dopamine

Dopamine

Dopamine is an elegant audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. This version is written using Electron, Angular and Typescript and works on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Dopamine icons created by Sharlee.

Custom translations

Dopamine creates a Translations directory inside its application data directory, next to Dopamine.db, and copies all bundled translations there. You can copy one of those JSON files to a new language code (such as xx.json) or edit an existing one. Dopamine adds missing bundled files again when the language menu opens, but never overwrites your edits. Use the same flat key/value format; include language-name-english and language-name-localized to label a new language in the welcome and appearance language menus. For example:

{
    "language-name-english": "Example language",
    "language-name-localized": "Example name",
    "welcome-to-dopamine": "Welcome!"
}

The menu discovers new files when opened. A user file with the same name as a bundled language overrides that language's translations. Missing keys fall back to the default English translation (unless the file overrides English itself). To test edits to a translation that is already selected, select another language, then switch back to reload the file.

Debugging

I recommend using JetBrains Rider or WebStorm to debug this project. The .run folder contains a debugging configuration Debug renderer that allows you to attach to the Dopamine instance that is started when running npm start. Most of the code runs in the Electron renderer. That is why only a renderer configuration is provided for now.

Build prerequisites

• rpm: required to build rpm package
• libarchive-tools: contains bsdtar, which is required to build pacman package.

Build prerequisites on Ubuntu:

• Install Node.js 22
• Install your IDE of choice (Rider, WebStorm, Visual Studio Code, ...)
• Install rpm (required to build rpm package) and libarchive-tools (contains bsdtar, which is required to build pacman package): sudo apt install rpm libarchive-tools

Follow the build instructions below to start or build Dopamine for your platform.

Build prerequisites on Manjaro:

• Install Node.js 22:
  • yay -S nvm
  • nvm install 22
• Install your IDE of choice (Rider, WebStorm, Visual Studio Code, ...)
• Install rpm (required to build rpm package): sudo pacman -S rpm-tools

Follow the build instructions below to start or build Dopamine for your platform.

Build prerequisites on Windows:

• Download and install Node.js 22 from https://nodejs.org (During the installation, select all features and check the box to install Tools for Native Modules).
• After the installation of Node.js, restart computer to ensure that npm is added to the path.
• Install your IDE of choice (Rider, WebStorm, Visual Studio Code, ...)
• Download the Dopamine source code
• Open the "dopamine" folder (the folder containing package.json) in your IDE

Follow the build instructions below to start or build Dopamine for your platform.

Build prerequisites on MacOS:

• Install Node.js 22 from https://nodejs.org (During the installation, select all features and check the box to install Tools for Native Modules).
• Make sure npm is accessible via the console
  • Press command + space and search for console
  • Write npm --v and press enter, this should give you the version number if npm is properly installed.
• Install your IDE of choice (Rider, WebStorm, Visual Studio Code, ...)
• Download the Dopamine source code
• Open the "dopamine" folder (the folder containing package.json) in your IDE

Build instructions

Due to the native dependency better-sqlite3, this project cannot be built for all platforms on GNU/Linux. The GNU/Linux packages must be built on GNU/Linux, the Windows package must be built on Windows and the MacOS package must be built on MacOS.

$ git clone https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine.git
$ cd dopamine
$ npm install                # Install dependencies
$ npm start                  # Start Dopamine
$ npm run electron:windows   # Build for Windows
$ npm run electron:linux     # Build for Linux
$ npm run electron:mac       # Build for Mac

Pacman

Installation

The pacman package can be installed using this command (replace x.y.z with the correct version number):

sudo pacman -U Dopamine-x.y.z.pacman

If you're getting an error concerning a missing package libappindicator-sharp, use this command to perform the installation instead (replace x.y.z with the correct version number):

sudo pacman -U Dopamine-x.y.z.pacman --assume-installed libappindicator-sharp

Rpm

Installation

The rpm package can be installed using this command (replace x.y.z with the correct version number):

sudo dnf install Dopamine-x.y.z.rpm

Arch User Repository (AUR)

Installation

Dopamine is available in the AUR as dopamine-official. So the installation is as simple as:

yay -S dopamine-official

Note: the dopamine package in the AUR is not maintained by me. My package is dopamine-official.

Snap Store

Installation

Dopamine is available in the Snap store. So the installation is as simple as:

snap install dopamine

If you wish to install a manually downloaded snap package, the command is as follows (replace x.y.z with the correct version number):

snap install --dangerous Dopamine-x.y.z.snap

Access to /media

I've added the removable-media plug to the Dopamine Snap configuration to allow access to /media. However, unlike the home plug, removable-media is not auto-connected by default. After installing your Dopamine snap, verify its connections:

snap connections dopamine

You should see:

removable-media  dopamine:removable-media  -  -

If it says -, it’s not connected yet. You'll have to connect it manually by running this command:

sudo snap connect dopamine:removable-media

Once you've done that, your Dopamine should be able to access /media.