I have been trying to work out how to make the automation use the next button and fade with one player. Finally decided it cant do it :lol:
Is it possible the player controls could bring themselves to the front of screen when they are playing and shoot to the back when they are finished? This way I could put two players in, one player on top of the other and it will look like one player doing the work? Mainly just to save space on the screen?
Cheers,
Matt
You can’t overlap with only 1 player… You could just specify them as 0 Height/Width and have a larger playlist window - Enable the progress bars on the playlist - and you’ll get some indication of timings, although not accurate to .1s like the players.
Yer I tried the playlist idea - but as you say the timings arnt great.
Torben - and comments on the idea of making players bring them selves to the front when the play? And send to the back when they stop?
Cheers,
Matt
I understand what’s the problem here, but I don’t think that “hacking” the GUI is the right way to solve it. Let’s solve it for good.
The problem is that, at the moment, an audio file can only be played as long as it is loaded inside a player. When you have only one player, and you need it to play the next item, the previous item is kicked out. And fading is interrupted. I consider to introduce a mechanism that “detaches” the playback from the player object, so that it can continue to fade out while giving way to the next item.
Torben
Took five minutes. Works like a charm. Once again, it seems that spending my christmas holiday cleaning up mAirList’s class hierarchy was a profitable idea.
Cheers Torben! Just what I was after! 
Feature Request for this new addition:
Can we have something like PLAYERx-x NEXT for Automation so that we can specify (like via a custom keyboard/fader-start) which player the next item plays from ? This would allow a 2-player/fader playout setup to perform a song/song segue on fader 1, and overlay a jingle on fader 2. This feature would work all the more if/when the “do not fade in auto” (for jingles) option is added to Properties.
Perhaps this can be done after I have revised the loading algorithm.
Cheers Torben! Just what I was after! :D
Interestingly enough this is exactly what I was after as well… simplifies the layout tremendoussly, having one player and hitting the next button or spacebar which starts the next event while playing out or rather fading out the current file is just marvelous.
Which brings me to a point, is there an option to start the next event while NOT fading out the current event? No to be confused with hitting stop and thus invoking a default fade? (I think I got that right)
I think you have already found the answer to this question in that other thread 
I think you have already found the answer to this question in that other thread ;)
Quite right… I was having a “senior moment” there, methinks.
My apologies. 