openDJ 0.4.6

openDJ 0.4.6 is a quick update on top of 0.4.5. The headphone cue follows the deck you load, the window fits smaller screens such as a 14" MacBook, you can check a beat grid by ear with a metronome, Automix keeps hold of the crossfader while it mixes, and your streaming playlists are there straight away when openDJ starts.

What's new

Decks and mixing

• Loading a track now cues its deck in the headphones and takes the other decks out of the cue, like VirtualDJ. Turn it off with Settings → Decks → Headphones follow the loaded deck. Automix loads leave the cue alone, and the room never hears the cue.
• While Automix is on, the crossfader is locked: the mouse, the controller and scripts can't move it, so a mix can't be broken by accident. It still slides with each mix, shown in Automix green with a padlock, also when the crossfader is switched off. Turning Automix off hands it back.

Beat grids

• A metronome in the deck's grid menu clicks on every grid beat, higher on bar 1, so you can check a grid by ear. The click follows the deck's fader, crossfader and headphone cue, and works on locked grids too.
• Bar 1 here in the grid menu makes the beat at the play position the first beat of a bar, leaving the rest of the grid where it was.

Screen

• The window fits smaller screens such as a 1512×982 MacBook: the source rail scrolls instead of pushing the footer off the bottom, and openDJ opens maximized when its usual size doesn't fit.
• New rail icons for Collection Health, Albums and Mixed Sets, and every rail button names itself when you hover it. Collection Health can be hidden from the rail's ••• menu like the sources.

Streaming and downloads

• Spotify, TIDAL, Apple Music, SoundCloud and Mixcloud playlists are kept between runs, so they show at once on start and stay browsable offline. Opening a playlist refreshes it in the background only when it has changed, and a Refresh link sits beside Sign out.
• Right-clicking a Spotify track your collection hasn't got offers Download Track when an add-on such as Soulseek takes Spotify links. In the track menu, "Add to Downloads" is now Download Track (or Download N Tracks).

Install

macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 11 or newer): if you have 0.3.0 or newer, openDJ offers this update itself when it starts. Otherwise download openDJ-…-macos.zip, unzip it and move openDJ to Applications.

Windows (preview; 64-bit Windows 10 and 11):

• openDJ-…-windows-x64-setup.exe: installs for your user, no administrator needed, and updates itself from now on.
• opendj-…-windows-x64.zip: portable. Unzip anywhere and run openDJ.exe.

The Windows build isn't signed yet, so on first run SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC": click More info, then Run anyway. ASIO drivers show next to Windows Audio devices in Settings → Audio. Windows on ARM runs it through emulation.

Linux (x86_64, glibc 2.35 or newer, e.g. Ubuntu 22.04+, Fedora 36+, Debian 12+):

• openDJ-…-x86_64.AppImage: make it executable (chmod +x) and run it. AppImages from 0.3.0 on update themselves.
• opendj-…-linux-x86_64.tar.gz: unpack anywhere and run bin/opendj.

openDJ needs ALSA and a Vulkan driver, which most desktops already have.

Add your music folders in Settings → Collection, or let the guided tour do it the first time openDJ starts. MIDI controllers that Mixxx supports load their mapping when plugged in.

Known limits

• Windows is a preview: unsigned, and less tested than macOS and Linux.
• Streaming services are browse only, and stores are coming soon.
• Automix uses decks 1 and 2 only.
• Controllers marked Beta, including the new DDJ-FLX6 mapping, haven't all been tried on the hardware yet.
• USB export for Pioneer players is experimental.

What's Changed

Other changes

• OpenSpec: settings in three layers (add-settings-layers) by @sebastian-beca in #184
• Switch the headphone cue to the deck a track is loaded on by @sebastian-beca in #185
• Fit the window to smaller screens such as a 1512x982 MacBook by @sebastian-beca in #186
• Spotify: Download Track on tracks the collection hasn't got by @sebastian-beca in #187
• Publish stem models: keep models already on the release by @sebastian-beca in #188
• Keep streaming playlists between runs, refresh them in the background by @sebastian-beca in #190
• New rail icons for Health, Albums and Mixed Sets, with tooltips by @sebastian-beca in #189
• Beatgrids: a metronome to check the grid by ear, and Bar 1 here by @sebastian-beca in #191
• Lock the crossfader while Automix is on by @sebastian-beca in #192
• Prepare openDJ 0.4.6 by @sebastian-beca in #193

Full Changelog: v0.4.5...v0.4.6