Some of you have no doubt noticed that for the past few days songs are "crossfaded" into one another so that they overlap a bit. Sometimes it works OK, but a lot of the time it sounds pretty graceless, and sometimes it's downright jarring.
There is a reason for it: software now exists that will allow people to "rip" a stream to their hard drive, even breaking the songs into separate files with appropriate file names and tags (artist, title, etc.). I do a number of things to prevent this (one is running a very lo-fi mono stream!). This "crossfading" business is another. Running the songs together makes it impossible for the software to identify when one song ends and another starts. So this is an attempt to thwart people who are trying to "steal" the music. I'm going to continue to try to tweak it to make the transitions less jarring, or I may just do away with it altogether.
John
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