So I got this new mini laptop 7" computer for broadcasting and downloaded Salamandra and the version I got was the latest and a newer version than I have in the other computers and this has an interesting feature. A setting can actually edit every track so if you enable it, it eliminates by editing out the usual few second silence at the beginning and end of audio tracks and starts and ends tracks where the audio actually starts and ends so before you had to have some overlap to achieve a somewhat similar result. Also has a setting that senses the best time to end one track and go to the next for seamless flow from one track to another and from jingle to song etc. Really makes you sound like a "real station". A bar and a indicator for each track shows the calculated best transition time.
The message comes on when starting it about donations and I did once in the past so I will do another $10 or $20 to show my appreciation for a good program.
I don't have the computer running it connected to internet but will connect just for the time it takes to do that. Or better just do it here on this computer on the internet and just donate through the Github Salamandra site where the donate section is.
Curious what you paid.Also doesn't Zara have those same crossover features? Anyway your new setup sounds pretty cool.
No, Zara has none of the features I mentioned.
... setting can actually edit every track so if you enable it, it eliminates by editing out the usual few second silence at the beginning and end of audio tracks and starts and ends tracks where the audio actually starts and ends so before you had to have some overlap to achieve a somewhat similar result. Also has a setting that senses the best time to end one track and go to the next for seamless flow from one track to another and from jingle to song etc.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, my station hasn't been active in a while, but it seems to me Zara could do that.. or maybe I had incorporated some script or something found online, but somehow it seems the same is achieved in Zara.
@richpowers The only way Zara can do that not near as good is with overlap, silence detector, and fade. Zara has no editing or analyzing tracks for best Cue in points in real time.
If silence at beginning and end of tracks it's hard to get rid of it and you have to edit yourself with Audacity and yeah I'm going to go through 3,000 tracks to edit the beginning and end when the automation does it for me on the go. That's one of the things I didn't like with Zara, dead air between tracks and jingles doesn't sound good. The ideal time is one second to 1.5 seconds max and as one song or jingle fades or ends the other starts just like a professional station.