<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">I don't know about the plans for playbin2, but some basic crossfading support is already in rhythmbox[1] and pitching can be done with soundtouch[2]. so long :wq buz [1] <a href="http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/rhythmbox/trunk/backends/gstreamer/rb-player-gst-xfade.c?view=markup" target="_blank">http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/rhythmbox/trunk/backends/gstreamer/rb-player-gst-xfade.c?view=markup</a> [2] <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-bad-plugins/html/gst-plugins-bad-plugins-plugin-soundtouch.html" target="_blank">http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-bad-plugins/html/gst-plugins-bad-plugins-plugin-soundtouch.html</a></blockquote> <div> Thanks for the links, buz. I had already known about rhythmbox, but the soundtouch is something I will have to check out soon.  To elaborate on my initial question, I wanted to know if playbin2 was going to provide crossfader support because of some rumors that it will be providing gapless playback support.  However, I'm not sure if it is actually going to be implemented or if its just that the about-to-finish signal is there to help others develop it into their programs?? If crossfading is going to be available in GStreamer in the near future, there might not be much point in working on it myself.  Same goes for gapless. Thanks, Neil </div>