Comment 4 for bug 617318

You will find my half-baked responses under your questions below. I hope I
have helped in some small way.

Sincerely,

Olyn

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of RJ
Ryan
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 7:59 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 617318] Re: Failure on so many levels

Hi Olyn,

Wow thanks for the report. I'm sorry that Mixxx is breaking in so many
ways for you. We are all volunteers who are trying very hard to make
good software, but sometimes bugs do happen.

Let's see if we can tease apart all the problems you were having into
discrete bugs. First of all, which version of 1.8.0 are you using? beta1
or beta2?

Using beta 2

1) Drag and Drop Brokenness

 If it's beta1, basically I know what's wrong -- drag and drop is mostly
broken in beta1. That problem should be fixed in beta2. (Albert correct
me if I'm wrong) but it may be broken on Windows 7 specifically. Not
many of our developers use Windows.

Drag and drop works in the library and play list functions. Will have to
work that a little more, I have forgotten. I noticed it failure on the
autoDJ function and when trying to drag and drop anything from the library
to playlist, autoDJ. To get anything to work I pretty much had to DDrop
from the folder.

2) 1.7.2 fails to place song title or filename on your songs.

What file format are they? mp3? ogg? I assume they all have their
metadata written to the files. If you wouldn't mind, could you please
post one of the files that you can reproduce the problem on and we'll
take a look.

There are only mp3, wav, and mp4 in the folder. It definitely happens on
mp3 and wav. I have discovered those songs with no information in the file
properties values came into the library with no name.

3) No 'Add to Auto-DJ Queue' context menu option.

This is a good idea, we should add this maybe before we release 1.8.0
final. Albert, thoughts? A separate wishlist bug should be made for
this.

I don't know about you guys, but I really like being able to right a file or
multiple files and sending to where I want them.

4) Cannot drag a playlist into the Auto-DJ Queue

We've been asked to add this before, but I think there is some problem
we had or maybe we just haven't had time to get to it. A separate
wishlist bug should be made for this.

5) Cannot play a playlist.

We actually do not really support playing a playlist, as this isn't
really a music player software, it's DJ software. Playlists are for
helping a DJ organize music from a general pool of music (e.g. a crate
in 1.8.0) into a logical ordered list of songs to play during a
performance. He or she can then load songs from the playlist and mix
them together.

Well I worked the turntables in 78-80, but if I go on break I might want to
run a playlist while away, perhaps a thought! Oh, I worked from the current
best and memory....last resort was to play a few songs working hard to find
some that worked. LOL

6) Record Mix feature does not work

Which format do you select for recording? In 1.8, you can check by going
to Preferences > Recording. Make sure that 'WAV' is selected.
Albert/Sean perhaps libsndfile is broken in 1.8 on windows?

Well after I deleted the non-working file it did capture the mix from the
current session. You might want to check this out and find a way to clear
as to delete the previous, not maintain the previous file name, or some
other flag to the user. This could have been a result of upgrading, as it
didn't work in 1.7.2 in my view, but actually this could have been the real
problem from the begin.

Best regards,
RJ

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Failure on so many levels
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Status in Mixxx: New

Bug description:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name OLYN-PC
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model Compaq Presario CQ40 Notebook PC
System Type X86-based PC
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual-Core QL-62, 2000 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2
Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard F.54, 12/7/2009
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
User Name olyn-PC\olyn
Time Zone SE Asia Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 1.75 GB
Available Physical Memory 639 MB
Total Virtual Memory 3.50 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.83 GB
Page File Space 1.75 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

The package seems to install well enough over 1.7.2.

1.7.2 - failed to place either song title or file name as the title on fifty
percent on the songs on the imported music library folder.
The interface is no so helpful, as well as the contextual menu items are not
so inclusive. (when browsing the library and I highlight serveral songs I
would expect an option to add all to the cue. in 1.7.2 I got the option, in
1.8, it does not work
I can't engage the autoDJ because even though i selcet the feature, I have
been unable to add songs to the working cue or list. Also, neither can I
place a play list in this cue. I tried contect menus, d&d, main menu bar,
nothing worked in 1.8.0. The contextual menu of 1.7.2 to add music to the
cue from the library list is gone. I have yet to figure o9ut how to play a
playlist. This is what i CALL BROKEN SOFTWARE.

PS. The record mix feature has yet to work for me. in 1.7.2 no file was
created, in 1.8.0 a file is created but can't be played.

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