Since its release in 2011, the Traktor Control Vinyl MK2 has sparked curiosity among digital DJs and audio developers alike. Its timecode format stands apart from Serato’s, which we explored in the previous posts. With the MK2 system, Native Instruments introduced a more advanced timecode that boosts resolution and …| Mixxx
Hello everyone! I'm Antonio Giordano, and I'm excited to share the results of my Google Summer of Code 2025 work on Mixxx. We've introduced true multi-genre support with smart autocompletion, a cleaner editing experience, and tools to migrate your existing library without breaking your flow. Project Vision & Evolution Our goal …| Mixxx
We are thrilled to announce an exciting new chapter in the evolution of Mixxx. We are embarking on a comprehensive redesign of the Mixxx user interface, transitioning from QWidget to QML. This significant update aims to enhance customization, improve performance, and ensure better accessibility for a variety of hardware, including …| Mixxx
This GSOC project is derived from Mixxx issue#9328. The goal is to determine whether alternative interpolation algorithms result in a noticeable reduction in scratching artifacts or a latency improvement over linear interpolation, providing quantitative supporting evidence where possible. Introduction On a turntable, scratching is performed by moving the stylus …| Mixxx
Mixxx 2.5.2 Release Announcement We're proud to announce a new stable release of Mixxx: version 2.5.2, this version contains updates and fixes for some issues reported by users. We'd like to thank all users for giving feedback as we would like to emphasise once again the …| Mixxx
Mixxx 2.6 beta Release Announcement We're proud to announce a new beta release of Mixxx, version 2.6. This is a beta release containing a lot of new features, we offer this release in order to get it tested by the most possible users. We look forward to the …| Mixxx
Mixxx 2.5.1 Release Announcement We're proud to announce a new stable release of Mixxx, version 2.5.1. It is recommended that all users update to this new version. Thanks to your feedback, this release contains a lot of improvements, fixes, new and improved controller-mappings. We would like …| Mixxx
Mixxx has been asked to cooperate in an AI-Research Project 'Observe & Serve the Audience'. Mixxx has been contacted by a joint research project between a university and a major AI company with the question if Mixxx wants to cooperate by asking DJs to help them. On benevolent behalf of all …| Mixxx
Mixxx has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2025, a global program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. This is a great opportunity for us to attract new contributors, as they will receive a stipend sponsored by Google.| Mixxx
All I want for DJ-ing is ... Home alone? Scrooged? The sound of music? Die hard? Change plans: this year you will be having something better to do than watching old Christmas movies. Mixxx is now your secret "Santa comin' to town", our elves had "good hearts with the burning desire …| Mixxx
Winter and Summer are coming Contrasts. As the leaves fall and the first snowflakes start drifting down in the North, while the southern skies start warming up with summer sun, we are thrilled to finally release Mixxx 2.4.2! "Finally" because a bit later than planned, perfection can take …| Mixxx
Disclaimer: The blog post primarily serves as the documentation for the Google Summer of Code 2024 project: "Multi channel mixing support (STEMS)". Explore New Creative Horizons with Mixxx's Latest Feature: Stem Mixing We're excited to bring a powerful new feature to Mixxx: Stem Mixing. While the concept of stems — separate …| Mixxx
Introduction Welcome to the GSoC report for the Harmonic Mixing Enhancements project, which aims to make finding compatible tracks a breeze with these new features: Color coding the Key column of the track list. New Track Similarity Column, which uses the Key and BPM to compute how well two tracks …| Mixxx
If the support of a DJ controller requires more than the semantic 1:1 mapping of MIDI codes, Mixxx offers the possibility to use freely programmable Javascript code to implement such more complex functionalities. The Mixxx internal Application Programming Interface (API) for such controller scripts was previously only partially documented …| Mixxx
Let the Mixxx shine Summertime, partytime. In the middle of the festival season you are maybe playing a sunny vibes gig somewhere. Or you are relaxing on the beach or at the pool with a cocktail in the hand checking the long list of music you had to discover. Both …| Mixxx
It's springtime, and baby birds recently hatched from their eggs are looking out of their nests deciding if they are ready to fly. So too it is with Mixxx, and version 2.5 is almost ready to greet the world. A bit late for Easter but it is a magnificent …| Mixxx
Dear Mixxx-ers The Mixxx developers started the year with good intentions and therefore imposed some deadlines on themselves. That is why only three months after version 2.4, version 2.4.1 has been released. This version delivers solutions for minor bugs and issues that came with 2.4. What's …| Mixxx
The Mixxx Board of Directors in pleased to announce plans to acquire the AlphaTheta Corporation (formerly known as Pioneer DJ), Serato Audio Research Ltd. and Native Instruments. "This exciting consolidation of brands will reshape the DJ software market as we know it", Mixxx CEO Scrooge McScratch said after the decision …| Mixxx
Mixxx has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2024, a global program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. This is a great opportunity for us to attract new contributors, as they will receive a stipend sponsored by Google. …| Mixxx
One of the major improvements in Mixxx 2.4 is a revision of the scrolling waveform implementation, to achieve smoother animation at a higher frame rate (60 fps), with fewer frame-drops and a lower CPU load. The revision consists of an optimized rewrite, not only of the actual waveform drawing …| Mixxx
An unofficial Mixxx Flatpak package for Linux users has been available on Flathub since Mixxx 2.2.1. Today, all major technical issues with the Flatpak have been resolved, so we have decided to officially support this Flatpak package with Mixxx 2.4.0 and verify Mixxx on Flathub. In …| Mixxx
We are proud to announce Mixxx 2.4, a new major version of our free open source DJ software, available right now. It's been two years since the last release due to the large number of great new features and important changes under the hood. See the changelog for the …| Mixxx
Welcome the Mixxx release version 2.3.6, the final maintenance release before releasing the upcoming 2.4.0 with exiting new features. This small bug fix release may appear insignificant, but it's a testament to the rock-solid quality we bring to every user to ensure a reliable mixing experience …| Mixxx
It's been a while, but after almost exactly 3 years, we're proud to announce the beta version of the next major release: Mixxx 2.4! Keep your eyes peeled for the stable version of 2.4 being released in August if everything goes according to plan. In the meantime, we …| Mixxx
Another bugfix release, this soon? Yes, unfortunately it turned out that 2.3.4 introduced a couple of serious bugs that required prompt action to fix in order to rectify this subpar release. The most serious issue we fixed was a regression that caused an empty waveform overview after loading …| Mixxx
You know the drill, another 2.3 bugfix release. Mixxx 2.3.4 to be exact. Let's take a look at the changes: macOS received a bunch of love, especially in regards to possible UI performance problems and translation issues. We also enabled support for macOS 13 (Ventura) on Intel-CPUs …| Mixxx
Mixxx has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2023, a global program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. This means that new or even established contributors of Mixxx have the opportunity to work on Mixxx full-time during the summer for 12 …| Mixxx
Disclaimer: The blog post primarily serves as the documentation for the Google Summer of Code 2022 project: "Track Suggestion Feature". Thus, it contains a lot more detailed description, than the other Mixxx blog posts. Introduction After long hours of playing, when the floor is crowded the question shows up. "What …| Mixxx
Disclaimer: The blog post primarily serves as the documentation for the Google Summer of Code 2022 project: "Pitch Shift effect and Group Delay handling". Thus, it contains a lot more detailed description, than the other Mixxx blog posts. Introduction The project implements the Pitch Shift effect for the Mixxx DJ …| Mixxx
Yes everybody, we officially moved our bug tracking away from Launchpad to GitHub. If you've never tried to report a bug in Mixxx or wanted to contribute in other ways, it's very likely you have no idea what this post is about, but if you do it's even better. No …| Mixxx
Hello Everybody. After thorough preparation, we're finally moving from Launchpad bugs to GitHub issues. We'll publish a more detailed blogpost after the migration is done. For now, We'd just like to let everybody know, that we will disable our bug tracker on launchpad sometime on Monday the 22nd of August …| Mixxx
Its that time again! Almost a year after the release of 2.3.0 we're bringing you the next bugfix release Mixxx 2.3.3. This release features - you guessed it - various bugfixes and improvements: But since we're not your run-off-the-mill mobile app, we'll get a bit into detail: A …| Mixxx
Google has accepted two contributor's projects for Mixxx as part of their Google Summer of Code (GSoC). GSoC is a stipend program that allows new contributors to work Mixxx on their own ~175 hours or ~350 hours project. This year Fatih Emre YILDIZ and David Chocholatý have been successful with …| Mixxx
On 2022-02-24 we received horrible news from Ukraine, which has become even worse since then. As an organization committed to freedom we feel the urge speak up and show solidarity with Ukraine. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is unjustified and has already been condemned by the UN as a violation of …| Mixxx
Mixxx has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2022, a global program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. This year the program is open for all new or beginner contributors of Mixxx. It is no longer limited to enrolled students. New …| Mixxx
New year, new Mixxx - we're starting 2022 with the release of Mixxx 2.3.2! Grab it from our download page and install it on Windows, macOS and Linux. This release irons out a few bugs and adds support for the Pioneer DDJ-SB3 controller. The full changelog can be found …| Mixxx
In the last post, I explained how a basic relative-mode Digital Vinyl System (DVS) works. But there are two problems that are still left to solve: Seeking inside a track by picking up the needle from the record and dropping it somewhere else will not work. The basic relative-mode implementation …| Mixxx
Since the dawn of DJing, spinning vinyl records has never really gone out of fashion. Even when CDs became popular in 90s and most music listeners happily phased out their record players, the classical "two turntables and a mixer" setup stayed the epitome of DJing. In recent years, digital DJ …| Mixxx
We are happy to announce the release of Mixxx 2.3.1! Head over to the download page and download it on Windows, macOS and Linux. This release fixes a handful of bugs and packaging issues plus adds several controller mappings. Mixxx now includes mappings for the Numark DJ2GO2 Touch …| Mixxx
We are proud to announce the release of Mixxx 2.3.0! If you want to give it a spin, you can download it now on Windows, macOS and Linux. This release brings a lot of new features and bugfixes: Prepare your DJ set using hotcue colors & labels, mark intro …| Mixxx
In regular intervals, we discuss how much latency the JACK Audio Connection Kit introduces when used in Mixxx. That is one of the Sound APIs that Mixxx supports on Linux, and it's a layer on top of the Advances Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). Unlike analog devices, digital audio devices process …| Mixxx
Starting with the 2.3, Mixxx will integrate support for the excellent KeyFinder library by Ibrahim Sha'ath. KeyFinder is a pretty accurate open-source key detection tool. It's been in the top 3 of the 2020 key detection comparison on Reddit and performs considerably better than the key analyzer from the …| Mixxx
Starting with Mixxx 2.3, Mixxx will switch to a new, multi-tiered subscription plan.| Mixxx
The contributors to the Mixxx project were dismayed this week to learn that Richard Stallman had been reinstated to the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation. His departure in 2019 was a consequence of the criticism he faced regarding his inappropriate behavior towards women, his hurtful comments about …| Mixxx
This is the thirteeth weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ. This week: Following last week’s progress, I finished making the edits to the video, and now, I’m only waiting to get feedback before I add in any animations or effects. I hope to upload …| Mixxx
Since we published Mixxx 2.3 beta in June 2020, you may have been wondering what has taken so long to get the 2.3.0 release out. Well, we have been very busy the past few months building a more sustainable technical infrastructure for the Mixxx project. We have …| Mixxx
As the outreachy internship program draws closer to an end, the question that comes to mind is "What next?". In this blog post, I write about what I hope to achieve in terms of my career path and the various skills that I have gained through this internship that could help me achieve some of my goals.| Mixxx
This is the twelfth weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ. This week: I added the step by step tutorial on deck cloning for playing with a single turntable. See pull request #330 I plan to do the same for beat juggling, but I want to get …| Mixxx
This is the eleventh weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ. This week: I successfully added rekordbox (and its icon) to the list of supported libraries in this pull request that I opened a long while ago – I was documenting the rekordbox library import. I also started …| Mixxx
As all of you probably know, Mixxx is the best DJ software in the market. However, we've recently been made aware that a minor competitor has emerged and tries to steal that title from us - Serato DJ Pro. The hardware support is nice, but since Serato is neither open-source nor …| Mixxx
This is the tenth weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ. This week: I made the necessary edits to the YouTube tutorial about the Mixxx community and uploaded it to YouTube. Here is the link. I had a brief video call with community team leaders from the …| Mixxx
This is the ninth weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ. This week: I made a pull request #203 for this issue that I had filed to correct the broken link to Paul Bloch of open Artist (creator of the Mixxx logo). I recorded the video tutorial …| Mixxx
In the days leading up to the Ugandan election, access to major social media platforms and circumvention tools was blocked. This internet shutdown and the social media ban that followed affected many online jobs and businesses, my internship with Mixxx under the Outreachy program was no exception.| Mixxx
This is the eighth weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ. This week: Has been a little bit slow, to be honest. Internet speeds are much slower now because of all the Virtual Private connections that have now become the new normal. I wrote a script for …| Mixxx
This is the seventh weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ. This week: I created a YouTube channel for Mixxx tutorials and posted the first video. Its an installation tutorial for Windows OS. Here is the link to the YouTube video. This was early in the week …| Mixxx
This is the sixth weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ. This week: I got feedback for Pull request #337. I am required to arrange the descriptions in the order that the headphone and master mix controls appear in the screenshots (left>right). I asked for clarification …| Mixxx
Before the Outreachy internship program, I had never contributed to open-source software. I didn’t know what open source software was (or how different it was from other software) until a friend explained it to me. Since made my first contribution to Mixxx, I have learned a lot about different …| Mixxx
This is the fifth weekly progress report of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ. This week: I finished working on moving “deck cloning” to the cookbook chapter BUT this pull request raised the question about how it differs from the “DJing with Mixxx” chapter. It seems that there is sufficient …| Mixxx
This is the fourth of many weekly progress reports that I will be publishing for the duration of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ. This week: Last week, I mentioned that I was working on the cookbook chapter. I opened a GitHub issue for it here. I moved documentation about …| Mixxx
This is the third of many weekly progress reports that I will be publishing for the duration of my Outreachy internship with Mixxx DJ. This week: I made a pull request #327 in response to this issue . I moved the standard effects mapping documentation to section 11.5 of the …| Mixxx
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 …| Mixxx
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 …| Mixxx
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: I made a pull request #322 in response to issue #157. I added missing documentation about importing rekordbox libraries from rekordbox prepared devices into …| Mixxx
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.| Mixxx
This 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: I submitted pull request #313 in response to this issue. I added the base commands for each platform (MacOS, Windows and Linux) onto the …| Mixxx
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.| Mixxx
Deck 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 …| Mixxx
As 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 …| Mixxx
Mixxx 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!| Mixxx
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 …| Mixxx
One of the things that make Mixxx special is that it works on more platforms that just Windows or macOS.Thanks to Mixxx being open-source, it's possible to create "unusual" setups that the developers didn't expect - for example by running it on a low-cost Raspberry Pi single board computer combined …| Mixxx
One of the parts where Mixxx is lacking is how it handles time signatures and downbeats. Currently, Mixxx only has individual beats but has no support for detecting or displaying additional information about the rhythm. This is going to change during this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC), because we …| Mixxx
Do you rock your gigs armed only with your cans and a Rekordbox prepared USB flash drive? Ever been tempted to play your carefully curated tracks on something other than a CDJ or Rekordbox, on something that is free and open-source? We have news for you! Mixxx 2.3 will …| Mixxx
Starting with Mixxx 2.3, we're introducing experimental support for CMake. This will probably be more interesting for people who are either compiling Mixxx themselves or going hack on its code base than for regular users, but it will make the build process more straightforward in the future. Mixxx has …| Mixxx
Do you use hotcues to mark the points you use to mix in and out of tracks? Have you wished AutoDJ knew to mix in and out at those points? In Mixxx 2.3, we have introduced new intro & outro cues for these purposes. You can try them now with …| Mixxx
Alongside the protesters in the US and around the world, the Mixxx team unequivocally condemns police brutality. The systemic racism that burdens people of color every day is the responsibility of white people around the world to address. Mixxx' core development team feels it necessary not to remain silent on …| Mixxx
Mixxx 2.2.4 has been released. Download it here. This release fixes some bugs and adds some controller mappings, but doesn't introduce any new features. If you want to check out the new features of the upcoming 2.3 release, you can also download and test the 2.3 …| Mixxx
This year Mixxx is again taking part in Google Summer of Code, and 3 students are working full-time for 3 months to make Mixxx even more awesome. After one month of community bonding period, they started coding last week. Cristiano and Harshit, who are both working towards the same final …| Mixxx
We are proud to announce the release of Mixxx 2.3 beta, download it! This release brings hotcue colors & labels, Serato metadata import, Rekordbox metadata import, intro & outro cues, a revamped LateNight skin, multithreaded analysis, deck cloning, and more. Please test it, report bugs, help translate, and contribute controller mappings …| Mixxx
As you probably already noticed we facelifted our Website, gave it a more modern look and cleaned up the code.| Mixxx
Over the past few years there have been multiple instances of sellers that distribute paid boxed versions of Mixxx on eBay and Amazon. While it's not illegal to do this per se, we are not affiliated with these sellers and neither earn money from this nor endorse this in any …| Mixxx
Mixxx is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC), an opportunity for students to work on Mixxx full-time as a 3-month summer project and receive a stipend from Google. For this year's Google Summer of Code, Mixx has been granted 3 slots that will be filled by students …| Mixxx
Mixxx has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2020, a global program that aims to bring more student developers into the world of open source development. This means that students have the opportunity to work on Mixxx full-time as a 3 month programming project and …| Mixxx
Mixxx 2.2.3 has been released. Download it here. Changelog Don't make users reconfigure sound hardware when it has not changed #2253 Fix MusicBrainz metadata lookup lp:1848887 #2328 Fix high DPI scaling of cover art #2247 Fix high DPI scaling of cue point labels on scrolling waveforms #2331 …| Mixxx
Mixxx 2.2.2 has been released and is available on the download page. This release includes many stability and usability fixes. Please note that we had to disable writing of file tags for .ogg files with the current TagLib version 1.11.1 that would otherwise corrupt your precious …| Mixxx
Mixxx 2.2.1 has been released and is available on the download page. This update includes fixes that were in 2.1.7 and 2.1.8. There were a few performance improvements which have an especially big impact on macOS. Mac users who were staying with 2.1 …| Mixxx
Mixxx 2.2.0 has been released, download it! Since we are now releasing Mixxx more often, the changes are not as big as between Mixxx 2.0 and Mixxx 2.1. Here is a quick overview of the changes since Mixxx 2.1: General Update from Qt4 to Qt5 …| Mixxx
Hello again, everyone. Another release so soon?? It seems a performance regression slipped into 2.1.2, but the great people working on Mixxx found and fixed it quickly so we have 2.1.3 ready for you now! You know where to get it. :) As always, report any issues …| Mixxx
Hello, Mixxxers. We're happy to announce our latest bug fix release of 2.1.2. Here's a summary of what has changed: Allow maximum deck speed of 4x normal Don't always quantize hotcues, a 2.1.1 regression, bug #1777429 Fix artifacts using more than 32 samplers, bug #1779559 Store …| Mixxx
After more than two years of hard work, we are pleased to announce the release of Mixxx 2.1.0! Since Mixxx 2.0, we have overhauled the effects system, redesigned the skins, added and improved lots of controller mappings, rewrote the audio file decoders twice, and of course fixed …| Mixxx
The wait is finally over. After years of hard work, the Mixxx development team is pleased to present Mixxx 2.0! Download Mixxx 2.0 Now Available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Mixxx 2.0 is the culmination of over a decade of work by hundreds of DJs …| Mixxx
Three years in the making, we've added so many new features to Mixxx that we had to call it 2.0. As always, Mixxx 2.0 is available as a free upgrade for all existing Mixxx users.| Mixxx
Hi Mixxx-heads, Are you ready for a surprise? The Mixxx 1.12 beta period has been going quite smoothly and we're almost ready to launch this baby. This release packs a punch. It's our single biggest release ever and adds more headline features than we've ever put in one release …| Mixxx
Hi Mixxxers -- did you miss us? The Mixxx team has been quietly toiling for over 2 years to bring you Mixxx 1.12. This will be our biggest release ever and we need your help to make sure that it's our best ever as well. We've been doing alpha testing …| Mixxx
The Summer of Code is upon us! Google has just announced which students Mixxx has accepted into the Google Summer of Code 2013 program. Students were competing for one of four slots awarded to Mixxx by Google. This year we received a high volume of applications from many skilled students …| Mixxx
The wait is finally over. After over a year of hard work, the Mixxx development team is pleased to present Mixxx 1.11.0! Download Mixxx 1.11.0 Now Available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Here's the skinny on all the new features in Mixxx 1.11 …| Mixxx
Google has just announced the participating mentoring organizations for Google Summer of Code 2013 and Mixxx has been accepted into the program! Google Summer of Code is a global program that allows students to receive a $5000 USD stipend for writing code for an open source software project over the …| Mixxx
Take your DJing to the next level. Mixxx 1.11 adds dozens of powerful new features for the pro DJ. And as always, Mixxx 1.11 is available as a free upgrade for all existing Mixxx users.| Mixxx
With the recent release of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, all Mac applications are required to be signed by a developer registered with Apple, otherwise it won't work out-of-the-box. This new feature in Mountain Lion is called Gatekeeper, and gives Apple a way to stop spyware and other …| Mixxx
Today we are pleased to announce Mixxx 1.10.1, our latest stable release. Mixxx 1.10.0 "LateNightBlues" skin Download Mixxx 1.10.1 Now Available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Mixxx 1.10.1 is a bugfix release that fixes some minor issues that have come …| Mixxx