beatloop_activate button does not cancel active loop

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Reported by: pestrela
Date: 2020-04-29T23:44:34Z
Status: Fix Committed
Importance: Medium
Launchpad Issue: lp1876003
Tags: easy, looping, usability

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Loops

• loop button: always sets and resets a loop. If a loop is active it should deactivate the current one
• reloop button: this is the one that actually cancels loops

https://www.mixxx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13355

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2020-04-30T05:53:33Z

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Please add a step by step recipe. What did you do, what is the responds form Mixxx and what should be the responds.

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Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2020-04-30T06:07:08Z

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I'm not sure what else there is to say. The first post explains it.

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2020-04-30T06:44:15Z

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Do you mean the "beatloop_activate" button?
I think it could work to turn it into a "beatloop_toggle" button, that lights up like the "beatloop_x_toggle" buttons.

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Commented by: raphaelquast
Date: 2021-09-13T20:32:50Z

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hey, I just wanted to join in to this discussion since I stumbled upon the very same problem...

I've tried to configure a "beatloop_toggle" button but apparently this option does not seem to exist in Mixxx v2.3.0 (even though the doc claims that there is such an option)

Aside of that I experience the same behaviour as described by the OP... the "beatloop_activate" option does not deactivate an already activated loop (it only shifts the loop to the current playback position)

any chance of getting an actual "beatloop_toggle" option that does the following:

• if a loop is active, deactivate it
• if no loop is active, activate a beatloop at the current playback position

thanks!

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Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2021-09-13T21:16:10Z

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Yes we were just discussing this recently. Would you like to implement this?

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Commented by: ronso0
Date: 2021-10-26T21:43:05Z

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@onurtuna-lj
In case you're not "fellock" take a look at the WIP pull request
#4328

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Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2021-10-28T00:42:55Z

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Ah sorry, I forgot someone else had already started working on this.

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Issue closed with status Fix Committed.