Mixxx 1.8 Preview

Wed 23 December 2009 Albert Santoni 1.8, 1.8.0, development, video

After many months of planning and development, we're finally approaching a beta release of Mixxx 1.8. Since our last release, several major new features have matured and are almost ready for public testing.

Our main focus for 1.8 has been improving the library, which is a direct result …

Hercules releases GPL Linux MIDI drivers & Mixxx 1.6.1+Herc is released

Thu 19 February 2009 GED 1.6, 1.6.1, hardware, development, release announcement

On Feb 16th, Hercules released GPL Linux MIDI drivers for their DJ Console / DJ Control series of MIDI input controllers (Mk2, RMX, MP3 Control, DJ Control Steel).

Mixxx is proud to support Hercules' great contribution by releasing Mixxx 1.6.1+Herc (Linux) and the +Herc MIDI mapping update packs …

MIDI Scripting and the Stanton SCS.3d (Videos)

Mon 09 February 2009 Albert Santoni hardware, videos, midi, development

One of Mixxx's newer developers, Sean Pappalardo (DJ Pegasus), has been hacking away at MIDI scripting for the past few months so that we can fully support more advanced MIDI controllers. One of the new controllers scripting will allow us to support is Stanton's SCS.3d (aka "DaScratch").

The Stanton …

Rewriting the Library

Wed 03 December 2008 Albert Santoni 1.6, development, library

This developer commentary explains the trials and tribulations of Mixxx's library code, and what the Mixxx developers are doing to improve it.

In the (long) development cycle between Mixxx 1.5.0 and 1.6.0, several changes were made to the library. Some of the more visible changes were …

Effects Progress

Mon 24 November 2008 Albert Santoni 1.6, development, effects

Since the 1.6.1 release, we've been hard at work integrating several new features that have been in the works for a while.

In our last user survey, many people told us that Mixxx needed some effects besides the flanger. In response to your feedback, we had Pawel Bartkiewicz …

PPC Support Problems for Mixxx 1.6.0

Mon 01 September 2008 Adam Davison 1.6, 1.6.0, macos, development

We've got some bad news about the Mac PPC version of 1.6.0 . Due to a "communication error", I thought we had someone building a PPC release and it turns out that person was actually doing something completely different. Unfortunately, I also promised erroneously to some people on the …

Progress towards 1.6.0

Sat 21 June 2008 Albert Santoni 1.6, 1.6.0, development

These last few weeks of development have been pretty exciting. We've been tackling the bugs we've marked as "release critical", which means we're getting closer to the 1.6.0 final release.

There's been improvements to the library as well as many other bug fixes made, and our Google Summer …

Feature Preview: Shoutcast Broadcasting

Fri 01 February 2008 Albert Santoni development, broadcasting

One of our newer contributors, **Wesley Stessens**, has been hard at work on Shoutcast/Icecast broadcasting support for Mixxx.

It turns out Shoutcast support was a little bit more complicated than we had been expecting, but Wesley's done a great job of tackling all the problems that have come up …

Progress since Beta 1

Thu 31 January 2008 Albert Santoni 1.6, 1.6.0, beta, development

Since the release of Mixxx 1.6.0 beta1, we've been busy busy busy getting new features and bug fixes ready for beta2. The library has undergone substantial work including new playlist support, improvements to the file scanning, and several bug fixes that were causing stability issues in beta1.

Recently …

MixxxScript - A Sneaky Feature Preview

Sat 05 January 2008 Adam Davison development, hardware

Although we're technically in the beta part of the release cycle, we've still been spending some time on features for future releases. I've been working on adding a macro/scripting style environment to Mixxx which would allow users to extend Mixxx without the work of recompiling. Here's a screenshot of …