Dopamine

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Hi all!

A new Dopamine build is available. This is the changelog:

19-08-2015: Dopamine 1.0.0.299 (Preview)

- Added tooltips to the list of songs
- Updated the file icons
- Adapted the UI to fit Windows 10
- Fixed a bug where the volume button wasn't synced between the different player screens
- Improved the albums search to also search for non-album artists
- Improved stability

Download here

[ZipZapRap]

Hey Raphaël

Any chance you could make it so that when a track is finished playing on the Now Playing menu, the screen pivots back to the artists/albums area we were at before, instead of just showing a blank Now Playing menu?

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Hey Raphaël

Any chance you could make it so that when a track is finished playing on the Now Playing menu, the screen pivots back to the artists/albums area we were at before, instead of just showing a blank Now Playing menu?

Yes I can do that. I'll add it to the list of improvements for the now playing screen, which now are:

- jump to now playing when opening files from explorer (optional)

- add a button to show the queue on the now playing screen

- jump to collection view when finished playing on now playing screen (optional)

[ZipZapRap]

Cheers

[Tejoenardo]

Hey Raphael. Just like what I was expected before, this newest update make the play/pause button becoming harder to click, because of its super-tiny size. I tried this new version and sometimes I failed to click on it. I would recommend you to add a circle around the button, to make it larger like the previous version.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Hey Raphael. Just like what I was expected before, this newest update make the play/pause button becoming harder to click, because of its super-tiny size. I tried this new version and sometimes I failed to click on it. I would recommend you to add a circle around the button, to make it larger like the previous version.

You're right, clicking them got harder. The circle is not coming back though (unless I change my mind again in some distant future :)) BUT based on your feedback I've increased the clickable area around the controls (similar to how it is done in store apps). So you now have an area of 30x30 pixels to hit all playback controls, including play/pause.

Please check out build 300 which was just pushed.

[Xenon]

Hi Raphael,

Quick question. I am switching computers in a week or so and want to copy my playlists over to the new machine. Where are they saved? 

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Hi Raphael,

Quick question. I am switching computers in a week or so and want to copy my playlists over to the new machine. Where are they saved? 

In the database. There is currently no way to export them. But I can add a feature to same them to m3u files (I can get this ready rather quickly). You want?

[Xenon]

In the database. There is currently no way to export them. But I can add a feature to same them to m3u files (I can get this ready rather quickly). You want?

Sure, but no rush. I am switching in about a week. Thanks alot!

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

 

Sure, but no rush. I am switching in about a week. Thanks alot!

No problem. Be sure to check out the right click menu once the next build is released:

 

[+Zagadka Subscriber²]

The "check for updates" thing seems disabled? Also, I'd suggest adding a button to it to manually check for updates.

Also, a direct link to the site on the About page would be helpful.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

The "check for updates" thing seems disabled? Also, I'd suggest adding a button to it to manually check for updates.

Also, a direct link to the site on the About page would be helpful.

You mean it is disabled by default? Or doesn't it work at all? For now, to check immediately, you could disable and re-enable checking for updates. It does a check each time the toggle button is enabled.

For the direct link to the downloads: will do!

[BinaryData]

Raphael! You definitely need to port this to Linux! Learn some C++. I've got my co-worker hooked on it. He wants to make themes for it, but doesn't know anymore more than paint. 

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

A new dopamine build is available. This is the changelog:

23-08-2015: Dopamine 1.0.0.307 (Preview)

- Polished the UI a bit
- Added saving of playlists to m3u
- Added a white icon in the Dopamine\Icons to allow creation of a Windows 10 like shortcut

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Raphael! You definitely need to port this to Linux! Learn some C++. I've got my co-worker hooked on it. He wants to make themes for it, but doesn't know anymore more than paint. 

I'm not a fan of C++. Also, porting to C++ would require months of work. While there is also the Mono Framework, which is slower than C++ but would allow faster porting, we're still missing WPF. This gets in the way of creating a similar UI.

[Seabizkit]

Please enable Shuffle and Loop at the same time.

if you want to see that it doesn't.

1.go to playlist.

2.have loop on.

3.play top track.

4.Press next track.

5. If it goes down one, then shuffle is not on.

 

much proffered the old UI icons for mini player....

looks quite weird now.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Please enable Shuffle and Loop at the same time.

if you want to see that it doesn't.

1.go to playlist.

2.have loop on.

3.play top track.

4.Press next track.

5. If it goes down one, then shuffle is not on.

 

much proffered the old UI icons for mini player....

looks quite weird now.

That's by design. Loop is just loop (no shuffle). Shuffle is shuffle, but shuffle also makes sure your listening to music never gets interrupted (= there will always be a next song, which is kind of looping).

So to get the behavior you want, please enable shuffle instead.

Edit: As for the icons, sorry. You're the second person which is dissapointed. I'm trying to make it fit Windows 10. The old icons looked dated in Windows 10.

[Xenon]

A new dopamine build is available. This is the changelog:

23-08-2015: Dopamine 1.0.0.307 (Preview)

- Polished the UI a bit
- Added saving of playlists to m3u
- Added a white icon in the Dopamine\Icons to allow creation of a Windows 10 like shortcut

 

Just tried saving my playlists to m3u and it works great. But...... For some reason the playlists don't work with groove music. I tested them on itunes, mediamonkey, mpc-hc x64, windows media player all work. I am gonna use dopamine but I thought you should know. 

Edited August 23, 2015 by Xenon

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

 

Just tried saving my playlists to m3u and it works great. But...... For some reason the playlists don't work with groove music. I tested them on itunes, mediamonkey, mpc-hc x64, windows media player all work. I am gonna use dopamine but I thought you should know. 

Thanks a lot for letting me know! I'll check out what's going on with Groove

Edit: strange, I can't reproduce it here. Whatever I do, my playlists always work in Groove.

Edited August 23, 2015 by Raphaël G.

[Xenon]

Thanks a lot for letting me know! I'll check out what's going on with Groove

Edit: strange, I can't reproduce it here. Whatever I do, my playlists always work in Groove.

Well its not Dopamine. Groove on my machine gets the same error from whatever program I use to make the m3u. My Groove must be screwed up.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

 

Well its not Dopamine. Groove on my machine gets the same error from whatever program I use to make the m3u. My Groove must be screwed up.

That's good news for me Thanks for letting me know.

[BinaryData]

I'm not a fan of C++. Also, porting to C++ would require months of work. While there is also the Mono Framework, which is slower than C++ but would allow faster porting, we're still missing WPF. This gets in the way of creating a similar UI.

C++ can use the WPF UI, though, I'm not sure how well it would port to Linux. I can always research it, and let you know. I think Linux may have something similar, unless Ubuntu dev's are using images for those graphics.

[BinaryData]

Thanks a lot for letting me know! I'll check out what's going on with Groove

Edit: strange, I can't reproduce it here. Whatever I do, my playlists always work in Groove.

Apologies to the mods for the double post.

Raphael, are you running the same setup he is? Is there a version number for the m3u information. Is he using an updated version. Just some food for thought.

Xenon, post your PC information. What OS, what bit, are you updated? Are you running anything that could potentially interfere? There's a reason why.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

C++ can use the WPF UI, though, I'm not sure how well it would port to Linux. I can always research it, and let you know. I think Linux may have something similar, unless Ubuntu dev's are using images for those graphics.

I'd be interested to know what is being used in Linux these days. When I used linux I only knew about GTK an QT, which are more winforms-like to work with.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Apologies to the mods for the double post.
Raphael, are you running the same setup he is? Is there a version number for the m3u information. Is he using an updated version. Just some food for thought.

Xenon, post your PC information. What OS, what bit, are you updated? Are you running anything that could potentially interfere? There's a reason why.

It seems (see posts above) it isn't Dopamine causing this. Playlists coming from other players cause the same issue. My playlists are just flat text files containing the paths of the audio files. I wouldn't expect too many problems with them.

Maybe that error number which is thrown by Groove can tell us more.