[allenbina]

I got out of DJing and into tech because of my love for dental insurance. For a while I tried to influence the direction of mixxx and was getting great feedback from other DJs but none from the developers.

This was my great introduction to why I will never be a great developer, and why open source will never be on par with paid professional software. I admire their efforts, but mixxx will always be a hobby project in my eyes.

[zetanor]

What methods were you using to try and influence the direction of Mixxx?

[allenbina]

This was around 10 years ago, but at the time the suggestions on the forums were more towards fidelity and 5.1 surround sound. I can't recall exactly, but something of the sort. My guess is that these were people with audio backgrounds who wanted to commit to the project.

I was making suggestions that were more for DJs. My suggestions were (vaguely from memory) keyboard and midi shortcuts for going back 4 - 16- 32 beats. Looping the same number of beats. setting exact cue points (think off beat) and setting synchronized (auto move to the closest beat if bpm was set). Nothing crazy and things that I felt would be necessary for most DJs.

I must have set my alerts far to high because I was bombarded with emails for a week until I completely unsubscribed. At the time I was also getting interested in XBMC and felt their community was much more welcoming and the software was simpler to understand.