Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by apt-get » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 4:19 PM UTC

Been using it for the past few years, nothing bad to say about it, lovely piece of software. Vendor lock-in is very present in this field, with different brands of controllers supported by a myriad of proprietary DJ applications all more interested in onboarding you to their music subscription services rather than implement useful features or support open protocols.

Meanwhile, Mixxx allows you to write your own adapter scripts for any controller you have (as long as it outputs MIDI), and there's a built-in library featuring scripts for the most common commercial controllers and MIDI devices out there.

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by asimovfan » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 4:23 PM UTC

drdirk wrote: post #2

What does GPL stand for?

Its like when Morpheus goes into the Matrix to free more people.

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by cies » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 4:23 PM UTC

I've been using this for the few DJ sets I do per year. Very complete software, very stable also.

Sadly I have to use RekordBox now that I want to not bring the laptop + DJ controller, but just a USB stick. And RekordBox does not run well on Linux (tried VirtualBox and Wine, both failed attempts).

Sadly there's no RecordBox clone, or "export to RekordBox USB" feature on Mixxx.

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by helpfulContrib » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 4:25 PM UTC

>GPL DJ Software

Its kind of a nuisance that, as a requirement to build Mixxx on MacOS, ones has to use foreign binaries, disable Gatekeeper, run a 'first build', and from that point on .. can treat the project as a regular CMake project. Re-enable Gatekeeper after the 'first build'.

Hmm.

What are the custom binaries for? Surely not cmake. Not having - yet - done this myself (until I can put it in a VM), I'm nevertheless kind of curious about this necessity.

Any Mixxx/MacOs devs care to describe the contents?

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by diggan » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 4:26 PM UTC

cies wrote: post #7

I've been using this for the few DJ sets I do per year. Very complete software, very stable also. Sadly I have to use RekordBox now that I want to not bring the laptop + DJ controller, but just a USB stick. And RekordBox does not run well on Linux (tried VirtualBox and Wine, both failed attempts). Sadly there's no RecordBox clone, or "export to RekordBox USB" feature on Mixxx.

> And RekordBox does not run well on Linux

RekordBox doesn't even run well on Windows, so hard to imagine what worse looks like.

But yeah, if Mixxx (or other FOSS software) could offer writing playlists into USB sticks, I'd get rid of RekordBox yesterday because few software out there works as bad as RekordBox.

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by djaychela » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 4:28 PM UTC

Used mixxx to do the djing for my wedding last year. Created a collaborative music voting site for the guests, then got all the music and made a mix which worked really well, even going between genres. Had a lot of fun playing with it getting everything ready and it worked with a couple of DJ controllers bought cheaply without any issue.

I even made a little program to read the now playing track from the sqlite database which then allowed the lights to follow the music (for complex reasons I don't have time to explain).

Most importantly it worked on the night without missing a beat.