Month: June 2024

Sometimes it happens that package maintainers are slow and you’ve deleted the installed files manually and replaced them with current files.
Example Android Studio (android-studio).
You tried to do a upgrade because it signaled there was a newer version available.

When a program has an self-upgrade feature you don’t really need a package manager anymore, right?

So in my case I have sudo rm -rf /opt/android-studio and downloaded the current files and extracted into /opt/android-studio. But it’s now 2 weeks later and I’m trying to upgrade my system and android-studio doesn’t want to install.

I’m removing the package from the pacman package registry or database and managing Android Studio upgrades manually from now on.

Solution

This is a work-in-progress post.

So far I have tried 3 DJ mixing software products.

TL;DR: VirtualDJ wins, but it’s not really free

Mixxx
Free Open Source
+ Can handle any file format
+ Has up to 4 turnables
– Very unintuitive UI, which makes it hard to build sets and analyze tracks for BPM and key values.

VirtualDJ
Free for personal use, but very restrictive licensing
+ Technically the best software so far
+ Can use ASIO for main and WSAPI for headphones
– Only 2 turnables by default (update: You can install additional skins to have 4 decks, but they’re ugly)
– Every time it starts, it wants you to sign in/create an account
– No way to create a set list?
– Subscription based

Serato DJ Lite
Requires an account to be created, no way of deleting that account manually.
– Wants to upsell you on pretty much everything, cloud offers, their Pro subscription and it’s constantly nagging about it
– No proper audio configuration possible
– Tiny waveform display
– Control missing

Serato DJ Lite has to be some kind of joke.