Dopamine

[+Raphaël G. MVC Popular Post]

Hi everyone,

 

I'd like to show you my new music player. It is born out of the ashes of musiX (see this thread).

Originally, musiX was created for my personal use. I decided to show it on Neowin, not expecting anything. However, the interest was overwhelming. That motivated me to keep coding and learning. While learning, it however became clear that the foundations of musiX aren't so great. It was hard to add new features without breaking others. So I decided to start fresh and build upon a modular structure. And here is the result, which I have called "Dopamine".

 

 

Dopamine?! What a strange name... Don't worry, I myself had to get used to it. But it grew on me.

Dopamine is actually the name of a chemical in the human body, which plays an important role in defining human behavior. It is a chemical released by the brain when we experience pleasure. And it was discovered that it is also released by our beloved brain when we enjoy music. And there is the link .

 

Requirements

• Windows 7, 8.x and 10
• .NET Framework 4.6.1 or higher

 

Download

In the downloads section on my website: http://www.digimezzo.com

 

Open source

Dopamine is Open Source Software. You'll find the source code and issue tracker on GitHub: https://github.com/digimezzo/Dopamine

 

Thanks a lot for the interest, and enjoy Dopamine!

[Jan Veteran]

I don't see it on the downloads page 

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

I don't see it on the downloads page 

 

Woops. Fixed!

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Congrats for taking musiX to this level, no doubt that player was amazing and I expect this would be much better. Best Wishes and keep it up...

[Jan Veteran]

Ay thank you

 

Keep up the great work Raphael

 

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So far so good, performance is pretty darn good and the UI looks great

 

Not particularly a fan of the large 'dopamine' logo in the centre of the titlebar however.

[Skiver Veteran]

YAY!!!!!

 

I'll make sure this gets some good use over the next week

[tsupersonic]

Nice! Just a suggestion, you should have more default colors (I assume these are coming in future builds), but I do love that you can create create custom color schemes easily!

[+Zagadka Subscriber²]

Looks very nice, ++ on the UI. I'll see how it works.

 

One thing I miss in most players is a thin horizontal mode to play on top of other windows.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Looks very nice, ++ on the UI. I'll see how it works.

 

One thing I miss in most players is a thin horizontal mode to play on top of other windows.

 

That can be done. I've created a Task in Visual Studio Online (which I use to manage my projects) so I don't forget about it.

[floopydoodle]

Fantastic UI design. I would say the only thing that bothers me is the huge custom title bar font. It's not common to see that, that's why it sticks out. It feels somewhat tacky.

Leave the custom font for splash screen and/or product branding.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Nice! Just a suggestion, you should have more default colors (I assume these are coming in future builds), but I do love that you can create create custom color schemes easily!

 

That will probably happen. I didn't have much inspiration for nice looking colors yet And indeed, you can add colors yourself too

[Mando]

Very slick mate, FYI it runs perfectly fine in W10 TP x64

[Anibal P]

Looks really nice!

Am already using it, will of course report any issues/errors

[+Zlip792 MVC]

I have few personal suggestion, if it could be possible in future builds.

 

- Duplicate Song Finder

 

Means find same songs and then suggest to extract out each copy of them in one separate folder and delete rest of files from other folders.

 

Scenario:

 

I have 5 to 6 folders, About 50+ songs will surely repeat in them, so I want to delete all songs from these folders and extract them in one new folder (to make new collection properly).

 

Just if it possible. It sleek looking UI.

 

- Option to start Dopamine right after setup finish, like usually software have tick mark to allow opening software after installation

 

I hope you don't mind these suggestions in just preview release. I know you will do good job with this player.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Ay thank you

 

Keep up the great work Raphael

 

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So far so good, performance is pretty darn good and the UI looks great

 

Not particularly a fan of the large 'dopamine' logo in the centre of the titlebar however.

 

Fantastic UI design. I would say the only thing that bothers me is the huge custom title bar font. It's not common to see that, that's why it sticks out. It feels somewhat tacky.

Leave the custom font for splash screen and/or product branding.

 

Thanks for the tip. I'll sure think about that. There are some ideas spawning in my head

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

I have few personal suggestion, if it could be possible in future builds.

 

- Duplicate Song Finder

 

Means find same songs and then suggest to extract out each copy of them in one separate folder and delete rest of files from other folders.

 

Scenario:

 

I have 5 to 6 folders, About 50+ songs will surely repeat in them, so I want to delete all songs from these folders and extract them in one new folder (to make new collection properly).

 

Just if it possible. It sleek looking UI.

 

- Option to start Dopamine right after setup finish, like usually software have tick mark to allow opening software after installation

 

I hope you don't mind these suggestions in just preview release. I know you will do good job with this player.

 

I don't mind at all. Thanks for the suggestions. I've added these 2 as tasks in my Project.

[TAZMINATOR]

Dopamine?  Sounds like "Drop a Mine"

 

KABOOM!

 

 

Good job!

[chrisj1968]

Raphael.. that is absolutely amazing! That looks a lot better than most commercial programs out there. definitely will be downloading this.

 

Please, whatever you do, DO NOT SELL this. everytime someone sells an awesome program like this, it ends up being destroyed. where do I donate?

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Raphael.. that is absolutely amazing! That looks a lot better than most commercial programs out there. definitely will be downloading this.

 

Please, whatever you do, DO NOT SELL this. everytime someone sells an awesome program like this, it ends up being destroyed. where do I donate?

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Concerning selling. I don't think we have to worry about that yet It's still very far from doing what it should.

There is a donate button in the application's About screen. It leads to my PayPal link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ZHEXYNH8ALM5N

[chrisj1968]

[chrisj1968]

I pointed to my music folder but for some reason it didn't list the music that I have. I just simply pointed to "this PC/Music" I have some ripped CD's but a larger amazon music folder too.

 

for the time being, point to the folder above where the mp3 files are.

 

Raph, could you code it to list our songs by pointing to our thisPC/music folder? some have a huge selection of music like I do. then have it search subfolders? hope I'm not asking alot since I have such a massive collection of music. 

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

ok I'm a disabled veterean on a fixed income but, when I can this month, near the end, I will definitely donate. this is awesome.

 

Don't worry too much about it. It is very optional

 

I pointed to my music folder but for some reason it didn't list the music that I have. I just simply pointed to "this PC/Music" I have some ripped CD's but a larger amazon music folder too.

 

What audio format are your files? I forgot to mention (I did with musiX, but didn't think of it for dopamine) that it only supports: mp3, ogg, flac and m4a/aac.

Also, under Settings -> Collection, it should show you the folder you pointed to. Has "this PC/Music" been translated to the actual path on your computer?

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

I pointed to my music folder but for some reason it didn't list the music that I have. I just simply pointed to "this PC/Music" I have some ripped CD's but a larger amazon music folder too.

 

for the time being, point to the folder above where the mp3 files are.

 

Raph, could you code it to list our songs by pointing to our thisPC/music folder? some have a huge selection of music like I do. then have it search subfolders? hope I'm not asking alot since I have such a massive collection of music. 

 

I'm ready to do a lot, as long as I understand the problem . On my computer (however I'm not excluding this might react differently on other machines), when I point it to "This PC/Music" this is automatically translated to the actual path where "This PC/Music" is located, which is "c:\Users\Rapha

[Osiris]

Looks awesome Raph.

 

WMP does the job for me but tempted to try this due to the cool UI.

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

Looks awesome Raph.

 

WMP does the job for me but tempted to try this due to the cool UI.

 

Thank! And no worries. Feature-wise, I'm no match for WMP yet