🎵 SCounter

A C++ desktop music player for Windows with playlists, listening statistics, and smart filtering based on play count.

📍 The Process

Since I was 15, I’ve wanted a music player that tracks how many times I’ve listened to each song and allows creating meaningful visualizations from that data.

About 7 years later, after starting to learn C++, I decided to bring this idea to life. It became a large-scale project, taking around 400 hours to complete — and something I’m very proud of.

✨ Technologies

• Embarcadero Dev-C++
• BASS library
• WinAPI
• Inno Setup

🚀 Features

• MP3 support
• Unicode ID3 tag reading
• Playlist creation and management
• Detection of missing files on startup
• Saving/loading playlists
• Detailed song tracking (play count, skip count, date added, last played/skipped)
• Shuffle mode
• Smart filtering based on play count
• Playlist statistics and statistics window
• Custom compression algorithm for data storage
• Duplicate song name detection
• Sorting and search
• Customizable and global hotkeys
• Built-in song database editor
• Backup & restore (export/import)
• Automatic backups
• Customizable app behavior (close/minimize)
• Excel-friendly data export for visualization
• Installer
• Custom UI design

👩🏻‍🎓 What I've learned

• C++ (advanced topics)
• GUI development
• File I/O
• Debugging
• WinAPI
• Working with third-party libraries
• Creating custom libraries and algorithms
• Building large-scale applications
• Software deployment

🚦 Running the Project

1. Go to Releases
2. Download the latest installer (e.g. SCounter.v2.2.0.setup.exe)
3. Run the installer and follow instructions

To uninstall, use “Add or remove programs” in Windows.

🎞️ Preview

Short.demo.mp4