Dopamine

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Nice didn't know a fellow .NET developer from Belgium created Dopamine

 

Hello fellow Belgian!

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Files sent. I'm also on 10049 ...

 

Downloading Windows 10 as we speak. Thanks for the files. Just downloaded them.

[chrisj1968]

If I can give words of encouragement AND help, help from getting yourself pulled into too many directions. The original UI is your core product by which we will all identify with your product.

 

We all have a milion and one ideas and I don't want you getting burned out on this. (not saying the ideas are bad.. actually a lot of very good) But I see dopamine being a great prodcuct. I think the core of your product is the main UI. then by your mock ups, you have a VERY lovely smaller interface which personally, is inspring. 

 

So you have the base of your product then you probably can break down peoples ideas or suggestions into categories and develop about priorities.

 

I'd just hate to see you get burned out on building up this product with so many ideas, but keep on doing what you are doing. simple suggestions.

 

as for downloading Windows 10, be careful until you get the patches.. https://www.neowin.net/news/if-you-are-a-developer-microsoft-recommends-you-do-not-upgrade-to-windows-10-build-10049  

 

 

If you are a developer using these tools today to develop Windows Universal apps and need this functionality to work

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

If I can give words of encouragement AND help, help from getting yourself pulled into too many directions. The original UI is your core product by which we will all identify with your product.

 

We all have a milion and one ideas and I don't want you getting burned out on this. (not saying the ideas are bad.. actually a lot of very good) But I see dopamine being a great prodcuct. I think the core of your product is the main UI. then by your mock ups, you have a VERY lovely smaller interface which personally, is inspring. 

 

So you have the base of your product then you probably can break down peoples ideas or suggestions into categories and develop about priorities.

 

I'd just hate to see you get burned out on building up this product with so many ideas, but keep on doing what you are doing. simple suggestions.

 

as for downloading Windows 10, be careful until you get the patches.. https://www.neowin.net/news/if-you-are-a-developer-microsoft-recommends-you-do-not-upgrade-to-windows-10-build-10049  

 

Thanks for the advise Chris! You are absolutely right. Sometimes I have to force myself to slow down I do, however, categorize and keep track of ideas and issues and pick those that suit me the most at a certain point in time (depending on my personal life )

 

As for the man UI. This is the plan: right after I fine-tune the Mini Player to the ideas I got today (can't stop myself today ), the focus goes back to the main UI, which means, implementation of stuff like Playlists, Tagging, Rating, fine-tuning.

 

Thanks for the Windows 10 tip. I'll install it in a VM to avoid interfering with development.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Just noticed something on Anarkii's sig. We are both running windows 10 TP. Not sure if this is a possible difference between Rapha

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Build 168 is available here

 

- Improved volume control by mouse wheel on the Mini Player
- Restored window buttons on Mini Player even when Playlist is not active

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Let me know what you think of the last build. One thing I'm not sure of: when you scroll on the volume button, the popup opens. While the popup is open, if you decide to hover the mouse over the popup, should it remain open (e.g. to click on mute)? Right now it doesn't. It only remains open when you explicitly opened it by clicking on the volume button. What do you think it should do?

[Xenon]

I think the mini player is now perfect. I don't see any way to improve it.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Yes, it should remain open. [since user sometime expect to switch to slider after it popup through clicking.]

 

Though after your mouse (cursor) leaves volume button and popup area for a while, it should fade away.

 

Perfect! I'm coding this right now.

 

Edit: thanks!

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

I think the mini player is now perfect. I don't see any way to improve it.

 

There are still some quirks that only I know about

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Noticed two minor things:

 

- Transition from "Now Playing" to Mini Player mode is not smooth, at least not for me, it could be because of me on HDD with VM running. I'll edit it later if that's would be the case.

 

EDIT: It seems it happened only two or three times during loading my collection, now its smooth. Weird. *VM is still running*. So it could be related to Indexing folder issue.

- Is this below mentioned intentional? Mini Player is not ready yet?

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Noticed two minor things:

 

- Transition from "Now Playing" to Mini Player mode is not smooth, at least not for me, it could be because of me on HDD with VM running. I'll edit it later if that's would be the case.

 

EDIT: It seems it happened only two or three times during loading my collection, now its smooth. Weird. *VM is still running*. So it could be related to Indexing folder issue.

- Is this below mentioned intentional? Mini Player is not ready yet?

 

The transition could be smoother, that is a known issue.

The mini player button being black is a bug. It happens only sometimes and seems to miss it's style sometimes (if you tilt your screen you'll see that it is there, but black). What happens when you close and reopen the player?

[+Zlip792 MVC]

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Closing and Reopening fixed it. Thanks.

 

A Little Request:

 

- If you minimize to system tray when in Mini Player. Can you give option in right click to restore to Full Mode (I'm calling it that) inside of mini player.

 

 

I will. It'll make that menu a bit more interesting

[chrisj1968]

Ok liking the button to change which UI a person wants. though took me a few to find it but a great start!

 

I rolled back to Win8.1 and works perfectly.

[cmhinnen]

Is the Play List on the Mini Player supposed to reflect the order the songs are playing?  I have my entire collection on shuffle.  The first song that is played is always the same song, and it is the song that is the first in the Play List.  However, the Play List does not match the order after the first song is played.  Is this intended?

 

It's a beautiful music player and I love it.  Great work!!!

 

 

[jasondefaoite]

Really liking the miniplayer in the latest build. The volume control is now perfect!   

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Is the Play List on the Mini Player supposed to reflect the order the songs are playing?  I have my entire collection on shuffle.  The first song that is played is always the same song, and it is the song that is the first in the Play List.  However, the Play List does not match the order after the first song is played.  Is this intended?

 

It's a beautiful music player and I love it.  Great work!!!

 

Actually the list is quite lazy right now. It displays the songs in the order they were enqueued by the full player (and there is even a small bug in it which causes positions to shift under some conditions). I want to add some logic to it, not sure what and how though. I sound logic that it would reflect the real playback order. So in shuffle mode, they should be shuffled. It is like a "what's next" list. I'll think a bit more about it.

 

The first song that is always the same song in shuffled mode is a remnant of the early development days. It should be random too in my opinion, and I'll look into that.

 

Thanks for liking it!

Really liking the miniplayer in the latest build. The volume control is now perfect! 

 

It's getting a little bit better in the next build

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Ok liking the button to change which UI a person wants. though took me a few to find it but a great start!

 

I rolled back to Win8.1 and works perfectly.

 

Hey Chris,

 

I'm not sure which button you mean Could you explain? (so I know what to improve )

[+Zlip792 MVC]

[PixelKind]

What a nice piece of Software - thank you for it!   It has a place on all my Windows machines.

[dakn]

I could be wrong but I think he means that if you like any person suggestion or comment, it signifies that it will be added in future version. Specifically UI relevant user feedback.

 

I thought he meant the button to switch from full to mini player???

[jackslade]

Again, great work on this music player.  Love using it.

 

Is it possible to have a help section/tooltip for the settings->playback options.  I'm not too familiar with what each option does (like event mode, exclusive mode, etc.)?  I know this is probably a low priority though, just wanted to get it on the radar.

 

Thanks.