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Hi, with “album radio” I seem to be getting crossfades between songs whether sweet fades is enabled or not, and disabling seeet fades actually makes the crossfades even longer. I’d rather not have any crossfades at all (even between albums), especially when playing album radio.
Is there some setting I’m missing? Or some other way to just continuously play random albums without me having to make selections myself, and without cross fading?
It seems that the issue is just that toggling “sweet fades” while Album Radio is already playing has no effect. Stopping Album Radio and then restarting it seems to have fixed the issue.
Would it be possible to get an option to have sweet fades enabled for other radio types, though? Having them enabled for other radio playback types would be nice, and I just don’t want the fades to happen on album radio.
From other posts I’ve found it sounds like crossfades aren’t supposed to happen on adjacent songs on an album but that was definitely happening for me today.
After some discussion with Elan on Mastodon it seems like this is a bug, where it’s erroneously doing fades between subsequent songs on a single album.
Here’s a log taken right after an erroneous fade took place between the songs “Theme From Flood” and “Birdhouse In Your Soul” from They Might Be Giants - Flood, and this also happened earlier today with Garbage’s self-titled album.
(It has also happened on a number of other albums but they’re ones where for Reasons there aren’t canonical track numbers so it’s understandable why PlexAmp wouldn’t see it as a continuous album, for example Song Fight! compilations.)
The logs indicate that PlexAmp isn’t detecting the albums as pristine/complete but they absolutely are. For example, here’s the files and id3 tags for one of the albums that was crossfading:
And even if a track or two is missing from an album for whatever reason (for example, removing a song that’s awful, or removing blank padding tracks that were there for mid-90s “hidden track” shenanigans or the like) that shouldn’t cause all the songs on it to crossfade, IMO.
