Nobody Likes Sloppy Music Transitions
Typical automatic mixing solutions from other prominent providers are seriously flawed by premature fade-outs, unwanted fade-ins, extended silence periods (“gaps”), and arbitrary content segment deletions.
Their methods generally use various forms of DSP (digital signal processing.)
Stated differently, the majority of all other random and fully automatic (i.e., no individual file or playlist database preparation) mixing products or services create song-to-song transitions...
... that sound as if a not-so-smart computer was trying to do what a LIVE and technically proficient "DJ" could do.
List of Problematic Techniques
As disclosed in published patents, the methodology utilized in other so-called gapless playback implementations (but not in Codentity AI Transition Technology) generally includes technical impediments such as:
• Sloppy cross fades
• Frame buffering
• Frame sampling
• Meta tag and song-pair analysis
• Quantization blending
• Buffer blending
• Filter-graphing
• Waveform analysis
• Pre-roll calculations
• File comparisons
• Frame buffering
• Frame sampling
• Meta tag and song-pair analysis
• Quantization blending
• Buffer blending
• Filter-graphing
• Waveform analysis
• Pre-roll calculations
• File comparisons
These DSP processes require CPU overhead and can create transition pairings with imprecise song boundaries and undesirable audio levels.
[The diagrams below depict the poor transition performance generally exhibited by the methodology used in the majority of widely available consumer-grade automatic mixing solutions]
Famous Maker phones
Famous Maker media player apps in cross-fade automix mode
In-Car systems, Streaming services, and various implementations
Unfortunately, the competitor's outcomes depicted above which vary depending on the vendor's device, app, or platform (and song-pairings) are not what the listener would expect to hear.
So, as ingenious as some of the other marketplace designs may be, the Codentity™ patent teaches how to improve the listener experience by disclosing a system and methods that are more pleasing, more efficient, and more consistent.
HINT: The Merriam-Webster dictionary and Microsoft each define a cross-fade (sometimes written as crossfade) in this way:
"to fade in (a sound or image) in a motion picture or a radio or television program while fading out another sound or image"
That is an explicitly unnatural way of delivering a music mix. Codentity AI Transaction Technology does not rely on the often poorly implemented cross-fades heard in many competing technologies.
See video proof that compares the outcome of faulty transitions implemented by mass market automatic mixing designs with the effectiveness of Codentity AI Transition Technology. *
[* Codentity AI Transition Technology (AITT) was formerly branded as Codentity Transition Technology (CTT). The AI designation is used now because it better describes the design and implementation process fully disclosed by the associated patent.]
===========================