# digimezzo/dopamine-windows

Audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible.

Repository: https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine-windows
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dopamine-windows
Homepage: https://digimezzo.github.io/site/
Language: C#
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2025-12-30T07:54:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 49/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 59, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3703, "days_push": 246, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2048, forks 274 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:08.986012+00:00)

## What it is
Dopamine is a free, open-source audio player for Windows written in C# and powered by the CSCore sound library. It focuses on making organizing and listening to a personal music collection simple and visually appealing.

## Use cases
- play local music files on windows
- organize a music library with a pretty interface
- free alternative to itunes or windows media player
- manage playlists and music collection
- listen to mp3 and flac files on desktop

## When to choose
- you want a clean, simple music player on Windows
- you need to organize a local music library
- you prefer open-source GPL-licensed desktop software

## When to avoid
- you need a player for macOS or Linux
- you want streaming services like Spotify integration
- you need a cross-platform or mobile music player

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: audio-processing, gui
- domain: media, desktop-applications, entertainment
- platform: windows, dotnet
- tags: music-player, audio-player, music-library, csharp, cscore, ffmpeg, wpf, desktop

## Member repositories
- digimezzo/dopamine-windows (main) score 49

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:08.986012+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:57:56.569470+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine-windows (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:08.986012+00:00, sha ecfdb18872b2)
  - homepage: https://digimezzo.github.io/site/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:37:53.650968+00:00, sha 16047a6b6ee8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.