Crossfading in Campcaster Web
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team
    Hi Paul,

    According to the user manual, when creating playlists in Campcaster Web,
    there is a grey horizontal bar between playlist items, which is where
    crossfade times are set.

    Using the current 1.4.0-beta4 release, I'm not seeing the grey Fades
    line between playlist items in Campcaster Web, or the Change Fades
    button shown in this old screenshot here:

    http://en.flossmanuals.net/floss/publish/Campcaster/rsrc/Cam pcaster/1172340145_9web_playlist_editor.png

    so it looks like this feature has been removed in 1.4.x.

    Should I open a bug ticket to put this feature back, or is the intention
    that crossfade times should be set automatically? As the manual points out:

    "Note: Our recommendation is to avoid any cross fading in news programs.
    You should leave your voice and talking blocks with a clean start and
    end. It is also recommendable to use offered cross fade mix values only
    in the musical parts of the program."

    Would it be more sensible to assign crossfade values automatically using
    preferences settings based on audio file metadata? For example, items
    tagged as Speech might have a zero seconds crossfade, where as items
    tagged as Music have a two second crossfade.

    Cheers!

    Daniel
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Micz FlorMicz Flor
    Posts: 184Administrator
    to my knowledge, crossfading does not work. the default cross fade would be a likely feature for the next big version jump, if MPD came in as the studio playout system, since it has that feature already.

    the "must have" features for advanced radio playlists we are thinking about for future versions:

    • Fade in
    • Fade out
    • Cue in (e.g. "start at 01:12 when vocals start" - this information also helps presenters to finish their moderation in time for the vocals to start)
    • Cue out (e.g. "start fading out at 03:48 before the krauts from grobschnitt get into their 28 min guitar solo")
    • custom crossfade (e.g. "track a fade out for 20 sec, track b fade in for 3 sec")

    please add more ideas on this here in the thread.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team
    Hi Micz,

    > to my knowledge, crossfading does not work.

    It's been advertised in the past, but perhaps it got broken in the
    gstreamer port.

    > the default cross fade
    > would be a likely feature for the next big version jump, if MPD came in
    > as the studio playout system, since it has that feature already.

    For now, I will remove this page from the manual.

    > please add more ideas on this here in the thread.

    Metadata based crossfade, since manually setting crossfades for
    different categories of content would be tedious. No crossfading at all
    would be better than inappropriate default crossfades.

    Cheers!

    Daniel
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