how hard would it be to make it so there was a plugin interface for mixxx
then anyone could make a plugin and the user could choose to install it or
not optionally just somthing ive been thinking a while is to have a stock
mixxx and anything extra be a plugin but i dont know how much work that
would involve btw thanks to all the devs that work on mixxx its looking and
more importaintly sounding very spick as of late
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Nick Guenther <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Ben Wheeler<[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2009/8/7 Nick Guenther <[email protected]>:
> >>
> >> Something else that would be really useful for the library would be to
> >> record the low/mid/hi envelopes of each track, and give column for
> >> each so that if the DJ wants is being really dubsteppy they can find
> >> bass filled tracks quickly, or if they want to layer something in the
> >> high register over top they can do that, or so they can know before
> >> they hear it if they need to adjust the EQs.
> >
> > Just to chip in my opinion. These features sound useful, but I don't
> > think they are.
> > I wouldn't use them, I doubt any competent DJ would want them, but
> > what's worse,
> > if anyone uses them while learning to DJ, I think they will interfere
> > with the learning
> > of important mixing skills. Being able to keep a steady volume across
> > the mix is a core
> > skill of DJing, and any feature which tries to do part of the job for
> > you, or even advise you, simply
> > means you're going to struggle more when you play out on a system that
> > doesn't have such a feature, which you will someday.
> >
> > I don't know what you mean by recording the "envelopes" of the
> > track... but it's not possible to identify a genre of music from, say,
> > a frequency histogram. Again, this is a distraction from the vital
> > skill of developing an instinct for which deciding which track to play
> > next based on memory, and I think even if it's only narrowing the
> > search field a little, it will probably make too many mistakes to be
> > useful. You'd have to do sophisticated DSP to identify genres, and
> > that still wouldn't tell you whether two tracks go together.
>
> I meant to like, integrate over the lows, mids and highs and record a
> heuristic score for each. So if a song is really bassy overall I can
> tell that slightly faster. I think it would necessarily be very much
> only a guide, obviously, there's lots of cases (say, classical) where
> the volume jumps around too much.
>
> But
>
> > DJing is not so hard that we need lots of features to make it easier,
> > imo. Every one you add, makes the skills learned on mixxx less
> > transferable to other DJing setups.
> >
> > Just because you have a database, please don't feel like you have to
> > fill it with useless data!
>
> Agreed! But if that was so true we'd be using two VLCs going at once
> (heh, at least then playlists would work ;)). Mixxx's BPM detector
> definitely interfered with me learning to beatmatch, I didn't until my
> laptop was broken for four months and all I had were tables. I kind of
> think Mixxx should be the best at being Mixxx that it can, not try to
> emulate other setups. It *should* be accessible to n00bs as well as
> 'competent DJs' because DJ worship is lame and if n00bs can spend an
> afternoon in their bedroom figuring out Mixxx and then throw a party
> with their friends so much the better.
>
> Though of course, stability over features always, and I should shut up
> now because I haven't contributed code in a couple months now.
>
> -Nick
>
>
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