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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: maliceme on July 22, 2014, 07:36:06 am
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I know this request goes back to v17. Figured it was time to bump it again.
It would be great if MC offered a way to link two or more songs so they would always play together. E.g., movements of a classical composition, or Brain Damage/Eclipse from Pink Floyd.
I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve using third party wares to create separate merged files.
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Stacks might work. See the wiki for more.
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Combine them in Audacity; it's free.
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Here are a couple other threads about it, but there is no current solution within JRiver. Perhaps with so many requests over the years this can be implemented in the next JRiver version. :)
Suggestion - linked tracks (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=26190.0)
"Marking" 2 or more tracks to be always played in sequence (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=71847.10)
Linking Two Songs Together (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=71196)
Random tracks in smartlist that should be played in segue - help pls (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=88843.0)
Keeping together related tracks when shuffling (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=88807.0)
Related question regarding video:
Virtual Movie (combine multiple video files into one "file")? (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=73144.0)
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+1
I've run into the need for something like this several times while customizing on-the-air and fixed 'set' playlists. And the need is ongoing.
But one issue with doing this has to do with whatever xfade or gapped/fade mode you have globally set for tracks in that playlist. If there was a link say, to two consecutive tracks of an album, I'd think you want them NOT to be subject to your default transition method, but play them as they are natively? In the case of two tracks of an album, they would run together anyway (usually) so they'd need to butt up to each other (gapped, no xfade). But if the linked tracks are such because of a personal preference of some sort, and don't necessarily relate to the same album or even same artist, you may or may not want them to ignore your global transition setting.
So would a toggle option to ignore global transition setting be defined just for that linkage, or would it become more than that where you'd need to define an entirely different transition type just for the linked files (multi-choice, just like in the global defs), separately of your global definition? If the latter it may make the feature much more difficult to implement.
Just saying.
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But one issue with doing this has to do with whatever xfade or gapped/fade mode you have globally set for tracks in that playlist.
There is already the option "Use gapless for sequential album tracks" which overrides the gapped/fade mode set globally.
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+1
....the need is ongoing.
I agree. This feature is a Requirement not just a nice to have.