[3.0.8] - 2026-08-05

Added

• Pressing a letter on the keyboard, scrolls to the pressed letter on artists and genres screens and selects all artists and genres starting with that letter focussing on albums for those artists or genres
• Added option to show artist image as background (Thank you @FranzDeschler)
• Added option to edit artist images (Thank you @FranzDeschler)

Changed

• Improved rating and love backup
• Updated the Bulgarian translation (Thank you kukata)
• Updated the Simplified Chinese translation (Thank you @jeremyooh)
• Updated the Portuguese translation (Thank you @Blackspirits)
• Updated the Vietnamese translation (Thank you @honhatduy)

Fixed

• Scroll issues on the playlists screen when using compact songs list
• "Show in Folder" in Snap version does not work for directories outside of /home (Thank you @mvanhorn)
• Snap package is broken

[3.0.7] - 2026-07-03

Added

• Added automatic rating and love backup for situations where the database needs to be reset
• Added a search field on the queue screens
• Added possibility to download and show artist images in the list of artists (Thank you @FranzDeschler)
• Added BPM filter to smart playlists
• Added Kadbury theme (Thank you @kkdeep)
• Added a button to jump to the playing song on each songs list
• Added option to show a more compact song list
• Added ListenBrainz scrobbling (Thank you @ugokitakunai)

Fixed

• ReplayGain issues
• Double-clicking next to an artists group letter causes a crash
• Album shuffle button in Genres tab shuffles globally instead of within the genre (Thank you @UrielJaloto)
• Lyrics are too small and sizing doesn't work when there are no smart lyrics
• Window is outside of the screen when external display is disconnected

[3.0.6] - 2026-06-13

Fixed

• Manually edited album covers are overwritten on the next collection refresh
• Fixed AppImage package not working on modern GNU/Linux distributions
• Deleting song from playlist sometimes fails
• Playback controls only work when clicking on upper half of the buttons
• It's unclear that files must be tagged with an external ReplayGain scanner (for example rsgain) before normalization can take effect.
• Change to Artist or Album tags is not reflected in the song list view nor in the Now Playing information
• ReplayGain issues
• Smart playlist filters ignore text containing accents or other special characters
• Some MP3 files trigger an "MPEG header not found" error due to a too-narrow initial MPEG header scan range

Changed

• Updated the Vietnamese translation

Added

• Added an Adwaita theme, because GNU/Linux deserves some love.
• Added Windows taskbar media controls accessible by hovering over the app icon in the taskbar
• Added a "Refresh now" button to the main menu
• Added ReplayGain support
• Added option to show album name on the now playing page
• Added possibility to edit the album cover

Changed

• Discord Rich Presence says "Listening to" instead of "Playing"
• Improved scaling of different parts of the user interface
• Updated the Czech translation
• Updated the German translation
• Updated the Hebrew translation
• Updated the Russian translation
• Updated the Vietnamese translation

Fixed

• Saving a rating to an MP3 file could create an ID3v1 tag, causing genres to be stored and displayed as their numeric ID3v1 code (e.g. "Eurodance" becoming "54")
• It is not possible to edit songs from the Songs screen
• There is no scroll bar in the smart playlist editor
• Loop one does not work correctly when using gapless or crossfading playback
• When exiting Dopamine, the Discord status doesn't disappear.
• It's not always clear when Dopamine is refreshing the collection

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[3.0.4] - 2026-04-06

Added

• Added ability to enlarge the cover image on the Now playing screen
• Clicking the visualization switches it between the available styles

Changed

• Updated the Portuguese (brazilian) translation
• Updated the Swedish translation

Fixed

• Delete button is not visible when folder is not selected in "Manage collection" screen
• Window size increases when dragging
• Attempting to delete a song from a smart playlist, breaks the playlist.
• Deleting of a song from a playlist while filtering via search, removes most of the files from the playlist.
• Playback progress bar does not react to touch input
• The cover image on the Now playing screen has glitches
• Browsing folders on a NAS gets stuck in an infinite loop
• Follow the system color does not work on Linux

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[3.0.3] - 2026-03-30

Added

• Added shuffle option to the artist, genre and album context menus.
• Added shuffle all on artist, genre, album and songs screens.
• Added crossfade
• Added smart playlists
• Added Catppuccin and Dracula themes (Thank you BlackSpirits!)
• Added "Always on top" and "Lock position" options to the mini player context menu

Changed

• Updated the Croatian translation
• Updated the German translation
• Updated the Italian translation
• Updated the Portuguese (brazilian) translation
• Updated the Portuguese (Portugal) translation
• Updated the Simplified Chinese translation
• Updated the Spanish translation
• Updated the Vietnamese translation

Fixed

• Genres which are starting with numbers are incorrectly detected
• Play and skip count are not updated when collection songs are played from playlists
• Flac rating is lost after editing tags
• Dopamine window doesn't show when clicking on pinned Taskbar icon in Windows
• Error when deleting songs that are on a network drive
• The titlebar is only draggable in empty spots

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[3.0.2] - 2026-01-17

Added

• Added a Highlights screen showing your most played albums
• Added Composers, Conductor and BPM to tag editor.

Changed

• Updated the Turkish translation
• Updated the Vietnamese translation

Fixed

• Fixed a crash that occurred when playing a song from the playback queue
• Fixed some album view issues
• Fixed an issue causing the wrong song to play when started from the Operating System

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Added

• Added half-star rating support, expanding the song rating scale to a range of 0–10.
• Added song sorting options on the 'Folders' screen
• Added a button to toggle between the default expanded album view and Dopamine 2's compact album view
• Added the removable-media plug to the Snap configuration, allowing the Snap version of Dopamine to access /media.

Changed

• Updated the Kurdish translation
• Updated the Russian translation
• Updated the Spanish translation
• Updated the Swedish translation
• Updated the Vietnamese translation

Fixed

• m3u8 playlists are not recognized
• Ratings are not read from files
• Developer console opens when pressing F12
• Crash when trying to play a deleted file
• Song length in right sidebar displays double the time of the real length
• Some issues with fetching of lyrics
• Folders context menu opens too much the left on the Folders screen
• Crash when the user has no Music directory
• Crash when trying to play ALAC M4A file. Those are not supported. Instead of a crash, the user is now informed why the file doesn't play.
• Crash when starting files from the operating system's file browser
• Issue where the Edit song dialog replaces '/' by ';' for artists containing a '/' in their name
• Linux Snap issue that caused file dialog text to appear as squares instead of readable characters

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Dopamine 3 release blog post

[3.0.0] - 2025-11-06

First release!

Highlights:

• Multi-platform support - Dopamine now runs seamlessly on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• Playlist folders - Organize your playlists into folders for better structure and easier navigation.
• Gapless playback - Enjoy smooth, uninterrupted transitions between tracks.
• Logarithmic volume control - Experience more natural and precise volume adjustments.
• Artist splitting - Automatically split multiple artists using customizable separators (e.g., “ft.”, “feat.”).
• Album grouping options - Choose how albums are defined and displayed for greater control over your library organization.
• Last.fm integration - Scrobble your music and download artist information directly from Last.fm.
• Lyrics support - Display offline or online lyrics while listening to your favorite songs.
• Discord integration - Show your currently playing track on Discord in real time.

Enjoy the music!

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Dopamine 3 release blog post

[3.0.0-preview.40] - 2025-10-02

Added

• Added Arabic translation
• Added option to automatically scroll to the playing song
• Added audio visualization to mini player

Changed

• Images now have round corners
• Updated the Hebrew translation
• Updated the Russian translation
• Updated the Simplified Chinese translation
• Updated the Spanish translation
• Updated the Vietnamese translation

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where artists that are separated by a semicolon ';' were not indexed correctly
• Fixed a bug where the folders screen had an empty sorting button
• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to remove a folder that is not displayed in the collection
• Fixed a bug where changing the album grouping settings had no effect on the collection
• Fixed a bug where unknown artists and genres were not displayed in the collection

Fix #776: Artists - Strange artist name bugs

[3.0.0-preview.39] - 2025-06-21

Added

• Added Ctrl-F shortcut to focus the search bar and ESC to clear it
• Added support for cover art images that have file name albumart.jpg, albumart.jpeg or albumart.png
• Added Turkish translation

Changed

• Slightly improved the look of the mini player
• Improved scaling of text on Now Playing screen for smaller screens
• Order selections are now menus instead of toggle buttons
• Updated the Brazilian Portuguese translation
• Updated the Spanish translation
• Updated the Turkish translation
• Updated the Vietnamese translation

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where a random song would start playing after the queue ended when using gapless playback.
• Fixed an issue where album lists were not refreshed after a search returned no results.
• Fixed an issue where progress was not reset to 0 when playback has finished
• Fixed an issue where a track that is longer than 4 minutes was scrobbled to Last.fm immediately after it started playing
• Fixed some sizing issues on the "Folders" screen
• Fixed search problems

[3.0.0-preview.38] - 2025-05-29

Added

• Added tagging support

Changed

• Updated Simplified Brazilian Portuguese translation
• Updated Simplified Russian translation
• Updated Simplified Spanish translation

Fixed

• Fixed more problems with Discord Rich Presence
• Fixed unexpected resume when skipping while paused
• Fixed audio not playing when starting from double-clicking a file in file manager in mini player mode
• Fixed a bug where any image residing in the same directory as the audio file was used as cover art

[3.0.0-preview.37] - 2024-12-09

Fixed

• Fixed problems with Discord Rich Presence

[3.0.0-preview.36] - 2024-12-08

Changed

• Updated Bulgarian translation
• Updated Italian translation
• Updated Russian translation
• Updated Simplified Chinese translation
• Updated Vietnamese translation

Fixed

• Fixed many issues with gapless playback
• Fixed Windows media overlay disappearing after a few seconds
• Fixed skipping multiple songs causing a crash

[3.0.0-preview.35] - 2024-10-20

Added

• Added gapless playback
• Added back support for .tiff cover images after having to break it in order to fix other problems
• Added Italian translation

Fixed

• Fixed missing tray icons on all operating systems
• Fixed slow performance on folders screen when opening folders containing a lot of files
• Fixed sorting of songs by album when there are more than 9 songs in a multi-disc album
• Fixed albums being shown under the wrong artist due to splitting of artists on separators
• Fixed problems while transitioning between full and cover player on macOS