Great product!
About “smart” subtitles in preference menus e.g. “Font size - It matters” and at the end of playlists like “the party is over”.
I understand the intention of those is to make it sound like an alive product with personality.
But in my experience, they work in another direction, signalling the product as somewhat lesser quality, done by someone n their spare time, not really serious.
And of course - humour is subjective. I find this kind of humour cringey and
Better spend energy on copy UX, like I still have no idea what is “Aural fixations” and something about hemispheres. Some inside joke? Why not label it what it actually is?
“Sweet fades” - yes, cool name. but it is crossfade, right?
i present the following response with no superfluous language:
if you click search and notice the top heading, click top (anything) it optionally shows top plays by season, for this reason the definition of when spring/summer/fall/winter occurs in different months, this setting makes sure it honors it correctly for your region
No, it isn’t.
Plexamp doesn’t do “cross-fading”. The word “fading” implies that the player will continually raise the volume at the start of a track and continually lower volume at the end of it.
Plex doesn’t do that.
Instead, the tracks are being analyzed how loudness is developing during their playtime. Then this information is used to determine how far the previous and its following track can be overlapped without the combined loudness of them getting too high.
Which means that every pair of tracks has a different, individually adapted overlapping time. If your previous track is slowly fading out and the next track is also very slowly building up, they can overlap quite long. If you have two tracks which are cut hard at their end/beginning respectively, you’ll get no overlap at all.
Aural = concerning the sense of hearing
Hemisphere
Hemi = half
Sphere = a ball
It’s referring to the northern and southern half of the earth, because Summer is in December in the south.
If I understand correctly, the longest duration is 15 seconds, correct? I am not sure at what threshold volume triggers the next track to start, but unfortunately it isn’t perfect. For example, Stairway to Heaven, you completely lose the last line of the song if the next song has any initial punch to it. I wish there could be a code placed in an existing ID3 tag that could tell Sweet Fades to let the song complete. Does Plexamp has access to Track Mood? If so, add an entry called “No Sweetfade” or similar that can be accessed by Plexamp to all the track to finish without the next stepping onto it. I love Sweetfades, but there are a few tracks where it would be nice to always give the track its proper ending. You may like Stairway to Heaven or be permanently burnt of it, but it deserves that last line to be heard.
Since this isn’t a bug/error you can always create a feature suggestion and get some traction on it. If It affects quality of experience that much you’ll get the buy in it deserves and get their attention on it.
