Dopamine

[FiB3R]

Auto update worked great. Thank you

[chrisj1968]

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Raphael, do you add options to both platform versions? mobile and laptop/desktop. you could have a stereo hookup and plug your smartphone in and work it that way saving your back from carrying tons of equipment.

 

I'm not sure I understood you question correctly sorry . Could you rephrase please

Auto update worked great. Thank you

 

Glad you like it!

[chrisj1968]

[chrisj1968]

Hye Raphael. 

 

yes, ANOTHER idea right? lol..

 

this question is based upon this neowin article: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1253994-set-up-your-own-free-for-1-year-vpn-on-amazon-cloud/ an amazon cloud computing service.

 

Q: I realize, revisiting my stream question earlier, Could you utilize, I'd be willing to pay a certain amount to a server system(your server) whereby I can log my laptop into which, in theory, could be logged into the main server. 

example : server_chrisj1968

 

on my lumia 635, install dopamine and log into the server, input my servers name and password and stream my music from home to my lumia?

 

(this would probably be a long term feature for later) because I do have a 32GB SD card/chip but I can't see myself using up my space for all of my music. that gets to be a large amount of data over time.

 

this is just to expand/modify or improve on the streaming idea as we spoke of earlier.

[jasondefaoite]

I saw on your download page a link to a mobile version is seems. So my assumption (I know, I know, I should never assume) so I think you're making a mobile windows phone version?

 

Portable? That is not a mobile app

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Portable? That is not a mobile app

 

That's correct.

 

For Chris:

 

The portable version is a version you can unzip and use anywhere without having to install it. All settings and collection information is stored in the folder where the executable is. Keep in mind that is doesn't have an auto update however.

 

I am indeed playing around with a Phone app. For now it does nothing (well it says "Welcome to Dopamine" ). But I've done a fair amount of swearing this weekend trying to get basic things working in the Phone app. It's quite different than building a Desktop application. I'm coding the Phone app with low priority, in parallel with the desktop application. Right now I'm building the playlists screen in the Desktop application.

 

As for the server idea: that sounds like a great idea again. However not realistic for me for now and a bit out of the scope I try to remain in. Let's first get an application with basic music-player features and work from there once we get there.

[+Anarkii Subscriber²]

I get a update notification but when I click the update button/icon it takes me to your google drive but theres nothing there for me to update.
This is from version 1.0.0 build 180

[jasondefaoite]

I get a update notification but when I click the update button/icon it takes me to your google drive but theres nothing there for me to update.

This is from version 1.0.0 build 180

 

I had the same issue. Once you get on to a later build the auto update seems to work correctly

 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ssuncmgmk2kat9h/AABlscmjM-I6CXVtyD4nCIBfa/Previews?dl=0

[+Anarkii Subscriber²]

I had the same issue. Once you get on to a later build the auto update seems to work correctly

 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ssuncmgmk2kat9h/AABlscmjM-I6CXVtyD4nCIBfa/Previews?dl=0

Cheers Jason

 

Just to let others know, that link is dodgy. 

 

 

Will wait for the author to update with a legit link for a new build I think to be safe.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

I get a update notification but when I click the update button/icon it takes me to your google drive but theres nothing there for me to update.

This is from version 1.0.0 build 180

 

Yeah I forgot about that. Newer builds contain the correct link. For users with older builds I've just added a text file on the old download location containing the new link.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Cheers Jason

 

Just to let others know, that link is dodgy. 

 

 

Will wait for the author to update with a legit link for a new build I think to be safe.

 

The link is correct and safe. Anti-virusses go crazy on home-made software.

[+Anarkii Subscriber²]

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Cool just wanted to point it out to you and others that Chrome may block it, coming from you I trust the link, just wanted to be 100% sure first, as you can imagine as I never had that come up for me before on previous builds.

 

Might be because I'm linking to dropbox now instead of google drive I guess google is not happy about that

There is a logic behind this change though. To add auto update I had to find an easy way to download the installer from the web. With google drive I would have to integrate their API in my application and study it. With dropbox I can just use built-in .NET components

[Darkmiss]

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Building the Playlists screen:

 

 

For those who used musiX, it will look similar to the musiX main screen. A bit of a big thank you for those liking musiX and also because that UI will suit playlist management a lot.

Thank you very much for the portable version, it's now on my portable USB drive, with me wherever i go

 

Glad you like it!

[Skiver Veteran]

[Jub]

My Macs are depressed. They need some dopamine. 

 

OT: Awesome work. It looks amazing on Windows 10, and works just as well as it looks!

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

As an idea, could you try taking the tag the user has just entered, storing that in memory (as its text i would assume bytes - KB max?) and then doing a check every 30 seconds or even better if you can be notified when the file is not use then try committing the update?

 

I think someone has requested something like this before - and I think it would have to be lowest of the low in terms of priority but if it could integrate with music streaming services (Spotify, Google Music etc) and play the subscribed music I would be over the moon

 

You know, the tag-remembering-thingy is actually how musiX does it already! But I tried to be smarter with Dopamine

I'll add a task to my list for streaming services. Can't promise anything however, this is too far in the future

My Macs are depressed. They need some dopamine. 

 

OT: Awesome work. It looks amazing on Windows 10, and works just as well as it looks!

 

Thanks!

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Just before calling it a day, I want to show you something you've most likely never seen

 

 

This is the Dopamine Splash Screen Of Death. It was always there, but only appears if Dopamine fails to start.

[chrisj1968]

[+Neyht Subscriber²]

Found a minor bug I guess.  If a file extension has a capital letter in it, it's apparently skipped over.  It doesn't consider .Mp3 an mp3 file, so it doesn't list it.  I'm just going to rename the files so that they use all lowercase.  Don't know why those files on my computer were named that way in the first place.

[TAZMINATOR]

Found a minor bug I guess.  If a file extension has a capital letter in it, it's apparently skipped over.  It doesn't consider .Mp3 an mp3 file, so it doesn't list it.  I'm just going to rename the files so that they use all lowercase.  Don't know why those files on my computer were named that way in the first place.

 

you can use the renaming software so you can rename to lowercase all files at once instead of renaming a file a time.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Found a minor bug I guess.  If a file extension has a capital letter in it, it's apparently skipped over.  It doesn't consider .Mp3 an mp3 file, so it doesn't list it.  I'm just going to rename the files so that they use all lowercase.  Don't know why those files on my computer were named that way in the first place.

 

Wow that's bad. Thanks for reporting, I'll check it out.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Found a minor bug I guess.  If a file extension has a capital letter in it, it's apparently skipped over.  It doesn't consider .Mp3 an mp3 file, so it doesn't list it.  I'm just going to rename the files so that they use all lowercase.  Don't know why those files on my computer were named that way in the first place.

 

The bug is fixed. You'll get it in the next build. I also fixed another minor thing

 

 

Back to Playlists screen building. It takes some time that one...