Thread: Crossfading tracks during playback

Windows Media Player offers a function for crossfading of tracks. over, it often does not work.

The crossfading function can only be used with WMA (Windows Media Audio) or MP3 files, which are saved on a computer or a data CD and are present in the Media Player's playlists. The crossfading function cannot work reliably without using playlists. The function fails even when an audio CD is played directly. And this is not the only disqualification: the crossfading function cannot be used if files have different sampling rates, bitrates, or varying numbers of audio channels as well.

The same holds true if one of the files contains other data type-for example Video, script or HTML-in addition to audio. Hence, the best thing to do is to use music tracks which you have converted to WMA or MP3 format with the same settings. Also see to it that the files have been copied with the same copy protection setting; crossfading also functions only if the copy protection is either activated or deactivated in files that are being played.

Test music tracks with sufficiently high volume, since the volume decreases at the time of crossfading. For this, move the slider to the extreme right to '10.0 seconds of overlap'. Test the function with this setting for different tracks, since the effect varies for different music.

Note:
To activate the function, click on 'Now Playing' and select 'Enhancements I Crossfading and Auto Volume Leveling' in the hierarchical menu. Windows Media Player then opens a configuration dialog with the same name in the lower part of the window. You can 'Turn on Crossfading' with the link when the player is switched off. It then changes to 'Turn on Crossfading' and the text line below the slider appears brighter, You can then specify the time period for overlap between '0.0' and '10.0' seconds in steps of one-tenth of a second.