loop & cue sets

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Reported by: deathdevil66
Date: 2011-02-12T18:57:53Z
Status: Confirmed
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp717841
Tags: cue, looping, sampler

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Imagine that, for one song, you have several possible edits and mashups, with other tracks. So, in order to know which stored cue and loop belongs to which mashup or edit, it would be EXTREMELY valuable, to have a way to create cue and loop sets, each one with a name or/and other kind of identifier. This way, i wouldnt be mind when deciding which cue or loop belongs to an edit/mashup...

For example, consider the xml tree of the nml file of traktor library. Now, just group the cue's and loop's:

<group name="">
   <comment>...</comment>
   <cue>...</cue>
   <cue>...</cue>
   <loop>...</loop>
</group>

Another thing: custom cue & loop colors and icons.

Thanks.

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Commented by: esbrandt
Date: 2011-02-12T21:48:37Z

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FYI the Colors and icons for (Hot)cues & Loop points/overlays in the main waveform are customisable.
See the skin.xml file for the "Deere" skin as example.
http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/creating_skins#waveform

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Commented by: deathdevil66
Date: 2011-02-24T04:20:57Z

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but can i choose, during runtime, what overlay i want?

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Commented by: rryan
Date: 2011-02-24T04:40:51Z

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dead_devil_66 ,

I like your idea, and I think it is very forward thinking. I definitely think your use-case will fall under 'advanced' here. My big question is that Mixxx has, in general, two audiences:

a) beginner DJs who need a fair amount of hand-holding and instruction

and

b) advanced DJs who are tinkerers, programmers, and in general DIY'ers

Part of the difficulty is to walk the line and satisfy both crowds. Would you be willing to throw together some mockups that you think would work well for your use case so that we can understand it better? I like using Balsamiq (balsamiq.com) for mockups, I think they offer a free trial. I'm just trying to understand your proposal as best as I can so I can take it into account. I think there's definitely a solution that can serve a dual purpose, the trick will be to create the right UI for it.

Thanks,
RJ

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Commented by: deathdevil66
Date: 2011-02-24T13:18:53Z

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Will do, sir. Thanks

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Commented by: deathdevil66
Date: 2011-02-28T02:14:18Z

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see if this pleases you:

http://i53.tinypic.com/s2r98g.png

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Commented by: pwhelan
Date: 2011-05-12T10:20:56Z

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This looks like something that might become doable soon with the new skin features in 1.10.

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Commented by: esbrandt
Date: 2011-08-19T13:39:38Z

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I start to like the idea of cue/loop sets.
But i can not see how the the new skinning features in 1.10 alone could make this feature request gonna happen without further work on the cue/loop codebase.

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Commented by: ferranpujolcamins
Date: 2014-09-09T08:44:13Z

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First stored loops as cue points should be implemented. I filed a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/1367159

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Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2015-07-20T15:54:00Z

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I'm not sure XML is the best solution for this. Why not store them sets directly in the SQLite database and allow importing and exporting databases? See https://blueprints.launchpad.net/mixxx/+spec/portable-library

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Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2017-11-11T14:35:22Z

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There has been no progress on this lately, so I am removing the 2.1.0 milestone.

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Commented by: stevetheshark
Date: 2018-01-18T19:44:35Z

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Would be fantastic to get this feature working!