Can you also send your mixxx.cfg file? I've heard this popping when the EQ shelves are set to incorrect values, so let's doublecheck that that isn't the issue. (These booms would happen every few seconds, though, it sounds like yours were less often?)
Owen On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 01:15 -0500, RJ Ryan wrote: > Hey Nathan, > > > The gain issue is troubling. I have long suspected the replay-gain > analysis code of correctness issues but haven't ever dug into it. I > think the gain blast you experienced was a result of replaygain > analysis detecting some gigantic value for the gain. Can you reproduce > it with the same tracks you were playing or was it a one-time thing? > > > Could you send me your mixxxdb.sqlite file located in ~/.mixxx/ ? > > > Thanks a lot, > RJ > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Nathan Dotz <nathan.d...@gmail.com> > wrote: > So, I did a gig tonight running 1.10 (x64) and libportaudio2 > from the ubuntu ppa with a Hercules rmx. Every once in a > while, the gain on a playing track would skyrocket, causing a > noticible "pop" in the sound and blasting the crap out of my > poor crowd. This gain increase was accompanied by a swell in > the waveform and lasted about 1/10th of a second, so it was > obviously internal to mixxx, and not an artifact of the sound > system. We had to finish the night on a serato rig. > > Relevant information: > - Due to space constraints in the booth, my rmx was sitting on > top of a subwoofer, so I'm worried that some low frequency > vibration was jostling the usb cable in the back. The laptop > was safely on a stand hovering over one of the turntables in > the booth, and likely safe from vibration. > - both the main outs and the headphones were using the outputs > from the rmx's builtin sound card > - normalization was set to a hefty 9db > - I had run this version of mixxx for approximately 3 hours > earlier in the day while picking out a set without issue. > > I figured this was worth reporting to the list in case it is > related to another issue, in case anyone else is experiencing > the same thing, or in case this kind of error could be easily > accounted for with some tweaking of sanity checks for midi > controls. > > Anyways, thanks for all your hard work on a great piece of > software, and I'll keep up with the field testing. ;-) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Write once. Port to many. > Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app > development. Create > new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. > Explore the > Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. > appdeveloper.intel.com/join > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev > _______________________________________________ > Mixxx-devel mailing list > Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Write once. Port to many. > Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create > new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the > Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev > _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list > Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
