[Bug]: Crossfade between songs (even when crossfade is off)

[18aKissD]

Pre-submission checklist

• I have searched the existing issues and my issue has not already been reported
• I have read the known issues documentation and my issue is not listed there

Installation Method

Releases (AppImage/deb/rpm/tar.gz)

Linux Distribution

Ubuntu 22.04

Tidal Hi-Fi Version

8.1.1

Current Behavior

When the Tidal UI change happened with the moving album cover and others, a slight crossfade appeared. I mostly listen to albums, especially albums, where the tracks connect to each other, so you can imagine how annoying it is that it cuts the first 0.5-1 seconds off the song.

There is a crossfade button that Tidal added to the UI, but that really doesn't do anything. What I am suspecting that this is a bug with the web version, but I am not getting this issue on my phone or in a browser, only tidal-hifi does this.

Sidenote: I have installed it via .deb, but appimage does the same thing. The latest version doesn't really matter, I've checked all versions of tidal-hifi from 6.3.1 to latest.

Expected Behavior

No crossfade

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open the app
2. Play a song that continues with the next one (eg. Kublai Khan - Cloth Ears
3. Seek to near the end
4. Wait until next song (in this case High Hopes) starts
5. Experience the (sadly) crossfaded music

Screenshots and Logs

No response

Additional Context

I don't think the problem is with my linux system settings, since any other player including Tidal in a browser works fine.

If you need audio example of this or any relevant logs please let me know what you need and I will send it to you. Thank you for this amazing app and the support for it :)

[Mastermindzh]

Tidal-hifi never touches anything that looks like crossfade or volume manipulation in its default loops so I'm unsure where this comes from.
Can you try the following one by one and report wether the crossfade works?:

• Set User Agent to default (Settings → Advanced) and restart
• Toggle the 192kHz flag off (if on).
• Check Tidal's own Settings → Playback for a crossfade/"loudness normalization"/gapless toggle inside the web UI
• Compare the User Agent string the working browser sends against the one from tidal-hifi (or just give me that User Agent string)

[18aKissD]

I have tested out these, but they does not work unfortunately. I have replaced the User Agent with mine: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:153.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/153.0 but it did not work too. Just to report, I am on Ubuntu 22.04, but my brother is on Arch (latest) and he's experiencing the same issue.

I have tried different Tidal Channel/url, stable and beta does the same thing, TV is not crossfading, but has a little fetch time between songs.