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<http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html> 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<http://www.mail-archive.com/mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/ms… . - *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<http://mixxxblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/mixxx-190-beta1-and-182-relea…ml>. You can download Mixxx 1.9.0b1 and Mixxx 1.8.2 from out website: http://mixxx.org. Best regards, RJ Ryan