Since the release of Mixxx 1.6.0 beta1, we've been busy busy busy getting new features and bug fixes ready for beta2.
The library has undergone substantial work including new playlist support, improvements to the file scanning, and several bug fixes that were causing stability issues in beta1.
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 …
Although we're technically in the beta part of the release cycle, we've still been spending some time on features for future releases.
I've been working on adding a macro/scripting style environment to Mixxx which would allow users to extend Mixxx without the work of recompiling.
Here's a screenshot of …
This is just a very quick post to update everyone on the progress of the release. It looks like we'll be releasing the first 1.6.0-beta1 packages on either Sunday (23rd) or Monday (24th) depending on how much time we have. It looks like we'll have a Windows package …
I know this has been rather a painful wait for some people who have been anticipating great things from the 1.6.0 series. So I thought I'd just post to say that we are nearly there. I can only speak for the Windows release personally but I'm now about …
The 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 …
I 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 …