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Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing

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Post by atoav » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 2:30 PM UTC

allenbina wrote: post #19

Inviz wrote: post #18

I wish this had youtube video mixing support. This is something i cant find in other software.

this went out of style a long time ago. when you play videos out, everyone just stares at the screens.

This isn't about videos I guess. I had parties where guests where demanding songs (every DJs dream) that I obviously didn't had on my drive. That gives you three options currently:

1. Tell them to fuck off, which may or may not work in any given context

2. Play the music in the browser and then hop back to Mixxx in time (dangerous)

3. Downloading the song via 'yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 ', fixing the questionable metadata (optional) and then loading it into Mixxx (cumbersome)

It would be cool if you could just paste the URL into Mixxx, have it cache a local version, render the waveform, store it in a special temp crate or what and then you can play it. But I guess yt-dlp isn't the most stable dependency...

Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing

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Post by SamWhited » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 2:50 PM UTC

allenbina wrote: post #19

Inviz wrote: post #18

I wish this had youtube video mixing support. This is something i cant find in other software.

this went out of style a long time ago. when you play videos out, everyone just stares at the screens.

Also if there's a tiny network blip before buffering is complete everything goes to hell. I don't get streaming DJing in general, seems like something serious DJ software should avoid (unless they're targeting the casual party crowd, which is fine)

Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing

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Post by benbristow » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 3:03 PM UTC

allenbina wrote: post #19

Inviz wrote: post #18

I wish this had youtube video mixing support. This is something i cant find in other software.

this went out of style a long time ago. when you play videos out, everyone just stares at the screens.

Works well for karaoke though for intermission songs.

The gold standard for that though seems to be VirtualDJ.

Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing

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Post by crtasm » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 4:01 PM UTC

herbst wrote: post #25

crtasm wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An alternate view on this is Rekordbox is software that you have to pay for, tries to upsell you to a monthly subscription, has arbitrary limitations on what hardware it will work with and by default sends data about every track you play to some 3rd party service. Mixxx doesn't do any of that and it's absolutely powerful enough to use for DJ sets.

I bought the hardware without knowing that and have a device bound license. It's weird that the software literally degrades when the device isn't attached. The hardware limitations are crazy and weird, especially when you realize that parts of the limits are purely trough the visualisation. But when you have a supported device the performance is amazing even on older hardware. (I run it on a Wyse 5070) Like all non f…

I don't mean to suggest it's a weird situation - requiring people to pay for the software (directly or indirectly) makes perfect sense commercially.

Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing

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Post by allenbina » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 6:34 PM UTC

zetanor wrote: post #16

allenbina wrote: post #15

I got out of DJing and into tech because of my love for dental insurance. For a while I tried to influence the direction of mixxx and was getting great feedback from other DJs but none from the developers. This was my great introduction to why I will never be a great developer, and why open source will never be on par with paid professional software. I admire their efforts, but mixxx will always be a hobby project in…

What methods were you using to try and influence the direction of Mixxx?

This was around 10 years ago, but at the time the suggestions on the forums were more towards fidelity and 5.1 surround sound. I can't recall exactly, but something of the sort. My guess is that these were people with audio backgrounds who wanted to commit to the project.

I was making suggestions that were more for DJs. My suggestions were (vaguely from memory) keyboard and midi shortcuts for going back 4 - 16- 32 beats. Looping the same number of beats. setting exact cue points (think off beat) and setting synchronized (auto move to the closest beat if bpm was set). Nothing crazy and things that I felt would be necessary for most DJs.

I must have set my alerts far to high because I was bombarded with emails for a week until I completely unsubscribed. At the time I was also getting interested in XBMC and felt their community was much more welcoming and the software was simpler to understand.

Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing

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Post by pcf » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 9:54 PM UTC

teruakohatu wrote: post #3

weinzierl wrote: post #2

I love Mixxx, I use it daily as a music player. I know it is a virtual DJ deck, but it is also a fantastic music player. That being said the following sentence makes me a bit concerned "The current user interface of Mixxx has served us well, but as technology evolves, so must we." As far as I know QWidget is neither deprecated nor are there any plans for that. I think Mixxx has one of the best UI's I ever encountered…

I am intrigued, what makes it a good music player for non-DJs?

I use Apple's app Music on my Mac. Unfortunately, still the best music library I know about for macOS. But maybe others have other suggestions.

Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing

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Post by allenbina » Fri, Aug 08, 2025, 5:23 PM UTC

atoav wrote: post #31

allenbina wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this went out of style a long time ago. when you play videos out, everyone just stares at the screens.

This isn't about videos I guess. I had parties where guests where demanding songs (every DJs dream) that I obviously didn't had on my drive. That gives you three options currently: 1. Tell them to fuck off, which may or may not work in any given context 2. Play the music in the browser and then hop back to Mixxx in time (dangerous) 3. Downloading the song via 'yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 ', fixing…

from what I've gathered, it's a licensing nightmare. Of course it's better than the current alternative which is piracy, but it's a drop in the bucket with regards to the people who will use it in this specific licensing agreement.