Crossfade+Jingle playlists

19 votes

Jingles are usually media clips of 90 seconds or less giving station info or running ads over a bit of music. When such clips are subjected to the crossfade protocol, much of the info may well be lost in the crossing process. Playlists identified with the 'Jingle' tag should be exempted from the crossfade protocol so that they start and end at full volume without mixing with leading/following media.

A popular streaming app has solved this by adding a tag (S for regular song and J for jingles) to each files' metadata. Whenever the J tag is encountered, the media is excluded from the crossfade process and no data is lost to low volume/song interference. Leading /following songs fade to/from empty air...

These same metadata tags can also be uses for the counting processes in clockwheel management, but that's material for another suggestion...

Under consideration Suggested by: Speedy Charly (27 Nov, '21) • Upvoted: 29 Mar • Comments: 5

Comments: 5

13 Dec, '21
Liam
Would not welcome. For me, the transition from song to jingle and then to song usually goes very well.
I can only recommend to adjust the jingles so that they also have some time in front and behind before the actual start.

In addition, to use the "Jingle Mode" to disable the crossfade there, I find lousy. Then there should rather be a separate setting for it "Disable Crossfade (for this playlist)".
24 Dec, '21
Alain (Speedy) Charlebois
@ Liam - The object of a jingle is to be short and to the point; usually 90 seconds or less, adding to beginning and end defeats the purpose. The crossfade protocol as implemented by LS isn't the best by far ( I will start on that after the Ho-Holidays) and other streaming apps do exclude Jingle playlists and/or short media from the crossfade process with very happy results.
12 Dec, '22
reblochon
Completely agree, I would like all jingles to *not* be crossfaded. Because of the crossfade, some jingles are not heard in their entirety.
02 Mar, '23
Rati
Agree. Completely.
12 Nov, '23
RadioHerzblut
Yes it´s very Inportant. You could also extend a time field with the jingles. For example, all titles shorter than 30s, 40 .... or more "do not crossfade".
That would be my idea