some random bits and bytes…I just pushed a little bugfix to my “cue points”-branch @ github, now the keyboard should work fine in search mode (again).
Big thanks to DjTuxeedo, who has tested my branch and found this really stupid mistake of me (probably happened during a merge) :)
It’s out! Mark released xwax 0.7 yesterday – enjoy the crates and the (heavily) improved stability on long mixes!
Now it is time to start hacking on new stuff. But during the next couple of days I will “port” my existing branches/patches to the xwax 0.7 codebase.
I just “finished” porting the “cue points”-patch to the xwax 0.7 (beta1) code base.
With this patch each record in your library will get five cue points (you can customize this number). The cue points are shown right beside the clocks. Each cue point got its own colour and will be displayed as coloured line in the overview and closeup-view.
I had to free some keys to control this functionality, so I introduced 2 modes: search and cue (call it library and dj mode if you want to). You can toggle between the two modes with the INSERT key.
key mapping
How do you get it?
You can pull the 0.7+cue-points branch from my xwax repository @ githib. Github should also offer you a download button to get the source code.
I started to port my patches to xwax 0.7 (beta1) with the highlighting of played tracks.
Basically this patch provides a simple highlighting of played/loaded tracks in the record selector of xwax. You will see two new crates named “Played records” and “Loaded records” which are automatically managed by xwax (see screenshot below).
Once you load a record to a deck xwax will mark the record as “loaded”. You can continue to skip through your record list and each record you load, will be marked as “loaded”. A record gets marked as “played” when the previously loaded record was loaded to another deck.
You can toggle through the 3 states (not highlighted, loaded, played) with the DEL key.
How do you get it? You can pull the 0.7+playedtracks branch from my xwax repository @ githib. Github should also offer you a download button to get the source code.
Mark has released xwax 0.7 beta1 two days ago. For more information check his announcement on the xwax-devel list.
The obligatory screenshot:
It contains the (heavily improved) crates code that I’ve written some time ago (see my git repository). Other important changes are the improved pitch stability compared to xwax 0.6, which should help a lot during long mixes, and the installation script (xwax is more distribution friendly now).
