Dopamine: a simple and elegant local music player

When I decided to shift from online streaming media to local offline media, finding a suitable music player became the first task. After trying Foobar2000 (the original version and its various modifications) and Dopamine, I resolutely chose the latter.

"Dopamine" is a local music player mainly aimed at the PC end. It has an extremely simple design style and only has the functions that ordinary music players should have: in addition to playing music, only music can be played; However, it is not simple. The rich switching animation and colorful software design have made great efforts to create a comfortable use experience.

The default playback interface only contains information such as cover, music title, artist, and rating. In addition, the fuzzy cover background, supplemented by a large number of blank spaces, brings great visual comfort.

The animation of switching pages is also pleasing to the eye, with lyrics and artist information.

Even the name "Dopamine" has no meaning. Dopamine, which is translated into Chinese as dopamine, is a neurotransmitter responsible for the transmission of sensory information in the brain. It conveys feelings such as love, happiness and addiction. The author hopes that users can enjoy beautiful music with the help of "Dopamine", and then increase the secretion of dopamine, making them feel happy and comfortable physically and mentally.

Download and Install

The download and installation of Dopamine is very simple Official website Select the appropriate version.

The installation package is divided into "installation version" and "portable version". The installation version will write the program to the registry and follow the installation steps; The portable version is decompressed for immediate use. Just find "Dopamine. exe" in the decompressed file.

However, there are currently two versions: the official version of "Dopamine2" and the beta version of "Dopamine3". It is recommended to use Dopamine 2. Its functions and localization are relatively complete. Dopamine 3 is still under test. The scope of changes is not small and it is not suitable for daily use.

If the download does not work, there is a backup: Portal 。

Personally, I recommend using the portable version, so that you can move the software freely and facilitate testing.

In addition, you can use scoop to install:

 scoop bucket add extras scoop install dopamine

The initial settings after installing Dopamine are also very simple. Select the language, appearance, and set the music media library to use.

Use and optimization

Open the interface of Dopamine, and an elegant breath will come to your face. Elegant ！

main interface

The navigation bar of Dopamine is classified according to "Artist", "Style", "Album", "Song", "Playlist", and "Folder". The corresponding area of each category has different functions.

For example, in the " artist "And" style Among these two items, the left side shows the corresponding artist/style list, the middle part lists the albums under the selected artist/style, and the right side shows the corresponding songs.

Other projects are relatively standard. 「 Album "Shows the album and its corresponding songs.

「 song "It is a dark piece without a cover. The default sorting here is by artist, or by date.

「 playlist "Is roughly equivalent to" song sheet "I don't have the habit of secondary classification, so I don't use it very much.

And " folder "It is even less useful. It is only suitable for friends classified by folders. I have classified the singers here, but it is more convenient to use the "Artists" in the navigation bar directly.

set up

After installation, you need to set some functions to maximize the functions of Dopamine. If you can't find the setting entry, you can refer to the following picture.

appearance

For appearance, it is recommended to select "follow album cover color", so that when encountering covers with different colors, the border of Dopamine will automatically match the color similar to the album cover.

characteristic

It is suggested to select "Follow the song" so that you can know where the song you are listening to is now.

play

You can check "sleep", but it is unnecessary to send messages. It is annoying to see them one by one.

Then select "Task Bar", and the progress is also very good.

start-up

Check "Start Page" and "Last Play", which is very helpful to continue the last play.

on-line

"Online search" and "Discard" need network support, so they cannot be used.

Last. fm can be used directly. This is a music recording website, which can analyze trends through playing records. Create an account on the website. After logging in according to the prompt, the played concert will be automatically uploaded to Last.fm.

For "lyrics", you can select "Netease Cloud Music". After modification, it needs to be restarted once to search lyrics.

After selection, concerts without lyrics are automatically obtained from Netease Cloud, and the accuracy rate is good depending on the matching degree of song names.

However, only Chinese lyrics can be found, without the original text.

blacklist

If you listen to a song every day and suddenly want to change your mood one day, but do not want to delete it, you can add it to the "blacklist".

Right click the song list to add it to the blacklist. The song will not disappear in the list, but will be skipped when playing.

Add music

Refer to the settings entry above and click "Manage Music Library".

Add your music folder to it.

In order to play all the functions of Dopamine, the music format recommended by me is flac or mp3 Etc. can be embedded in ID3 ­ Tags music format. wav Embedded ID3 ­ Tags are too difficult to handle. It is suggested to convert them into flac Say more.

Generally from Netease Cloud Downloaded from flac or mp3 Music in format（ ncm For music in the format, you can use the " unlockmusic The service for '' is decrypted as flac Format) Relevant information such as cover, title and audio track has been built in, so there is no need to organize them repeatedly. QQ music is not only format encryption, but also has redundant "QQ music logo" on the file name. I don't like downloading music from QQ music, although there are many copyrights

As for no built-in ID3 ­ For the music of Tags, please refer to this article《 MusicBrainz Incomplete Use Guide 》Complete ID3 ­ Tags。

In short, after adding the music library, this introduction is over! Please explore other functions by yourself and enjoy the happiness brought by Dopamine!

Author: mikusa

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