ZARA Fade Question

Same thing in Zara.

Personally, I don't use it.  Partially because I use computer-generated tags to identify songs and performers, and I don't want the end of the last song tromping all over it.  I also don't like the frantic feeling that induces - I prefer to have the songs leisurely end with their own fade out - then play the ID tag - then start the next.  As far as I'm concerned, there's no harm in a bit of dead air space.  With a lot of commercial stations, after listening for a while, I've felt that I've run a (mental) race.

And it's what makes my station a little bit different than most of the others.  What's the point of sounding just like everyone else?

Artisan Said: "What's the point of sounding just like everyone else?"

I said: Agreed.

The whole point of running our own stations is just that, sounding different, interesting and entertaining to the listener, even if we are the only listener's we have.

I do not overlap content either, some of which is old recordings of radio broadcasts from the early days of radio. I thought it would be cool to preserve some history and share it with whomever would listen.

Probably just me though.

I overlap mainly because I'm picky and hate dead air.

I use a combination of the ~ tags at the end of the filename, and a default of 4 second overlap for files without the ~ tag.

ie. ZZ TOP - PEARL NECKLACE~9.1.MP3

that tells zara to start mixing at 9.1 seconds left in the song. Best of all, all metadata streamers ignore the ~.

I also have the end of song detector enabled, but fadeout disabled.

I was quiet about the fade question because I have it set to zero, although for some reason it mixes some files anyway, playing the end of one and the beginning of another.

But I have a strange thing that happens from time to time... all of a sudden all the files in the playlist re-arrange into alphabetical order. Of course then I face the task of putting everything back where it belongs, a very tedious job.

I've looked, but cannot find a way of deliberately making the files go into alphabetical order.

Anyone know?

Carl you may have clicked on the Song title bar at the top of the play list window. Go to View and untick Header in the list.

I have dumped cross-fade. Sounds more like what I like and not what commercial radio likes.

It worked!

I did what Johny instructed... went to "View" and unclicked "Header in the List," and the Song Title thing is gone, which protects against the unwanted re-arranging. Everyone should do that.

Thank you Johny.

No problem Mr Blare.