This is both, a very minor and yet very major release: V0.8.7 was just a few days ago, so there wasn't even that much time to implement new things - but this release brings two major improvements to the Music Library and marks the first of several polishing releases that are coming to make the Music Library a really awesome browsing experience.
Browsing
As you can see, we now have little preview images for songs and beatmaps, and also artists (for artists, we simply use the first image we find for that artist). Finally, you can browse more "visually".
What you cannot see in those animated gifs is that we also did some major work on how audio previews work: Instead of having to wait for a really long time in many cases, audio preview is now really fast, and also starts immediately when you select a song (instead of when you select a beatmap). One caveat: The only way to make it this fast was to use small and short audio snippets that are optimized for the previews - so you can't listen to the whole song in the preview anymore.
Filters
We've had filters all along - this is just to show you a nice little feature we have with the sliders: When you click on the button where the current value of the slider is shown, you get the slider right in front of you, which makes controlling them much easier. I also noticed a new bug while recording this: Changing the slider values should immediately update the results. Currently, it doesn't. I'll work on fixing that for the next release.
Random
This is another showcase for one of my favorite features in the new Music Library: By selecting random, you can let Holodance pick a beatmap for you. Together with the improved audio preview, you can now very quickly find one you like, and then play it.
Full Release Notes
- Fixed issue where Avatar skin was transparent in Retro Clubbing environment.
- Music Library: Added quick audio previews to all ranked osu! beatmaps in the Music Library. No more waiting for the beatmap to be cached!
- Music Library: Added image previews for artists, songs and beatmaps.
- Music Library: Starting audio preview now already when a song was selected.
- Music Library: Moved mute audio preview button to navigation arrows because we now also have previews when a song is selected (and it may be that the beatmap UI is not even visible, yet)
- Music Library: Moved the Play button to the center and made it much bigger.
- Music Library: Artists that only have one song now skip a level, so you don't have to select the artist just to then select that one song. We currently don't have this for songs that only have one beatmap because that would break things.
- Music Library: Moved paging buttons to center top/bottom of the lists. This gives the scrollbar a little more room and also made it possible to make these buttons a little larger and easier to reach.
- General UI: Fixed an issue where disabling a fadein/out canvas too early would result in that thing still showing when being re-enabled.
- Cleaned up project (a little), reduced build-size from 9.3GB to 8.9GB.
- Fixed issue where dragon fist and high five hand would appear on feet, when Vive Trackers were attached to feet