Welcome to the Mixxx Wiki!

Mixxx has an unusually broad community for an open-source project, encompassing performing musicians, C++ addicts, amateur DJs and even just casual users. The Mixxx Wiki contains useful information for users, developers, and artists, and is summarized in the categories below.

• Getting Involved in Mixxx ← Help us make Mixxx better, find out what you can do.
• Beginner's Guide
• Manual
• Hercules DJ Series Input Controllers Page - Find out about using Hercules GPL Linux MIDI driver with Mixxx, and where to get updated Hercules device control mappings for Windows and OSX.
• Hardware Compatibility
• FAQ
• Troubleshooting
• Tutorials
• Vinyl Control
• Internet broadcasting
• System Requirements
• Reporting bugs

• Compiling on Linux, brief
• Compiling on Windows
• Compiling on OS X

• Setting up an auto build "slave"

• To-do list before the next release - Please check this and contribute where you can so we can release sooner!

• How the hell to use Bazaar
• Development Roadmap
• Submitting Patches
• Creating backtraces
• Coding Guidelines
• Developer Tools
• Tutorial: Adding a new button to Mixxx's interface

• MIDI Controller Mapping File Format - Read this to find out how to create or change a MIDI mapping file for your controller
• UI/MIDI Controls and Names - This is a list of Mixxx's controls you can manipulate with your MIDI controller via the mapping file and/or a script
• MIDI Scripting - This explains how you can take complete control over your MIDI controller and create advanced behaviors.

• Performance improvements
• Feature Discussion & Specifications
• Portable Mixxx for removable media (Memory Sticks, CD/DVD, Portable HDDs)
• MixxxScript
• LADSPA
• Testing framework

• SoundSource interface (sound proxies)

• Threads
• Widgets
• Pitch percentages for semitones and notes
• Command line options
• Fixes for Qt Deprecations
• Past development sprints:
• July 29th 1.6.0 coding day
• Past developer meetings:
• 9/20/2009 Developer Meeting Minutes
• 5/17/2009 Developer Meeting Minutes

• Creating Skins
• Skin Guidelines
• Skin Colour Scheme Architecture

GSoC 2009 (Read): Due to a lack of time our core developers will be able to dedicate to Mixxx this Summer, Mixxx will not be participating in GSoC 2009.

The following projects were accepted for Google Summer of Code 2008:

• Waveform Rewrite by RJ Ryan
• MIDI Control by Tom Care
• Internet Broadcasting by Wesley Stessens
• Stability and Crash Recovery by Zach Elko

Additional SoC Student Info

• Cheap as Chips, March 9th, 2008 - Christchurch, New Zealand (Kid 90)
• Carleton CS Bash, April 12th, 2007 - Ottawa, Canada (Christian Muise)
• Kick Adam Kegger - April 5th, 2007 - London, Canada (Albert Santoni and Peter Wright)
• Convergence, October 13th, 2006 - Club Medussa, Brixton, London, UK (Tim Jackson)

• Discussions on the mixxx-devel mailing list are the basis for much of the content here.
• The main Mixxx website.
• Our Launchpad project page and bug tracker.
• The IRC Channel: #mixxx on Freenode.
• The blog: mixxxblog.blogspot.com and previous polls.
• Bazaar code browsing on Launchpad. (Old SVN code browsing on Sourceforge.)