andrewilley

Poweramp actually keeps underlying log data of the last playback position of every file it has played. If you wish to resume at that position again whenever you next play the same song, go into Settings=>Library and enable 'Store/Restore Per Track Progress'. There is a threshold slider which controls how long a track needs to be for this resume function to work; normally this would be fairly long so it only resumes for tracks like podcasts, full-length concerts, audiobooks, etc, but if you set it to zero then every song will be resumed rather than starting from the beginning. This is a Global setting, which will always occur when a song is started - including by clicking on a new song, auto-advancing, or using the Next/Prev buttons. There is also a separate option for individual Folders and Playlists only, which you can get to via (menu)=>List Options from each Playlist or Folder view. Enable 'Per Track Progress' to resume playing at the saved playback position. You can also enable 'List Position' which means that when you use the 'Play' icon in the header of that folder or playlist, playback will resume with the last song you listened to - handy for continuing where you left off in a playlist containing a lot of songs, or large folder. These two settings are local to just the specific folders or playlists in which you enable the feature, so if you play from the Album Category for example then only the earlier (Global) Library setting will take effect. You can't set either of these features of only trigger when you manually start a new song from scratch though, they will happen any time a new song begins playing. Andre

Has your version of Android (or the Google Assistant/Android Auto) been updated recently? I'm guessing it probably has as the shuffle/repeat mode change with BT connections only happened in very recent Android 14 builds. PA 981 does have a new option to try to help alleviate this issue in Settings=>Headset/Bluetooth=>Ignore Repeat/Shuffle, but the underlying cause is Android forwarding commands that it did not do before (usually from car headunits). To check if this is the case, see Settings=>Headset/Bluetooth=>Last Processed Commands and see what commands are being sent to Poweramp during the connection. Andre

No, there's no specific limit other than the more files you have the longer scans/etc will take to complete. I would suggest not having too many files directly within any given subfolder as that could potentially slow system access down too. Andre

Try long-pressing on one of the problem songs and select Info/Tags to see what the actual tag contents contain. Andre

I'm not sure why foobar2000 (usually my benchmark for file handling) is creating a valid R128_TRACK_GAIN tag but is setting its value to zero. But that's definitely what it is doing - MP3Tag, TagScanner and even a raw dump of the bytes contained in the file clearly show that: It is also creating a header OutputGain value (which is an overall gain value to be applied to a track, regardless of whether ReplyGain processing is being applied) which Poweramp correctly detects and applies to the whole track. Remember that in addition to any quoted RG value inside tags (in this case, zero) PA also applies a user-configurable offset whenever an RG tag is present - which by default is +5dB - to counter the unexpectedly low volume that the RG spec otherwise defines. If you set that offset value to zero, then only the OutputGain value in the header will get applied, as RG will become nothing (zero plus zero). But yes, using a different format, or a different container for the same audio data, may well solve the problem. Andre

You can't I'm afraid. When you use the 'Shuffle' icon (either in a list header or on the Player Screen) the current playback sequence is randomised so that each new track is a random surprise. What you can do if you want to see and/or adjust a randomised Playlist is to use the 'Re-sort' option in that playlist's three-dots menu, and choose 'Shuffle'. That will permanently re-order the songs in the list into a new random sequence. This has the advantage that you can return to the list at any time and see and move songs around, or you can resume playing a long shuffled list exactly where you left off last time, etc. On the downside though, the change is made to the layout of the original playlist, so you cannot recover the original song order if that was important to you. There is a popular Feature Request for a 'Now Playing' view like the one you mentioned though, which would allow you to see a flattened list of the currently planned song order - regardless of whether that order is based on Categories or Shuffled. You can vote for that feature here, although it's currently already the most requested item: Andre

Disable Settings=>Audio=>Audio Focus=>Short Audio Focus Change. Andee

@alexsrg The licence will be validated and saved on your device. See status in Settings=>About, check it says purchase is verified and stored. If you re-install on a new device again in the future, just enter the same email address and ID number into the Already Purchased? screen again and the licence will be transferred to the new device. Andre

POPM tags are one byte so can technically store up to 255 states - so 10, 25, 50 or 100 ought to be possible - but the normal value in most musical use cases is 0-5 stars, or a thumbs-up/down system (which seems a bit pointless to me for a local file player; why would you be keeping disliked songs on your phone anyway?). Half stars would be rather more difficult to set by finger, but on a decent sized screen I don't think it would a major issue. Not sure how much general demand there would be for it though. Andre

There is a knob marked 'Bass'. If you want more bass, turn it up. Andre

As said above, this is not something that Poweramp supports or is likely to support in the near future (beyond possibly retagging a whole album in one go at some point). For multiple files, you really need to use an external batch tag editing program designed for the purpose. I would suggest MP3Tag or Tagscanner on a PC, but there are a few Android apps that will do it too - although as @Fitzian has stated, Android on a phone is not an ideal platform for mass file processing. I wonder if you actually need to do it though? From what you say, your tags may already be correct but you are perhaps not using the ideal Category sorting method for your music collection? As long as your albums are tagged using the same Album Title and Album Artist tags for every song, the Artist tag can vary song by song (e.g. for collections, collaborations, etc). Then you can use the 'List Options' menu to select your preferred sorting method, and view using either 'Artists' or 'Albums Artists' Categories. There are also some options in Settings=>Library=>Lists to control whether Artist or Album Artist tags are displayed in specific places. If you could describe your problem in more detail, we might be able to offer a better solution than a mass re-tag. Andre

@alexsrg Newer Poweramp website purchases no longer need an unlocker app, and haven't for years - you just use the 'Already Purchased?' link in Settings. Please contact Support at poweramp.maxmpz [at] gmail.com who should be able to sort you out so you can just install the latest v3 APK file downloaded from the website without needing to go back to v2 first. Others

Not in Poweramp, you can only adjust a single wrong song at a time. You'd need to use a batch editor program. Andre

I did say that DSP settings (such as Reverb, Stereo Expand, etc) are NOT saved in Presets - so yes, DSP settings would not be retrieved when you select a new Preset as they would not have been saved in the first place. What is saved are the Equalizer slider settings (whether parametric with frequency and Q values, or traditional graphic) and the Bass/Treble knob positions. Overall system options such as the Frequency and Q setting for the Bass and Treble knobs are not saved per-preset, they are defined system-wide. When you retrieve a particular Preset, the new adjustments (sliders and bass/treble knobs) will remain that way until either you change the settings again manually, or you load a new Preset. Andre

Yes. Andre

@Menasor -81 Correct. Tap 'Save/Assign' from the menu and give your new Preset a recognisable name, and tap Save. You can then retrieve those EQ and Tone adjustments again later from the Presets list. If you also tick one of the items further down in the Assign section before tapping Save, that preset will be automatically assigned for a particular output device (e.g. when you connect a specific Bluetooth headset) or for a particular song, album, folder, genre, etc. Note: it's only the first page of settings that are saved, the second/third pages (Mono/Stereo balance/Tempo/Reverb, etc) won't be restored. Andre

Playlists don't have a "display in a chosen sort order" facility list other Category types do, they simply show the physical contents of the list in its saved, song by song, sequence. The "Re-Sort" menu option simply reorganises that list into a new sequence based on whatever criteria you happened to choose. The result is still just a list of the same songs but in some new order. So as PA can never assume a playlist is 100% alphabetically ordered, it can't use a letter-based scrollbar. You can search within a specific playlist by using the Search icon in its header bar though, and then tap a song to play from the results. Andre

That's not a shoutcast stream, it's a webpage with an embedded player designed to be listened to from a web browser. Andre

You won't receive much support (from anywhere) if you don't provide any information and describe your problem accurately. For example, what device, your Android version, Poweramp version, output method (phone speaker, USB-DAC, Bluetooth?)? What sort of distortion, and is it all the time or during certain types of music? Do you have DVC enabled, and/or any EQ adjustments? Is anything else post-processing the audio (e.g. Dolby option on some devices)? Clearly if it had been fine for years, something must have recently changed in your setup - any ideas what that could be? Andre

Same here at first, I discovered it was tappable by accident too. YAPS is supremely configurable, which is what I like about it, but the way things have been added organically over time sometimes leads to menus that can be tricky to navigate - very much like Poweramp itself to be honest. Andre

If the contained tracks in an album all have different embedded cover images, it can appear random as to which one gets chosen as the album cover in lists. It's most likely down to the first or last file that was originally read from the underlying file system (which as far as I know is unsorted, often based on the order that files were first copied onto the storage). But from a user point of view, just consider it as random. You can always specify your own album cover, but that will override any individual song images (as saved image files take precedence over embedded images). Andre

An interesting idea, but it would be very unlikely to work with synced lyrics as the start times can be imprecise for radio stations (they rarely play songs perfectly from beginning to end) and there are so many varied edits of songs out there. It might be possible to update unsynced lyrics though I guess, if the particular radio station broadcasts accurate title/artist details for each new song. Andre

Unfortunately as a non-standard tag it's probably not something that's very likely in the near future. There are more than one hundred official in the main specs, many of which are pretty esoteric and not yet supported in Poweramp, but Display Artist only exists in one app as far as I know, and it is stored using the extended tagging format as TXXX/DISPLAY ARTIST. Have you found anything else that supports it directly? Andre

Not sure what I can say further, clearly there is something about your system (either in settings or apps) that is conflicting for you. I too have a Galaxy A54 5G (latest Android 14 ROM) and the equalizer works fine with everything that I enable in the Known Players list (e.g. YouTube, Spotify, Samsung Music, Rocket Player, Podcast Addict - even just playing video files from the Gallery). That's either using the built-in speaker or via a USB-C DAC to 3.5mm headset. I don't have any other system audio enhancements enabled (Dolby, etc) apart from 'Change Step Volume' in Samsung Sound Assistant, which is set to 2. I assume you've tried a clean uninstall and reinstall, without bring back any old settings for testing purposes? Andre

No, it's not doable for commercial music services. For music to be played in Poweramp (even from a playlist) it needs to be present in the local Music Library database, which clearly a track from Deezer, Spotify, etc will not be. If you can map your LAN-based storage location as a SMB/CIFS folder on your device, that can be added to your Poweramp Music Folders list and scanned into the Library (but be warned it could be very slow): You can put streaming music sources into Playlists though (which will then be shown in the 'Streams' category in the Library). That also includes online MP3 or other audio files for which there is a specific playable URL path. For example https://freetestdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Free_Test_Data_500KB_MP3.mp3 could be added to PA's Library and/or played from a playlist. There are feature requests to allow simpler playback of LAN-based storage (e.g. local NAS files) or from the user's online storage, but both are actually currently quite low down in the voting order. You can add your vote anyway (once your account has sufficient posts & membership time): Andre