Make strict sample rate matching smarter with sweet fades?

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I have a Mac and an external USB DAC. I have strict sample rate matching enabled, in addition to sweet fades. I understand the technical challenges (impossibility?) of fading across different sample rates. I get that. What I’m hoping for is more intelligent sweet fades. The problem I experience is that often the last several seconds of a track get chopped off with sweet fades turned on and when there’s a sample rate change coming in the next track.

What I’d love to see is smarter sweet fades that only fade between tracks of the same sample rate, and when there’s a mismatch in sample rate to not fade and play the current track in it’s entirety.

The current algorithm can be quite jarring when a few seconds of a track get cut off. I think intelligently NOT fading when there’s a sample change would make the experience seamless.

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Hmm, so you’re suggesting basically falling back to gapless for those cases? I agree that might be better than the current behavior, although it would leave people potentially wondering why there was no fade.

I personally think strict sample matching is sort of silly, but that’s sort of besides the point…you could leave it on Smart and not run into these issues.

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Precisely! If strict sampling is enabled, then fall back to gapless when there’s a sampling transition.

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