Dopamine

[dakn]

Looking forward to the new build as I have finally cut the cord from Zune and using Dopamine full time!

 

I'm loving the fullscreen album view - which I only recently discovered and now use a lot. One thing that zune allowed in it's fullscreen view was to go fullscreen to remove the taskbar - that would be cool.

[Ravensky]

1 hour ago, dakn said:

Looking forward to the new build as I have finally cut the cord from Zune and using Dopamine full time!

 

I'm loving the fullscreen album view - which I only recently discovered and now use a lot. One thing that zune allowed in it's fullscreen view was to go fullscreen to remove the taskbar - that would be cool.

true if you have a second monitor, throw it on the second monitor without a taskbar... That's what I do.

[Ravensky]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Hi all,

A new build of Dopamine is available. This one focusses on performance. The user interface should feel snappier in different area’s. This is the changelog:

 

12-04-2016: Dopamine 1.0.0.640 (Preview)

 

• Order by date added is now based on the creation date of the files
• Now playing is now accessed by clicking the playback information at the bottom left of the main window
• Updated the Portuguese (Portugal) translation
• Querying the database is now more efficient, which speeds up refreshing of the lists
• Removed album layout selection, as it slowed down rendering and scrolling of album lists.
• Switching between album sizes doesn’t require a full reload of the albums
• Fixed a bug where the Task bar icon doesn’t appear when restoring from tray in maximized mode

Download here

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

22 hours ago, dakn said:

Looking forward to the new build as I have finally cut the cord from Zune and using Dopamine full time!

 

I'm loving the fullscreen album view - which I only recently discovered and now use a lot. One thing that zune allowed in it's fullscreen view was to go fullscreen to remove the taskbar - that would be cool.

That's also on my wishlist  

[Tejoenardo]

4 hours ago, Raphaël G. said:

Hi all,

A new build of Dopamine is available. This one focusses on performance. The user interface should feel snappier in different area’s. This is the changelog:

 

12-04-2016: Dopamine 1.0.0.640 (Preview)

 

• Order by date added is now based on the creation date of the files
• Now playing is now accessed by clicking the playback information at the bottom left of the main window
• Updated the Portuguese (Portugal) translation
• Querying the database is now more efficient, which speeds up refreshing of the lists
• Removed album layout selection, as it slowed down rendering and scrolling of album lists.
• Switching between album sizes doesn’t require a full reload of the albums
• Fixed a bug where the Task bar icon doesn’t appear when restoring from tray in maximized mode

Download here

NICEE   

 

Testing

[Tejoenardo]

Bug found

1. Scroll down the album list 

2. Select an artist

3. Now, the album list is blank.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

1 hour ago, Tejoenardo said:

Bug found

1. Scroll down the album list 

2. Select an artist

3. Now, the album list is blank.

Indeed  That's a known issue (I'll look into it a bit later). If you scroll up they'll appear again.

[Darkmiss]

Hi Raphaël, Long time no post, (since this started out as musiX)

 

Just wanted to tell you that Dopamine has improved amazingly, and (like a lot of people here in these posts) it has become the main music player on my PC

I just love the shear amount of information you have added to Dopamine, like the amount of songs, albums, and artists there are, what size the music collection is and how long it would take to play them all.

a lot of other music player just don't bother to add that kind of information, even though it's so helpful.

 

and thank you for keeping up the Portable version too, I still carry it with me on my key chain USB, and show it to anyone I haven't show it to already

 

Raphaël, you did once mention Dopamine for windows phone, is that still happening one day ?

 

Also a small request... could you add a little bit of separation to the play and shuffle /  loop buttons, they are very close to each-other and I get a lot of miss-clicks.

I really liked how it looked at the start when you had the circles around each button.

 

 

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

21 hours ago, Darkmiss said:

Hi Raphaël, Long time no post, (since this started out as musiX)

 

Just wanted to tell you that Dopamine has improved amazingly, and (like a lot of people here in these posts) it has become the main music player on my PC

I just love the shear amount of information you have added to Dopamine, like the amount of songs, albums, and artists there are, what size the music collection is and how long it would take to play them all.

a lot of other music player just don't bother to add that kind of information, even though it's so helpful.

 

and thank you for keeping up the Portable version too, I still carry it with me on my key chain USB, and show it to anyone I haven't show it to already

 

Raphaël, you did once mention Dopamine for windows phone, is that still happening one day ?

 

Also a small request... could you add a little bit of separation to the play and shuffle /  loop buttons, they are very close to each-other and I get a lot of miss-clicks.

I really liked how it looked at the start when you had the circles around each button.

 

 

Good to hear from another long time user!  

The Windows Phone version is still planned. However I have 4 months delay on it, due to the time I put on the desktop version of Dopamine  

I'll check if I can do something about the buttons. Are you using it on a touch screen?

[Darkmiss]

6 hours ago, Raphaël G. said:

I'll check if I can do something about the buttons. Are you using it on a touch screen?

No... but I imagine that would be even worse

[Ravensky]

How do you miss click that? If the buttons are any farther apart its going to look stupid...  What concerns me is that play isn't even next to shuffle... It's the next button that is next to shuffle... Sorry but I disagree with the circles around the buttons that looked awful.  It looks perfect the way it is.. are you using a 4k monitor or something?

[PGHammer]

On 4/15/2016 at 5:49 PM, Ravensky said:

How do you miss click that? If the buttons are any farther apart its going to look stupid...  What concerns me is that play isn't even next to shuffle... It's the next button that is next to shuffle... Sorry but I disagree with the circles around the buttons that looked awful.  It looks perfect the way it is.. are you using a 4k monitor or something?

As a straight music player, the migration curve from Groove (which it replaced as my default music player) is zero.  (Basically NO migration curve at all.)  That is, if anything, the scariest part of Dopamine - the LACK of a migration curve.

Their supported formats overlap as well - there is no format that one plays that the other does not. Both Groove and Dopamine are, in fact, very Modernish.  (Unlike some, I don't view that as a minus in any way.)

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

On ‎20‎/‎04‎/‎2016 at 6:07 AM, PGHammer said:

As a straight music player, the migration curve from Groove (which it replaced as my default music player) is zero.  (Basically NO migration curve at all.)  That is, if anything, the scariest part of Dopamine - the LACK of a migration curve.

Their supported formats overlap as well - there is no format that one plays that the other does not. Both Groove and Dopamine are, in fact, very Modernish.  (Unlike some, I don't view that as a minus in any way.)

Thanks for the feedback. I've tried to keep Dopamine as straight forward as possible. Meanwhile, I've been quiet but done some things. This is what you can expect for the next build:

 

- Added a progress animation if a song takes more than 1 second to load
- Double-clicking the notification icon shows Dopamine
- Pressing [Space] on the keyboard plays or pauses the current song
- Fixed a crash can occur when editing multiple songs
- Increased audio engine priority to reduce glitches during playback
- Updated the Czech translation
- When the default audio device changes, Dopamine now continues playing on the new default audio device. <- this will make someone happy  

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

On ‎15‎/‎04‎/‎2016 at 11:49 PM, Ravensky said:

How do you miss click that? If the buttons are any farther apart its going to look stupid...  What concerns me is that play isn't even next to shuffle... It's the next button that is next to shuffle... Sorry but I disagree with the circles around the buttons that looked awful.  It looks perfect the way it is.. are you using a 4k monitor or something?

Looks are subjective. I got several complaints when the circles around the buttons disappeared. I can understand some people liked them, others didn't. I chose to remove them to simplify the looks, make more place on the Mini players, and give it a more Windows 10 like look. The circles are not coming back (for now, but it wouldn't be the first time I changed my mind about something). Besides that, if a user says he/she has a difficulty using the UI, I always try to find out if I can improve it. In this case I could increase margins a little bit between the buttons. But I'll have to find a balance between usability and design.

 

On a side note: I've learned that I have to be very careful when removing things. People get attached quite hard to some features. It makes me think twice before even adding a new feature  

 

 

[Jackaluichi]

10 minutes ago, Raphaël G. said:

Thanks for the feedback. I've tried to keep Dopamine as straight forward as possible. Meanwhile, I've been quiet but done some things. This is what you can expect for the next build:

 

- Added a progress animation if a song takes more than 1 second to load
- Double-clicking the notification icon shows Dopamine
- Pressing [Space] on the keyboard plays or pauses the current song
- Fixed a crash can occur when editing multiple songs
- Increased audio engine priority to reduce glitches during playback
- Updated the Czech translation
- When the default audio device changes, Dopamine now continues playing on the new default audio device. <- this will make someone happy  

It looks promising. Looking forward to it!

[chrisj1968]

28 minutes ago, Raphaël G. said:

Looks are subjective. I got several complaints when the circles around the buttons disappeared. I can understand some people liked them, others didn't. I chose to remove them to simplify the looks, make more place on the Mini players, and give it a more Windows 10 like look. The circles are not coming back (for now, but it wouldn't be the first time I changed my mind about something). Besides that, if a user says he/she has a difficulty using the UI, I always try to find out if I can improve it. In this case I could increase margins a little bit between the buttons. But I'll have to find a balance between usability and design.

 

On a side note: I've learned that I have to be very careful when removing things. People get attached quite hard to some features. It makes me think twice before even adding a new feature  

 

 

instead of terrorizing yourself, look at Dopamine from this perspective. The main function is to play music. Then you have the main features: auto adding your music from folders we select etc. Then other features are just small ones. I wouldn't be mad if you removed a feature I asked for, because sometimes one feature may mess up the entire app or mess up one feature at the expense of another.

 

just concentrate on the main app. or another feature that might make your job easier would be to use a browser approach. Edge, Chrome each handle extensions. build the base app and give us a modular way to build extensions that add features we like ourselves. this way, you don't have to add minor ticky tacky features, just concentrate on the main app and user made extensions will do the rest... would that be easier?  

 

only caveat to this is, as Chrome often happened was, when the Chrome browser updated, some extensions were borqed and wouldn't work. so extension writers would be forced to rewrite their extensions t work on an updated Chrome browser. but I think that was due to security reasons which is understandable.

[Ravensky]

4 hours ago, Raphaël G. said:

Looks are subjective. I got several complaints when the circles around the buttons disappeared. I can understand some people liked them, others didn't. I chose to remove them to simplify the looks, make more place on the Mini players, and give it a more Windows 10 like look. The circles are not coming back (for now, but it wouldn't be the first time I changed my mind about something). Besides that, if a user says he/she has a difficulty using the UI, I always try to find out if I can improve it. In this case I could increase margins a little bit between the buttons. But I'll have to find a balance between usability and design.

 

On a side note: I've learned that I have to be very careful when removing things. People get attached quite hard to some features. It makes me think twice before even adding a new feature  

 

 

or you could make a toggle that turns the circles on and off

 

oh and if you need someone to test that new feature for sound device switching...

 

[accuratecopy]

6 hours ago, Ravensky said:

or you could make a toggle that turns the circles on and off

 

oh and if you need someone to test that new feature for sound device switching...

 

Yeah, i like to have new options as long as i can turn them off if i don't use them. Circles <3...

[Mando]

12 hours ago, Raphaël G. said:

Thanks for the feedback. I've tried to keep Dopamine as straight forward as possible. Meanwhile, I've been quiet but done some things. This is what you can expect for the next build:

 

- Added a progress animation if a song takes more than 1 second to load
- Double-clicking the notification icon shows Dopamine
- Pressing [Space] on the keyboard plays or pauses the current song
- Fixed a crash can occur when editing multiple songs
- Increased audio engine priority to reduce glitches during playback
- Updated the Czech translation
- When the default audio device changes, Dopamine now continues playing on the new default audio device. <- this will make someone happy  

sweet  

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Hi everyone!

 

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

 

24-04-2016: Dopamine 1.0.0.645 (Preview)

 

• Added a progress animation if a song takes more than 1 second to load
• Double-clicking the notification icon shows Dopamine
• Pressing [Space] on the keyboard plays or pauses the current song
• Fixed a crash that can occur when editing multiple songs
• Increased audio engine priority to reduce glitches during playback
• Updated the Czech translation
• When the default audio device changes, Dopamine now continues playing on the new default audio device.

Info and download here

[Jackaluichi]

31 minutes ago, Raphaël G. said:

Hi everyone!

 

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

 

24-04-2016: Dopamine 1.0.0.645 (Preview)

 

• Added a progress animation if a song takes more than 1 second to load
• Double-clicking the notification icon shows Dopamine
• Pressing [Space] on the keyboard plays or pauses the current song
• Fixed a crash that can occur when editing multiple songs
• Increased audio engine priority to reduce glitches during playback
• Updated the Czech translation
• When the default audio device changes, Dopamine now continues playing on the new default audio device.

Info and download here

Sweet! Thanks, man!

I'll make sure to also test it on the Insider Build 14328
Cheers!

[Ravensky]

OMG Raphael  I LOVE YOU! It WORKS PEFECTLY!!!!  Donation incoming =)

[Tuskd]

Hey Raphael! Great release. But I am having a problem with my Philips SHB7000 wireless headset and Dopamine. When using my headset's media keys, Next and Previous works as expected but Play/Pause doesn't work. Its not picked up by your Keyboardtest. Groove Music has no problem with my headset.
 

Quote

nCode='0', wParam='&H100', vkCode='176'
nCode='0', wParam='&H101', vkCode='176'
nCode='0', wParam='&H100', vkCode='177'
nCode='0', wParam='&H101', vkCode='177'

^ For Next and Previous. Nothing recorded for Play/Pause.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

On ‎24‎/‎04‎/‎2016 at 0:23 AM, Ravensky said:

OMG Raphael  I LOVE YOU! It WORKS PEFECTLY!!!!  Donation incoming =)

Excellent! I'm glad it works as expected.