Dopamine

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I have build 193 installed and I never got a notification that build 194 was released. I had to download the build manually.  Should I have gotten some sort of notification on startup to download the new build?  All 3 of the "Updates" options are set to Yes on the Startup tab.

 

The contents of my log from today when I started up the application is below.  I don't see any errors.

 

 

2015-04-24 08:43:22.2664|Info|Dopamine.Application.ExecuteStartup|### STARTING dopamine, version 1.0.0 (Build 193) ###
2015-04-24 08:43:30.2262|Info|Dopamine.Services.Playback.PlaybackService+VB$StateMachine_16_DeleteRuntimeFilesAsync.MoveNext|Deleting runtime files.
2015-04-24 08:43:32.7655|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|<<< Synapse indexer started >>>
2015-04-24 08:43:32.7815|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Waiting for the database
2015-04-24 08:43:32.7855|Info|Synapse.Synapse.WaitForDatabase|C:\Users\chinnen\AppData\Roaming\Dopamine\Dopamine.db was found. Proceeding.
2015-04-24 08:43:32.7855|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Initializing WCF proxies
2015-04-24 08:43:33.4645|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Initializing the Indexing Worker
2015-04-24 08:43:33.4645|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Initializing the LifeBeat Timer
2015-04-24 08:43:33.4645|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Starting the LifeBeat Timer
2015-04-24 08:43:33.4645|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Checking if indexing is needed
2015-04-24 08:43:33.4765|Info|Synapse.Worker+VB$StateMachine_2_IsCollectionChangedAsync.MoveNext|+++ STARTED CHECKING COLLECTION +++
2015-04-24 08:43:37.3279|Info|Synapse.Worker+VB$StateMachine_2_IsCollectionChangedAsync.MoveNext|+++FINISHED CHECKING COLLECTION: isCollectionChanged=False, Time required: 3845 ms +++
2015-04-24 08:43:37.3279|Info|Synapse.Synapse.CheckCollection|Checking with the main application if extra collection check is needed
2015-04-24 08:43:37.3479|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|No changes detected. Indexing is not needed
2015-04-24 08:43:37.3479|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Updating artwork
2015-04-24 08:43:37.3479|Info|Synapse.Worker+VB$StateMachine_4_UpdateArtworkAsync.MoveNext|+++ STARTED UPDATING ARTWORK +++
2015-04-24 08:43:37.9940|Info|Synapse.Worker+VB$StateMachine_4_UpdateArtworkAsync.MoveNext|+++ FINISHED UPDATING ARTWORK: Covers deleted from database: 0. Covers deleted from disk: 0. Covers updated: 0. Time required: 641 ms +++
2015-04-24 08:43:37.9990|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|<<< Synapse indexer NORMAL stop >>>
2015-04-24 08:48:30.2842|Info|Dopamine.Services.Playback.PlaybackService+VB$StateMachine_16_DeleteRuntimeFilesAsync.MoveNext|Deleting runtime files.
2015-04-24 08:53:30.3002|Info|Dopamine.Services.Playback.PlaybackService+VB$StateMachine_16_DeleteRuntimeFilesAsync.MoveNext|Deleting runtime files.
 

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I have build 193 installed and I never got a notification that build 194 was released. I had to download the build manually.  Should I have gotten some sort of notification on startup to download the new build?  All 3 of the "Updates" options are set to Yes on the Startup tab.

 

The contents of my log from today when I started up the application is below.  I don't see any errors.

 

 

2015-04-24 08:43:22.2664|Info|Dopamine.Application.ExecuteStartup|### STARTING dopamine, version 1.0.0 (Build 193) ###

2015-04-24 08:43:30.2262|Info|Dopamine.Services.Playback.PlaybackService+VB$StateMachine_16_DeleteRuntimeFilesAsync.MoveNext|Deleting runtime files.

2015-04-24 08:43:32.7655|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|<<< Synapse indexer started >>>

2015-04-24 08:43:32.7815|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Waiting for the database

2015-04-24 08:43:32.7855|Info|Synapse.Synapse.WaitForDatabase|C:\Users\chinnen\AppData\Roaming\Dopamine\Dopamine.db was found. Proceeding.

2015-04-24 08:43:32.7855|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Initializing WCF proxies

2015-04-24 08:43:33.4645|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Initializing the Indexing Worker

2015-04-24 08:43:33.4645|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Initializing the LifeBeat Timer

2015-04-24 08:43:33.4645|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Starting the LifeBeat Timer

2015-04-24 08:43:33.4645|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Checking if indexing is needed

2015-04-24 08:43:33.4765|Info|Synapse.Worker+VB$StateMachine_2_IsCollectionChangedAsync.MoveNext|+++ STARTED CHECKING COLLECTION +++

2015-04-24 08:43:37.3279|Info|Synapse.Worker+VB$StateMachine_2_IsCollectionChangedAsync.MoveNext|+++FINISHED CHECKING COLLECTION: isCollectionChanged=False, Time required: 3845 ms +++

2015-04-24 08:43:37.3279|Info|Synapse.Synapse.CheckCollection|Checking with the main application if extra collection check is needed

2015-04-24 08:43:37.3479|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|No changes detected. Indexing is not needed

2015-04-24 08:43:37.3479|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|Updating artwork

2015-04-24 08:43:37.3479|Info|Synapse.Worker+VB$StateMachine_4_UpdateArtworkAsync.MoveNext|+++ STARTED UPDATING ARTWORK +++

2015-04-24 08:43:37.9940|Info|Synapse.Worker+VB$StateMachine_4_UpdateArtworkAsync.MoveNext|+++ FINISHED UPDATING ARTWORK: Covers deleted from database: 0. Covers deleted from disk: 0. Covers updated: 0. Time required: 641 ms +++

2015-04-24 08:43:37.9990|Info|Synapse.Synapse.Main|<<< Synapse indexer NORMAL stop >>>

2015-04-24 08:48:30.2842|Info|Dopamine.Services.Playback.PlaybackService+VB$StateMachine_16_DeleteRuntimeFilesAsync.MoveNext|Deleting runtime files.

2015-04-24 08:53:30.3002|Info|Dopamine.Services.Playback.PlaybackService+VB$StateMachine_16_DeleteRuntimeFilesAsync.MoveNext|Deleting runtime files.

 

 

The only thing that changes when there is an update available is the icon here:

 

XIUDRa6.png

 

It becomes a download arrow. It is pretty subtle and I might have to improve that.

When you hover the arrow with the mouse you get info about the download. When you click the icon, it installs the package.

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Dopamine seems to have issues playing an extremely long mp3 file.

 

Log: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz3VcODA3BSVME5VbmZ6OVJoTU0/view?usp=sharing

Using Dopamine build 194 on Windows 8.1

 

Thanks for reporting. How large is the file?

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That would be lovely. By the way, what was the problem? (Just interested)

Thanks

 

Build 195 has been published. It fixes just this issue. Go get it tiger! :)

 

It's actually quite a long story. While developing musiX (my previous audio player) I discovered that it isn't possible to save tags for a file which is playing. Saving tags causes a "File is already in use by another process" error. Of course it is in use, because it is playing. Anyway that is how the audio library, which I use, behaves. So for Dopamine I built a workaround myself (well with some help from the audio lib guy): preloading the file in memory before playback. Preloading in memory worked fine until now, until you threw a large file at it and causes an OutOfMemoryException :rofl:. Don't worry, that's a good thing. At least I now know that wasn't the way to go. So in build 195 I removed that workaround and I just play files by the book now. When adding tagging support, I'll have to come up with a plan B. But these are worries for later.

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Good day kind sir. I quite enjoy using Dopamine to listen to my adequate tunes on my Windows 8.1 machine. But I seem to have stumbled upon a problem. When I play a collection of my tunes it seems that the program only plays one song but fails to advance to the next one. pls halp :(.

Apologies for my poor colloquial. 

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Good day kind sir. I quite enjoy using Dopamine to listen to my adequate tunes on my Windows 8.1 machine. But I seem to have stumbled upon a problem. When I play a collection of my tunes it seems that the program only plays one song but fails to advance to the next one. pls halp :(.

Apologies for my poor colloquial. 

 

Hi. I'm afraid I'll need more details. Maybe the logfile can help. Could you send it to me?

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Hi Raphael, just wanna ask if this music player of yours can play Movies. And have you made a Dopamine for Windows Phone version? Sorry, no time to check the threads. Already 47 pages XD Goodluck on your project. Cheers :beer: .

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Hi Raphael, just wanna ask if this music player of yours can play Movies. And have you made a Dopamine for Windows Phone version? Sorry, no time to check the threads. Already 47 pages XD Goodluck on your project. Cheers :beer: .

 

No it doesn't play movies. A Windows Phone version is not available yet but planned eventually when the desktop version is more feature rich. Two days ago however I was playing around a bit and put a Dopamine app on my phone, which does nothing yet.

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