Skipping around in a track using seeker sometimes causes volume drop

[ninjagaijin]

I've only just started using the 11 May build and I noticed several times the past hour when clicking in the waveform seeker, sometimes the track would drop in volume drastically (sounds like 5-10% of full volume). I had volume set to around 50-80% in the program. Clicking on the volume slider fixes the issue whenever it happens. Clicking elsewhere in the waveform seeker again also fixes it, as does the track changing.

I've confirmed this isn't my hardware, as it happens with both my speaker and headphones outputs (and it's a giveaway that it resolves by clicking on the volume bar, or the waveform seeker).

[dro]

Someone else reported this recently but I've not yet been able to replicate it. You could try going to preferences -> plug-ins -> output -> directsound -> fading tab -> disable the "on seek" fading item & see if that makes a difference or not. There's other changes I've been working on with the directsound output plug-in to try to resolve some crashes & locking up issues which possibly might be related to this.

[Aminifu]

I have always wondered about the wording of the "Do not abort fadeout when closing" option. It is enabled by default. Should it be disabled to abort fadeout when closing. I always stop playback before closing WACUP/Winamp, so in my case I figured enabled or disabled didn't matter.

[dro]

If you manually stop playback then it doesn't matter as you note. It's doing as it says so if enabled & fading is applicable it'll cause things to wait for the playback handling to complete before everything else is then done as part of stopping which could potentially trigger an unresponsive crash on closing if someone's messed with the buffer sizes but that's a rare potential issue. It's on by default to be equivalent to what out_ds was doing & what afaict seemed to be expected when using fading but whether it should be on or not is really down to how much you like fading vs wanting things to close quickly. It's not necessarily related to what I think is the problem here but I need to get my head around how I want to do fading irrespective of the output plug-in being used so most of these problems then get shifted elsewhere.

[ninjagaijin]

Someone else reported this recently but I've not yet been able to replicate it. You could try going to preferences -> plug-ins -> output -> directsound -> fading tab -> disable the "on seek" fading item & see if that makes a difference or not. There's other changes I've been working on with the directsound output plug-in to try to resolve some crashes & locking up issues which possibly might be related to this.

Thanks, I've done that now and will test tonight and report back if the issue is resolved, as I was able to make this issue occur every few minutes of skipping through tracks. I'm a DJ preparing for sets so I spend a lot of time skipping with the waveseeker.

Edit: after around 8 hours skipping through tracks, it appears that your suggestion of the setting to modify (disable the "on seek" fading item) has solved the bug