[Bug 57789] Re: Crossfading option causes skipping

[Andrew Ash]

I'm a lurker on the amarok-devel list upstream, and also follow the
Amarok bugs in Ubuntu.  I don't actually do Amarok development myself,
so take all of this with a grain of salt.  It's my understanding of the
current situation, and may be incorrect:

Over the past few years I've heard a number of issues with crossfading
in 1.4, and the solution is always to disable crossfading.  I don't
think that a full fix has ever been implemented in 1.4, since there is a
complicated inter-relationship with Amarok and the underlying sound
engines that actually makes the crossfading work.

Part of the effort of Amarok 2 was to simplify the huge number of
configuration issues so that the type of problem we're seeing here can
be resolved more easily.  Instead of 3 database backends (postgres,
MySQL, SQLite), Amarok supports one (MySQLe) and instead of multiple
audio backends (xine, gstreamer, pulseaudio, ...), there is one (I think
phonon/xine).

Unfortunately, there is no further maintenance of the Amarok 1.4
codebase planned by Amarok upstream.  Meaning, no Amarok developers are
working on a fix, since they are so busy with what's going on in Amarok
2: already maintaining 2.0.0, getting ready to release 2.1, and planning
on which features need to be pushed back for 2.2.  In order to get a fix
in 1.4, you will either need to personally find someone willing to take
a look at the 1.4 codebase again or do it yourself.  A bounty would
probably help here :)

I hope that clears things up.  Let me know if any of that needs
clarification.

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Crossfading option causes skipping
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