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Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by Mashimo »

copyleftdj wrote: post #31
quesomaster9000 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I considered renting out some Pioneer equipment to add RekordBox playlist writing support, mainly because I'm in a similar situation. Mixxx does have support for reading USBs & SD cards, but not writing ;_; Unfortunately it's far down my priority list given the cost, my unfamiliarity with Mixxx development and that I rarely do anything without Mixx. But this is absolutely what ecosystem grants/bounties should be for.

Would be cool if there is Foss firmware to install on pioneer cdj. It just feels better for a lot DJs. Any projects in this direction? BTW, the DJ collective I'm with has Pioneer CDJ. If anyone need use the hardware let me know. I'm trying to get them to start using open FOSS software, but it is hard.

You could put a lot of time and effort into getting your own firmware for CDJs .. or you could just connect them via USB to an pi running mixxx.

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by nzoschke »

copyleftdj wrote: post #31
quesomaster9000 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I considered renting out some Pioneer equipment to add RekordBox playlist writing support, mainly because I'm in a similar situation. Mixxx does have support for reading USBs & SD cards, but not writing ;_; Unfortunately it's far down my priority list given the cost, my unfamiliarity with Mixxx development and that I rarely do anything without Mixx. But this is absolutely what ecosystem grants/bounties should be for.

Would be cool if there is Foss firmware to install on pioneer cdj. It just feels better for a lot DJs. Any projects in this direction? BTW, the DJ collective I'm with has Pioneer CDJ. If anyone need use the hardware let me know. I'm trying to get them to start using open FOSS software, but it is hard.

Haven’t tried it myself but CDJ-3000s have been rooted.

https://github.com/connorworley/cdj3k-root

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by tomcam »

djaychela wrote: post #16
jesprenj wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you share the program that reads the now playing track? We use Mixxx at a student radio station and we could maybe try using something like this to show the now-playing track on the website.

I will see... Not being evasive but I'm experiencing terminal illness at the moment so I'm all over the place. It wasn't a complex bit of code though, but I'll see what I can find.

So sorry, brofus. My best to you and yours.

Also, your channel is fantastic. You’re a good teacher and your voice is excellent.

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by btown »

djaychela wrote: post #10

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 datab…

What did you use for the collaborative music voting - or did you make something yourself? For different use cases, I've seen everything used from collaborative Spotify playlists to Google forms, to those "pay a dollar to bump your song request" kiosks in bars! The parallels to ranked-choice voting in politics are relevant too - as well as how you give people a feeling of agency, even if you as the DJ inevitably have veto powers.

I'm not surprised that startups haven't tackled this, as you inevitably run headfirst into licensing issues - but I'm curious what exists in the open-source world for this!

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by nzoschke »

fragmede wrote: post #39
quesomaster9000 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I considered renting out some Pioneer equipment to add RekordBox playlist writing support, mainly because I'm in a similar situation. Mixxx does have support for reading USBs & SD cards, but not writing ;_; Unfortunately it's far down my priority list given the cost, my unfamiliarity with Mixxx development and that I rarely do anything without Mixx. But this is absolutely what ecosystem grants/bounties should be for.

> RekordBox playlist writing support Without the Rekordbox beat analysis, you'd only be getting track names, and you can achieve similar functionality on the Pioneer side by just putting the files for a each playlist in a separate folder. There's a kaitai bin format parser config file for the usb db file but kaitai isn't expressive enough to read it properly from that. Pioneer (err Alphatheta)'s stranglehold on the i…

An export db with title, artist, album and rough BPM could be useful to interoperate with the native browse and search menus on a CDJ.

Without beat grids have to best match by ear but that’s par for the course for many DJ scenarios.

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by sirlone »

It's interesting to me that there's no screenshot on the front page (they're buried on other pages). Not only is there no screenshot, the main image on the front page is an image of code.

Not a complaint, just an observation. I'd expect a DJ software site to show DJs the interface as the very first thing.

As examples, all of these have an image of their UI as centerpiece

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/traktor/dj-so...

https://rekordbox.com/en/

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

#47

Post by ThatMedicIsASpy »

tmountain wrote: post #33

I've been using this to make mix tapes at home (bought a vintage tape player). It has awesome cross fading capabilities, and it does volume normalization out of the box, so it's a very nice piece of software for those features alone. Playlist and library management is also solid. My only complaint is that the UI isn't very intuitive for a non-DJ, and it took me some time to figure out how to do basic stuff, but it's…

I've been setting up a few radio stations with playlists for azuracast for home use. The auto DJ with auto cue is amazing. Next stop is create a radio with a raspberry pi maybe with an amp hat as well.

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by djaychela »

btown wrote: post #44
djaychela wrote: post #10

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 datab…

What did you use for the collaborative music voting - or did you make something yourself? For different use cases, I've seen everything used from collaborative Spotify playlists to Google forms, to those "pay a dollar to bump your song request" kiosks in bars! The parallels to ranked-choice voting in politics are relevant too - as well as how you give people a feeling of agency, even if you as the DJ inevitably have…

I made something custom. I can't share the code for it (see my other reply for why), but here's the general deal:

Wedding website was a django site, with accounts for everyone I invited. I had a separate part of it where the guests could choose an RGB colour, and then choose tracks by searching. I used a spotify API for this, so when they chose a track, if someone chose a similar one (say a specific mix) then they could see this and vote for that. Each guest could choose 10 tracks. I used some HTMX for this as well (first time) and it generally worked pretty well. Database stored the spotify ID/UUID/whatever for each track

Once everyone had voted, I then bought all the tracks which we were going to play - reason being that I couldn't rely on WiFi on the day, and wanted to be 100% sure it would work, plus I couldn't "DJ" from spotify tracks.

All of the tracks were then renamed including their spotify ID/UUID/whatever, so the system knew who had voted for a specific track.

I then made the playlist up in Mixxx, and trimmed tracks to fit better, and made it work musically (my wife is excellent at this, she made it really work, mix wise). Made sure it all played OK.

The other part of the system was a custom light setup, with sound-reactive LED bars I made up (using ESP8266 and WLED firmware with 150 LEDs per 'stick') with them all being controlled by a custom controller. This system read the track from the Mixxx system (via HTTP request to a flask app I wrote that read the sqlite dB from mixxx to know what track was playing), and then coloured the lights with the colours of the people who had voted for the tracks. Also if you went onto the dancefloor you could 'swipe in' via an RFID label which was in the wristbands, which also reacted to lights and were colour-controlled over DMX.

The light patterns were sometimes random, or if one was good for a specific track then I programmed that into the system.

It was all spaghetti code, and the first time I used FastAPI. The code is terrible, and I'm only making it public as I thought it might be useful to someone.

https://github.com/djaychela/wedding_controller

I've just had a terminal cancer diagnosis and am no longer doing anything other than trying to stay alive. So please, no grief about the code! I'm sharing this to try to help someone else if they ever want to do something like this...

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by fragmede »

nzoschke wrote: post #45
fragmede wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> RekordBox playlist writing support Without the Rekordbox beat analysis, you'd only be getting track names, and you can achieve similar functionality on the Pioneer side by just putting the files for a each playlist in a separate folder. There's a kaitai bin format parser config file for the usb db file but kaitai isn't expressive enough to read it properly from that. Pioneer (err Alphatheta)'s stranglehold on the i…

An export db with title, artist, album and rough BPM could be useful to interoperate with the native browse and search menus on a CDJ. Without beat grids have to best match by ear but that’s par for the course for many DJ scenarios.

https://djl-analysis.deepsymmetry.org/rekordbox-export-analy... (and playlist entry rows) should have a complete enough description if someone wants to give it a try

Re: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

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Post by weinzierl »

I use it simply as an audio player. I like the way I can queue up songs and then let the Auto DJ play. I know other audio players can in principle do that but in Mixx it is very explicit. I also like to see key and BPM just to satisfy my curiosity.
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