[PlanetCCRMA] [Planet CCRMA] : New apps

[Mysth-R]

2007/12/12, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.stanford.edu>:
>
> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 13:05 +0100, Mysth-R wrote:
> >
> >
> > 2007/12/12, Mysth-R <mysthr21 at gmail.com>:
> >
> >                 Well, now I remember. I think I have tried mixxx
> >                 before and could not
> >                 make it work. In my f7 laptop it starts (either
> >                 1.5.0.1 or 1.4.2), shows
> >                 its gui or part of it and promptly kills the video in
> >                 the machine, the
> >                 desktop background changes color and then goes black,
> >                 cursor appears
> >                 every once in a while with freezes in between and so
> >                 far the only way
> >                 out is a reboot. The audio support is done through
> >                 portaudio (not good),
> >                 and if I try to start it with jack running it just
> >                 segfaults. Overall
> >                 does not look very usable but I'm sure others are
> >                 using it, so I wonder
> >                 what could be wrong with the build or the
> >                 environment...
> >
> >                 -- Fernando
> >
> >         hehe, in fact I tried to compile it too but I got the same
> >         segfaults error with JACK. And with ALSA I got no sounds. But
> >         I never freezed.
> >         I thought you would be better than me to compile and to make
> >         it work... :D hehe
> >         I remember using Mixxx on Ubuntu last year and it works
> >         perfectly. Perhaps it is an issue with a library. I should
> >         write to the developers to ask some help, or ticks to make it
> >         work.
> >
> >
> >
> > There is a binary on their website :
> >
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mixxx/mixxx-1.5.0.1-linux.tar.bz2?download
> > have you tried it ?
> >
> > ./install.pl
> >
> > and then you have two way to run it :
> >
> > ./mixxx or ./mixxx-with-jack
> >
> > In the first case, I can run the soft, but when I select ALSA output,
> > it segfault. See in the manual :
> >
> > "ALSA (Linux)
> > Support for the ALSA sound API is preliminary, and should be
> > considered ALPHA.
> > ALSA has to be enabled at compile time, hereafter, you have to make a
> > special device
> > that Mixxx can use. Take a look at the file README.ALSA supplied with
> > Mixxx."
>
> Looks like it really needs a multichannel card or special alsa plugin
> magic to make things work. Not a good user friendly design but well, the
> price is right, right? :-)
>
> Maybe that's why it was segfaulting when I tried to use it with Jack, my
> laptop only has stereo output and maybe it is assuming it _will_ find
> more channels and not checking for errors.
>
> > In the second case I got :
> >
> > "mixxx-with-jack: error while loading shared libraries:
> > libjack-0.100.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > directory"
> > I can't find libjack in repositories... is it an oversight ?
>
> Nope, that binary was compiled in a debian system (probably) with the
> well known "we do it different here" naming of the libjack shared
> library. It is not compatible with anything else.
>
> You could try to create a symlink in /usr/lib that points to the real
> shared library:
>
> ----
>   cd /usr/lib
>   ln -s libjack.so.0 libjack-0.100.0.so.0
> ----
>
> and then run "ldconfig"
> Who knows, maybe it will work :-)
>
> -- Fernando
>
>
>
ok it doesn't work !! grrr I give up. I don't want to lost my time with that
! It seems that they will make a new version before the end of the month.
Version 1.6
Perhaps I would be luckier...
Do you know other software to mix mp3 for Fun and not too old ? wich I could
compile easily :D

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