Emmanuele Bassi

1 year ago

Emmanuele Bassi
1 year ago

#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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Emmanuele Bassi

in reply to Emmanuele Bassi 1 year ago

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 ‮

in reply to Emmanuele Bassi 1 year ago

it is very useful - it's one of the few music players that actually works well :)

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Emmanuele Bassi

in reply to Alice ‮ 1 year ago

@alice It helps to narrow the scope down to do just that… 😂

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Emmanuele Bassi

in reply to Emmanuele Bassi 1 year ago

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

in reply to Emmanuele Bassi 1 year ago

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.