Mixxx 2.4, a free and open-source cross-platform DJ software designed for live mixing, has released today with significant new features and improvements.
This major update comes after three years of development and includes new functionalities such as hotcue saving loops (“Saved Loops”), an explicit Sync leader, ES2016 support in the new controller mapping scripting engine, and an “all-shaders” scrolling waveforms improving the GUI performance across all platforms.
The Music Library’s Tracks Table & Track Menu also received enhancements including remembered track selections when switching library features, overridden analysis settings for variable and constant BPM on individual tracks, a menu for checking track metadata on Discogs, SoundCloud, and LastFM, and menus for Analysis and Reanalysis.
The Music Library’s Sidebar & Searchbar also has new features such as saved search queries across restarts, search functionality in the Browse & Recording views, improved keypress management, enhanced presentation of History library tree, and a drop-down menu in the search box showing recent searches.
Music Library’s backend and database have been updated as well in Mixxx 2.4 to improve support for iTunes and Rekordbox services, add support for exporting crates, playlists, and the entire library to Engine Prime and Denon standalone controllers, support for searching related tracks in collection, and automatic database analyzing and optimization.
Mixxx 2.4 also brings support for m4v files, improves FAAD2 and MP3 decoding, improves the AAC encoder, adds Modpug and Wavpack support on macOS, improves ID3v2 parsing, adds halve/double controls for beatjump size, and enables support for preserving the active (regular) loop when leaving the Slip Mode.
This release also improves the Linux launcher, adds support for NixOS, adds support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), improves Wayland support, adds support for macOS ARM builds on M1/M2 Apple Silicon hardware, and enables experimental iOS support.
On top of that, Mixxx 2.4 adds a track color selector, adds an option to keep the deck playing when loading a track, improves the quality indicator for Vinyl control, adds Noise, Pitch Shift, and Distortion effects, adds background color for quick cover art preview, and adds many improvements to skins and Auto DJ.
Controller support has been enhanced with new mappings for Hercules DJControl MIX, Pioneer DDJ-FLX4, Traktor Kontrol S4 Mk3, Traktor Kontrol Z1 HID, and Yaeltex MiniMixxx, as well as updated mappings and improvements for Behringer DDM4000, Hercules DJ Console RMX, Korg nanoKONTROL2, MAudio Xponent, Novation Twitch, Novation Launchpad, Numark DJ2GO2 Touch, Numark MixTrack Pro 3, Roland DJ-505, Traktor Kontrol S2 MK1/MK2/MK3, and Traktor Kontrol S3.
Last but not least, Mixxx 2.4 updates the Waveforms and GL Widgets with a new VSsync mode driven by a phase locked loop, full GLSL shader-based waveforms, vumeters, and spinnies, 60 Hz waveform refresh rate by default, a new “RGB Stacked” waveform, improved support for AMD GPUs, as well as improved rendering of waveform marks.
Of course, there are hundreds of other changes included in this major update, so check out the full changelog for more details. Meanwhile, you can download Mixxx 2.4 from the official website or the project’s GitHub page. You can also install Mixxx as a Flatpak app from Flathub.
Image credits: Mixxx Development Team
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