Hey there,
I’ve noticed something with the “sweet fades” option. When I click “play” on an album or a single track, it doesn’t seem to activate the fading effect between subsequent tracks. However, it does work if I click on the three dots above the album or track and select “play next.”
Is this the intended behavior, or could it possibly be a bug? I’d appreciate your input on this.
Thanks! 
Generally Plexamp looks at the play queue and if it looks like consecutive tracks from an album, it doesn’t do sweet fades. Otherwise it does, if that makes sense, because people don’t generally want an album faded.
Great point! I hadn’t considered that most folks might not want to use fades on a standard album.
I’m still learning how to intentionally trigger this feature. Do sweet fades only happen when I use “play next”? I’m not sure if it works when I click “add to queue.”
Any time a track is added to the queue, the queue is evaluated for contiguous album tracks, it shouldn’t matter how it’s added. The plexamp logs do mention what it’s doing.
Thanks again for your help!
Hey Elan,
You’re right, when you click “play” on any album, it plays through without fades. However, if you click “play next” on an album while a track is playing, it enables the fades, even for contiguous album tracks.
It seems like the “play next” button is taking precedence over Plex’s track queue analysis. I haven’t checked the logs, but I can hear it.
For me, it’s not an issue as I actually enjoy the fades between normal album tracks. Just thought I’d share this with you as it might be a neat idea to allow people to toggle fades on and off as they prefer.
the reason for this is because that results in the second album being interleaved one track into the second track. This, it looks like non-consecutive albums and the fades kick in.
Clearly this isn’t totally intuitive, and we’ve toyed with the idea of looking two tracks at a time instead of at the play queue as a whole. however, this would mean that if shuffle randomly put two consecutive tracks from the same album next to each other it would appear that sweet fades were broken. so at best it’s unclear what the “perfect” solution would be…
I think it would be fine if shuffle put two consecutive tracks, and they got sweet fades, maybe unless they were gapless. 
Hi, I have a related question, if I may piggyback this thread.
Regarding the Sweet Fades feature, when using the End of track Sleep Timer, as the track ends the next track still fades in. Would it be possible to turn off the fading when using the End of track Sleep Timer, or at least have an option to? 
unfortunately that ends up being more complicated than you might think
I appreciate your explanation, and I must say, the system you’ve created is quite impressive and sophisticated.
In my opinion, unless you were to introduce a universal “Fades On/Off” button, the current setup seems like a solid middle ground.
Is it possible to add a setting that can be toggled?
Sweet fades on all the time. Yes/No
Sweet fades Normal Yes/No
Sweet Fades off all the time Yes/No
LIke most things I’m sure this is probably easier said than done. And it also might add another setting that people will have to check if songs are fading when they don’t want them to.
Maybe the setting could be just when it comes to albums and be in the three dot menu for an album where you can say sweet fades on for this album?
Just some ideas.
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