I'm loving the new crossfade features of v3.6 and can now start my next song while the current song is ending.
Yesterday at a gig, a corporate function with many random interruptions by speakers between my songs, I found myself struggling a bit with this. I have autoplay off because it works better as a default option at this type of gig. I have two pedals for the function of moving into the next song. One for crossfade and one for start-only. There's no need for a stop function assigned to a pedal because autoplay is off, and stopping via pedal isn't necessary.
To maintain flow, I hit crossfade somewhere right near the end of the current song. Because I usually crossfade near the end, sometimes I miss hitting it before the end. So I hit crossfade only to discover my next song doesn't start because play has stopped. At that point I have to hit my start pedal. This is cumbersome and breaks the flow. Before using ST3, all my tracks had about 1-min of silence following the audio (and autoplay was on) which meant I had a minute to either stop the track or hit one pedal to advance to the next song.
I was wondering if it would make sense in the app to enable the crossfade trigger to start a song when play is stopped. Currently the crossfade is greyed out and does nothing while stopped. I don't think this would be counter-intuitive. With that ability, I would not have to waste a pedal assigning it to start-only and would only need to use the crossfade assignment to either advance to the next song or start the current song if there is no playback. Starting this way should probably fade-in per the settings. (I use a 0.0 fade-in so that would make it equivalent to hitting start.)