Cross-fade or Gapless

[farrbot]

I think its hard to believe you could find a more obvious spot to disable this than under the "Play" menu.

Of course "obvious" once you know its there!

Mediamonkey is a fantastic application with lots of features and can take some time to work out how to get everything done. I for one would love to be able to toggle the crossfade on and off with a button rather than a menu item, one less click. Doesnt appear possible to set a hotkey for it either. A pity as it seems to be something I use a lot when switching music genres.

[rovingcowboy]

go to the output plugins option and configure the direct sound. you can adust crossfade there.

i think what nohitter151 was getting at was that its the most likely place for player controls to be.
and just a few seconds of looking at the drop down menus to see what can be done is all it would have taken to find it..

most newbies to programs i found don't do any searching for options which they should do it would save them time of waiting for replys in forums. but we will answer here too its just almost new program class 101 to look for options. i guess on that it would be new program 100 to look for help in forums.

[guest]

I scanned the menus and searched the help and did not find it. I did not know the term to be crossfade. I was looking for playback options and gapless was the closest term I had in my vocabulary. I googled gapless media monkey and found this thread. IOW, the feature was totally hidden to me without the help of this thread even though I looked thoroughly.

[nohitter151]

I scanned the menus and searched the help and did not find it. I did not know the term to be crossfade. I was looking for playback options and gapless was the closest term I had in my vocabulary. I googled gapless media monkey and found this thread. IOW, the feature was totally hidden to me without the help of this thread even though I looked thoroughly.

http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... icleid=115
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[guest]

The four ???? marks are asking why I did not use that tool to find the answer? Because Google is my friend (it worked first) and because I would not have asked the question that way. You need the correct terminology to ask the question. I did not have it. I would not ask why they "overlap," I knew it was a switch setting I needed to find. A proper index or help function meets the user on the user's turf. The help provided in the product failed to do that.

I am new to MM and have only invested enough effort to load LAME so I can use the product for free.

[nohitter151]

The four ???? marks are asking why I did not use that tool to find the answer? Because Google is my friend (it worked first) and because I would not have asked the question that way. You need the correct terminology to ask the question. I did not have it. I would not ask why they "overlap," I knew it was a switch setting I needed to find. A proper index or help function meets the user on the user's turf. The help provided in the product failed to do that.

I am new to MM and have only invested enough effort to load LAME so I can use the product for free.

That FAQ entry can be found quite easily by clicking the large "Support" button at the top of this and the MediaMonkey webpage.

[guest]

Thanks for your pointer, it's probably useful sometimes. When I solve problems I use the help contained in the product first. I usually Google next because the vendor's site is usually included in any results. Finally I get buried in the vendor's KB only if the other attempts fail. In this case I never got past Google, but I'd not have succeeded at the KB because my search vocabulary was wrong. I tried "playback options" and "gapless" and there was nothing. Of course, now I know the term is "crossfade" it's obviously the correct term and I have configured my output options.