Music Fade in Development Version

providence2010 · Post by **providence2010** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:17 am

I've been testing the development version, and I have to say I really like the changes. I especially like the idea, but not necessarily the execution of the music fading in and out. I think it might need to wait a bit longer before it decides to change songs.

Anyone else think that certain songs should only change at certain times to only other specific songs?

Anyway, I'm going to play throught it a bit longer and see if I can come up with some actual solutions instead of complaints (since I don't want to be a douche).

Post by **loki1950** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:54 am

all that is modifiable by you just change the playlists in the .vegastrike folder i believe that klauss used the winamp format it's described some place i am sure

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Post by **ace123** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:03 am

I believe the fading time is inside the vegastrike.config.

You can see the soundserver stdout has a "i10" and "o0" for fadein and out.

Post by **loki1950** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:49 pm

yes it is line 751 for music fade in and line 752 for music fade out.

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providence2010 · Post by **providence2010** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:08 am

Well, I guess I was thinking of something more dynamic, since sometimes songs cut out at akward times (though I will definitely start looking for better fade times in general to see if there's a better compromise). Is the sound server capable enough to allow for specific fade out points in specific songs? This would seem like the optimum solution.

Post by **loki1950** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:16 am

i don't know for sure the sound sever is basically just SDL's default i believe

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Post by **klauss** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:08 pm

providence2010 wrote:Well, I guess I was thinking of something more dynamic, since sometimes songs cut out at akward times (though I will definitely start looking for better fade times in general to see if there's a better compromise). Is the sound server capable enough to allow for specific fade out points in specific songs? This would seem like the optimum solution.

Hi, reading my mind are you.
If you check out the music forums, there's a lot of brainstorming with even more complex schemes, but artists aren't fond of it. They don't want to do the extra work

In any case, it's in the plan, but the whole soundserver needs to be recoded for it to become a reality, as SDL's music facility does not facilitate the important and basic task of timekeeping

In short: not right now, but on the to-do.
In the meanwhile, you can control how fading works a bit with a tiny trick that I've found useful:

If you put song1.ogg|song2.ogg in your playlist, it will play song1 followed by song2. If you want to restrict transitions in a limited fashion, add only pairs in that fashion, but don't exagerate - they're created as temporary files on a temporary folder, so you don't want to abuse of it.

To decrease the "reaction time", you'd have to play with dj_lib.py which, I grant, isn't all that easy.