Sweet fades sometimes not so sweet

Plex Labs
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So we are told plexamp is an opinionated app.

To me that means self design. Self design is when you design for yourself(or your team) hoping others like yourself will get it and like it. You intentionally ignore/include features that many users do/don’t want. There is nothing wrong with self design per se as it can lead to a focused simple design. It’s been often said that if Henry Ford asked people what they wanted they would have said a faster horse.

However plexamp has some things that seem to contradict. And this is when sweet fades are not so sweet.

So here’s what I find contradictory.

  1. Plexamp seems to be good at mixes (I’m loving the mix creator) yet there is no way to shuffle the current queue.
  2. Plexamp is great for quality audio, (even Darko is talking about it) yet audiophiles often play albums over mixes… yet I can’t add an album to a mix.
  3. Sweet fades are ok when I’m playing a mix or shuffled playlist, but OMG they ruin my favourite albums when you play a whole album album.

I know fades can be turned off but they great for mixes, just kind of pointless when you play an album. I don’t need to be playing with settings when enjoying music. IMHO an album should be as intended by the artist…unless your a Philistine and shuffle it, then fade away.

Would it be possible when albums are played in original sequence to not have sweet fades automatically?

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Plexamp is doing that automatically, if you press Play on an album.

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That’s interesting. I had thought you guys would have thought of this. How ever I rarely do that…just one album. Why not when I add several albums to the queue?

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Even then, Plexamp will be aware that these are albums and will disable sweet fades.
Only if you enable shuffle or manipulate the play queue further it will go back to its standard mode of overlapping.

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What am i doing wrong then?. Adding an album to a queue and it definitely fades between tracks. Plexamp android.
There may have been existing items in the queue. will that make the difference?

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yeah it looks at the whole queue; e.g. random album radio works fine, but if you have random smatter of other tracks in there it’ll affect things.

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