Dopamine

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

8 minutes ago, FiB3R said:

Quite a major update

 

How long has digimezzo been a thing?

Yeah quite some work and time went into this one. It's been an exhausting few weeks. A lot, which is not listen in the changelog as it concerns the internals, has changed under the hood: semantic zoom, indexing, update check, refresh after search, filling of lists. I should pause a bit after that build, but knowing myself I'll probably just dive into the next features .  Digimezzo is new. The next build will be the first to be hosted over there. My blog will be phased out after some time.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Hi everyone. I have a question:

 

Are there still people using a 32 bit CPU and OS?

[accuratecopy]

Just now, Raphaël G. said:

Hi everyone. I have a question:

 

Are there still people using a 32 bit CPU and OS?

Hey there!

To answer your question, i don't.

[Ravensky]

33 minutes ago, Raphaël G. said:

Hi everyone. I have a question:

 

Are there still people using a 32 bit CPU and OS?

I am not, most do not I would imagine anymore...

[Thomas the Tank Engine]

38 minutes ago, Raphaël G. said:

Hi everyone. I have a question:

 

Are there still people using a 32 bit CPU and OS?

 

I don't.  And computers now are sold with an x64 CPU & OS.

[Mando]

i dont but my dad does Raph  but its ok he doesnt use dopamine  not yet anyways

[FiB3R]

0 out of 5 PC's in this household.

[Louisifer]

x64 since Vista.  

 

I'd assume those still running a 32 bit OS probably aren't aware of Dopamine yet.  Cheap Windows tablets would probably be the main exception.

[+Raze Subscriber²]

x64 on all machines here.

[TAZMINATOR]

64 on all of my devices.

[Setnom]

64 bits too. I have an old 32 bits netbook, but I don't have Dopamine installed there.

[Darrian]

My tablet is 32-bit. The CPU supports 64-bit, but the UEFI won't let me install a 64-bit OS and it only has 1GB of RAM.

[Xenon]

Only 64 for me. 

[Skiver Veteran]

Only 64 I'm afraid, I could spin up a 32 bit VM if you had a specific test ?

[TruckWEB]

64-bit almost everywhere except lowend Asus tablet.

[Tuskd]

64 here too

[Thomas the Tank Engine]

24 minutes ago, Skiver said:

Only 64 I'm afraid, I could spin up a 32 bit VM if you had a specific test ?

He is asking because he is getting ready to provide a native x64 version of Dopamine, it currently is x32.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

28 minutes ago, Thomas the Tank Engine said:

He is asking because he is getting ready to provide a native x64 version of Dopamine, it currently is x32.

I built it for x64 for the first time yesterday. The results are mixed:

 

- everything seems to work  

- no performance gain
- 2,5x more memory usage

 

I looked up the memory usage thing: actually it is not using all this memory, but .NET reserves these pages (it went above 400 MB yesterday). When built for x64, it has access to more pages and thus reserves more.

 

- The good news: as soon as another application needs that reserved memory, it is freed by windows.

- The bad news: lots of people will freak out when they open task manager.

 

Also, I don't want to maintain a 32 and 64 bit version. That's time that I'd rather spend writing the application. That means I might leave 32 bit people in the cold if going 64 bit.

Conclusion: for now it remains 32 bits. And I'll think a bit more about it.

 

[accuratecopy]

I'm in the mood of testing a new 32 bit preview tonight!  or 64 bit

[Ravensky]

I would be more than happy to test a 64-bit version.

[allannyholm]

I've made a Danish translation of Dopamine - available from here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/43tx78ktu2oegro/DA.xml?dl=0

 

Thanks for your continuing work on Dopamine. 

[TAZMINATOR]

4 hours ago, Raphaël G. said:

Also, I don't want to maintain a 32 and 64 bit version. That's time that I'd rather spend writing the application. That means I might leave 32 bit people in the cold if going 64 bit.

 

 

Can you compile both 32 and 64 in app and the installation will detect then install the right version based on user's OS? (or user choose at the installation for that matter)

 

Or you can compile 32bit then next day 64bit ....   you can update either of those whenever you can.  You don't have to leave 32 bit app out.

 

I can stay 32 bit for stability. Once  64 bit gets stability down the road, then I will replace it.  Or I could use both ... for example, 32 bit on this one and 64 bit on other laptop..   something like that.

 

Up to you.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

2 hours ago, accuratecopy said:

I'm in the mood of testing a new 32 bit preview tonight!  or 64 bit

Not tonight  I'm not ready. This is the changelog, it got some extra fixes

 

- Dopamine is now a single process application. This reduces Windows Smartscreen notifications from 3 to 1 for the portable version.
- Migrated everything to www.digimezzo.com
- Improved user interface responsiveness and transitions
- Albums lists are much more performant
- Added Z-A sorting for songs
- Songs on disconnected disks are not removed from the collection anymore
- Indexing percent is replaced by number of files and total files indexed
- Song progress can be changed also when the song is paused
- It's possible to choose between 3 cover sizes for all album lists
- Slightly lower CPU usage when main window is visible
- Added WASAPI Exclusive Mode support

 

I'll now try to fix stuff and finalize and test what have. Otherwise this one will never get out the door  

 

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

2 hours ago, Ravensky said:

I would be more than happy to test a 64-bit version.

You wouldn't mind the massive amount of RAM usage?

13 minutes ago, allan.nyholm said:

I've made a Danish translation of Dopamine - available from here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/43tx78ktu2oegro/DA.xml?dl=0

 

Thanks for your continuing work on Dopamine. 

Thanks! Downloaded and added to Dopamine!

[Thomas the Tank Engine]

Just now, Raphaël G. said:

You wouldn't mind the massive amount of RAM usage?

I've got 12GB in my laptop, planning on replacing that with 32GB....