Robin , one of our newer developers, has been working hard on improving our support for the Hercules DJ Control MP3 in Linux. I did some work on this myself last year, but unfortunately certain things were broken at the kernel-level and I wasn't able to get the LEDs working. After …
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1.6,
1.6.0,
beta,
release announcement
The Mixxx development team suggests 1.6.0 is most delicious if you get it while it's hot.
This is the first beta release of the 1.6.0 series and incorporates an enormous number of new toys, some of the highlights are:
A few nights ago I captured a video while doing a quick test mix using Mixxx's vinyl control.
Read MoreThe last month has been completely insane. We've been busy fixing bugs and not-quite-finished features like there's no tomorrow. Our Subversion repository has seen more than 70 commits (those are generally changes to Mixxx's code) in the last month, and we've still got a few things to finish before the …
Read MoreAn anonymous tipster has pointed out that Mixxx was featured as the "free file of the day" in episode 93 of Leo Laporte's The Lab with Leo TV show.
Watch it on Archive.org.
For more information about the show, visit www.labwithleo.com .
Read MoreI picked up a Macbook a few days ago after weeks of trying to find a decent laptop. This is good news for Mixxx because it means our OS X maintainer (cough me) now has a Mac at home. :)
Since the last time I compiled Mixxx on OS X, we've …
Read MoreThe September issue of Computer Music magazine features Mixxx again, this time in a half-page blurb which includes an interview with Adam Davison about some of the challenges we've faced and where Mixxx is headed.
There's also an article about using Linux for audio production, if you're interested in taking …
Read MoreCedric coded up something cool yesterday:
He figured out how to integrate a file browser into our new library table view. Being able to browse directories is useful if you want to load songs that are outside your library (although you can just drag-and-drop them into Mixxx from outside). It's …
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Ubuntu 7.10's universe repository now contains a pre-release of Mixxx 1.5.2. This new version fixes several crashes, and should be more stable than 1.5.0. The 1.5.2 binaries for other platforms should follow sometime in the next few weeks (unless we decide to just …
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We're famous! Mixxx is featured on the CD bundled with the latest special issue of Computer Music magazine.
The Laptop DJ special issue goes on sale August 15th/07.
Word on the street is there might even be a blurb about us somewhere in the print...
