I wrote a hack to save the current tracks metadata to a silent mp3 and tell
my broadcaster to play it (via a onchange of file mdate do this script) via
cli control, it reads the meta but gets its audio from aux. prehaps this
could be an idea i could submit for a patch? anyone think that this would
be a good thing to have in mixxx? I do all the work using the sidechain.
Reads currently playing track, from a copy of changedmetadata... and saves
it via taglib... i think.
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Ilkka Tuohela <ilkka.tuoh...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just one note about visualizers: one DJ related use might be to send it to
> a projector shown to the people, which the DJ normally does not even see,
> but which would be shown to the audience, maybe with track info or
> something. Think of a simple VJ setup. I guess it might get boring after
> about two songs.
>
> This could be part of mixxx, but I think better way would be to make sure
> mixxx can export track data (BPM, song changes, track metadata) to local
> network and you would use a separate computer controlled by dedicated VJ to
> process the data and use it however they want. Such real-time data export
> could be useful for automated DMX controls as well, at least real time BPM
> info.
>
> I don't know if there is a common format for such VJ/DMX remote data
> input: common options would be TCP service the others listen, HTTP web
> socket. Anyway, we currently don't have any good way to export such data on
> the fly, and this might be worth implementing: for example just broadcast
> data on localhost in our own format and leave it to a custom client process
> to read it and forward in required format to other computers or services.
>
> As a hack, I did this for a birthday party this way:
>
> - From mixxx, record the session with cue sheet enable (modified cue sheet
> output to just export fully qualified path of file)
> - On local tornado web server, parse mixxx recording cue sheet
> automatically every 100 ms in web server daemon
> - When song change is detected, load metadata from local file, encoding
> album as base64 and publish this to a web socket browser clients listen to.
> Additionally keep a 'recently played' queue with metadata and export this
> to web socket as well
> - as client I had a kiosk mode laptop, connected to a projector, showing
> what has been played and what is playing now (with album art)
>
> This hack web server also checked iTunes playing track from same laptop:
> if mixxx is playing, show that song, if mixxx is not playing but iTunes is
> playing use that iTunes track for info, and if nothing is playing clear the
> playing track info on screen.
>
> Works nice, but it's a hack:
>
> - need to change cue sheet format in mixxx code to fit this purpose: this
> change is not compatible with .cue format
> - must remember to start recording or cue sheet is not written to, and
> you'll have useless recording of the session
> - it's not a visualization, just a 'currently playing track x' info screen
> for my friends
>
> Anyway if someone needs this, ask me for source code. I did not bother
> publishing the repository because it was a one time use quick hack and
> especially because it needs changes to mixxx source code which I did not
> even save for myself. It's not hard to get it running but it's not
> certainly production ready code.
>
> *hile*
>
> On 01 Mar 2014, at 13:50, Max Linke <max_li...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > As a start you can get familiar with the codebase. Fixing bugs tagged as
> > easy is good for that. If you have problems and need help just ask here.
> >
> > Not sure what exactly you mean with the visualizer. We already have
> > visual waveforms, you can also add you own. If you mean a visualization
> > that is in desktop musicplayers like clementeine/banshee if so I'm not
> > sure what the benefit for a DJ would be.
> >
> > best Max
> >
> > On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 13:09 +0530, Hasit Mistry wrote:
> >> Hello.
> >> I am Hasit Mistry ("rubbersheep" on IRC). I am a fourth year Computer
> Engineering student from Pune Institute of Computer Technology, Pune, India.
> >>
> >> I am proficient at programming in C, C++, using git and have some
> experience with QT as well.
> >> Looking at the project ideas on the GSoC project page, I found them
> interesting.
> >> I do not have any experience in programming related to audio and video.
> But I am hard working enough to quickly get started with it. I do have
> formal knowledge in music theory as I have learned and played the Tabla (an
> Indian percussion instrument) for almost 4 years now.
> >>
> >> I am interested in working on Keyboard / MIDI Mapping GUI and the Cover
> Art Support. Is a visualiser of any relevance in MIXXX? If yes, I'd love to
> work on developing visualisers for MIXXX.
> >>
> >> I would be thankful if you could give me some guidance on working with
> MIXXX at GSoC '14. I have cloned the bleeding edge repo 'mixxxdj/mixxx' and
> installed all the dependancies. How do I get started?
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Hasit Mistry
> >> hasit.github.io
> >>
> >>
> >>
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