On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:34:20 -0600 (CST), J Yunke <yu...@productivity.org> wrote: > Hi Tim -- > > Feel free to send me away to documentation, etc. I appreciate your > time. > > I saw your name in a posting relating to FLAC crossfading with MPD. > > Crossfading in various player/stream software has always bugged me; > what > I'd rather have is what the Foobar Continuator plug-in (which is hard to
> find ) does -- which is overlap and (lightly) fade in the next song at the > end of the previous song. > > Any suggestions on how to get this behavior in MPD? > > -- Justin Hi Justin, I too dislike crossfading and I started the MixRamp project on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mixramp) to try to get music players to adopt a tagged based approach to doing intelligent transitions. The Sourceforge project has some code to generate MixRamp tags for FLAC and MP3 files. You will need to tag all your music files to get this to work. You can easily remove the tags but you might just want to play with some copies to start with. It requires metaflac and eyeD3 to add the tags. To use the tags requires changes to the music player. I've only done patches for MPD since that is what I use. Patches are available at: http://phippo.is-a-geek.com:8000/MixRamp/ The patches are for the Git trunk version of MPD. The patches for libmpdclient and mpc are quite stable and functional. The patch for mpd is less stable as mpd itself changes quite often. At present the mpd patch is quite ugly and wouldn't get merged and I'm thinking of rewriting it as it fails to mix sometimes. Once you've patched and started mpd you need to "mpc mixrampdelay 0.5" or any number not less than zero to enable mixing. Setting the threshold for mixing is done with "mpc mixrampdb -15.0" or whatever level works best for you and your music. If the music files don't have MixRamp tags it falls back to whatever crossfading setting you have. Note that if crossfading doesn't work neither will MixRamp transitions (if you have music at different sample rates and sizes). I set MPD to CD rates globally using audio_output_format "44100:16:2" in the config files otherwise MP3 files are 24 bit and FLAC are 16 bit. I'll endeavour to keep the patches up to date but I'm busy at weekends. Cheers, Tim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Musicpd-dev-team mailing list Musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/musicpd-dev-team
