Bonjour !

Museeks 0.8 is finally out, I thought it would never be released. Sorry for this long development time, but a lot of stuff happened to me for the past few months, combined with my legendary laziness... well, let's move on.

Museeks reached 20'000 downloads a few days ago, that is just crazy. I received supporting mails, bug reports and features ideas from all over the world, thanks to all of you for your support, this really matters to me.

Enough talk, here's what's new:

Tray

Tray is here, you can now close Museeks and still have it playing your music. You can also control the player from the tray icon.

New library management

We dropped this folder-based + refresh system for a simple dropzone where you can drag&drop your folders and files directly in the library settings page.

The UI is not frozen anymore when refreshing the library: you can now listen to your music and still add files to it.

Scan performances were also nicely improved and we fixed some memory leaks.

New dark theme

The dark theme was poor I got to say. Too light, pretty ugly... We updated it with darker black/blue-ish colors.

New playing indicator

We updated the playing indicator, it now has a fancy animation, and you can play/pause the player by clicking on it.

FLAC support

FLAC is finally here.

Minimize/Maximize controls

We finally added custom controls for minimize and maximize.

Native notifications

If Museeks is hidden and a new track is being played, a small notification will be displayed to show you the track informations. You can disable it in the options.

Other improvements

• Better OPUS format handling
• Play button automatically plays the first song when the player is stopped
• Added an option to open a track's corresponding folder in your file manager
• Sexier settings
• Pause the player when entering in sleep mode
• Improved search speed (should be instant now)
• Larger and sexier tracks rows
• Remove add 'to queue' from context menu if playerStatus is pause
• Ctrl-F select the search input

Other bugfixes

As usual, tons of bugfixes and improvements:

• Fix playlist rename
• Fix mediakeys
• Fix forgotten options on startup
• Lots of minor UI fixes

Hope you'll enjoy, special thanks to: @cfollet, vprigent, @YurySolovyov, @dkniffin: thank you!

Fixed

• Fix sleep-blocker toggler
• Fix shuffle rollback

Added

• Add cover support
  • If the track has an ID3 cover, it will be used
  • If there is a [album|albumart|cover|folder].[jpg|png|bmp|gif] in the track folder, the first matching file will be used
  • If the above solution fails, a "no-cover" fallback image is used
• Add an option to run Museeks with the OS's native frame
• Add an option in the track list context menu to filter by album/artist
• Add files with uppercase extensions when scanning the library (e.g something.WAV)
• Add notifications after some actions
• Add a link to library in empty playlist
• Add an track play counter (not shown yet in the UI though)
• Add a troubleshooting section in Settings/About

Improved

• Improved queue drag&drop management
• More natural volume change

Changed

• Drop NeDB for LinvoDB3 with LevelJS: you will need to refresh your library
• Update to Electron 1.4.0

Fixed

• Fix library refresh with some file without metadata and some .wav
• Fix library not scanning files without a lowercase extension (e.g .WAV) (thanks @YurySolovyov)
• Fix playback rate and volume not setting correctly on startup
• Fix play/pause global shortcut
• Fix error notification appearing on start-up when the auto-update checker fails
• Fix default volume value

Under the hood

• A lot of code changes and improvements
• Ensure Track path unique index
• Use classnames to manage conditional classes
• Use fetch instead of classic XHR request
• Split reducers in smaller ones
• Add eslint jsx-no-bind and max-len rules
• Add an action to restart the app

Fixed

• Fix app name
• Fix app icon on OSX (thanks @Suriteka)

This release is a hotfix for 0.6.1, sorry for the inconvenience :(

Fixed

• Hotfix: search not working
• Hotfix: app icon missing

Added

• Add an auto update checker on startup
• Add call-to-actions and improve spash messages

Changed

• Update thumbnail toolbar icons on Windows
• Update Electron to 1.3.3

Fixed

• Fix some grammar and spelling mistakes (thanks @a-choi)
• Fix mute strange behaviors
• Fix search with some accents (e.g "The Dø" could not be found when typing "the do")

Removed

• Remove the contributors list

Added

• Playlists ! 🎉
• Supports m4a, aac and mp4
• Add thumbbar controls for Windows (@YurySolovyov)
• Add retina-ready Museeks logo

Improved

• Library refresh improvements (@YurySolovyov)

Changed

• Update to Electron 1.3.0

Fixed

• Fix arrows navigation
• Fix update checker

Under the hood:

• Code consistency with ESLint
• Code test with Travis CI
• Bower drop in favor of npm (@YurySolovyov)
• Flux drop in favor of Redux
• And many other improvements and fixes...

Added

• Add a playback speed option in the settings

Improved

• Improve library refresh performances by about 20%
• Some security fixes

Changed

• Update to Electron 1.2.5

Changed

• Update to Electron 1.2.2

Fixed

• Fix WAV duration (needs library refresh)
• Fix player status after clicking 'next' or 'previous'
• Fix library stopping refresh randomly
• Fix sleepBlocker on Ubuntu
• Fix update-checker wrong version comparison
• Fix incoming queue status
• Fix enter shortcut in TracksList