Feature REQ: Smart Crossfade

[Aminifu]

interesting. since i don't recall messing with these options before, i'm assuming i have the defaults, and the first 3 are already disabled, which is what i would want and expect.

the overlap period is set in the UI, as a matter of seconds. i'm not sure how the buffering affects that, but it doesn't actually determine the actual overlap.

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If you just want to overlap songs, you could try thinktink's plug-ins, BogProg X-Fade and BogProg NoFlush. Look in post #26 of (http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=379988) for links to the latest versions.

Disable all 7 of the options on the DirectSound fading tab. Change the buffer length to 500 milliseconds and the pre-buffer and buffer ahead to 250 milliseconds on its buffering tab (this allows seeking to be almost instant when using thinktink's plug-ins).

In the configuration for "in_bpxfade.dll" select the amount of overlap in the "Crossfade Time" box and disable the "Logarithmic Transitions" and "Resample" options. I suggest you start with a crossfade time of 12 seconds and increase or decrease as needed. You don't need to restart Winamp when making changes to any of X-Fade's options.

Select the "out_bpnoflush.dll" as the output plug-in and in its configuration box select the DirectSound output plug-in.

[thinktink]

... and disable ... "Resample" options. ...

With X-Fade you have to keep the resampler enabled for it to crossfade songs of differing sample rates. The only reason why I have it as an option to be disabled is for broadcasters that already resampled all of their music to the same sample rate and want to save some CPU cycles.

[Aminifu]

With X-Fade you have to keep the resampler enabled for it to crossfade songs of differing sample rates. The only reason why I have it as an option to be disabled is for broadcasters that already resampled all of their music to the same sample rate and want to save some CPU cycles.

Thanks for that clarification. I use the resampler, but I didn't think MrSinatra would want to use it.

Is there a limit on how large the crossfade time can be? I've used up to 30 seconds without any problems. I usually use just enough crossfade to prevent any silence between songs.

[thinktink]

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Is there a limit on how large the crossfade time can be?

Just the practical ones.

[liamjf]

Hi, don't know if anyone is following this but it doesn't work for me.
I've dowloaded and extracted the files and proceeded with the install. Instal asks if I want to install the OUTPUT dll, which I say yes to, but it doesn't seem to be installed as nothjing is listed in the output plugins (other than the usual Nullsoft direct sound etc).

If I move the seeker button on the playback tab then I can make it cross fade but in a way I don't understand.

Left alone it just plays one track to the end and then starts the next.

Any ideas?

Ta