Music: Ending tracks early (or starting late) on shuffle

[jphastings]

I’m looking for a way to tag my FLAC music files so PlexAmp will know to treat a non-0:00 time as the “start” of the song (or a non-final time as the “end” of a song) when shuffling or playing a track out of album order.

Examples include:

• Rosa Parks by OutKast (on the Aquemini album) — the track’s musical part finishes at 4:26, but has an outro until 5:24
• Killing Me Softly by Fugees (on the The Score albym) — the track has an introduction that finishes at 0:51

I want these parts of the tracks to be present when I’m listening to the album in-order, but I’d like to be able to remove them if I’m building a playlist, or shuffling, or otherwise listening out of album order.

I’m sure I could buy FLAC files for the radio edits of the songs, or manually create some, but I’m sure I’ll continually pick the wrong (or new, exciting, GPT4-based playlist generators will pick the wrong one) and make the effort/cost worthless.

• Are there standard metadata tags for asserting these timestamps?
• Would PlexAmp now/ever use them for playback?

(Crossposted to Stack Overflow, I’ll update here if I get answers there and vice-versa)

[elan]

Unfortunately this feature doesn’t exist. We’ve discussed over the years, with the main question being around whether this setting would apply to all users, or per-user.

[jphastings]

I’m honoured to get such a rapid response from you, of all folks, @elan!

If the non-standard start/end times were recorded in the audio metadata/tags, then I’m not sure how the per user/all users setting would be a blocking decision? But, I suppose, I can choose sweet fades per user, so I’d choose this per-user (as I’d see it as something of an extension of that feature)

I’d be happy to offer any other thoughts or feedback if it’d help with prioritisation!

[elan]

Not so much whether to honor, but whether the start/stop times are global or per-user. It would influence (of course) where it were stored…