Mixxx is an open-source digital DJing application.
Mixxx allows DJs to mix music live with a clean, simple interface. Futhermore, Mixxx has a number of key features to help DJs in the mix: Beat estimation, parallel visual displays, and support for various DJ hardware controllers.
What’s New in version 1.6.0:
- New MIDI mappings for Tascam US-428, M-Audio X-Session Pro, Evolution X-Session, FaderFox DJ2, and the M-Audio Torq Xponent, Vestax VCI-100, Akai MPD24, Behringer BCD3000 (including LEDs), Numark Total Control
- Many Hercules MK2 improvements
- Support for the Hercules DJ Console RMX
- Support for the Hercules DJ Console Mac Edition
- Slick sliding VU meter peaks - Screenshots don’t do this justice (download it and check it out).
- Added the new Natt skin, from Natt from the forums.
- Completely rewritten waveform view by Russell Ryan through Google Summer of Code. This will provide better performance for some users.
- Some very under-the-hood improvements that should fix the odd crash-at-startup and improve performance.
- Fixed keyboard cue keys to use whatever cue behaviour is selected in the preferences.
- MP3 parsing fixes for files with cover art (fixes blips at the start of some songs)
- OGG parsing improvements, fixes some library scanning problems
- Fixed OGG playback on Intel OS X machines
- Completed drag-and-drop support in the library. You can now import tracks to the library by drag-and-dropping a track from outside Mixxx onto the library view. You can also reorder tracks in a playlist or the library.
- Option to disable the BPM detection.
- Added BPM reading from MP3/OGG files which have it embedded in them (ID3), one of several enhancements by Martin Sakmar
- Various accuracy improvements to the BPM detection
- Improvements to the vinyl emulation and pitch-independent time stretch sound quality
- Wave recording support
- Vinyl control with support for Serato, Traktor, and FinalScratch vinyl, as well as Serato CD.
- Added support for multiple inputs on a single soundcard for vinyl control
- Build flags are now cached automatically
- Improved flanger effect, thanks to Enry
- Configurable cue behaviour, which now defaults to CDJ-style cueing. (Thanks to Tom Care)
- Enabled realtime priority with ALSA, improves performance with Linux RT kernels.
- FLAC support for Linux and OS X users (much requested)
- Tons and tons of bug fixes.
- Fixed crashes due to vinyl emulation mode
- Improved compatibility with JACK (some users were experiencing choppiness)
- Players should now only pull from the play queue if in NEXT mode
- Search functionality:
- Search box now selects all text when clicked (easier to make a new search now)
- When the search box is cleared, the library view will scroll back to it’s previous position.
- Search now properly filters directories out
- Library stuff:
- Double-clicking on a song now sends the song to the first stopped player.
- Right-click menu cleaned up, much nicer now
- Library directory rescans on startup when it’s been modified (*doesn’t work when subdirectories are modified yet)
- Library view now shows directories first
- Columns in the library view are proportioned intelligently now
- Renamed the “Playlist” menu to “Library”
- Added “Rescan Library” menu item.
- Can select multiple songs (hold shift) and send them to the play queue or a playlist
- Playlist support:
- Can create, import, delete, and rename playlists
- Added “Playlists” to library drop-down box
- Can right-click to send a playlist to the play queue.
- Fixed some bugs in the track properties dialog, and set default values
- Fixed a soundcard channel selection bug when the second device had more channels than the first.
- Added BPM Schemes (need to make some presets still)
- Minor speed optimization
- OS X/Leopard package for Intel users!
- A few build system (dependency checking) fixes
- MIDI LED control on Linux
- A few MIDI tweaks here and there
- Right-clicking on a knob/slider no longer moves with your mouse (it just centers the value)
- Using your mouse’s scroll wheel now changes the values of sliders and knobs (this is cool for laptop users with the little scroll bar at the side of their trackpads)
- DirectSound is now the default API on Windows
- ALSA Sequencer MIDI support courtesy of Cedric Gestes
- A couple of MIDI bug fixes (knobs now center properly, thanks to Sacha Berger)
- Added support for 14-bit MIDI pitch wheel controllers (thanks to Adam Sugerman)
- Hercules support on Linux improved (jog wheels work again)
- Big stability improvements
- Multiple soundcards can now be used for output (master/headphones), in case you don’t have a soundcard with 4 outputs on it.
- Adam’s wicked colour scheme support for skins
- Can now change skins without restarting Mixxx (more hard work from Adam)
- Channel VU meters are now pre-fader
- VU meters are now much more smooth
- Added clipping indicators (courtesy of John Sully)
- Higher quality EQs and other sound quality improvements (also from John Sully)
- Adjustable EQ shelves
- New MIDI mapping format now in XML, supports controlling LEDs
- Better Hercules support on Windows and Linux
- New BPM detection algorithm (Micah Lee/GSoC 2007)
- New media library (Nathan Prado/GSoC 2007)
- LADSPA effects support (not yet enabled - Pawel Bartkiewicz/GSoC 2007)
- BPM Tap tempo
- Ported to Qt 4
- Moved build system to SCONS
- Redesigned preferences dialogs
- Rewritten audio core (Albert)
- Vinyl control support for Serato, Traktor Scratch, and FinalScratch (FS needs work, but the others are good)
- Software preamp for vinyl control (can use turntables without a preamp)
- Track info editor (double-click in library)
- New library browse mode (CTAF)
- Starts in fullscreen mode if launched with the -f flag.
- Several MP3 decoder performance and stability improvements (John Sully)
- Support for merengue
- Reorganized “File” menu
- NEXT mode now works as expected (plays the next track in the table)
- Lots of little OS X improvements
- Improved consistency of fullscreen mode
- Customizable constant power crossfader curve
- Slow fade and fast cut crossfader curves
- Play queue, for creating an on-the-fly playlist
- Revamped playlist interface, editing
- Reasonably intelligent library rescanning
