I’ve set mAirlist to detect the fade out times on my songs using the auto detect - I have default automation fade time set at only 200ms, but when one song ends and a liner fires, the song seems to continue all over the liner and over the start of the next song - The player has the song in it and just says FADE
The processing brings the levels up and makes it sound bad! Any ideas how I can get it to fade as soon as the liner fires? Surely it should fade in 200ms if thats what I’ve set fade on? It works fine if I hit NEXT ???
Generally speaking, Libra, don’t set CueOut points unless you really have to. Much better to crop off any silences at EOF using an audio editor (or for MP3 files, use MP3DirectCut).
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For automatically cutting silence at beginning & end of audio files I suggest using dB Poweramp because it has a batch run facility. You can also do lots of other things at the same time - for example normalise if your files aren’t already.
I searched the internet for ages and couldn’t find anything as good. Lots let you chop a pre-determined length of time, some seemed too complex to get my head around. This was the only one I found which many can detect silence based upon a threshold AND has batch run facility AND is simple to use!
I’ve run my whole library of around 12000 tracks through it in the last couple of days.
It’s free to use for the first 30 days, but it seems so good I’m tempted to buy it for $34.
Tip - suggest you set the silence detect threshold to 50dB or maybe a bit lower. The default setting chops a little too early at the end of songs.
dbPowerAmp ripper and Music Converter is a ‘perennial’ on my ‘essential software’ list. It’s the only ripper I’d rely on, and Glyn didn’t even mention their massive user-contributed DB of CD track checksums (known as AccurateRip). When you rip a CD in dbPowerAmp, it checks the hash against the online DB and will tell you how many other users got the same result (= it’s a 100% accurate rip!). dbPowerAmp also has excellent error correction features for ‘dodgy/scratched’ CDs.
The reg. cost is near-trivial and some of that is to pay an MP3 encoder licence fee to Thomson (so for once, your MP3 encoder will be a pukka fully-licenced one! :D). If you don’t register, the ‘PowerPack’ component stops working after 30 days; and the PowerPack is what drives the DSPs including the ‘auto-trim’ function.
