What methods were you using to try and influence the direction of Mixxx?
This was around 10 years ago, but at the time the suggestions on the forums were more towards fidelity and 5.1 surround sound. I can't recall exactly, but something of the sort. My guess is that these were people with audio backgrounds who wanted to commit to the project.
I was making suggestions that were more for DJs. My suggestions were (vaguely from memory) keyboard and midi shortcuts for going back 4 - 16- 32 beats. Looping the same number of beats. setting exact cue points (think off beat) and setting synchronized (auto move to the closest beat if bpm was set). Nothing crazy and things that I felt would be necessary for most DJs.
I must have set my alerts far to high because I was bombarded with emails for a week until I completely unsubscribed. At the time I was also getting interested in XBMC and felt their community was much more welcoming and the software was simpler to understand.
1. Tell them to fuck off, which may or may not work in any given context
2. Play the music in the browser and then hop back to Mixxx in time (dangerous)
3. Downloading the song via 'yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 <URL>', fixing the questionable metadata (optional) and then loading it into Mixxx (cumbersome)
It would be cool if you could just paste the URL into Mixxx, have it cache a local version, render the waveform, store it in a special temp crate or what and then you can play it. But I guess yt-dlp isn't the most stable dependency...