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#Amberol 0.10.0 is out! After a tragic mess with a #GNOME run time update, and with lots of fixes accumulating over a development branch, I decided to spin up a release. Highlights:
- tweaked UI, to avoid confusing the waveform control and the volume control
- improved scaling of textures using #GTK 4.10
- ability to restore the last playlist at startup
- optional background playback

Plus the usual lots and lots of small fixes, tweaks, and performance improvements.

The full window of Amberol, with the playlist on the left, and the main UI on the right, showing the cover art of the music player, the waveform view, the song details, and the playback controls.
Amberol's compact/mobile mode, showing just the main UI.
The newly added "Restore Playlist" option, which appears only when you launch Amberol and there's a playlist from the previous session available.
The drop UI for Amberol, with a new blurred background to increase legibility.
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This entry was edited (1 year ago)
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Emmanuele Bassi
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It's been a year and a couple of weeks since I released Amberol 0.1.0 on Flathub, and it's been downloaded 100k times, which is absolutely unfathomable to me, considering that I started the project to figure out how GTK and Rust worked together, and had no pretence of making an application that would be useful for anybody but me.
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Alice ‮
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it is very useful - it's one of the few music players that actually works well :)
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Emmanuele Bassi
Emmanuele Bassi
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Now, all I have to do is figure out the last bits of UI needed to do the 1.0 release—hopefully, soon.
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Knepherbird
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I'd pretty much come to the conclusion that music players were like email clients - they all inevitably sucked, just in different ways - but your app has made me reconsider. I've started listening to my local music library again, it's so nice and simple.
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Drew 🐘
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is the Energene screenshot running on a phone or is it just sized and cropped to the same aspect ratio? If it is on a phone, which one?
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Emmanuele Bassi
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@dvogel it’s just the window resized to its minimum size; thanks to libadwaita, the UI is responsive, and the playlist becomes an overlay
@Drew 🐘
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Emmanuele Bassi
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@doomsdayrs yeah, after 2020 and 2021, time is getting unstuck
@Clocks
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István
István
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Amberol is becoming such a stunning little music player. Really makes me wish I had any digital music outside of streaming apps..
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