A few notes on the rebranding

[25huizengek1]

Hello everyone! I wanted to share a few notes on the rebranding, new year, etc.

Christmas & New Year

'Tis the most wonderful time of the year again. This means the development of ViMusic will slow down a bit as I'm going to spend some time with family and take some free time for the last week of this year.

Carrying on with the rebranding

With the high demand of rebranding this fork with a new name and logo, my final decision is to rename the app to ViTune. I'll still have to think of a logo for the app and maybe a new accent color for the default theme. If you have some suggestions, please reply in the appropriate discussion(s) or create a new discussion.

I think a good moment to do the rebranding is in the new year, somewhere in January. My goal is to have a stable app by then, so I'll decide on the definitive date later on.

Important details about the migration:

TL;DR: this fork will be a completely new app after the rebranding, roughly speaking.

• The application ID will change, so this fork will behave as a completely new app. From that point, you can consider this repository an 'independent fork'
• The database should be compatible with the 'old' ViMusic database, so migrating will be easier, since you can just keep ViMusic 0.5.4 and install this fork, then migrate the database
• I'll publish a migration guide for new users
• The README and all other metadata will be updated
• The repository name will be changed

Thank you

I want to thank the community one again for the support and ideas, as this project grows. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone!

- Huizengek

Edit 08-01-2024: for reasons listed here I've removed the s from the name (ViTunes -> ViTune)

[devika15]

So will it require redownloading from Fdroid still? Thank you.

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On Sun, 24 Dec 2023, 14:41 25huizengek1, ***@***.***> wrote: Hello everyone! I wanted to share a few notes on the rebranding, new year, etc. Christmas & New Year 'Tis the *most wonderful time of the year* again. This means the development of ViMusic will slow down a bit as I'm going to spend some time with family and take some free time for the last week of this year. Carrying on with the rebranding With the high demand of rebranding this fork with a new name and logo, my final decision is to rename the app to ViTunes. I'll still have to think of a logo for the app and maybe a new accent color for the default theme. If you have some suggestions, please reply in the appropriate discussion(s) or create a new discussion. I think a good moment to do the rebranding is in the new year, somewhere in January. My goal is to have a stable app by then, so I'll decide on the definitive date later on. Important details about the migration: TL;DR: this fork will be a completely new app after the rebranding, roughly speaking. - The application ID will change, so this fork will behave as a completely new app. From that point, you can consider this repository an 'independent fork' - The database should be compatible with the 'old' ViMusic database, so migrating will be easier, since you can just keep ViMusic 0.5.4 and install this fork, then migrate the database - I'll publish a migration guide for new users - The README and all other metadata will be updated - The repository name will be changed Thank you I want to thank the community one again for the support and ideas, as this project grows. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone! - Huizengek — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#54>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AG6MJOKFP4JMYXQIFDCDMJ3YLA5KBAVCNFSM6AAAAABBBSODJ6VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ERDJONRXK43TNFXW4OZVHE4TGNRQG4> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[25huizengek1]

Great idea, while setting up a domain for the app (I'll probably move the F-Droid repository to it) I also created an e-mail address, hit me up at development@vitune.app

[genericbetatester]

Hello, I already sent you a message but I think I should mention it here just in case

[genericbetatester]

Hi @25huizengek1 I've sent multiple emails over the past few weeks without a response, and I'm now assuming that you're no longer interested in pursuing this project.
I would still like to hear your thoughts on the designs I've provided, if you're willing to share them. It would help me improve my work in the future, and I would appreciate any feedback you can offer.
Thank you for your time, and I hope you find the design solutions that you're looking for.

[25huizengek1]

My apologies @genericbetatester. I've had some outages with my network, which is why the development slowed down again, unfortunately. I'll try to catch up with everything when I have the time to.

[genericbetatester]

It's alright. Looking forward to your feedback.

[Enigma1309]

a new accent color for the default theme.

what about utilizing and/or adding the pre-existing themes like catppuccin, dracula, nord
cappuccin:- https://catppuccin.com/
dracula:- https://draculatheme.com/
nord :- https://www.nordtheme.com/

if you are considering to add these themes then i would suggest custom name of these themes like :- fire, breeze, etc . since it's a music app these kind of names will suite the vibe of app.

also a quick suggestion, if you are trying to make the new app support backup and restore feature, add a feature to existing app to backup the data with the amount of songs cached,
say i have 3 songs (x,y,z)
x - 40%cached
y - 90%cached
z - 100% cached

make the % cached value appear in database.
while restoring,
you can either set the percentage value threshold (say 80%) or write the exact value in database,
so that if you restore the database it will restore the cache (by using the download function) which is greater than the threshold value,
in this case x will be rejected(since 40% < threshold value ), and (y,z) will be accepted for recaching.

you can also modify this feature like when we backup the database it asks for confirmation of cached % storing,
if user says 'yes' then add the %cached to db or else it will do a normal restore,
this way it will be compatible with the official version of app too.

Thank You and Happy new year

[25huizengek1]

Great idea, maybe just as a nice touch we can revamp the 'Default' theme into the 'ViTune' theme and just add Catppuccin, Dracula and Nord?

[Enigma1309]

Yeah that would be great ✨

[archit9169]

Just a small suggestion. I quite like the name ViTunes, howerver it will be better if we drop the s from it.
In that way it will be ViTune, the continuation of the legacy app ViMusic

[25huizengek1]

I think this is actually a great idea: I don't want to risk having to deal with the fact that the name is literally (Apple's) iTunes with a V in front of it 😂

ViTune it is? Let's see how many votes we get on this 👀