SqrSoft Advanced CrossFading

SqrSoft Advanced CrossFading is a lightweight and easy to understand plugin for Winamp, meant to offer you the ability to merge the beginning of one song with the end of the previous one, in order to make the switch smoother.

Subsequent to the download process, you can decompress the archive and run the executable in order to install the plugin. It does not require you to go through any complicated procedure, but you do need to run the installer using your administrator privileges.

SqrSoft Advanced CrossFading will automatically find its proper folder in the ‘Plugin’ section of Winamp, on condition that you have the media player on your system.

You can then access it from the ‘Options’ menu, by selecting ‘Preferences’, then moving to the ‘Output’ section of ‘Plugins’, being able to view SqrSoft Advanced CrossFading listed in the working window. To begin configuring its functioning, you can simply double-click the entry and a window split into multiple tabs will appear.

For starters, you can choose the output device and activate volume control or reverse balance. Similarly, you can set the ‘Buffer’ number of blocks, along with their minimal and maximal size, the priority level and the mixing buffer length, in milliseconds.

Moreover, SqrSoft Advanced CrossFading lets you setup the ‘Gap Killer’ on fall and rise, setting each one’s level in decibels; you can also activate smooth cuts. The ‘Crossfade’ tab lets you adjust the fade in and fade out times, levels and curves, optionally being able to fade songs on stop, skip or seek.

The plugin can be enabled or disabled at will, from the ‘Advanced’ tab, but you can also decide not to crossfade tracks shorter than a user-defined number of seconds. Similarly, you can decide to truncate songs that are longer than a given amount of seconds.