In the 3.4.2 release notes, there was mention that you can now see the contents of a downloaded item and the ability to “play next” from the server library while playing a downloaded playlist.
Browsing into downloads.
Play next/Add to queue for offline play queues (downloaded and server items).
I clicked on the download icon and selected my playlist, looked at the contents, then pushed shuffle. Songs were playing with sweet fades as expected. I then decided to insert a song that was not stored locally. I searched for the song and long pressed and chose “play next” from the popup. The song was added to the play queue, but the current song, even though there was more than a minute left, played in its entirety with no sweet fade. The inserted song began to play and it played to the very end with no sweet fade. Plexamp resumed the shuffled queue and songs played with sweet fades active.
Is this expected behavior? Anyone else care to test and reply with your results?
So I did the experiment again and got the same results but hopefully this documentation may help you in any way possible.
I started the offline playlist and played a couple songs to make sure sweet fades was working, and it was. I then inserted a song to play next. The current song ended completely with no crossfading at all. The interesting thing is the inserted song had no audio analysis info as shown in the picture.
The inserted song ended after its entirety and had no sweet fade interaction at all. The next song played, displayed the audio analysis info and sweet fades continued.
I then stopped the playback, went to the same playlist but began playback from the server and not the download. After a song or two I inserted the same song to play next. This time it contained its audio analysis info as it always had.
Interesting the bit rates are reported differently despite being the same file being played 10 or so minutes apart.
On the Mac server, how can I force the audio analysis function to run again? There are multiple albums in my library that are considerably lower in volume despite having a decent level of loudness in the recording. Frontiers being one of them.
