Hi there, Brian. I installed your compiled package on my aging mac mini
(1.25ghz G4, OSX 10.4.11). Mixxx loads up just fine, and I wanted to run it
through the gauntlet so I added a rather large music collection (~160Gb).
It took an eternity to scan the music collection, but that is to be expected
on an older G4 cpu, I think.
I selected a few tracks and played them and everything went well, although
the interface stopped rendering waveforms after the 2nd track had been
loaded into a deck. I played around with things for a little while, then I
added my scs.3d to the fray. The midi mapping worked flawlessly, and all
was well as far as controls go. I did, however, run into some problems in
use: whenever I switched virtual decks on the scs.3d, I got an audible
stutter in music output. I am quite certain that this is because mixxx was
running on a 1.25ghz G4 with 1Gb of ram, though.
Other things that I tested were the flanger effect and support for ALAC
music (.m4a files). The flanger worked perfectly and it's really nice to be
able to tweak the parameters with the scs.3d. Loads of fun. Apple Lossless
music was a no-go, however. Unfortunately, this meant that 99% of the music
collection on the host I was unuseable.
I did play around more at this point with leaving the app running for long
periods of time. Mixxx survived being left running for about two hours and
was still responsive (and by that point, the waveform displays had been
written to the screen). Mixxx did not survive being left running overnight,
however. I will have to repeat these tests when launching mixxx from a
shell so that I can see what messages get written to stdout.
All in all, it works as well as you could hope for. Honestly, I'd say most
of the "issues" I ran into are because of the speed of the box that I was
using to run mixxx.
Please let me know if there are any specific tests that you would like me to
try on my mac mini, and thanks for the build!
-Rick
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Brian Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've built a universal copy of Mixxx 1.7.0-beta1. I'd appreciate if
> anyone with a PowerPC Mac could test this to see if it runs for them.
> You shouldn't need any other libs or anything to get this going.
>
> http://theiggy.com/tmp/Mixxx.zip
> (it's about 26MB)
>
> If my script worked, I can probably massage it to build 1.6.1 builds
> too.
>
> --Iggy
>
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