(Radio DJs do this, but they undoubtedly have better equipment
than you do.) To enable crossfading, open Windows Media Player, go
to View ??? Enhancements ??? Crossfading and Auto Volume Leveling. On
the Enhancements pane that appears, click the Turn on Crossfading link
(Figure 4-12), and then adjust the amount of overlap to your liking.
Figure 4-12. Crossfading, which overlaps songs to reduce dead air, works only in certain
circumstances
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Crossfading only works on data files (such as MP3 or WMA), and then only
when the two songs are encoded with the same sampling rate (e.g., 192
Kbps or 256 Kbps). Crossfades won??™t work if you are playing an ordinary
audio CD, or, for some reason, a data CD that was originally burned with
Windows Media Player.
Now, it??™s possible that crossfading is actually working, but
you can??™t tell because your music files have more than a few
seconds of silence at the beginning or end. To test the feature,
try playing a few songs that don??™t begin or end in a
fade. And try increasing the amount of overlap by moving
the crossfade slider to the right.
To enable crossfading in iTunes (which, ironically, is not something you can
do with an iPod), select Edit ??? Preferences, choose the Playback tab, and
turn on the Crossfade playback option.
Crossfading is really annoying when you??™re listening to
spoken-word tracks or dialog from movie soundtracks. Try
it; you??™ll see what I mean.
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