The latest version (v0.8.0-alpha) contains a lot of new features and improvements. As always, expect to see bugs in the app because this app is still in alpha phase.

• 🎉 New Features and Updates

  • Now double-clicking on a supported song in the File Explorer would play it on the app. Be sure if you made Oto Music the default audio player for the respective audio file. (Experimental)
  • Now users can drag and drop a supported audio file to play it on the player. (Experimental)
  • Now users can edit song id3 tags. (Experimental)
  • Added windowing technique to improve app performance. Before this update, app would take considerable amount of time to render a huge song library but now it renders almost instantly. (Experimental)
  • App theme switching according the system theme.
  • Now user can select whether the song duration or the song remaining duration should be displayed.
  • Updated taskbar thumbnail buttons to support the system theme.
  • Now the app will check for updates every 15 minutes and inform the user to update.

• 🔨 Fixes and Improvements

  • Data update events will be queued from this update to improve app performace. If more than 3 events occur around one second interval they will be queued so that all the events will be sent at the same time.
  • Updated the app installer and reduced file size of the installer by 13%.
  • Updated open_source_licenses.
  • Replaced trash package for the electron built in shell.trashItem.
  • Updated data update events dispatch process to improve performance.
  • Removed some unnecessary resources.
  • Cleaned up unnecessary styles.
  • Fixed a bug where editing song tags could remove the artwork of a song.
  • Fixed a bug where using search features on songs metadata editing page updates the search history.
  • Fixed a bug where adding a previously parsed folder would parse the same folder.
  • Removed some unnecessary npm packages.

• 🐜 Known Issues and Bugs

  • Parsing a big music library could sometimes make the app unresponsive. Currently, the only solution is to wait some time until the parsing process finishes and the app regains responsiveness.
  • App theme will be changed when you change your system's theme even though you didn't select to use system theme in the app.
  • App theme will be changed when you change your system's theme even though you didn't select to use system theme in the app.
  • Lyrics on some songs aren't being read by the app. Still you will be able to see lyrics from the internet.
  • If a song is added next to the last song of the queue, the last song won't be played.
  • Trying to play corrupted songs will make the app player unusable. Workaround is to play the next song and restart the renderer using F5 button.
  • Sometimes adding a song to play next would only add it to the queue instead of adding it next to the current song.
  • There is still a small amount of unwanted cpu consumption due to over-rendering of components.

Change Log

• v0.5.0-alpha - ( 31^th of May 2022 )
  • Features
    • Now queues and some other features save their states between sessions (Experimental).
    • Now Currently Playing Queue shows information about the current queue including playlist name, artwork etc (Experimental).
    • Updated settings page to provide information about app version, github repository etc (Experimental).
    • Now users can remove songs from the library, move to the recycle bin or delete permanently from the system. Removed songs from the library will be blacklisted. (Experimental)
    • Now logger stores some information about the current system. This includes cpu model, architechture, platform, os and system memory.
    • A new event added to detect app quits to provide methods to persist session data.
    • Now playlists, albums, and artists' songs can be played by adding it to the queue.
    • Now albums and artists support context menu options.
    • Now online pictures of the artists will be shown thoughout the app after watching their profile.
    • Added a song blacklist function. Now songs removed from the library will be blacklisted and can be restored from the settings page. (Experimental)
    • Added new images that will be displayed in situations like when the songs are loading and when there's no songs etc.
    • Now searchPage shows results about playlists.
    • Now some information about artist data and album data is saved with song data.
    • Now you can view all the search results related to your query by clicking 'See All' buttons of specific categories in searchPage.
    • Created new components Button and Checkbox.
    • Added new buttons in ArtistInfoPage, AlbumInfoPage, PlaylistInfoPage, CurrentQueuePage to provide functions like play all, shuffle and play, and add to queue etc.
  • Fixes
    • Fixed a bug related to npm packages.
    • Updated parseSong to differentiate between currently added songs and new songs. Previously this problem will duplicate the data related to the song in the library.
    • Fixed some music playback issues.
    • Fixed some issues related to queuing songs.
    • Updated and improved the styles of the app.
    • Now number of listens of a song will be updated if the song is listened repeatedly by using repeat function.
    • Updated artist online information apis.
    • Applied useTransition hook to improve user input responsiveness in the app when a song is playing.
  • Known Issues
    • Sometimes newly added songs won't be added to the library. The workaround is to reset the app and linking the relevant folder again.
    • Shuffle and Repeat states currently is not presisting states between sessions.
    • Resync songs context menu option isn't working as intended.
    • Scrolling in a page when is a song is playing reduces smoothness of the app due excessive rendering.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Sandakan/Oto-Music-for-Desktop/blob/master/changelog.md

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Sandakan/Oto-Music-for-Desktop/commits/v0.0.1-alpha