Mixxx Portable 1.7.2 Pre-Release 1

Downloaded and installed with no issues. Only thing that annoyed me was where it wanted to default the music to as opposed to the PA default folder. However that was easy to change. Other than that no issues I see right now

WinXP SP3 2.75 gb ram
Compaq SR1620nx

Using a 6gb WD Pocket Passport Drive

In FileWrite1 you've got the Type set to Config. This should be ConfigWrite.

In FileWrite2 you've tried to require a space before the value. With the Windows INI method you need to quote the value or the whitespace is ignored:

Type=Replace
File=%PAL:DataDir%\MixxxSettings\mixxx.cfg
Find=" %PAL:LastDrive%/"
Replace=" %PAL:Drive%/"

The same goes for trailing whitespace with a ConfigWrite Entry.

The [Playlist] -> Directory is a bit messy due to the space-separated rather than =-separated format. I think though that you should be OK to do a ConfigWrite on "Directory " if we wanted to put in a default of \Documents\Music. You can't guarantee that directory will exist though. And users might prefer to need to choose the first time where to put it.

I'm a little bit concerned about [Playlist] Listfile C:/Documents and Settings/cjmor16/Local Settings/Application Data/Mixxx/mixxxtrack.xml and [BMP] SchemeFile C:/Documents and Settings/cjmor16/Local Settings/Application Data/Mixxx/mixxxbpmscheme.xml. You probably want another couple of ConfigWrites for them if they matter and are not automatically regenerated.

(With my new launcher generator wizard I just pointed it at the directory and it created MixxxPortable.exe fine, with the PAL version, Comments mentioning it being a custom build for Mixxx Portable, ProductName being Mixxx Portable and the Mixxx icon. Total success :-))

It's so much easier to provide these sorts of comments quickly with an INI file format rather than lots of long messy NSIS code. It's worth it already.

Uh oh... MixxxPortable.exe is hanging. Time to debug and work out why

Proposed INI file (got to work out why MixxPortable.exe is locked up though before I will test it):

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=Mixxx\mixxx.exe
WorkingDirectory=%PAL:AppDir%\Mixxx
SinglePortableAppInstance=true
SingleAppInstance=false
WaitForProgram=true
WaitForOtherInstances=true

[Activate]
Registry=true

[DirectoriesMove]
MixxxSettings=%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mixxx

[FileWrite1]
Type=ConfigWrite
File=%PAL:DataDir%\MixxxSettings\mixxx.cfg
Entry="Path "
Value=%PAL:AppDir:ForwardSlash%/Mixxx/

[FileWrite2]
Type=Replace
File=%PAL:DataDir%\MixxxSettings\mixxx.cfg
Find=" %PAL:LastDrive%/"
Replace=" %PAL:Drive%/"

[FileWrite3]
Type=Replace
Encoding=UTF16-LE
File=%PAL:DataDir%\MixxxSettings\mixxxtrack.xml
Find=>%PAL:LastDrive%/
Replace=>%PAL:Drive%/

[FileWrite4]
Type=ConfigWrite
File=%PAL:DataDir%\MixxxSettings\mixxx.cfg
Entry="Listfile "
Value=%LOCALAPPDATA:ForwardSlash%/Mixxx/mixxxtrack.xml

[FileWrite5]
Type=ConfigWrite
File=%PAL:DataDir%\MixxxSettings\mixxx.cfg
Entry="SchemeFile "
Value=%LOCALAPPDATA:ForwardSlash%/Mixxx/mixxxbpmscheme.xml

Edit: with debug enabled I've worked out why it wasn't working and why it was for you. You didn't actually have a ConfigWrite section, see... when I fixed it to ConfigWrite it broke as I was using $R0 as the loop iterator and the ConfigWrite return value, and that set it to a string so IntOp $R0 $R0 + 1 set $R0 to 1 so it did FileWrite1 again so... so... etc. ad infinitum. I've fixed that now.

Edit: working perfectly (without actually testing Mixxx's functionality)! i.e. the launcher (hg tip) is working perfectly :P. The quotes I mentioned putting around values with leading or trailing spaces are important.

I'd try pulling out my USB disk except I've got other things running from it which I don't wish to crash.

I think I'm done with my testing until the next Pre-Release. Thanks for providing something for me to test (and a bug to find)

Edit: oh yeah, that was with a Unicode build of PAL.

...I was a DJ too! I saw this and I was happy and I wanted to try it. So I did. Everything works fine, when I think I'm a "normal" user. A bit laggy sometimes, but I've thrown it on my netbook. Whatever...

I had a problem with the library that was saved on first run, becaused it was all 8-Bit tunes and stuff and moved them to another location. No problem! I copied some new music to the folder I told Mixxx to work with for the library. I rescanned the given folder and the old tracks were still there. I wanted to remove them somehow and went to the Mixxx forums for a solution and found it! I need to delete the "mixxxtrack.xml"! Now the problem is this:

The library is saved in the file "mixxxtrack.xml" and this file isn't saved in the PApps folder of Mixx!

I found it here:
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\73h_p0W\Local Settings\Application Data\Mixxx

The files "mixxx.cfg" and "mixxxbpmscheme.xml" are saved there also.

please update

+1 for update to 1.10

when i opened it up the first time it asked for a folder to get music from i chose the music folder on my flash drive and a box came up saying "QWidget::repaint: Recursive repaint detected" then i clicked ok and another one came up saying "Unrecognised OpenGL version" and when i click that it says it stopped working and closes

mixxx 1.10.1