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The VLC media player from French-based developer VideoLAN is a leading free and open-source software product for playing audio and video files, CDs, DVDs and streaming media. It provides support for all major and most minor multimedia formats, and versions are available for Windows, Macintosh, iOS, Android, a dozen major versions of Linux and several less-common operating systems. Unfortunately, it's not designed to provide cross-fading -- slowly decreasing the volume of one source, DJ-fashion, while increasing the volume of a second. However, it is possible to simulate cross-fading manually.

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Launch two copies of the VLC media player. Size and place the two VLC windows on your screen so you have access to them simultaneously.

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Click the 'Media' menu on the title bar of your first VLC window, then navigate through the menu options to select the song or video you wish to play. Options might vary slightly between operating systems or desktop environments. Repeat for the second window.

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Cue the song you intend to play second by pressing 'Play' and then pausing it as soon as you hear any sound. Some audio files have several seconds of silence at the beginning, so this simple precaution avoids that difficulty. Reduce the volume of this window to a low setting, approximately 10 to 15 percent, using the volume slider.

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Set the volume of your other window to 50 percent or less, then press 'Play.' Adjust the volume to a suitable playing level and let the song play through.

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Press 'Play' again in the second window when your first song is within a few seconds of ending. Reduce the volume in your first window slowly for a few seconds, then raise it slowly in the second window until it reaches a playing volume comparable to the first song.

Tips

• To continue the process, load a third song while the second is playing. You won't have the opportunity at this point to cue it and eliminate any dead air, but you can minimize this by starting the song a few seconds earlier or previewing your audio files beforehand or editing out any silences.
• If you're playing a song that has a slow fadeout as part of the original recording, you can slowly increase the volume of your second source without manually fading out the first.
• The correct volume might vary substantially between songs, depending on the source material. Use your ears, rather than the percentage indicator on VLC's volume control.

Warning

• If you're using VLC on a version of Ubuntu with the Unity interface, the global menus at the top of your desktop will apply to whichever Unity window is selected. Be careful not to interrupt playback of your current song by selecting a new one with the wrong window active.

About the Author

Fred Decker is a trained chef and certified food-safety trainer. Decker wrote for the Saint John, New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, and has been published in Canada's Hospitality and Foodservice magazine. He's held positions selling computers, insurance and mutual funds, and was educated at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.

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March to August . without any reply or hint of fix from Microsoft. People bad mouth Microsoft for their 'shoddy' programing but every program has a chance for problems.. The problem I have with Microsoft is their inability to admit their problems when they are discovered. Every other company I know, other than AOL, is more than happy to acknowledge a problem, thank you for bringing it to their attention and work with you to fix it. AOL blames their problems on other people's software.. where as it would seem that Microsoft would prefer to blame its users.. Neither is a good practice in my opinion!!

I have the exact same problem .. judging by the amount of others with this problem .I'm thinking that Media Player 12 is fubar and .. judging by the answer from Microsoft support .. it looks like its a problem that they aren't going to even bother looking at .. guess I will use Winamp too. I loved the crossfader in wmp11 worked great .still works great on my desktop.

Again this is definitely a problem with WMP12 but it doesn't look like Microsoft is going to bother fixing it.

How do I know this is a problem with WMP12 and not my files as Microsoft's given excuse suggests?

Because I have two drive letters on my laptop which used to run XP with WMP11. All my files and documents are on my D: drive. I wiped out the XP installation on my C: drive and installed Windows 7 (never touched the files on the D: drive). Media Player 12 does not crossfade or . gives the same problems as listed by the first poster of this issue.

In conclusion:

Media player 11 crossfading works

Media player 12 crossfading doesn't work

not just the same songs as my XP system but the same exact files .. same exact playlists .. same exact drive letter and setup. so its not a corruption problem during copying files from my desktop to my laptop. so don't bother suggesting that next .. again these are the exact same files that worked in windows media player 11 (they were never touched, deleted or recopied)

I would like to see Microsoft work on fixing the problem rather than saying the problem doesn't exist and giving foolish ways to troubleshoot an issue that is obviously just a tactic to get you to waste so many hours that hopefully you forget about it.

I used to do tech support for Sony so I know the tactics used to 'get people off the phone'.. situation is a bit different but the 'blow off answer' still shines through. We used to tell people to do a full scandisk including a surface test then call us back if the problem still exists.. it wasn't ever a real way to fix it . but it got them to stop bugging us for a few hours.

Well I wait the months and months it will probably be before anyone ever replies to this post, I guess I will continue to search Google and will probably find a way to fix it before Microsoft even admits its a problem.