I decided to dive into trying out Mixxx on a Raspberry Pi 3 using the latest Raspbian (released Sept 10th) - think of Ubuntu/Debian Jessie.
The first run was to sudo apt install mixxx which provided me a apt installed (from the default Raspbian repositories - so providing hope I wasn’t only one in world doing this on Raspbian). This resulted in the following:
mixxx/stable,now 1.11.0~dfsg-4 armhf [installed]
Digital Disc Jockey Interface
mixxx-data/stable,now 1.11.0~dfsg-4 all [installed,automatic]
Digital Disc Jockey Interface -- data filesWas able to launch Mixxx and confirmed it worked however it was obvious the interface was struggling to be responsive. Felt like a frame or two a second with very laggy response from mouse clicks and really no usability for interface parts that involved dragging. The audio output was smooth though. Looking around a bit I felt like what was going on was software rendering of opengl was the likely culprit.
I then dived into the deep end and attempted to build Mixxx from master branch. After a bit of pain figuring out how to compile on arm (see the thread where I got help with that over at http://www.mixxx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8182 ) I managed to compile Mixxx 2 (master branch).
I did notice that during the configure, while the build was successful, the opengl-es was disabled.
In the end the line that worked well for building a responsive mixxx for a raspberrypi 3 was:
scones optimize=portable -j 2 prefix=/home/pi/mixxx opengles=1Putting this here in case other RaspberryPi hackers find themselves going down this same rabbit hole.
On to learning how to use mixxx and how best to manage the music/mixxx db on a pi.
Kudos/shout-out to this great user support forum!