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Hello all,
Since our October 5 release of Mixxx 1.8.0, the Mixxx Development Team have

been hard at work on our next major release, Mixxx 1.9.0. Today, we are

proud to announce Mixxx 1.9.0 beta1 and Mixxx 1.8.2.
Among the new features in 1.9.0 Beta1 are:
   - *Shoutcast / Icecast support*

      - Mixxx can now broadcast over the internet (heavily requested

      feature)

   - *External Mixer Support*

      - The new Sound Hardware preferences pane allows you to route each

      playback deck separately, which allows you to use Mixxx with an external

      mixer.

   - *ReplayGain normalization*

      - A user from our forum worked closely with our developers to fully

      implement volume normalization, including performing the

ReplayGain analysis

      for tracks which are not tagged.

   - *Waveform Gain*

      - The scrolling waveforms now scale according to the channel gain for

      better visual feedback.

   - *Key lock buttons*

      - Formerly known as "pitch-independent time stretch", there are now

      easily accessible key-lock buttons for each for deck.

   - *Revamped default skin*

      - Since the original source material for the Outline Netbook skin was

      lost eons ago, our artist completely redid it from scratch and tweaked it

      for better visibility. The new skin has also added EQ kill switches.

   - *HSS1394 support* (Windows, OS X)

      - Mixxx now supports firewire HSS1394 MIDI devices such as the Stanton

      SCS 1 series.

   - *Improved FLAC support*

      - We're now using libFLAC directly for smoother FLAC decoding.

   - *Revamped metadata parsing*

      - Integration of

TagLib allows

      Mixxx to parse more metadata from songs, and do it more consistently.

   - *Metadata writing*

      - Mixxx can now write changes in song metadata back to disk. This

      feature is off by default, and can be enabled in the Library preferences

      pane.

   - *Millisecond time display*

      - The time counters in Mixxx now have an extra millisecond display.

   - *Library improvements:*

      - *Played column - *The library now indicates whether a song has been

      played in the current session already, and also counts the total

number of

      times the song has been played.

      - *Ratings column - 5* stars, no stars, or anywhere in

between

      .

      - *Better search *- Search now searches in more columns, and by-term

      instead of by-phrase.

      - *Revamped iTunes integration* - A rewrite yielded a significant

      speedup of iTunes parsing.

      - *Faster library scanning - *The library scanner should perform much

      better on large libraries.

   - *New MIDI mappings:*

      - Vestax Typhoon

      - Hercules DJ Console Mk4

      - Numark MIXTRACK

      - Pioneer CDJ-350

   - *Updated MIDI mappings:*

      - Hercules DJ Control MP3

      - Hercules DJ Control e2

      - Hercules DJ Control Steel

      - Vestax VCI-100

      - Reloop Digital Jockey 2

   - *Tons of bug fixes and performance improvements!*
Mixxx 1.8.2 is a maintenance release and has many of the same bug fixes,

MIDI mappings, and performance improvements that 1.9.0 Beta1 does.
You can read more details about this release on our

blog.

You

can download Mixxx 1.9.0b1 and Mixxx 1.8.2 from out website:

http://mixxx.org.
Best regards,

RJ Ryan
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Among the new features in 1.9.0 Beta1 are:


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The scrolling waveforms now scale acc=

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Key lock buttons

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Revamped default skin


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Best regards,RJ Ryan
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