mcw Wrote: > Hi - any chance of you doing some work on the crossfade to make it a > little more sophisticated? > > Most tracks start suddenly then end in a slow fade - in those cases a > good crossfade doesn't play with the faders much at all - the first > track is rapidly faded at (say) 8 seconds from the end whilst the > second track is introduced at full tilt with pretty much no attenuation > (just enough to allow for the small contribution from the first track). > > In the relatively rare case of a track ending suddenly and the next > starting suddenly then the cross fader does a pretty rapid cross fade > that's the same as the current squeezebox crossfade. > > If you want an example of what I'm talking about try throwing a bunch > of tracks at Winamp with cross-fading switched on and you'll see what I > mean. It's the only thing I miss, moving from Winamp for my new > squeezebox 3. > > So if you tell Winamp to do an 8 second cross-fade, it takes that as a > hint to start thinking about it 8 seconds from the end of the first > track, but the fade sometimes happens much later, and in most cases the > second track isn't faded in at all (at least, not noticeably). > > Cheers, > > Mark
MCW, I agree with you that in most cases, the fading scenario you have proposed works best. You lose something from the great majority of selections by fading them in. The only instances I can think of where fading tracks in would be preferable is when the tracks are from a live album, or possibly certain classical pieces where movements flow into each other. But, I don't think simply overlapping is desirable -- you effectively raise the overall volume of your output during the transition, which to me, sounds rather jarring and unnatural. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19735 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
