What I relied on heavily with my old setup was asymmetric crossfade. I still use this all the time when playing music out of DJay, by starting the crossfade slider at around 40%, however it's also not completely automatic. I'm still a WinAmp 2 user for my backtracks, with FZLyrics for just that (lyrics), and it features a fade-out which carries over when starting the next song instantly. This is especially important if I decide to change songs half-way through, or if I have to cut a long ending short to keep people on the dance-floor.

I find fade-ins quite useless, but fade-outs essential. Fade-ins mean I miss the count-in on my backtracks, and it doesn't do any good with DJ music either which have signature intros.

In StageTraxx, I've only found symmetrical xfading, so the only way to hear the count-in of my next song is to go with a very short xfade which means I don't really get fade-outs anymore.

Thanxx

    MasterAnt I totally hear you and agree it’s been my issue as well.

      So if I understand correctly what you need is a way to disable the fade in part of a crossfade? So the first song will fade out but the second song will start will full volume?

        peter yes that's how I'd use it. Don't need the fade-in. Technically, it would not be a crossfade unless there is some fade-in.

        Perhaps a versatile way to implement this would be to have three settings: fade-in time and fade-out time as separate values, and a fade-in delay. Fade-in delay because it's nice to have the next song start a little after the current song's volume has dropped slightly. Fade-in time needs to go as low as possible. 0.1s is probably fine to still call this a crossfade, but zero works for me as well.

        I look forward to seeing where this goes...

          Maybe I got a little ahead of myself in the last post 😄
          I'd be quite happy with an option to "don't fade-in during crossfade"

          OK, I have added it to my todo list for version 3.6. Not sure about the delay but no-fade for second song is definitely possible to implement.