Our website is now based on the Pelican instead of the Cactus static site generator. It supports blog posts natively and also supports pagination, archives, author pages and taxonomies likes categories and tags. If you want to browse older news articles, using Pelican will make our website more easy to …
Read More
development,
2.3,
beta,
cmake,
scons
If you wanted to compile a recent version of Mixxx 2.3 beta or 2.4 yourself, you may have already noticed that we removed our old and rusty SCons setup in favor of CMake.
A few months ago we said that we were planning to ship Mixxx 2.3 …
Read More
personal,
outreachy,
internship,
manual
This is the second of many weekly progress reports that I will be publishing for the duration of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ.
This week:
personal,
outreachy,
internship
Everybody struggles. This blog post is about a struggle that i went through in the past two weeks. I ran into this blocker while using git (as i normally do) and making some improvements on the Mixxx manual. I write about how i got stuck and the measures that i took to get unstuck.
Read MoreThis is the first of many weekly progress reports that I will be publishing for the duration of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ.
This week:
personal,
outreachy,
internship
In October, Mixxx announced that it had been accepted into the Outreachy program. This program provides a three-month internship to work in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and I was selected as the first contributor! Hi, my name is Deborah and in this blog post, I will be introducing myself.
Read MoreDeck cloning (also called "instant doubles" in some other DJ software) is a highly anticipated feature added in Mixxx 2.3. In short, it does what it says on the tin. When activated, the currently loaded song, playback state, pitch adjustment, and any playing loop will be cloned from one …
Read MoreAs a DJ your most important job is to find and cue the track you're going to play next to make the crowd go wild. In Mixxx 2.2 you already had plenty of options to organize and add information to the tracks in your library to make this task …
Read MoreMixxx is proud to announce that we have been officially accepted into the Outreachy program and are immediately raising funds to sponsor our first Intern for the December 2020 cycle!
Read More
2.3,
library,
hotcue,
color,
controller
Hotcues are a neat thing and one of the major benefits of digital DJing. On analogue vinyl decks, you had had to put stickers to mark the different sections of a song and physically pick up, move and drop the needle to move to it. With the move to digital …
Read More
