Comment 8 for bug 135926

Doing crossfade in gstreamer is non-trival. Idk about banshee, but I've done some initial design work on it for Exaile and while it's definitely doable it involves a significant redesign of the player code, largely because you can't use playbin to do crossfading. Given that for most users this is a fairly minor issue (less so than gapless at least, which is doable with playbin2), I wouldn't expect crossfading in Exaile before 0.3.1 at the earliest.