolen from outside my house just last night :(

[Skiver Veteran]

Sorry to hear about this Rapha?l, As others have said nothing is more important then getting your families life back on track!

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Thanks for your support everyone. My family and I are fine. Good thing we weren't home when they got in the house. My daughter of 5 had trouble sleeping the first night, but she's doing better now. My son of 2 didn't realize what happened. It's better this way.

Sorry to hear that, Rapha?l.

I have had my home broken into before, and had my mountain bike stolen from outside my house just last night :(

 

Sorry to hear that too. There are really a lot of lowlifes out there...

[Aasum]

Sorry to hear about the whole home invasion thing. Does this support .cue+FLAC images? If not is there a possibility of adding support and some kind of logic that if a FLAC file is over X size check Cue and add tracks based on that?

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Sorry to hear about the whole home invasion thing. Does this support .cue+FLAC images? If not is there a possibility of adding support and some kind of logic that if a FLAC file is over X size check Cue and add tracks based on that?

 

I might do that, but not soon though.

 

Other than that, I'm happy to announce that I got back to writing code. I don't have a new laptop yet, but I found a workable solution in the meantime.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Teaser time!

 

This teaser won't show you much yet. But I wanted to show there's still a lot going on with the next musiX. This is an early version of the new welcome screen, launched directly from Visual Studio.

 

[Draconian Guppy]

Teaser time!

 

This teaser won't show you much yet. But I wanted to show there's still a lot going on with the next musiX. This is an early version of the new welcome screen, launched directly from Visual Studio.

 

 

You know what, i'm blaming you, you got us used to frequent release schedules!

[xrobwx71]

I seem to be getting this each time I open the program. I have tried installing the latest version again but it still happens :(

 

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The Sonar uses the "how many users" score. It is fine, just tell Norton to allow it and it goes away until the next build. 

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

You know what, i'm blaming you, you got us used to frequent release schedules!

 

Haha yes, you're probably right :) I think I wanted to change too much with the next release. It's taking longer than expected.

[+Raze Subscriber²]

Waiting patiently -

 

 

;)

[TAZMINATOR]

Waiting patiently -

 

 

;)

 

 

:p

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

 

:p

 

You guys are great :)

 

What a terrible software development day it was today. I've spent a great part of the day trying to implement a simple stupid thing. But the code kept messing with my head. Sometimes even the simplest things make you lose a lot of time.

[+Raze Subscriber²]

Time for a break.  We can wait a day or two.  ;)

 

 

 

j/k  Quality takes time. :)

[Jub]

Last Friday someone broke into our house.

 

Very sorry to hear this, mate! I've been a victim of burglary myself so I understand what it entails. We (temporarily) lost so much but fortunately my brother came home in time and managed to pin the woman down. Still, the feeling of violation is the worst bit.

 

However I'm now planning to do regular backups in the cloud, just in case this happens again. I'm still trying to figure out the easiest solution though.

 

I can only say one thing and that's VCS. BitBucket offer free, private repositories and it's backed by a large and respectable company. Do yourself a favour and get accustomed to Git or similar, you'll enjoy working with code so much more!

 

Also, can't wait for the next version. Windows 10 is in bad need of some MusiX. :)

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Very sorry to hear this, mate! I've been a victim of burglary myself so I understand what it entails. We (temporarily) lost so much but fortunately my brother came home in time and managed to pin the woman down. Still, the feeling of violation is the worst bit.

 

 

I can only say one thing and that's VCS. BitBucket offer free, private repositories and it's backed by a large and respectable company. Do yourself a favour and get accustomed to Git or similar, you'll enjoy working with code so much more!

 

Also, can't wait for the next version. Windows 10 is in bad need of some MusiX. :)

 

Damn right, the feeling of having an unwanted person in your house is the worst. Luckily, for the financial loss, we have pretty good insurance which covered 85% of the costs. Unfortunately that will never cover the loss of the videos of our son's first 6 months. They were still on the camera which was stolen. For some unknown reason (life I guess) they didn't get transferred to the desktop computer, the rest did).

 

Thanks for the BitBucket tip! I was considering Visual Studio Online which also does seem interesting as a Cloud repository. Now I have 2 options :)

[Skiver Veteran]

Just had a pretty big crash, to the point it affected my overall system performance when it happened. I was just listening to music randomly (the entire collection of around 617 tracks) and it just died very randomly. I wasn't skipping tracks or anything, it was mid song. My whole laptop froze for a few seconds and then moving the mouse was difficult as it stuttered when attempting to move and didn't seem to want to stay still.

 

Looking at the logs, there are a lot of errors regarding Album Art but that is it, log is here if you want it.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hwdv665pgxcjgfm/musiX.log?dl=0

 

However my Event Viewer logs look like they could be a little more helpful as there are two application errors related;

 

 

Application: musiX.exe

Framework Version: v4.0.30319

Description: The process was terminated due to an internal error in the .NET Runtime at IP 539CBEC4 (53980000) with exit code 80131506.

 

 

Faulting application name: musiX.exe, version: 1.0.295.0, time stamp: 0x53d7e140

Faulting module name: clr.dll, version: 4.0.30319.34014, time stamp: 0x52e0b784

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x0004bec4

Faulting process id: 0x1d74

Faulting application start time: 0x01d00a285fe49913

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\musiX\musiX.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\clr.dll

Report Id: ed92a87b-761e-11e4-8299-2016d894841c

Faulting package full name: 

Faulting package-relative application ID: 

 

I know you are working on a overhaul and this is the first and only time this has happened and I think I've been using your product since you first posted here on a near daily basis so don't spend too much time on this. Let me know if you want any more info from me though.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Just had a pretty big crash, to the point it affected my overall system performance when it happened. I was just listening to music randomly (the entire collection of around 617 tracks) and it just died very randomly. I wasn't skipping tracks or anything, it was mid song. My whole laptop froze for a few seconds and then moving the mouse was difficult as it stuttered when attempting to move and didn't seem to want to stay still.

 

Looking at the logs, there are a lot of errors regarding Album Art but that is it, log is here if you want it.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hwdv665pgxcjgfm/musiX.log?dl=0

 

However my Event Viewer logs look like they could be a little more helpful as there are two application errors related;

 

 

 

I know you are working on a overhaul and this is the first and only time this has happened and I think I've been using your product since you first posted here on a near daily basis so don't spend too much time on this. Let me know if you want any more info from me though.

 

Sorry for the late reply! :blush: Thanks a lot for reporting this. It's doing strange things with the cover picture cache. It seems it's trying to clear the cache while cover pictures are still in use. I'll keep an eye on that for when rewriting the indexer.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Hi everyone,

 

I've got a very small teaser for you. I've finished coding of the new indexer engine (that was quite some work). That means that audio files now get indexed into an sqlite database instead of an xml file. From now on, everything is categorized into Artists and Albums in the database, from the start. That makes categorizing in the UI much quicker and easier. Indexing is now done by a background process, which keeps the UI more responsive while indexing. And indexing seems faster than before (this might be subjective though, as I've not done any measurements yet).

 

Below is a picture of the top of the main window, which shows the categories and the mini-player button (top-right, next to the minimize button). The mini-player button is rather zune-like. My mini-player will be cleaner though :):

 

 

There is still a lot of work to do before release. But I'm getting there slowly.

[Darrian]

Thanks for taking the time to keep us updated

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Thanks for taking the time to keep us updated

 

No problem. I'll have more updates soon.

[cooky560 Veteran]

Looking like a very nice project, looking forward to hearing more about it