Version: (using KDE 4.1.3) OS: Linux Installed from: Mandriva RPMs The fade between the songs in the playlist is a feature of amarok 1 but is not in amarok 2 it is very nice feature specially in home parties when we like to keep the dance without stop :) please add it Dimitri
* actually i use JuK when i need this feature (parties, soirèes with friends etc)
Last I remember, we can't do it for now due to technical reasons with phonon. We'll have to look into it again.
Daniel, Soren: I am not sure who it was but one of you disabled this again due to technical reasons right? Can you comment please?
AFAIK only a subset of Phonon backends can handle it. With others it can lead to undesired results.
i also miss this feature and still have amarok 1.4 installed for listening to music at parties when people often change music :)
If some phonon backends support it well, why not check for the backend when enabling crossfading and check for crossfading (and possibly turn it off) when changing the backend?
Because there is no way to check for this at runtime.
Is there any news on this? Are Phonon devs doing something? Phonon still lacks soooo many features.
This is the main reason I still prefer Amarok 1.4
Amarok 2.2 actually supports crossfading (if your Phonon is current). It's just not fully exposed in the GUI. We might want to add that.
Is there a way to make it work now? hack hack...
In amarok/src/amarokconfig.kcfg, change these entries: <entry key="Crossfade" type="Bool"> <label>Whether to crossfade between tracks</label> <whatsthis>Enable/Disable crossfading between track changes.</whatsthis> <default>false</default> </entry> <entry key="Crossfade Length" type="Int"> <label>Length of crossfade, in milliseconds</label> <whatsthis>The length of the crossfade between tracks in milliseconds.</whatsthis> <default>4000</default> <min>400</min> </entry>
Hi,I changed the default of the entry key "Crossfade" to "true", but crossfade still doesn't work. Is a specific backend required (xine/gstreamer)? (Amarok git from yesterday)
(In reply to comment #13) > Hi,I changed the default of the entry key "Crossfade" to "true", but crossfade > still doesn't work. Is a specific backend required (xine/gstreamer)? (Amarok > git from yesterday) We recommend the xine backend, since the gstreamer one is not really reliable.
Same thing with xine-backend. No crossfade. By the way, when will it be added to the gui?
Can't find amarok/src/amarokconfig.kcfg. I'm just waiting for this feature until Amarok is perfect (for me).
This is already implemented in Amarok, just not in Phonon... Reassigning.
There is nothing in Phonon, this is a crap... Why don't you do a Xine-engine like before. With Amarok 1.4 everything works, and I don't have stupid bugs like the sound engine switching back to analog without any reason... And fadeout and crossfade works, even in digital.
@ Rosetzky: Amarok is great software. And Phonon is a very useful layer for applications which use sound, making it _much_ easier for developers to use sound. That is, it saves a lot of time and effort to get something working. Surely, there are still bugs, but a) these are not due to Amarok developers, but probably due to Nokia abandoning Phonon and b) please don't call the efforts of the dedicated developers who produce this great, free software for us to use for free "crap." It is not! If you cannot control yourself, go somewhere else. Thank you.
(In reply to comment #17) > This is already implemented in Amarok, just not in Phonon... Reassigning. Kretschmann said "if your Phonon is current" so is KDE 4.4 Phonons current?
@ Mutlu Inek : I'm sorry but, who is working on it right now? When was it updated for the last time? How many bugs aren't worked on? Some of them are more than a year old... What I see is that Amarok was much better when it had it's own engine... By the way, I never said it was "due to Amarok devs", they are doing a great app, but using a bad multimedia layer.
I tried amarok in kde 4.5.4 and this feature it is not yet implemented. I use Clementine and the crossfade feature works fine. May be is possible to use that code
At least now they got the fadeout fixed so that it fades instantly and does not wait like 5 seconds before starting to fade out.
The xine backend is running out of maintenance and wishlist items will no longer be implemented. Therefore I am closing this bug report. Thanks anyway.
So, does the new backend support crossfading? (If not, can‘t this be re-assigned?)
It needs individual reports for every backend that should gain this (supposedly GStreamer and VLC).