The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing
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#2I 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, in design and execution. Please don't botch this.
Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing
#3I 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?
Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing
#4I 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 recently looked and bought into the DJ tech today. I know mixxx, used it many times. And Rekordbox isn't perfect either. But you can't even compare. If the one is Dj Software, mixxx right now, is just a music player with DJ theme
Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing
#5The fact that Mixxx works as well as it does on Linux is a testament to human ingenuity and perseverance. It is truly The People's mixing deck.
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#6Shoutout to Mixxx, it's one of the examples of open source being able to match and in many ways surpass the enjoyability of their closed-source for-profit alternatives. I regularly give it as an example alongside things like Blender to show that a better, more free software world is possible outside of just developer tools.
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#7Related. Others?
Mixxx: GPL DJ Software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42769871 - Jan 2025 (133 comments)
Mixxx, a free and open source DJ software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31731814 - June 2022 (14 comments)
Open source digital DJ: Integrating Airtime and Mixxx - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2580273 - May 2011 (4 comments)
Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing
#8I 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…
Yeah, I know both QWidgets and QML quite well and I also don't see a strong reason to port. Genuinely custom painting of highly detailed elements in QML is either pretty annoying (comparable to doing it in OpenGL, and then you still need to do user interaction without much help from the framework) or slow if cobbling it together from existing items or using a canvas. I've helped fix particular issues on a project that needed highly detailed custom painting in QML (think rendering text in an editor component, though it wasn't that), but in the end it failed for performance reasons. I knew of some really good developers on that project, so it wasn't plain incompetence. Edit: I think it can be done, it's just a lot of avoidable work.
Mixxx might not have that problem, not sure. The waveform view is presumably custom painted, but shouldn't be too difficult. There may or may not be others.
Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing
#9I 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 like the way you organize your music in crates and playlists, which are permanent structures and then you arrange everything for the occasion[1] in the AutoDJ, which is ephemeral.
I also like the BPM and key display.
[1] In my case just my current mood
Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing
#10I 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 recently looked and bought into the DJ tech today. I know mixxx, used it many times. And Rekordbox isn't perfect either. But you can't even compare. If the one is Dj Software, mixxx right now, is just a music player with DJ theme
I’d be interested to know what the main differences are