Volume or mute that doesn't affect stream output

[DBDigital]

 I would like a volume or mute control for speakers that did not affect the output when streaming?

Example:
One is streaming over shoutcast with a normal 30 second delay between when the music is played locally and everyone else on the net hears it. Is there a easy way of checking to make sure everything is sounding ok to the end user? Normally I would put the stream URL into a player such as VLC and listen. But that is difficult if you can't mute the playback in your own speakers/headphones as you can't tell what is what.

So far the only thing I have found is either lowering the deck volume to zero wait over 30 seconds raise the volume for say 15-20 seconds lower it again to zero and listen via another player to see how it sounds. A very bad method if you are trying to check during a live show. :/

There has got to be a better method? I searched here on the forums and manual but so far haven't found a solution so I thought better post it as a bug/wish list

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

A workaround is to set the Master output to "None" in Preferences -> Sound Hardware and set your output device for the Headphones output. To mute Mixxx's local output, just turn the head-volume knob to zero. Then play your stream in VLC to see what it sounds like.

[DBDigital (dbdigital)]

Hmm I thought I had tried that so I went back and it sort of works like you describe. If I put the music though headphones, even if it is set to output to my speakers as it was under master nothing is heard at all. I probably thought it wasn't streaming either at the time.

So as I said in my case it works...but sort of. At least it does mute the local output, however I can't test tracks on other decks or such as I can't have any local output at all. Odd I seem to get all or nothing. Ah well at least it is better than nothing and I can work with this.

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

Do you mean you don't hear the master output? The degree to which the
master output is blended into the headphones is controlled by the head-mix
knob.

If you mean you can't hear individual decks, to preview a deck you need to
enable the headphone button for a deck. This will route the deck audio into
the headphone output regardless of its current mix due to the crossfader or
channel faders.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:22 PM, DBDigital <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hmm I thought I had tried that so I went back and it sort of works like
> you describe. If I put the music though headphones, even if it is set
> to output to my speakers as it was under master nothing is heard at all.
> I probably thought it wasn't streaming either at the time.
>
> So as I said in my case it works...but sort of. At least it does mute
> the local output, however I can't test tracks on other decks or such as
> I can't have any local output at all. Odd I seem to get all or nothing.
> Ah well at least it is better than nothing and I can work with this.
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[DBDigital (dbdigital)]

That is correct. When I set the master output to nothing then headphones to primary sound driver there is no local sound at all. No matter what I do to the headphone volume control. The stream is fine though even though I can't hear it locally.

So what I mean is with this configuration with regard to the decks, while it does prevent local sound and allow me to hear the stream, I also can't preview a track on another deck for example without changing the preference output which will affect the stream output while I change the settings.

Anyway like I said I can use it like this, not optimal and I can't preview tracks but it works. :)

[DBDigital (dbdigital)]

Ah HA! Got it. Had to change a driver setting here. Odd. Anyway finally got it working as you described.

[Be (be.ing)]

https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/1279 adds a booth output with a gain knob separate from the master gain knob. Using the booth output for monitoring, the booth gain knob can be used for adjusting the broadcaster's listening level while the master gain knob can be used to adjust the broadcasted stream's level.

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/6701