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Hi

Currently i am pretty delighted again, running the latest gmb on a fresh AV Linux install. I am still utilising my trustworthy NI Traktor Audio 2 USB Audio Interface. For the first time i am now able to use Jack AND send the playlist to the A channel and prelisten songs via DeaDBeeF on channel B. Woohoo! My skills on handling the gmb application have slightly improved over the last year. It's christmas time and therefor i have a wish ;-) I really would love to improve the listening experience by fading out the current song and fade in the song which is next in the playlist. Lullaby is fading out and then stops - puuh - it's so close to want i want but not just right. Are there any other tricks/workarounds i may try to achieve a crossfade and avoid the milliseconds of silence on a song change? Thx.

Hi Quentin

Thx. for your reply! I really appreciate. But first i wanna describe what i have installed.

I am on a lenovo R61i running AV Linux 6.0.3 which is a Debian Squeeze 32Bit based audio/video optimized distro. Sound Interface is NI Audio 2. gmb is version 1.1.12 which i downloaded here:
source/executable tarball : gmusicbrowser-1.1.12.tar.gz
No customization was done so far. I am currently using it with the default layout which is "list, library & context".
I do not need Album Artwork, Lyrics, fancy display options. I just wanna handle the music data straight forward and efficient.
A playlist defaulted to my huge library is not useful. Due to the size the library is unfortunately not very well organized. Labels etc. are almost not existent.. All i have is correct file names, folders where the music is grouped and ID-Tags. I use gmb to play live for friends at private/public partys. What i wanna do is this:

- Prepare "static playlists" in advance. This means a selection of songs grouped for the same purpose. Eg. 70's, 80's, 90's, LongPlayer, NDW,
  Classic Rock, Speed, Doom, Death, Power, Hair, Motorcycle, Hym, Driving, etc. etc. and have these easily available during the gig parallel to the
  playlist which is going out live.
- Search for songs during the event and add these to one or more of these "static playlists".
- Search for songs and add these to the end of a "playlist" in a given order eg. songs from an album 1,2,3 and 6 shall be added to the queue/
  playlist in the same order 1,2,3 and 6.
- Currently i want almost "no intelligence" meaning songs shall not be added or re-arranged "automagically".
- Rearrange the play order in each "playlist" whilst the "main playlist" is still live.
- Switch what's sent out live from one playlist to another - in other words changing from eg. speed to doom or hymn's to continue there.
- Gapless and/or Crossfade to avoid silence in front of the audience.
- Prelisten a song from the library on a second soundcard/channel of my dj-interface to check whether it's really the correct song.
- Control all these features mainly with the keyboard and not the mouse - eg. move a song to a "playlist".
- Searches in the library must not change the "live" playlist.
- I am mainly searching for song names - not albums or artists. How to achieve this most efficiently?

Thx. for advise. I have time to learn until July 4th 2014 ;-)

Hi

As far as i can already see by now, gmusicbrowser has at least a gazillion of features.
It currently handles my >400k title library which no other player ever was capable of. Amazing!
I explored already a couple of features but that's extremely hard - eg. only to understand why a right click creates so different results depending on where you click ...
I searched the web already but couldn't find a single brief explanation of gmb's functions / features.
May i ask for some help where i can read more to learn how to use it properly.
Thx.

@aboettger
I can't figure out what your post is. Is it a question? Is it a solution? I really can't see it ... looked at your post because i want to prelisten to a track in another audio player by calling eg. deadbeef and pass the current track via the export feature. Can you pls. shed some light?