Sharing my custom tools for Mixxx and its library

[FrankwaP]

Hello! I've started a repo to regroup tools I use with Mixxx and its library: https://github.com/FrankwaP/mixxx-utils

Here are two interesting (hopefully) tools that I've written in Python:

fix_track_paths is a Python tool to fix the tracks paths, using the informations from
your music player database (so far: Clementine). It is useful when the file has been renamed or if the track is
now in another format (for example you wanted a better quality format and went from a mp3 to a flac file).

mixxx_to_rekordbox_xml does what it says and YES IT EXPORTS THE HOT CUES :-)

Hope they might help someone! :-)

[FrankwaP]

UPDATE: the mixxx_to_rekordbox_xml now exports the playlists, as well as the "beatgrids" ("TEMPO" field in rebordbox xml format if you have a constant tempo and hot cues.

I tested the workflow (Mixxx -> mixxx_to_rekordbox_xml -> import in Rekordbox -> export to USB key) yesterday and everything works fine!

[merspieler]

Hey, this seems interesting. I can't run Rekordbox tho cause I don't have windows.
Is the Export to USB directly possible?

[FrankwaP]

Thanks for your interest @merspieler :-)

Sorry but there's no direct export.
From what I've read, using Wine/PlayOnLinux to run Rekordbox is possible EDIT using a few tricks to make it work. It is just not recommended for live mixing (performance mode), for real-time/latency concerns. But since we are only considering the export mode here, which is free to use and not relying on real-time, I considered it will not be a problem here. Also, since I do not own a CDJ to check my exports at home, using Rekordbox as a proxy is a good solution.

If you want a direct exporter, there's this solution I initially found: https://github.com/kimtore/rex
However, note that it does not export the beat grid and the hot cues (and maybe other things not mentioned in the README...). That was the motivation to develop this (Python) tool.

[ronso0]

FYI, cross-posting from https://mixxx.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/109171-development/topic/export.20to.20rekordbox.20USB.20format

There already is this WIP rust library I worked on with @Swiftb0y: Holzhaus/rekordcrate#100
We still need to finalize the serialization code though. If you want to help out, we'd be happy to take contributions
If this works, we can integrate it into Mixxx.

[merspieler]

Thanks for sharing.
(Wine, or rather proton, failed... tried that)

[FrankwaP]

@merspieler Apparently one needs a few tricks to make it work (which I haven't tried yet.)

EDIT: it does not work as the USB key is not recognized.

[merspieler]

thanks for the hint... in the end, went with running it in a win server 2022 vm...

[timewasternl]

@merspieler Apparently one needs a few tricks to make it work (which I haven't tried yet.)

So far, this has never been working for USB export yet (due to not detecting USB devices) unfortunately. Although I could see this working for creating a local Rekordbox database to export with one of the reverse engineered projects.

[FrankwaP]

So far, this has never been working for USB export yet (due to not detecting USB devices) unfortunately.

You're right! I have edited my original comment, as well as the README.md of my project.

Although I could see this working for creating a local Rekordbox database to export with one of the reverse engineered projects.

Yes I've seen that you commented on rex repo :-)
Did you find a way to export the hot cues and beatgrid with it? Because that's why I started my project in the first place. If not, I was now thinking of adapting my code to use pyrekordbox in order to write straight into the database file (instead of relying on an intermediate XML file).