Cannot switch off crossfade

[Kalex5]

Dear all, Can someone please help me to disable the crossfade function in spotify? I tried the normal crossfade function in the menu, and put this to zero (No effect). When skipping tracks, the music starts randomly between 1 and 30 seconds of the new track. when the a song is on repeat the tracks starts at the beginning. I tried reinstallation of the app and moved the crossfade timing to 1 sec but the problem remains. Thank you in advance! regards, Alex

[Bittencourt]

Hey @Kalex5, thanks for writing!

Does it happen in all playlists or just in some?

Can you please let me know if it happens when playing this one?

[Sophiss]

Same problem here. Crossfade is enabled on some playlists only (i.e : Beast Mode by Spotify). Never had this problem before today. Had an update installed this morning, version 1.1.2.285.ga97985ef.

@Bittencourt Global Top 50 works properly.

[Bittencourt]

Hey @Sophiss and @Kalex5 

This is not a bug, but a feature 🙂

In some playlists, mostly the ones in the electronic genre, are curated in a way that the song order is designed to have smooth transitions, sometimes with beatmatching like in a DJ set.

This way the beggining of the following song won't be at 0:00 even if you have the crossfade disabled.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

[Sophiss]

Well, it doesn't add anything to Beast Mode in particular. The songs change suddenly in the middle of the lyrics...

[frankzamboni]

Is there any way to override it, though? I don't want any crossfade, regardless of the playlist or genre.

[Bittencourt]

Hi @frankzamboni, thanks for writing.

Yes, there's a workaround for this. Just select all songs in the playlist and copy them to a new, empty playlist and it will work the way you want 🙂

Let me know if you have any other questions!

[Alfamos]

There has to be a better way yo do it

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@Bittencourt wrote:

Hi @frankzamboni, thanks for writing.

Yes, there's a workaround for this. Just select all songs in the playlist and copy them to a new, empty playlist and it will work the way you want 🙂

Let me know if you have any other questions!

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[Bittencourt]

Hey @Alfamos, thanks for writing.

In my opinion that's a pretty easy workaround, but let me know if you find out a better way to do it.

There's also this idea that suggests an on/off button for the crossfade on those playlists 🙂

[AceAaron]

It shows that I have cross fade off but it's overlapping my songs by 10 seconds. 

[Dian]

Hey @AceAaron ,

Thanks for posting in the Community.

Are you able to turn off the Crossfade feature on a different device and with a different account? Also make sure to perform a clean reinstall of the app on the device you're using as described here. This resolves most of the common issues.

Let us know how that went,

Cheers!