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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Crossfade optionsRe: Crossfade options
From: pondlife <pondlife_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:43:13 -0000 > Looking at the original crossfade logic, it would act as you describe > using Shuffle and Manual Skip, but the manual seemed to describe it > differently. So I used the AND logic when rewriting the decision tree. > I'll fix it back to an OR decision and rewrite the manual to make it clear > what's going on. Maybe the option ought to be "Shuffle Or Manual Skip", > which seems closer to me what's going on. I agree. > The idea here is to crossfade for all track end situations, radio station > style, but if you want to skip a song, it happens right away without > crossfading. "This song sucks... NEXT!" Heh - I'd happily use "Always" in that case (I'd personally prefer to avoid the sudden jump when using radio-style playback), but it hardly hurts to keep the option in. > Speaking of manual skips, I noticed that crossfaded manual skips are > handled precisely the same way as track-end crossfades. That is, the > fadeout happens *at the end* of the currently buffered material, which is > then mixed with the faded in new track. This means that even after the > skip button is pressed it can be a couple of seconds before the crossfade > start sample is marked and the fade out delay begins to count down. I > propose that the fadeout delay counter should begin immediately for > crossfaded manual skips. I don't foresee any objections to this, but I > thought I'd ask. That would be a great improvement, and explains the apparent current lack of responsiveness in this case. > I'm still torn on the "Auto Track Skip" verbiage. I tried to make it > clear what it is in the manual, but it's not very descriptive. Even > something like "Natural Track Change" doesn't quite nail it. "Track End > Only" maybe? I thnk I like "Automatic track change" best. Steve Bavin Received on 2009-11-12 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |