As of today, we have just introduced a Previsional Release Roadmap page on the website which will help you keeping track on when to expect new Mixxx releases, with a focus on new minor releases, which are the release containing all the new shiny features that the community is working …
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infrastructure,
development,
contribute
Yes everybody, we officially moved our bug tracking away from Launchpad to GitHub. If you've never tried to report a bug in Mixxx or wanted to contribute in other ways, it's very likely you have no idea what this post is about, but if you do it's even better. No …
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infrastructure,
development,
contribute
Hello Everybody.
After thorough preparation, we're finally moving from Launchpad bugs to GitHub issues. We'll publish a more detailed blogpost after the migration is done. For now, We'd just like to let everybody know, that we will disable our bug tracker on launchpad sometime on Monday the 22nd of August …
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development,
2.3,
beta,
cmake,
scons
If you wanted to compile a recent version of Mixxx 2.3 beta or 2.4 yourself, you may have already noticed that we removed our old and rusty SCons setup in favor of CMake.
A few months ago we said that we were planning to ship Mixxx 2.3 …
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1.8,
1.9,
1.10,
development
Mixxx 1.8 was a big step ahead, bringing new features like hot cues, looping, and a brand new library, but as we speak, many other new features are being developed behind the scenes. These new features are still in the lab, so to speak, but some of them are …
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Sorry, I just had to post this.
I'm scraping together a press kit for the new 1.8.0 website and I came across this awesome class diagram in the "The Mixxx Paper". Tue Haste Andersen presented Mixxx and that paper at a conference back in 2003, and this diagram …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Read MoreThis 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 …
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