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Old August 6th, 2010, 01:25 PM
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Re: Cross Fade

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... and that song is fading out beautifully but the playlist song is not really fading in (I think that is great for background audio and what it is designed for). But if you let the BA song play out and then hit play on your playlist you do not get a fade in or out.

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Have you tried the settings in Tools/Audio Controls/. You can set the fade in and out of the playlist there. Play with these controls to get something like what you want.

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Old August 10th, 2010, 12:06 AM
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Re: Cross Fade

When I change the Fade In and Fade Out numbers in Audio Controls it doesn't change anything. I get the same exact results no matter what the number is. When I change Auto Play Delay that definitely makes a difference I have that set to 0.

Is there another setting somewhere to make the fade in fade out work, or am I just doing something wrong?

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Old August 10th, 2010, 01:19 AM
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Re: Cross Fade

I am not sure why it isn't working for you. The settings go from .5 seconds up to 5. The only thing I can think of would be that the songs you are testing have a large amount of silence at the end and beginning of them and so you don't hear the fade out or fade in.
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Old September 1st, 2010, 06:22 AM
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Re: Cross Fade

I disagree that by setting the Fade In and Fade Out in the audio controls makes it work like a cross fade

Fade Out even states that it only works if the song terminates early and that is true and that works beautifully. BUT it does not Fade Out if you play the song to the end.

I have Fade In set to 5.0 which I'm assuming is seconds, in other applications like ITUNES if the have your Fade In set to 5 seconds then when the current playing songs has 5 seconds remaining the next song starts to fade in, which I believe is how crossfade is supposed to work.

But in Hoster the current playing song will count down to 0 not 5 before the next song plays and it is not fading in it's just playing from the beginning.

If there is something I'm doing wrong I'd like to know what. If I'm correct and these audio controls do not work as a true crossfade will that be something that will be addressed

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Old September 1st, 2010, 10:45 AM
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Re: Cross Fade

Are you in Auto mode with 0 time set for the auto? That would be the only way you would get the feel of cross-fade.
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Old September 1st, 2010, 02:00 PM
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Re: Cross Fade

One thing I have on mine which I did mention some time ago in the forum but I did not get much responce back from it.
With silence enabled both my XP and my Windows 7 laptops It only removes the silence at the beginning of my songs they all play to the natural end, the remove silence is set on the end of all songs but they all play to the end I also note that when my duration field reaches zero the sound stops but the counter carries on with negative numbers.
This could be why on auto you are not noticing any fade out as indeed I don't.

As you state, it does not do an overlapping cross fade as in a proper cross-fade one is fading in as the other is fading out but mine definitely fades in and out.
If I play a song on the playlist, karaoke, video or mp3 it will fade in, If I then highlight the following song on the list, press play again before the previouse one ends, it will fade the one playing to silence then fade the next one in. If I press stop while one is playing it will fade out then stop.

I doubt you would notice it unless you have remove silence mode selected. If it is not you will only notice the fade out if you stop a song. The fade in would not notice as there is generally too much silence in the intro screens. If you do have it selected make sure the little box to the right that reads "Add Silence When playing" that the amount set isn't longer than your fade in time.

Check your Tools/ remove silence settings. I have mine set to: before 2 sec after 1 sec. and then my Tools/ Audio setting controls is set to fade in 3.0 sec out 1.5. Auto play delay 0.

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Re: Cross Fade

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I disagree that by setting the Fade In and Fade Out in the audio controls makes it work like a cross fade

Fade Out even states that it only works if the song terminates early and that is true and that works beautifully. BUT it does not Fade Out if you play the song to the end.

I have Fade In set to 5.0 which I'm assuming is seconds, in other applications like ITUNES if the have your Fade In set to 5 seconds then when the current playing songs has 5 seconds remaining the next song starts to fade in, which I believe is how crossfade is supposed to work.

But in Hoster the current playing song will count down to 0 not 5 before the next song plays and it is not fading in it's just playing from the beginning.

If there is something I'm doing wrong I'd like to know what. If I'm correct and these audio controls do not work as a true crossfade will that be something that will be addressed

Thanks, Stu
i've been using itunes and other dj programs for a # of years, and there are times that itunes won't do a complete crossfade..i have mine set to 12 sec.when a song has a long outro then the next song will not fade in right away..i am not sure if crossfade would work with karaoke tunes because of the graphics.
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Re: Cross Fade

I don't know if the auto mode that ddouglas is talking about is the auto play delay if it is that is set to zero.

I set the audio controls and the remove silence settings like roy had suggested and the playing song still counts to zero before the next song plays but for some reason it seemed faster with not to much delay I'm going to play around with the remove silence feature a little bit more hopefully that may be the solution I'm looking for. It still is not a true crossfade but the less gap there is between audio songs in the playlist the better.

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Sorry once again for double posting.

I'm wanting to use this feature for playing mp3 audio songs and not Karaoke songs before and after my shows. It just seems more professional to not have a lot of dead air between songs

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Old September 3rd, 2010, 10:52 AM
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Fade Out even states that it only works if the song terminates early and that is true and that works beautifully. BUT it does not Fade Out if you play the song to the end.

Thanks, Stu
Stu, You are correct in this statement, the fade out only works from the playlist if you terminate the playing song. It does not fade out if the song plays to the end.

You may want to add this suggestion in the New Features Requests.

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Re: Cross Fade

This will never be a true cross-fade. If you remove the silence at the beginning and end of all those songs then you should not have any dead air in between. The counter will always go down to zero on one song before the next starts playing.
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