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Mixxx: GPL DJ Software
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#132I DJ for partner dances and have used Mixxx after i discovered DJ software
It was cool getting to explore features like the ability to stream to radio websites that others would follow a link to, to hear the music( something done in the first few years of COVID to facilitate DJ'ed music for 'online ' dances, which were a thing for a while.
I tout it heavily and enjoy it, and it is pretty incredible that it provides all that it does for free and in a open source manner . I hope it continues to grow. I run into a few others who use Virtual DJ and hope that Mixxx eventually picks up the few things they do it does not yet do
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#133I used mixxx to DJ my brother's wedding. I think it was 2013 or 2014. The moment I got the signal to switch to a specific track for the bride's first dance with her Father, mixxx locked up my laptop. Guests were staring at me, one offered a hushed, "they're waiting!" Completely unresponsive, I had to hard reboot my locked up computer and boot back into Ubuntu. Then I opened VLC where I played the tracks for the rest…
Went to a concert recently where the supporting band was a two piece which relied on a MacBook for live sequencing the drums as well as some MIDI inputs for various effects and such.
Two and a half songs in the MacBook died and wouldn't come up after reboot, and that was that.
Felt bad for them, but using a laptop as critical infrastructure is usually a bad idea.
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#134I used mixxx to DJ my brother's wedding. I think it was 2013 or 2014. The moment I got the signal to switch to a specific track for the bride's first dance with her Father, mixxx locked up my laptop. Guests were staring at me, one offered a hushed, "they're waiting!" Completely unresponsive, I had to hard reboot my locked up computer and boot back into Ubuntu. Then I opened VLC where I played the tracks for the rest…
Yep, that can happen when computers are involved, and why one needs to practice with a new setup beforehand. Goes for performances or rocket launches. During my DJ sessions (and while dabbling in digital audio files from a computer), I usually brought an old Sony Discman loaded with my best tracks on a burnt CD. Kept ready at moments notice in case disaster struck. Sadly crashes weren't uncommon at all in the bad old…
>I guess a smart phone could do that duty today
Not since they bravely killed off the headphone plug.
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Mixxx dev here. I'm sorry you had a bad experience. We are spending a lot of effort on making Mixxx rock stable. Considering that this was more than a decade ago, I'm pretty sure that this bug has been fixed by now.
I do have a similar story with the 2.4.1 or 2.4.2 version unfortunately. Didn't take the time to debug it or fill an issue yet but when the library (between 100 and 200G) is on a USB stick it regularly hangs for 10-15s when browsing. It always came back to normal but made me sweat every time.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, that can happen when computers are involved, and why one needs to practice with a new setup beforehand. Goes for performances or rocket launches. During my DJ sessions (and while dabbling in digital audio files from a computer), I usually brought an old Sony Discman loaded with my best tracks on a burnt CD. Kept ready at moments notice in case disaster struck. Sadly crashes weren't uncommon at all in the bad old…
>I guess a smart phone could do that duty today Not since they bravely killed off the headphone plug.
Thankfully USB-C to headphone adapters exist :)
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#138Genuinely curious: when people submit URLs like this to HN - rather than say a specific link to an article or blog post - without comment or actually submitting responses to the conversation, are they just posting it to say 'hey, take a look at this if you haven't heard of it'? Or am I missing something? (Possibly their descriptive text to go with the URL isn't obvious/visible to me somehow?)
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How does the auto DJ compare to something like Pacemaker?
Are you referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pacemaker I haven't tried that myself, but used the AutoDJ feature of Mixxx a couple of times. It's fairly basic, you have a playlist, setup how you want it to fade, and how fast, hit Play and off it goes matching the beatgrids and whatnot.
Yes, but they pivoted to a music app about 10 years ago. It worked great 99% of the time and had decent transitions. But they received bad advice from a music startup incubator and ended up getting acquihired about two years ago.
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In Rekordbox's case Pioneer have restricted the jogwheel mapping to Pioneer hardware only. So, you pretty much need Pioneer hardware to use Rekordbox. And seeing as Pioneer decks are almost industry standard in clubs and you need Rekordbox to organise your playlists, they have the DJ hardware market sewn up. Which is very frustrating because Rekordbox has to be the most resource intensive (& therefore inefficient) DJ…
So many issues with Rekordbox and their vendor lock-in. I can't even reliably export songs on a flash drive and have it showing up in their CDJ. It's honestly time to take the Pioneer giant down.
I always thought the reason Rekordbox became the standard was to get around the 4GB limitation of FAT32-formatted USBs.