Where Does Dopamine Store Its Library and Settings?
Where the Dopamine music player keeps its database, settings and logs.
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Dopamine keeps its library database, settings and logs under its own Roaming AppData folder, with Dopamine.db as the headline file. Ratings, playlists and downloaded art all ride in that one tree.
Uninstalls deliberately leave the folder behind, so a reinstall recovers your library untouched. Wipe it only for a true fresh start. Downgrading across major versions also wants a clean folder since database shapes change.
Where Dopamine stores this, by platform
%APPDATA%\Dopamine\
Holds Dopamine.db, settings and the Log subfolder. Delete while closed to reset library and ratings. Survives uninstalls, so remove by hand for clean slate. Back up before major version jumps.
Frequently asked questions
Dopamine rescans forever. How do I reset the library?
Delete Dopamine.db in the Dopamine AppData folder while closed. The library, ratings and cached art rebuild from your music folders on next launch, which clears endless rescan loops.
Where are Dopamine log files?
Grab the Log subfolder contents from the same Dopamine AppData path. The developer asks for those files in issue reports since they record collection and playback errors.
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