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Title: Alternate Mode Settings
Post by: adamsp70 on November 29, 2004, 07:53:10 am

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 (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....

Title: Re:Alternate Mode Settings
Post by: adamsp70 on November 30, 2004, 03:32:23 am

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

Guess i'm fairly alone with this requirement then.....  :-[

Title: Re: Alternate Mode Settings
Post by: britade on August 21, 2005, 05:31:29 pm

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.

Title: Re: Alternate Mode Settings
Post by: gpvillamil on August 22, 2005, 02:53:09 am

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.

Title: Re: Alternate Mode Settings
Post by: datdude on August 22, 2005, 11:32:22 pm

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. ;D

Title: Re: Alternate Mode Settings
Post by: datdude on February 19, 2006, 04:49:55 pm

bump