Showing posts with label idjc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idjc. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Keyboard shortcuts for idjc

I have used Internet DJ Console (idjc) quite a few times, for podcasts or live shows. Although it is a great piece of software, it is missing something that everybody that has used a real sound console is used to. Buttons, i.e keyboard shortcuts! There are some shortcuts implemented when you give focus to the player windows, but it is awkward and difficult when you play music live, or you try to record a podcast.
I have created a patch for the software in order to handle keyboard shortcuts. Currently you can only change the shortcuts by editing the text file, but I will soon create a GUI that enables you to change the shortcuts easily.
In order to use the patch, you have to download and compile the latest version of idjc (currently 0.7.8a). You can find compilation instructions at the download page of idjc. Here are the steps one by one:

  1. Download the source code of idjc from Sourceforge.

  2. Untar the source code

  3. Compile and install

  4. Download the keyboard shortcuts patch from my website.

  5. Extract the file and run the script called patchidjc


After these steps you should be able to use keyboard shortcuts in idjc!

The code is licensed under the GNU/GPL version 3. If you have any suggestions let me know!