Mixxx

Mixxx

A screenshot of Mixxx running on Mac OS X
Developer(s) RJ Ryan
Owen Williams
Sean Pappalardo
Daniel Schürmann
S. Brandt
Ilkka Tuohela
Max Linke
Marcos Cardinot
Nicu Badescu
Initial release 2001 (2001)
Stable release
2.0.0 / December 30, 2015 (2015-12-30)[1]
Repository github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx
Written in C++, Qt, JavaScript, XML
Operating system Linux
Mac OS
Windows
Available in 17 languages
Type Audio mixing
License GPL (free software)
Website mixxx.org

Mixxx is an open source computer program for DJing music. Mixxx is cross-platform and supports most common music file formats. It can be controlled with MIDI/HID controllers and timecode vinyl records in addition to computer keyboards and mice.

Overview

Mixxx is a DJ Automation and digital DJ performance application[2] and includes many features common to digital DJ solutions as well as some unique ones: It natively supports advanced MIDI and HID DJ controllers, is licensed under the GPL (v2.0 or later) and runs on all major desktop operating systems.[3] The project was started in early 2001 for a doctoral thesis as one of the first digital DJing systems.[4] Over 1,000,000 downloads of the app occur annually and as of Mixxx 1.10.0, 100 developers and artists have helped create Mixxx. Recent versions support harmonic mixing and beatmatching, both manually and automatically.[5]

Hardware/software support

Audio file support

Mixxx can read most popular audio formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, WAVE, AIFF and FLAC. v1.8 introduces a plug-in system to be able to read other formats, including patent-encumbered ones whose decoders cannot legally be distributed in binary form with Mixxx such as M4A/AAC/MP4. Any such plug-ins are automatically loaded at run-time if present.

Audio API/hardware support

Any sound card that is supported by the operating system is usable in Mixxx. Mixxx supports various software APIs for using sound cards on different operating systems, namely ASIO, WASAPI, and DirectSound on Windows; OSS, ALSA, and JACK on Linux; and CoreAudio on Mac OS X, all via PortAudio.

Controller hardware support

For external hardware control, Mixxx can support any MIDI or HID controller as long as there is a mapping to tell Mixxx how to interpret the controller's signals. Mixxx includes mappings for many DJ controllers and users can create their own mappings as well.[6] It is the only DJ software capable of using a fully featured programming language, JavaScript, for creating mappings with advanced controller interaction and feedback.[7]

Timecode support

Turntables and CDJ media players can control Mixxx with the timecode control sub-system which is built on xwax. Like xwax, Mixxx supports timecode vinyl made by several manufacturers.[8]

Reception

Mac App Store

Mixxx is one of the first free and open-source applications available in the Mac App Store. In less than 48 hours since it went live in February 2011[9] Mixxx has become the #1 Top Free App in the USA, Germany, and Italy. [10]

GSoC participation

Mixxx has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code 2007, 2008, 2010,[11] 2011,[12] 2012,[13] and 2013.[14]

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mixxx.

References

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