DidJiX 3.0 is here ;-)

The new release of DidJiX is online!

Read more and download DidJiX from his new hosting...

DidJiX hosting

DidJiX is now hosted on http://easy.open.and.free.fr/didjix/

This blog remains active in parallel.

DidJiX 2.0 is online!

The new release of DidJiX is online!

The biggest change is that the DidJiX USB removable media is now compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac : all DidJiX is now on a single FAT32 partition.

Read more and download DidJiX from his new hosting...

Sound card again

If you move from one computer to another with DidJiX, inevitably you end up meeting a sound card different from that encountered previously : in this case, Mixxx offers reconfigure the audio system...

Select Reconfigure...


And then, select the new sound card in the Master list...

Molière or Shakespeare

N'hésitez pas à poster dans la langue de Jean-Baptiste si vous avez des difficultés avec celle de William...

Do not hesitate to post in the language of Jean-Baptiste if you have difficulties with the language of William ...

Windows and removable devices

For I know not what obscure reason, Xp, Vista and Seven are able to access only the first partition on a device identified as removable.

If your device used for DidJiX is identified as such (all are not, especially hard drives, but conventional hard drives are shock sensitive), you can not directly copy your music on its second partition (often called "extended" on this blog) from your Windows.

In this case, from your computer, simply start DidJiX before your Windows system and use the file explorer Qtfm to copy your music from your hard drive to the DidJiX extended partition.


You will find your Windows hard drive and the DidJiX extended partition in the left panel of Qtfm.

Use Win e keys to start Qtfm and notice that your hard drive will be read-only.

Watch this screencast...

DidJiX 1.1 is ready

The new release of DidJiX is up!

You can follow all the changes from the DidJiX repository but, to summarize, the main change is the usage of the kernel mode setting.

Always about the kernel which is now in 3.7.9, the kernel module for the Hercules DJ Console Mk2 is included in this release of DidJiX. You may have to manually load it if udev don't do it automatically.

If you experience problems with this new video mode, you can always start DidJiX in vesa mode at boot prompt. I would appreciate your feedback on this topic.

Download it, try it and mix...

Hercules DJ Console Mk2 with DidJiX 1.0

The use of this console requires the presence of specific kernel module that is not included in DidJix... This module is now available here.
Size: 49Ko - Sha1: fc47258b30e0ddcabf107eb7ff9a259213f6a0ab

• Download and save the DidJiX.1.0.hdjmod.pkg.tar.xz package on the second partition of your DidJiX removable media, where there's all your musics.


• Start DidJiX, open a terminal over Mixxx with Win t keys, install the downloaded package with pacman, load the specific kernel module,
  
    cd /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/
    pacman -U DidJiX.1.0.hdjmod.pkg.tar.xz
    modprobe hdj-mod
  
  


• Close the terminal with Ctrl d keys and try your Hercules DJ console...


• If all is good, change the DidJix behavior to automate all. Open a terminal over Mixxx and run these commands to change your .xinitrc script,
  
    echo pacman -U /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/DidJiX.1.0.hdjmod.pkg.tar.xz \
    >> /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/.xinitrc
    echo modprobe hdj-mod >> /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/.xinitrc
  
  

Next release of DidJix will try to include this module... Thanks to Gimmeapill for his work on hdjmod.

Note that the package can be downloaded directly from DidJiX...

  dhcpcd
  cd /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/
  wget https://bitbucket.org/patatetom/didjix/downloads/DidJiX.1.0.hdjmod.pkg.tar.xz

Mixxx features

Mixxx is open source digital DJing software with a lot of features: find them here...

At least 2Gb

If you decide to install DidJiX on removable media like a memory stick or an usb key, it must have a storage capacity equal to or greater than 2Gb. Otherwise, DidJiX initialization will fail...

Sound card

The computers on which you run DidJiX generally offer a single sound card and so, you can't make pre-listening with headphones...

Simply add an external usb sound card

and configure Mixxx to use it.


Setting the mixer for this new sound may be necessary... Most external USB sound cards should work without any problem.

Keep the historic of Mixxx

The history of Mixxx is stored in ~/.mixxx and therefore in the memory. This is why, whenever you turn off DidJiX, all your games and scores are lost.

To change this behaviour, follow these steps.

• Open a terminal over Mixxx with Win t keys,
• run these commands to change your .xinitrc script,
  
    echo "[ -d /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/.mixxx ] || cp -a ~/.mixxx /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/" \
    >> /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/.xinitrc
    echo "rm -rf ~/.mixxx" >> /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/.xinitrc
    echo "ln -s /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/.mixxx ~" >> /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/.xinitrc
  
  
• close the terminal with Ctrl d keys and quit Mixxx with Ctrl q keys,
• at prompt, restart Mixxx with Ctrl c keys or reboot DidJiX with Enter key

My old laptop as DidJiX...

You have an old laptop and you want it to be your DidJix system, without using an other media... It is possible, and easily, with DidJix! If DidJiX can be installed on an external hard disk, it can be installed on an internal.

• First, download the lastest DidJiX iso image from the download page,
• burn iso image onto a cdrom disc,
• boot the cdrom from your old laptop and test it with DidJiX,
• quit DidJiX with Ctrl q keys,
• switch to the second console with Ctrl Alt F2 keys,
• install DidJiX on the laptop hard disk with the next command,

  cat /dev/sr0 > /dev/sda


/dev/sda is supposed to be the internal hard disk of your old laptop: data on this device will be overwritten!
• switch back to the first console with Ctrl Alt F1 keys,
• press Return key at prompt to power off,
• power on the laptop and, before booting, eject the cdrom.

That's all! DidJiX is now on your old laptop!

Keyboard shortcuts

DidJiX now comes with OpenBox as window manager and some keyboard shortcuts defined.

• Win e will start Qtfm music file manager

• Win m will start Alsa mixer

• Win t will start a terminal

And of course, Alt Tab will switch between opened windows...

Change DidJiX behavior

You have installed DidJiX, us version, on your nice external usb hard drive but all your keybaords are AZERTY!
It's just an example because there's a french version of DidJix :-)
You have changed the /root/.bash_profile and /root/.xinitrc but all these changes are lost at reboot!
Yes, it's a live system and these files are, in fact, modified in memory :-(
And you would like to have an xterm started with Mixxx!
I don't know why but why not ;-)

So what?
Remember that a second partition was automatically created by DidJiX at the first boot and that it's available through /mnt/Mixxx/Musics...

From Mixxx, switch to the second console with Ctrl Alt F2 keys and type the following commands.

 echo loadkeys fr > /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/.bashrc
 echo setxkbmap fr > /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/.xinitrc
 echo "xterm &" > /mnt/Mixxx/Musics/.openrc

Now switch back to the first console with Ctrl Alt F1 keys, quit Mixxx with Ctrl q (not yet french...) keys and restart it with the Ctrl c keys at prompt... It's ok? :-)

Reboot DidJiX... Always ok? :-)

DidJiX 1.0 is up!

The new release of DidJiX is here... with ArchLinux up to date, Mixxx up to date, OpenBox, Qtfm, safe updates, easy extension, cookbook, and cetera... !

ArchLinux comes with kernel 3.6.10 and systemd 196-2, Mixxx is now at 1.10.1, OpenBox 3.5.0 provides window management, Qtfm 5.5 provides music management, next updates will keep saved musics, Bash login, X initialisation and OpenBox session can easily be extended through rc scripts, the DidJiX recipe is available on https://bitbucket.org/patatetom/didjix/wiki/Home, etc...

Go to the download page, download it and try it...

DidJiX 0.2 is in the stores!

The new release of DidJiX is here!

This new version uses the free space left on usb device : you can copy in your favorite music from your operating system.
These, embedded with DidJiX, will be directly accessible from Mixxx...



Go to the download page, download it and try it...

Trying Mixxx before embracing DidJiX

For those who still hesitate: Mixxx is available for Windows, for Mac and for Linux.

You can install it on your favorite system to get an idea of ​​its possibilities and/or familiarize yourself with it before, of course, move to DidJiX...

http://www.mixxx.org/download.php...

DidJiX 0.1 screencast

Plug DidJiX, power on and...

i18n in DidJiX 0.1

As its author, the keyboard is in french (fr) from Syslinux to Mixxx, and through the consoles tty1 and tty2. Man pages and locales are in the same state, i.e. fr only.

For Syslinux modes, use  ;e;ory  for  memory ,  hqrdzqre  for  hardware  and  fqilsqfe  for  failsafe  if your keyboard is QWERTY.