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I'm not sure a link to https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx is anywhere to be found currently

The tarball links are not working.
I think we have decided to redirect them to GitHub.

cactus messages:make

produces the 2 folders

• e
• n

instead of just one folder en

This is needed for updating the translation template b4 uploading to transifex.
Would like to have the website translated at launch, at least for some languages.

Will a stable 2.3 be released before year 2021 starts or at least a updated 2.3 Beta-2 with less bugs then the first beta?

We regularly get questions on facebook about whether it's necessary to uninstall the old version before installing the new one. We should put something on the download page that says it's ok to install the new version on top of the old one.

https://mixxx.org/features/ > Organisation mentions only iTunes and Traktor
let's add

• Banshee
• Rekordbox
• Rhythmbox
• Serato
• ?

(8d75d839f4 was merged to main)

Also, let's show
Otherwise, you can download individual packages [link to d/l server] and install them manually.
for those OS, too, so users can also pick 2.3.1 builds, not just those of main.

I was reading this article from 2008. https://mixxx.org/news/2008-02-15-minor-website-revamp/

Where it says "We've also started using our new logo, created by Paul Bloch of OpenArtist..."
I think http://openartist.net/ could have moved or been renamed..... bcz this link leads to dead end.

http://openartisthq.org/ is the closest match i could find.
@asantoni

This is a forwarded issue from Google Search console:

Mobile Usability issues detected on mixxx.org
To the owner of mixxx.org:
Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 1 Mobile Usability issue(s):

The following issues were found on your site:

• Viewport not set

We recommend that you fix these issues when possible to enable the best experience and coverage in Google Search.

instead I see the page itself is scrolled

https://manual.mixxx.org/2.3/en/chapters/appendix/mixxx_controls
https://manual.mixxx.org/2.3/en/mixxx-control

These two pages list a control object called scratch2_enabled, which is really scratch2_enable.

The LateNight skin has seen some visible changes since the last screenshot update. We should update the screenshots before the 2.3 release.

In addition to the usual beta and final release announcements, we came up with the idea to make a series of blogposts that highlight the major changes in Mixxx 2.3 and discussed it on Zulip.

Let's use this issue for planning these blogposts.

Note: If you want to add/remove topics or want to change the author of a post, just comment below.

On the maintenance page is a link to Audacity. Apparantly they moved from http://www.audacity.org to https://www.audacityteam.org/. This should be updated.

https://www.mixxx.org/news/2018-04-16-mixxx-2-1-0-has-arrived

https://mixxx.org/static/images/splash-2.1.png is a 404

(this image was the second listed for a google image search for "mixxx" with the large image filter on)

While upgrading the website to 18.04, the PPA we use did not have php-memcache packages for php5.6 on Bionic ready yet, so we couldn't configure the forums to use memecached for its ACM cache.

The current website design does not work well with smartphone screens.

A convenience thing. I've made the mistake a few times, maybe others will, this would save a bit of hassle.

The same could be done for zulip.mixxx.org, forward to mixxx.zulipchat.com.

Since I don't know who "the admin" is (where the Forum-FAQ is referring to), I decided to start an issue here. So I just registered an account and received no e-mail to activate my account. Halp! :)

https://mixxx.org/features/ only lists the supported 'mainstream' formats:
FLAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A/AAC, Ogg Vorbis, Opus formats

Can we print the complete list somewhere? per Mixxx version I suppose (and per platform?) or are these too many variables and therefore listing the codecs is not worth the effort?

https://mixxx.discourse.group/t/does-mixxx-support-wemb-mkv-files-or-do-i-have-to-convert-them/22853

The images on the screenshots page link to very small images (445x250).

https://mixxx.org/download/#beta-ubuntu

shouldn't that point to https://launchpad.net/~mixxx/+archive/ubuntu/mixxxbetas/ ?

News articles are published to an Atom feed at https://mixxx.org/feed.xml, but in HTML across the site it links to a relative path:

    <link href="feed.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Mixxx Atom Feed" />

This breaks RSS feed detection and links on, for instance, individual news articles because there's no feed.xml at https://mixxx.org/news/feed.xml.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to mixxx.org or build the site locally and serve it.
2. Go to any news article.
3. View page source, or click the "Feed" link under "About" in the footer.

Expected behavior

The link or link tag points to /feed.xml.

Observed behavior

The link or link tag points to feed.xml, which results in a 404.

the top bar contains 'quick links' that also appear in Community and support and thereby appears crammed.
also, when used on a small screen (mobile device), hamburger menu is crammed and there's no disctinction between internal and external links

So are there any design objections to clean up the top bar by moving all community/support links to Communit & Support (and footer template)

What about moving to Github pages?
Hosted directly from the GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and changes are live.
It works with a custom domain too, and would allow to go multi-lingual.

We could even make the binaries available, thus potentially reducing traffic and hosting costs.

from #126 :
I think we should take the screenshots with a resolution close to that each skin was designed for. Like, when the minimum size is 1024px we can take a screenshot with either 1024px or 1280px.
(temporarily changing the minimum size to the desired resolution instead of manually resizing the window..)

reason:
Looking at the Shade screenshots taken with [FullHD x N] will raise some questions about the layout:
why is there so much whitespace in the decks? why is there an extra row for the hotcues? why is so much space wasted for the library cover art? ...

Shade / Deere / Tango: 1280px
LateNight: 1600px

what do you think?

I have tried to install Mixxx on a fresh installed Fedora and I was a little lost.

The orange download button leads me to the correct section of the download page.

Than I am a bit lost with this:

An RPM package for installation is available in the RPM Fusion repositories.

Please refer to RPM Fusion's instructions on how to enable the repositories on your system. Mixxx only requires enabling the free repository; the nonfree repository is not necessary for Mixxx.

RPM Fusion builds are maintained by the Mixxx development team. We support the next, the current, and selected previous Fedora release(s) if possible.

I have have finally managed to install Mixxx, but it was with peaking around. I am still unsure if this was the intended way.
First I have added the free RPM Fusion rpm, which was easy. Than I read through the whole linked page with completely unrelated issue. The second link leads to a informative page but without obvious install instructions.
Than I have searched the "Software" app, without success.

I have finally tried:
sudo dnf install mixxx

Which had success.

I think we should update it to be on the same level than Ubuntu and Arch.

A bief instruction + a list of terminal commands that cover the default case.

@uklotzde Can you share this step by step instruction?

The links are gone from the download page. Only Arch and Source code is available.

I try access site of project but is out.

to give a more extensive preview of features.

• Pref > Sound Hardware, Vinyl Config, Decks, Broadcast ?
• 64 samplers, compact decks, big libary ?

"is this and that controller supported in Mixxx x.y??"
this comes up frequently in the forums or (even in github wtf mixxxdj/mixxx#4326)

Reason for this is probably that 'Supported Devices' links to an overwhelming wiki page mixxx/wiki/Hardware-Compatibility with way too much, badly accessible information considering the rather simple question "is my controller supported?"
Also, once you found the mapping table (not sorted a-z), the distinction between Cerfified / Community Supported Mappings is confusing IMO.

Let's merge those two tables and put them in a better place on the website
-- or simply link to manual > controllers
The most info of the Hardware Compatibility page is covered by
https://manual.mixxx.org/2.3/en/chapters/introduction.html
https://manual.mixxx.org/2.3/en/chapters/hardware.html

People like the twitters, it's fantastic. We should like to the twitters, where we have a very decent following

I think there is a missing word on this line on the website. Maybe it was supposed to be "While 2.3.0 has been stable in testing..."?

• split long texts into columns (like in most Features sections)
  with short lines, following line-breaks requires much less attention. Less effort to navigate, more focus for actually reading

• relaxe font <> background contrast a bit
  I find reading white text on black bg for a longer period quite stressing.
  We can even use #999999 for long text and still pass the WCAG AAA test

before

reported by @foss- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/1928766

Currently the download section uses all caps.

Better readability and easier on the eyes not using all caps.

And for unknown reasons Ubuntu is the only OS which also uses a codename. This is not the case for Windows, macOS or other Linux distributions so should probably be removed.

Perhaps we could update these?

not mentioned in Get Involed, is it?

This list was generated from an online broken link checker, and is potentially incomplete. Most of these are for the wiki.

The Broken link URL in the table is right trimmed to a max length of 60 char for display purposes. Each one of these is found in the associated URL, but may be found on other pages as well, so when repairing a broken link, it is advisable to perform find and replace over entire codebase.

.. to macOS and windows sections as it is already linked for Ubuntu

downloads.mixxx.org https is not forced, FYI

thanks for this open source software