Active Library Filters - with Harmonic Key detection

[globalkeith]

Hello!!

Firstly THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

Been using and loving Mixxx for 3 years now and absolutely showing friends who are always blown away by its quality.

So, the purpose of this post is to propose to Mixxx to be the first and only software to enable a DJ to create
"Relationships" between tracks.

Put simply its a way of linking tracks together. But not linear like a playlist or even grouped like the excellent "Crates" concept which I also love by the way. This is more abstract that that. This enables the user to create "relationships" between tracks.

From a UI perspective it would require the ability to create multiple "directional links" between tracks (and store in the database) and the ability to browse "linked tracks" of the currently selected/playing track.

Most DJ's will understand that certain tracks just "fit" well together - as well as anyone familiar with the concept of harmonic mixing - this is a way for that relationship to be recorded and retrieved. Maybe there's several tracks that fit with the current track which each take the set in a different direction. That track has "lots of friends" so to speak.

Imagine a recursive tree structure or facebook "friends" or NodeDB. If you get the concept you'll quickly see that this will take the idea of "playlist" into multi dimensions.

What's not to like?

Well unfortunately I've no idea how this may or may not be possible in Mixxx - but I'd dearly love to see it one day.

So any thoughts? Is this possible, reasonable, achievable or even already thought of and dismissed??

thanks
Keith

[madjester]

If you put in the effort to search the forum you'll find someone actually suggested something similar before, but with mockups and everything. At the moment none of the core devs are working on this at the moment but we're not against it.

[globalkeith]

thanks for the info and sarcasm!

[madjester]

thanks for the info and sarcasm!

The idea is a good one, I wasn't being sarcastic there. It just seems redundant though to create new threads with the same idea over & over again, especially when the latest one is just another "me too" post.

In a while I'll see if I can dig up the post. It might have even been posted to the mailing list.

[rryan]

As with all great ideas -- somebody already thought of them

See the bug and previous post here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/889898
http://www.mixxx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3059

[jus]

Thank you globalkeith for thinking about how to make Mixxx even better.

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[globalkeith]

Many thanks to everyone for the replys - you've inspired me to download the source code for mixxx.
I really dont have a clue what i'm doing but I've got the source code so I will continue my mission to learn coding and hopefully implement the simplest solution possible for this.

Looking through the feature list, this one sounds like the most simple idea:

Combine the following two suggestions:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/674067
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/675057

And I think this would at least a start along the idea. The key is this is as simple as possible to create - the other post someone linked to with all the screen designs is great, but in my view its over engineered - at least until we recognise that this is actually a really useful feature.

My current thought is to find the way to create a button at the top of the library which will filter the list with the current playing track. Thats it, nothing else - so if you're looking in your crate - it will only select from files in your crate. And the button is just a toggle - thats all. And finally the button will only look in the "key" column - if this is empty the feature will not filter anything.

This is my idea, I will let you know if I have any success.

kind regards
Keith

[globalkeith]

While I have your attention, perhaps you could direct me to where i can find support for compiling the code:

I keep getting the error:

scons: *** [lib/soundtouch-1.6.0/sse_optimized.o] Error 1

which prevents my progress.

[rryan]

Hi globalkeith,

Are you Linux? Can you paste the full output ? That one line isn't enough information to tell.

I think you may be able to fix this by compiling with

Code: Select all

$ scons optimize=9


Can you paste your scons command?

[globalkeith]

Hi rryan

That worked thanks!!!

WOW GUYS!!!!! Firstly HAVE to say 1.11.0 Alpha is Frikken AWESOME!!!!

So I have a couple of questions regarding development:

1. I am using linux, what would be the recommended code editor for a project this size? I'm using gvim but I dont know/understand it very well so its difficult to navigate the project easily.

2. What is the development work flow - it currently takes around 6 minutes to compile and install on my laptop - presumably I dont need to do this each time I change the code do i?

thanks
Keith