intro & outro cues blog post #92
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Thanks. I'd find it helpful to put each sentence in a separate line which makes reviewing and commenting on the diff easier. The HTML generator will not insert a manual break unless there is a blank line between them so it should not make a difference visually. This post sticks out a bit because it uses first person singular instead of first person plural or second person like the other posts. I tried to avoid that in my posts, but if you want to keep it that way that'd be okay for me, too. I'll try to review this properly tomorrow. |
| This way I would know that the energy of the new track would pick up exactly as the old track ends. | ||
| Depending on the musical content of each track, I might or might not bring the fader up on the new track before the last 1 or 2 seconds of the old track. | ||
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| Before Mixxx 2.3, I could mark the end of the intro with a hotcue, but I still had to jump to that hotcue and look at what time the deck was at to know how long the intro was. |
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OT: it would be really neat if Mixxx could display the seconds/beats/bars until the next hotcue.
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Yes that will be part of @hacksdump's project.
| However, it is good enough to give a human DJ a break without a major disruption to the mix. | ||
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| When there isn't a pandemic sweeping the globe, every week I DJ at a little gathering in my friend's yard while my friends spin fire. | ||
| With the new AutoDJ modes, I can put two or three tracks in the AutoDJ queue with intro & outro sections marked and confidently step away from my gear for a few minutes so I can spin fire. |
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Same ending in two consecutive sentences.
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It does confuse my brain a little tbh ^^
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| If I do not have the outro start point marked when I load a track, before I mix in the track, I skip ahead to the end of the track in my headphones to find the outro start point, then seek back to the intro start to get the track ready. | ||
| If I don't have time to find the outro end point before mixing in the track, I can use the new deck cloning feature to drag and drop to a new deck, then seek ahead on the new deck and listen in my headphones to mark the outro start point. | ||
| If I don't have time to do that either, I right click on the overview waveform where I think the outro starts and look how far that is from the end of the track to compare it to the length of the intro of the next track. |
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All three sent nces start with "If I", but that's intended here, right?
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Yeah I don't see a problem here.
I went into a lot of detail about my particular workflow, so I think it would be awkward to try write it differently. I think it makes it more relatable too. |
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| When analyzing a track, Mixxx detects where the first and last sounds are to make it easy to skip playing silent parts at the beginning and end of the track. | |||
| The analyzer places the intro start point at the first sound and the outro end point at the last sound. The first and last sound are determined by the first time the signal rises above -60 dBFS and the last time it goes below -60 dBFS. | |||
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| <img src="/static/images/news/intro-outro/intro-start-outro-end.png" style="max-width: 465px;" alt="A track with the automatically placed intro start and outro end cues"/> | |||
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| <img src="/static/images/news/intro-outro/intro-start-outro-end.png" style="max-width: 465px;" alt="A track with the automatically placed intro start and outro end cues"/> | |
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I think we need CSS for this. It seems to be working with 1e6b3d4 when making my browser window very narrow.
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I'd rather not mix Markdown and HTML. Can we try to use plain markdown and handle the image resizing in CSS automatically?
This should work. It doesn't stretch small images to the full page width (it centers them instead), but large images are downscaled if they wouldn't fit:
img {
/* Center the image horizontally */
display:block;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
/* Automatically downscale image to fit in parent container */
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
}If we can, we should use markdown only. That would also make the transition easier if we want to switch away from cactus (e.g. to Hugo or something like that).
| However, it is good enough to give a human DJ a break without a major disruption to the mix. | ||
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| When there isn't a pandemic sweeping the globe, every week I DJ at a little gathering in my friend's yard while my friends spin fire. | ||
| With the new AutoDJ modes, I can put two or three tracks in the AutoDJ queue with intro & outro sections marked and confidently step away from my gear for a few minutes so I can spin fire. |
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It does confuse my brain a little tbh ^^
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I removed the section about what I had to do with old versions of Mixxx and removed the use of "I". The text and screenshots could be easily adapted for the manual now. |
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I changed the images to use Markdown instead of HTML. The Netlify preview looks good on my phone. Ready for merge? |
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This is long, but it needs to be because this is complicated.