Mixxx Accepted to Outreachy. Please Donate!
Mixxx is proud to announce that we have been officially accepted into the Outreachy program and are immediately raising funds to sponsor our first Intern for the December 2020 cycle!
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New in 2.3: Color your Hotcues
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Hotcues are a neat thing and one of the major benefits of digital DJing. On analogue vinyl decks, you had had to put stickers to mark the different sections of a song and physically pick up, move and drop the needle to move to it. With the move to digital …
Read MoreGuest Article: DJ on the fly with Mixxx and Raspberry Pi
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One of the things that make Mixxx special is that it works on more platforms that just Windows or macOS. Thanks to Mixxx being open-source, it's possible to create "unusual" setups that the developers didn't expect - for example by running it on a low-cost Raspberry Pi single board computer combined …
Read MoreGSoC 2020: Adding Experimental Meter Detection
One of the parts where Mixxx is lacking is how it handles time signatures and downbeats. Currently, Mixxx only has individual beats but has no support for detecting or displaying additional information about the rhythm.
This is going to change during this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC), because we …
Read MoreNew in 2.3: Importing tracks and cues from Rekordbox removable devices
Do you rock your gigs armed only with your cans and a Rekordbox prepared USB flash drive? Ever been tempted to play your carefully curated tracks on something other than a CDJ or Rekordbox, on something that is free and open-source? We have news for you!
Mixxx 2.3 will …
Read MoreNew in 2.3: Build Mixxx with CMake
Starting with Mixxx 2.3, we're introducing experimental support for CMake. This will probably be more interesting for people who are either compiling Mixxx themselves or going hack on its code base than for regular users, but it will make the build process more straightforward in the future.
Mixxx has …
Read MoreNew In 2.3: Intro & Outro Cues, Silence Detection, and AutoDJ Improvements
Do you use hotcues to mark the points you use to mix in and out of tracks? Have you wished AutoDJ knew to mix in and out at those points? In Mixxx 2.3, we have introduced new intro & outro cues for these purposes. You can try them now with …
Read More#BlackLivesMatter: Taking a Stand with Terminology and Recruitment
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Alongside the protesters in the US and around the world, the Mixxx team unequivocally condemns police brutality. The systemic racism that burdens people of color every day is the responsibility of white people around the world to address. Mixxx' core development team feels it necessary not to remain silent on …
Read MoreMixxx 2.2.4 released
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Mixxx 2.2.4 has been released. Download it here.
This release fixes some bugs and adds some controller mappings, but doesn't introduce any new features. If you want to check out the new features of the upcoming 2.3 release, you can also download and test the 2.3 …
Read MoreMixxx GSoc Coding Begins
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This year Mixxx is again taking part in Google Summer of Code, and 3 students are working full-time for 3 months to make Mixxx even more awesome.
After one month of community bonding period, they started coding last week. Cristiano and Harshit, who are both working towards the same final …
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