I find myself alternating between random tracks and albums. For albums i usually pick Gapless and for random i use cross-fade(smooth) as playback options.
It would be cool if the Auto equaliser plugin could detect automatically what i was playing and set the playback options accordingly.
a way for this may be for the equaliser to check whether the album name of the current track was the same as the next one or two, it could then know if album name stays constant, its an album so play it with gapless or if the album name changes then its a mix and set to cross-fade.
Another idea i had was to do with replay gain. This might need some more thinking through ...
- Switch off replay gain if its an album, this preserves the album highs & lows. same algo as above. Its a pseudo attempt at album gain with the user doing the gain ( volume change)
until JRiver gives us real album gain.
- Switch on replay gain if its a mix.
What do people think ??