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 t…

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.”

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 qu…

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 …

I think it would be fine if shuffle put two consecutive tracks, and they got sweet fades, maybe unless they were gapless. :thinking:

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…

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.

Question about 'Sweet Fades' Feature Behavior – Need Your Help!

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elan October 7, 2023, 4:48pm 4

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.

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