crossfades

[patrick.de-bruyn]

a question
would it be possible to create a command to stop and start the crossfades completely
this command could be used as an event and started with run now.
sometimes this would be very advantageous if you don't want a crossfade for, for example, 10 titles and don't want to edit all of these titles and assign a category

 

[djsoft]

This looks like a very situation-specific request. You can probably try this: create a profile with disabled crossfades, and use the load command to load it. But loading a profile has many side effects - it will change scheduled events and load new playlists, I'm not sure it's very practical.

 

[patrick.de-bruyn]

This looks like a very situation-specific request. You can probably try this: create a profile with disabled crossfades, and use the load command to load it. But loading a profile has many side effects - it will change scheduled events and load new playlists, I'm not sure it's very practical.

changing the profile is not practical in a running live broadcast

 

[djsoft]

changing the profile is not practical in a running live broadcast

Yes, in this case only solution I see is to manually disable the crossfades, quickest way would be to use the Segue Editor 3, so that you can edit three tracks at once, and also those options will not stick to the track, and only apply to the current playlist.

 

[patrick.de-bruyn]

Yes, in this case only solution I see is to manually disable the crossfades

therefore my request for a command to switch the drosfades on and off, could be created as an event to be able to execute now if necessary

 

[djsoft]

therefore my request for a command to switch the drosfades on and off, could be created as an event to be able to execute now if necessary

I understand, but this request seems to be very situation-specific, so at this point it doesn't look like adding it will benefit many users, I'm sorry.

 

[derek]

I understand, but this request seems to be very situation-specific, so at this point it doesn't look like adding it will benefit many users, I'm sorry.

While I can think of some situations where cross fading would be nice to suspend, I also think the track tool may help.
I can't think of a case where I would want a track to play with it crossfading only under specific conditions.
If, lets say, I have a block of classical music, The crossfading should be disabled while that block of tracks is running.
A classical piece will never play during a time where I need tight crossfades. So it would be safe to change the file properties so that crossfading is disabled for those files.
That doesn't get you exactly what you want because this assumes that you're only playing a limited selection at the point where crossfading is suspended, but its something.


All that having been said, if you really... and I mean REALLY want this functionality, heres another idea.
Configure radioboss so that edits with the track tool are stored either internally in the database or as files in the folder that contains your audio.

Now, use symbolic links to make a virtual copy of the folder containing your music.

https://www.howtogeek.com/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

Creating these links doesn't take any space on your drive but lets you have virtual read-only copies.
Finally, load the "files" created by the symbolic links and disable crossfading.
When you call the original file you should get a copy which will crossfade. If you call the sym link, you should get a version that does not crossfade.
Don't worry, windows is cool enough to deal with actual files that exist among symbolic links, so nothing should crash or get corrupted.

Just so you know, I tried this for you... It does work.

 

[djsoft]

Now, use symbolic links to make a virtual copy of the folder containing your music.
https://www.howtogeek.com/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/
Creating these links doesn't take any space on your drive but lets you have virtual read-only copies.
Finally, load the "files" created by the symbolic links and disable crossfading.
When you call the original file you should get a copy which will crossfade. If you call the sym link, you should get a version that does not crossfade.
Don't worry, windows is cool enough to deal with actual files that exist among symbolic links, so nothing should crash or get corrupted.

Interesting. I think this will only work when SQLite or MySQL is used to store additional information, as info (including crossfade settings from Track Tool) is saved tied to a file name, so this will allow having one copy of a file but different crossfade parameters.