[HN Gopher] The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 - Open Source DJing
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The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 - Open Source DJing
Author : SamWhited
Score : 40 points
Date : 2025-08-06 21:29 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| weinzierl wrote:
| I love Mixxx, I use it daily as a music player. I know it is a
| virtual DJ deck, but it is also a fantastic music player.
|
| That being said the following sentence makes me a bit concerned
| _" The current user interface of Mixxx has served us well, but as
| technology evolves, so must we."_
|
| As far as I know QWidget is neither deprecated nor are there any
| plans for that. I think Mixxx has one of the best UI's I ever
| encountered, in design and execution. Please don't botch this.
| teruakohatu wrote:
| I am intrigued, what makes it a good music player for non-DJs?
| weinzierl wrote:
| I like the way you organize your music in crates and
| playlists, which are permanent structures and then you
| arrange everything for the occasion[1] in the AutoDJ, which
| is ephemeral.
|
| I also like the BPM and key display.
|
| [1] In my case just my current mood
| herbst wrote:
| I recently looked and bought into the DJ tech today. I know
| mixxx, used it many times. And Rekordbox isn't perfect either.
| But you can't even compare. If the one is Dj Software, mixxx
| right now, is just a music player with DJ theme
| __jonas wrote:
| I'd be interested to know what the main differences are
| ahartmetz wrote:
| Yeah, I know both QWidgets and QML quite well and I also don't
| see a strong reason to port. Genuinely custom painting of
| highly detailed elements in QML is either pretty annoying
| (comparable to doing it in OpenGL, and then you still need to
| do user interaction without much help from the framework) or
| slow if cobbling it together from existing items or using a
| canvas. I've helped fix particular issues on a project that
| needed highly detailed custom painting in QML (think rendering
| text in an editor component, though it wasn't that), but in the
| end it failed for performance reasons. I knew of some really
| good developers on that project, so it wasn't plain
| incompetence.
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| Mixxx might not have that problem, not sure. The waveform view
| is presumably custom painted, but shouldn't be too difficult.
| There may or may not be others.
| aurumque wrote:
| The fact that Mixxx works as well as it does on Linux is a
| testament to human ingenuity and perseverance. It is truly The
| People's mixing deck.
| clpwn wrote:
| Shoutout to Mixxx, it's one of the examples of open source being
| able to match and in many ways surpass the enjoyability of their
| closed-source for-profit alternatives. I regularly give it as an
| example alongside things like Blender to show that a better, more
| free software world is possible outside of just developer tools.
| dang wrote:
| Related. Others?
|
| _Mixxx: GPL DJ Software_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42769871 - Jan 2025 (133
| comments)
|
| _Mixxx, a free and open source DJ software_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31731814 - June 2022 (14
| comments)
|
| _Open source digital DJ: Integrating Airtime and Mixxx_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2580273 - May 2011 (4
| comments)
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