Re: [Savonet-users] Adding news on the hour

[Davit B. <ja...@gm...>]

Here is the thread that helped me out when I had the problem described
by David (frozen stream starting from the middle of the song and
such):
http://www.mail-archive.com/sav...@li.../msg01828.html


Davit Barbakadze



On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:15 PM, David Baelde <dav...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First, a simple but slightly degenerate solution: use smooth_add()
> with a ratio of 0, it'll keep playing the music in the background with
> a volume of 0, and play your news on top of it. You get smooth
> transitions.
>
> Another simple solution is to use a switch or fallback, probably track
> insensitive so that the news starts exactly at the right time. One
> issue with this is that the other source is frozen in time when you
> switch to the news, which might or might not be wanted. When you go
> back to it, it might be unpleasant to start in the middle of the song
> that you left... lookup fallback.skip() for ways to get around this.
>
> Sorry to not propose some code, I don't have much time right now. If
> you don't manage with those hints, somebody may be able to give more
> specific help.
>
> Good luck,
> --
> David
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