New in 2.3: Add track color post

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+title: New in 2.3: Colorize your Tracks!
+author: Holzhaus
+date: 2020-XX-XX 20:00:00
+
+{% extends "post.html" %}
+
+{% block post %}
+
+{% load markup %}
+{% filter markdown %}
+
+As a DJ your most important job is find and cue the track you're going to play next to make the crowd go wild.
+In Mixx 2.2 you already had plenty of options to organize and add information to the tracks in your library to make this task easier.
+You can add them to playlists, put them into crates and access them as files in different directories via the "Computer" sidebar entry.
+It's also possible to order your tracks by key or BPM to find a match for the currently playing track.
+
+For the next Mixxx version, we added another feature that helps you picking the next track to play at a glance:
+It's now possible to assign an individual color to each track.
+
+{# TODO: Insert screenshot of track color picker once we have a mixxx color palette. #}
+
+The track color is shown in a dedicated "Color" column in the library view. You can sort tracks by color by clicking on the respective header section like with any other column.
+To make it easier quickly grasp a track's color Mixxx also uses it to paint the background of the whole table row when the column is hidden.
+
+{# TODO: Insert screenshot of library view with colored tracks once the skins are finalized. #}
+
+How you use this color is [up to you](https://djtechtools.com/2017/12/18/color-code-tracks-dj-collection/):
+You could assign the similar colors to tracks with the same key, BPM or generally mix well together.
+Another option is to colorize the tracks by energy or mood.
+
+Are you doing live mashups and elaborate sampling?
+You can also use color coding to group tracks with fitting acapellas and samples.
+
+Or you use it for keeping your library clean:
+Highlight tracks that you still need to prepare hotcues for or assign a color.
+You can also mark tracks that have bad sound quality and you're planning to replace later.
+
+Of course we didn't forget about controller support:
+Like we did for [hotcue colors]({# TODO: Add link to hotcue colors post #}), we added [controls](https://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/mixxxcontrols) to access and modify the track color in controller mappings.
+If you're a mapping creator, you can add support for displaying and modifying track colors on your controller!
+
+Stay tuned for more cool features in Mixxx 2.3 that we'll publish prior to the final release!
+
+{% endfilter %}
+{% endblock %}