Thanks for the reminder. The manual does need a lot of work. There were
features added in 2.0 that still are not documented, such as split cue
mode and how to use this with just a laptop's onboard sound card and
headphones. We need more examples and diagrams for the Hardware Setup
chapter. We need examples of hardware setups for broadcasting. A lot of
confused users come to the forum asking about broadcasting setups with
hardware that doesn't work well for this purpose like USB microphones. I
would like to work on this after merging the mic I/O revamp branch (
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/1279 ) because that has many
implications for that chapter of the manual.
We could also use documentation on how to set up Mixxx's inputs and
outputs with other software like Skype and Second Life. I think this
gets complicated and ugly with different combinations of software,
hardware, and the sound APIs they support, especially on Windows. If
someone could do some research and experimenting with different setups
and document the results that would be great. This would be most
appropriate to add to the Hardware Setup chapter, but then we should
rename it to "Sound Input & Output Setup" or something similar.
All of the screenshots in the manual and the Mixxx UI chapter need to be
updated for the new skins.
On 06/23/2017 12:28 PM, Sean M. Pappalardo - D.J. Pegasus wrote:
Hello everyone.
With all of the recent development going on, especially the GSoC
projects, I want to remind everyone that it is extremely important that
the user manual is also updated whenever new features are merged to
master so we can release quickly. (Otherwise waiting on user manual
updates will block the process.) And documenting how the feature works
is of course much easier when you've just recently worked on it.
The manual is also stored in GitHub here: https://github.com/mixxxdj/manual
It uses reStructuredText and you can clone it just like any code base or
edit it right on GitHub. See the ReadMe at the link for details.
We are able to generate Web pages (http://mixxx.org/manual/latest/) and
PDFs (https://mixxx.org/manual/latest/Mixxx-Manual.pdf) from the same
reST source.
Thanks everyone for helping with this as the project leads continue to
fix the release process.
Sincerely,
Sean M. Pappalardo
"D.J. Pegasus"
Mixxx Developer - Controller Specialist
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