Refactored, much lighter Specta Player! 🎶

Hi guys and lads! 👋

A much needed update has just landed, massively improving the animations quality, performance and fixing a lot of bugs, 3.0 arrives to make your job of playing audio even easier!

This update includes

• Dark theme
• Reworked backed (saving and using the audio files)
• Way less web components and thus much better performance
• Other performance improvements along the way
• Improved animations
• Many bug fixes

I hope that you'll enjoy all of those micro transitions and if you find any bugs, be sure to open an issue!
Have a nice day!

Add to home screen changes 🛠

Notable changes

• ⭐ New banners encouraging you to add Specta Player to homescreen

Description

Since Chrome 68, add to homescreen dialog behaves differently. To make use of those changes, new banners and buttons were added to better promote the add to homescreen feature. It also enables desktop users on supported browsers to install Specta Player like a native app 😄

I tried my best to make sure those new additions aren't too intrusive. I'd love to hear your feedback on this one! 💬

Mostly build fixes 🏗 and new buttons 🔘

Notable changes

• 🐛 Fixed Travis build and possible dependency mismatches
• ⚙ Tweaked button layout on phones, now it's clear they're buttons

Description

Our previous construction has left the build system reliant on the promise of backwards-compatibility but it seems like the new Node version messed up our deployment system 🤔 Now, we have Travis set to a checked locally version of Node so no more version-mismatch errors can shake our ground 💪

Also we're making a change to the button design on mobile. The bottom-bar styled controls no longer can be confused for navigation as they received a true button worthy styling 🔘✨

As always, waiting for your feedback 💬

Dragging towards less bugs

Updated a few things under the hood to make sure everything works smoothly.

🐛 Most notable bugs squashed:

• Seconds now display correctly
• Drag to change current time feature in playing (console) screen now correctly handles cases where you drag the song down to 0:00
• Song titles should no longer display over you custom titles

Enjoy 😁 and as always - if you find any bugs, be sure to submit them in the issues 💬

Bug fixes for mobile devices

It comes out that a recent update to a framework we're using was preventing users from uploading files on mobile browsers 😕 yikes! But that's fixed now! This release also brings up a few other minor bug fixes that were live already but weren't added to the last release.

Firefox input field bug workaround

As described in #2 there are some issues with clicking input fields. This ensures Firefox users do not have any problems.

Patches, patches and some bugs

As I have done most of work on Specta Player on my Chromebook I wasn't aware of a few issues appearing in Firefox and Edge. I strongly apologise for that and I'm happy to tell you that Firefox is back on the track with the last known bug being investigated on other repositories (updates in #2). Edge sadly stays visually broken but it is usable if it needs to (updates in #3). I'm working on those issues very hard to make sure they are resolved as fast as possible.

2.0 is here 🎉

Hello everyone! 👋

After quite a lot of work (twice as much as necessary because my laptop broke 😢), I'm happy to announce that the 2.0 version is finally here!

This update includes

• Many bug fixes
• Completely redesigned console view and updated uploader
• No more extensive clicking - reorder tracks by dragging
• Using same file multiple times? Now you can
• Drag-n-drop files to instantly add them
• Performance optimisations, especially in loading times
• Waaay smoother animations

I hope that you'll like that and if you find any bugs, be sure to open an issue!
Have a nice day!