[rhythmbox/mallard-help] Add better explanation on gapless playback. Add better help in using crossfade feature. Reflow conte
- From: Sindhu S <sindhus src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [rhythmbox/mallard-help] Add better explanation on gapless playback. Add better help in using crossfade feature. Reflow conte
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:26:29 +0000 (UTC)
commit 140f7f9e7b3bbf3ae3fe9aec215e2ebfce682fd3
Author: Sindhu S <sindhus live in>
Date: Tue Mar 26 12:55:25 2013 +0530
Add better explanation on gapless playback.
Add better help in using crossfade feature.
Reflow content where necessary.
help/C/gapless-playback.page | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/help/C/gapless-playback.page b/help/C/gapless-playback.page
index 1f52d7c..4af885d 100644
--- a/help/C/gapless-playback.page
+++ b/help/C/gapless-playback.page
@@ -19,56 +19,61 @@
<title>Remove gap between tracks during playback</title>
- <p>Most tracks include brief periods of silence at the end of each song, and
- there are sometimes brief periods of silence at the beginning of a song, too.
- Reducing or removing these periods of silence is called <em>Gapless
- Playback</em>.</p>
+ <p>Most tracks include brief periods of silence at the beginning and end of
+ each song. Reducing or removing these periods of silence is called
+ <em>Gapless Playback</em>. Enabling <gui>Crossfade between tracks</gui>
+ makes a track start and quickly quickly without any duration of silence.</p>
<section id="enable-crossfade">
<title>Enable Gapless Playback</title>
- <p>To enable <em>Gapless Playback</em> in <app>Rhythmbox</app>:</p>
-
- <steps>
- <item>
- <p>Locate the settings icon to the right most corner of
- <app>Rhythmbox</app>, next to the icon for
- <link xref="volume-controls"/>. From the menu, select
- <guiseq><gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui>
- <gui style="tab">Playback</gui></guiseq>.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Select <gui style="checkbox">Crossfade between tracks</gui>.
- <app>Rhythmbox</app> is now set to overlap the few final playback
- duration of a song with the initial playback duration of a song.</p>
- </item>
- </steps>
+ <p>To enable <em>Gapless Playback</em> in <app>Rhythmbox</app>:</p>
+ <steps>
+ <item>
+ <p>In the <gui>Activities</gui> top bar, right click on
+ <app>Rhtyhmbox</app> and from the menu, select
+ <guiseq><gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui>
+ <gui style="tab">Playback</gui></guiseq>.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Select <gui style="checkbox">Crossfade between tracks</gui>.</p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
</section>
<section id="custom-crossfade">
<title>Customize Gapless Playback Duration</title>
- <p>To change the amount of time that the tracks overlap:</p>
+ <p>By default, the crossfade duration is set to zero seconds. To customize
+ this:</p>
<steps>
<item>
- <p>From the settings icon, select <guiseq>
- <gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui>
+ <p>In the <gui>Activities</gui> top bar, right click on
+ <app>Rhtyhmbox</app> and from the menu, select
+ <guiseq><gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui>
<gui style="tab">Playback</gui></guiseq>.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>Once you can have enabled
- <gui style="checkbox">Crossfade between tracks</gui>, you can move the
+ <p>Ensure that you can have enabled
+ <gui style="checkbox">Crossfade between tracks</gui>. Now, drag the
<gui style="button">Crossface Duration (Seconds)</gui> slider to the
- left or right. As you move the slider, <app>Rhythmbox</app> will display
- the length of the overlap in seconds.</p>
+ left or right. Moving the slider to the left decreases the crossfade
+ duration and moving the right will increase the duration. As you move
+ the slider, <app>Rhythmbox</app> will display the length of the
+ overlap.</p>
</item>
</steps>
+ <p>For example, if you set the crossfade duration to be eight seconds, when
+ you play a track, you will hear the first eight seconds of the next track in
+ the last eight seconds of the currently played track.</p>
+
<note style="important">
<p>For will need to restart <app>Rhythmbox</app> for these settings to
- take effect.</p></note>
+ take effect.</p>
+ </note>
</section>
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