Dopamine

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Don't change the nano player buttons (restore, min, close)

who cares about the cover art on that size player.... makes no sense.

I would not change this... its perfect the way it is..... work on other more pressing issues.

Rather work on window snapping... snapping to the edge of the screen.

 

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Don't change the nano player buttons (restore, min, close)

who cares about the cover art on that size player.... makes no sense.

I would not change this... its perfect the way it is..... work on other more pressing issues.

Rather work on window snapping... snapping to the edge of the screen.

 

In agreement, I like it how it is in the latest build (372), I'm happy with no album art.

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Going back, like genres, album art is so frequently either missing or just completely wrong (for some reason, half of my tracks missing album art display Creedence Clearwater Revival for some bizarre reason)

The times I DO use the album art functionally are when I'm doing something else (especially important when driving or playing a game or working on something intensive where my main attention is on another screen)

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Going back, like genres, album art is so frequently either missing or just completely wrong (for some reason, half of my tracks missing album art display Creedence Clearwater Revival for some bizarre reason)

The times I DO use the album art functionally are when I'm doing something else (especially important when driving or playing a game or working on something intensive where my main attention is on another screen)

Right now album art can come from 2 locations:

  • Embedded art (has priority over external art)
  • external art (cover.jpg, cover.jpeg, cover.png, front.jpg, front.jpeg or front.png in the directory where the audio files reside). Please check hidden files too.

For these audio files, check both to see if one of them is not the art which is displayed in Dopamine. If it isn't, I'll need more details and maybe 1 of those audio files and a list of your directory content to verify.

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Ok, let's put everything together. Because I don't want to release something half-baked.

To achieve a small Nano Player height, it was required to strip everything from the standard window style, which caused 2 issues:

1. The standard window shadow was lost
2. Maximizing was always fullscreen

Both were unacceptable. So to resolve these issues I used rather ugly hacks. The custom window shadow is one of its results.

By demand (and because I'd also rather have it this way) I increased the size of the Nano Player to a standard minimum window size of 39 px. That allows usage of the default Window shadow and allows me to remove the hacks. This however causes 2 new issues:

1. Due to the taller size, it sticks out of the title bars (sorry guys, I can't do anything about it)
2. The window buttons are just smaller than the window height, which make them look out of alignment

For issue 2, hiding the buttons under a cover picture seems silly (such small cover picture makes no sense indeed, I agree about that). So what now? Centering the buttons doesn't look right. So I tried smaller buttons, which somewhat don't look out of alignment. Would this work?

 

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Ok, let's put everything together. Because I don't want to release something half-baked.

To achieve a small Nano Player height, it was required to strip everything from the standard window style, which caused 2 issues:

1. The standard window shadow was lost
2. Maximizing was always fullscreen

Both were unacceptable. So to resolve these issues I used rather ugly hacks. The custom window shadow is one of its results.

By demand (and because I'd also rather have it this way) I increased the size of the Nano Player to a standard minimum window size of 39 px. That allows usage of the default Window shadow and allows me to remove the hacks. This however causes 2 new issues:

1. Due to the taller size, it sticks out of the title bars (sorry guys, I can't do anything about it)
2. The window buttons are just smaller than the window height, which make them look out of alignment

For issue 2, hiding the buttons under a cover picture seems silly (such small cover picture makes no sense indeed, I agree about that). So what now? Centering the buttons doesn't look right. So I tried smaller buttons, which somewhat don't look out of alignment. Would this work?

 

Nano.png

That looks fine to me. (Y)

 

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Ok, let's put everything together. Because I don't want to release something half-baked.

To achieve a small Nano Player height, it was required to strip everything from the standard window style, which caused 2 issues:

1. The standard window shadow was lost
2. Maximizing was always fullscreen

Both were unacceptable. So to resolve these issues I used rather ugly hacks. The custom window shadow is one of its results.

By demand (and because I'd also rather have it this way) I increased the size of the Nano Player to a standard minimum window size of 39 px. That allows usage of the default Window shadow and allows me to remove the hacks. This however causes 2 new issues:

1. Due to the taller size, it sticks out of the title bars (sorry guys, I can't do anything about it)
2. The window buttons are just smaller than the window height, which make them look out of alignment

For issue 2, hiding the buttons under a cover picture seems silly (such small cover picture makes no sense indeed, I agree about that). So what now? Centering the buttons doesn't look right. So I tried smaller buttons, which somewhat don't look out of alignment. Would this work?

 

Nano.png

Could always make the Close/window controls 46x46? That way they're square and the icons are perfectly centered.

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Could always make the Close/window controls 46x46? That way they're square and the icons are perfectly centered.

Tried that, it would look like that. Isn't that a bit huge? :rofl:

That player give me headaches. Sometimes I want to kill it with fire :shiftyninja::)

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Tried that, it would look like that. Isn't that a bit huge? :rofl:

That player give me headaches. Sometimes I want to kill it with fire :shiftyninja::)

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Those buttons do indeed look too large in my humble opinion. I think your previous approach looks better.

Raphaël, it's amazing how many headaches you can get from writing a music player, isn't it? :rofl::blush:

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Those buttons do indeed look too large in my humble opinion. I think your previous approach looks better.

Raphaël, it's amazing how many headaches you can get from writing a music player, isn't it? :rofl::blush:

You have no idea! :)

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Tejoenardo

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Ok, let's put everything together. Because I don't want to release something half-baked.

To achieve a small Nano Player height, it was required to strip everything from the standard window style, which caused 2 issues:

1. The standard window shadow was lost
2. Maximizing was always fullscreen

Both were unacceptable. So to resolve these issues I used rather ugly hacks. The custom window shadow is one of its results.

By demand (and because I'd also rather have it this way) I increased the size of the Nano Player to a standard minimum window size of 39 px. That allows usage of the default Window shadow and allows me to remove the hacks. This however causes 2 new issues:

1. Due to the taller size, it sticks out of the title bars (sorry guys, I can't do anything about it)
2. The window buttons are just smaller than the window height, which make them look out of alignment

For issue 2, hiding the buttons under a cover picture seems silly (such small cover picture makes no sense indeed, I agree about that). So what now? Centering the buttons doesn't look right. So I tried smaller buttons, which somewhat don't look out of alignment. Would this work?

 

Nano.png

This one looks best for me.

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Ok, let's put everything together. Because I don't want to release something half-baked.

To achieve a small Nano Player height, it was required to strip everything from the standard window style, which caused 2 issues:

1. The standard window shadow was lost
2. Maximizing was always fullscreen

Both were unacceptable. So to resolve these issues I used rather ugly hacks. The custom window shadow is one of its results.

By demand (and because I'd also rather have it this way) I increased the size of the Nano Player to a standard minimum window size of 39 px. That allows usage of the default Window shadow and allows me to remove the hacks. This however causes 2 new issues:

1. Due to the taller size, it sticks out of the title bars (sorry guys, I can't do anything about it)
2. The window buttons are just smaller than the window height, which make them look out of alignment

For issue 2, hiding the buttons under a cover picture seems silly (such small cover picture makes no sense indeed, I agree about that). So what now? Centering the buttons doesn't look right. So I tried smaller buttons, which somewhat don't look out of alignment. Would this work?

 

Nano.png

This looks great! I like the smaller buttons, but can you make them fade out and back in on mouse hover?  I think that would please both camps?

Tray controls, this is not a mock-up (progress bar to be added):

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I can not wait for this... I want it now... lol

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This looks great! I like the smaller buttons, but can you make them fade out and back in on mouse hover?  I think that would please both camps?

 

I can not wait for this... I want it now... lol

Smaller buttons: alright, I didn't get any negative reactions yet, and you fading idea sounds good. I'll do it for the next build and see what happens :)

Tray controls: soon, soon :)

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Smaller buttons: alright, I didn't get any negative reactions yet, and you fading idea sounds good. I'll do it for the next build and see what happens :)

Tray controls: soon, soon :)

Soon, Soon! I miss a new preview to play with all these new features! :)

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Hi all,

There's a new Dopamine preview available. The attached screenshot summarizes a bit what's new. This is the changelog:

23-09-2015: Dopamine 1.0.0.391 (Preview)

- Fixed the time not being displayed on the Now Playing screen since the last build
- Now using the default Windows Shadow instead of a custom shadow and glow
- Changed the look of the Nano Player
- Added optional 1px border to the windows
- Fixed a bug where opening files from explorer caused a crash
- Updated the French translation. Thanks Anthony!
- Added semantic zoom for artists and genres
- When 'Follow the playing song' is enabled, the playing song is now displayed at the top.
- Fixed the bottom of the cover picture being cut off in the full player controls pane
- Added tray controls
- Notifications are only shown when the main window is not visible

Tray controls only position correctly when using the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Multidisplay was not tested yet. Those tweaks are next.

Get it here while it's hot!

new dopamine.png

Edit: I just noticed the Window controls of the Nano player could use some work: gradient under the buttons could be improved, and color in combination with the light theme is not correct. That'll be work for tomorrow :)

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accuratecopy

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Happy to play with this new version! Nice changelog :)
I like the new 1px border but i would like to know if it's possible to show the border only when the window is active, or maybe add an option to do that.

Oh and it seems like Dopamine is starting faster, i don't have the cursor on the splash screen anymore... (On Surface Pro 3 Core i7)

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Tejoenardo

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Hi all,

There's a new Dopamine preview available. The attached screenshot summarizes a bit what's new. This is the changelog:

23-09-2015: Dopamine 1.0.0.391 (Preview)

- Fixed the time not being displayed on the Now Playing screen since the last build
- Now using the default Windows Shadow instead of a custom shadow and glow
- Changed the look of the Nano Player
- Added optional 1px border to the windows
- Fixed a bug where opening files from explorer caused a crash
- Updated the French translation. Thanks Anthony!
- Added semantic zoom for artists and genres
- When 'Follow the playing song' is enabled, the playing song is now displayed at the top.
- Fixed the bottom of the cover picture being cut off in the full player controls pane
- Added tray controls
- Notifications are only shown when the main window is not visible

Tray controls only position correctly when using the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Multidisplay was not tested yet. Those tweaks are next.

Get it here while it's hot!

new dopamine.png

Edit: I just noticed the Window controls of the Nano player could use some work: gradient under the buttons could be improved, and color in combination with the light theme is not correct. That'll be work for tomorrow :)

It's real HOT! Thanks Raphael :rolleyes:

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