Re: [Mixxx-devel] GSoC '14 Guidance and Introduction

2014-03-02 Thread Ilkka Tuohela
Big screen projections are done with VJ software, like Resolume, Modul8, Arkaos, Neuromixer etc. There are some OSS VJ projects I think as well, but I haven’t checked what they are recently. Automated lights are usually controlled by DMX. DMX control has it’s own software, light mixer hardware

Re: [Mixxx-devel] GSoC '14 Guidance and Introduction

2014-03-02 Thread Hasit Mistry
As for visualisers, a lot of DJs use visualisers while performing live. A music genre like psychedelic trance, for example, is best enjoyed along with some intense visuals. There can be two ways to show the visuals: 1. Projected on a screen with pre-programmed/programmable (maybe an interface t

Re: [Mixxx-devel] GSoC '14 Guidance and Introduction

2014-03-02 Thread Waylon Robertson
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

Re: [Mixxx-devel] GSoC '14 Guidance and Introduction

2014-03-01 Thread Ilkka Tuohela
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

Re: [Mixxx-devel] GSoC '14 Guidance and Introduction

2014-03-01 Thread Max Linke
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

[Mixxx-devel] GSoC '14 Guidance and Introduction

2014-02-28 Thread Hasit Mistry
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