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[adamsp70]

I am still looking for a solution to my problem of wanting gapless playback when playing albums in order, and crossfade playback at all other times.

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=21242

It ocurred to me that the "Alternate Mode Settings" would work for me, having crossfade for the main and gapless for the alternate except that setting the alternate mode is a real pain if you are in Standard View and impossible if you are in Theater View.

So a couple of ideas i had were:

1. Have a visual indication on both Standard and Theater Views to tell you which playback mode is selected and allow you to toggle them on-the-fly.

and/or

2. Allow playback modes to be selected with each Smartlists. So my smartlist that chooses an album i haven't heard in 3 months would have the main playback mode and one that chooses 2 hours of a random genre would have the alternate playback mode.

Does that make sense? Is it at all achievable?

Thanks for listening....

[adamsp70]

Hmmm, the phrase "lead balloon" springs to mind.

Guess i'm fairly alone with this requirement then.....  

[britade]

You're certainly not alone here.  I've just been searching to see if I can force smart playlists to crossfade for the very same reason.

Any ideas anyone?

Regards,

Adrian.

[gpvillamil]

I was just thinking exactly the same thing.

If two songs have consecutive track numbers and are from the same album, then use a gapless transition. If not, then crossfade.

It would be easy to implement, relatively foolproof, and convenient.

Call it "smart crossfades" and say it is some super-duper AI algorithm modelling a famous DJ.

[datdude]

This would be awesome becuase I use gapless right now full time since I listen to alot of albums and is mandatory for that.  However whenever I do play a mix of songs I am always rudly reminded that no crossfade really does suck between random songs..  The only thing that would make playback better, would be adding an equalising automatic feedback feature.  Plugin a microphone and MC figures out the optimal frequencies.

[datdude]

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