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Thanks for replying so quickly, mate. Have a good weekend!

The problem is that there are hundreds of minor feature requests, and only one developer. I don't think crossfade has been revisited much since it was first introduced to the app in fact. There are some feature requests that date back even longer though. A-B Repeat is close to its 14th birthday by now - although hopefully that might be considered as part of the Player Screen interface customisation options? Andre

Thanks for that perspective and I do appreciate it, but with that being said, I purchased Poweramp around 2012 and jumped on these forums relatively quickly in regards to this question and it's hardly even been addressed...which I find strange. I'm not trying to be deliberately belligerent, but it's not a new request/subject in these forums. Cheers anyway for your reply. I'll try to be patient. 😉

While it is technically possible for LRC data to by synced down to the individual word, it's pretty rare outside of karaoke content. Timecode data is normally supplied for the whole line only. The current line is highlighted as brighter/larger text in Poweramp. If your LRC data does contain individual word info, it will not be processed by Poweramp as it is not intended to be a karaoke machine. Here's a theoretical example from the LRC wiki, which is pretty close to being an unofficial spec. The timecodes shown in <> brackets will be ignored, so for example at 00:06.47 the simple text "And all the joy within you dies " would be highlit. [ti: Somebody to Love] [ar: Jefferson Airplane] [al: Surrealistic Pillow] [lr: Lyricists of that song] [length: 2:58] [by: Person/organization that authored the LRC file] [tool: Software used to create LRC file https://example.com/lrc-maker-pro] [#: Some comment] [00:00.00] <00:00.04> When <00:00.16> the <00:00.82> truth <00:01.29> is <00:01.63> found <00:03.09> to <00:03.37> be <00:05.92> lies [00:06.47] <00:07.67> And <00:07.94> all <00:08.36> the <00:08.63> joy <00:10.28> within <00:10.53> you <00:13.09> dies [00:13.34] <00:14.32> Don't <00:14.73> you <00:15.14> want <00:15.57> somebody <00:16.09> to <00:16.46> love Andre

well it would be really cool if we could change the colour of a word or a sentence in a synced lrc it would probably the most unique thing

Is not a feature of the core app, but the lyric text colour is skinable, which some skins support (e.g. I know YAPS can do it). Andre

Thanks for your reply andrewilley The way it sounded is as if the CPU was at 100% or the buffer was full for processing the audio from the Carlink, but as you mentioned, the playback never stopped. I tried closing all the apps open in the background "there were only 2" and cleaning residual memory, but it didn't help. I have formatted it to exFAT and so far it seems to be working well, it sounds clear and fluid with the passage of tracks. Another possible cause that I have in mind is the "madeAli" TFCard and if it fails again I will replace it with something branded. I will comment on the progress and any ideas will be well received.

well I want to know if this is possible to change the colour of the lrc text I know it may need a whole different code or smth but I really need to know if it's possible and if it ever has been made or realised

I am having same issue. Casts but will not play. Did successfully cast once. But now displays image in photo with no audio or indication it's playing on phone. Build 970. Did have 976 but rolled back due to forum advice. Samsung Galaxy 22 Ultra Android 14

Max was indicating that this sort of change would most likely be made the next time he's working in that area of the app's code, not as a special specific job. How soon that might be is a rather flexible term though, other work may take priority and push into many months or possibly years. Andre

Most Android devices cannot properly handle NTFS drives. Some can read them, but very few can write. Stick with exFat, it's plenty fast enough. It's possible your drive's file system had become damaged and reformat has resolved that, but it's unusual for such issues to result in poor sound quality - files either play or they don't (or possibly they skip badly). Andre

Greetings to all from Spain. As the title says, I have a Carlinkit on my new MG4, I acquired the Poweramp license and installed it, then I started copying audio albums, about 1600 tracks, mostly in mp3. Everything went well at first, very fluid and good audio quality, but after weeks of use and I don't know if it was due to the installation of a SIM "Internet/calls", the audio started to sound bad. I got very low tones or alternating and meaningless highs with distorted voices. I started checking parameters and even restoring them to default but without results. Today I decided to format the 64GB TFcard to NTFS since I read in this forum that the transmission rate is higher. I work on copying the tracks, I was surprised that it is not recognized and I have started passing the tracks in exFat format again. Now I hear it perfectly but I don't know what the reason could have been or how long it will last, any advice is welcome. I think the Carlinkit can go a little fair although it is an Android 13 Qualcomm's QCM6125, Quad-core ARM Cortex™-A73,2.0GHz 8GB LPDDR4 RAM+128GB UFS ROM. Thank you very much in advance.

From what I've read I figured that was the case. I'm aware there's a link earlier on explaining how PA selects the image it decides to use for the artist, however in practice there's nothing I can really do to influence this behaviour, unless anyone knows different. It's deffo more of a niggle than a problem for me, hence my reluctance to spend time creating a folder full of album art that I then manually assign to the album artist list, but very interested if anyone has come up with a workaround.

Afaik, there is no way to manually choose a track's embedded album art as the artist image.

Hey, had a search about in the forum and this seems like the closest match to the issue I'm having getting PA to work the way that I want. I'm in the same boat as taxen23 was in that I can follow what you're saying to do in the UI with regard to changing the artwork, but there's no 3 dots menu to access any further options. All I get is the ability to select an image online or a local image. (The latter which I don't have and don't really want to have to go downloading / extracting duplicate copies of album art that I already have embedded) I don't know whether its a recent Android change which restricts access to the cached artwork files mentioned earlier in this thread, but that option certainly doesn't seem available to me. All I want to achieve is the ability to choose an artist image (visible in artist and album artist lists) from the album covers which are embedded in the .mp3 files. Typically I just want to be able to set the album artists' earliest album as their artist image as this will be the most memorable for me to allow for quick browsing. Thank you in advance for any assistance.

Just out of interest. I'm not sure what kind of timeline you're on, but "touched soon" and we're almost 4 months down the road...any idea when exactly? Cheers! 🙂

It does sound like this is an issue with HyperOS. Perhaps their latest update is not supporting the DUMP permission? I assume you've all tried uninstalling the PA EQ app and reinstalling it, and then running the ADB DUMP process again? It is a slightly hacky workaround to be fair, the real answer is that apps should announce the fact that they are playing audio and that other apps are permitted to access it for making adjustments. Very few app developers seem to add those simple two lines of code into their players though (in Poweramp it's user-configurable, controlled via the 'MusicFX' button), hence the DUMP permission hack which tells Android it can override what the audio player app is saying (or not saying). Andre

I have AA on a Motorola that works with google voice in both my 2010 Mustang (old SYNC) and in my new 23 Maverick. Hands free Google voice works great in these two Fords. I have a new C8 and cannot get Poweramp to use google voice commands. The music plays on my car through my phone and I can use the hand controls to advance ot the next tune etc but if I as "Hey Google Play Gimme Shelter by Poweramp" which works on both my Fords with AA I get a response from google that Poweramp needs to be installed??? Installed Where. On my car I cannot install Poweramp on the unit using Play store - not displayed as on option but it is already on my phone. How does this work on other Chevys??

Same here too , I'll already configured dump premission,but audio processing it's not functioning well. Tested on poco m5 with hyperOS too. Please fix it ASAP @maxmp @andrewilley

Features are limited only by what the app developer chooses. Infrequent updates are also based on the developer's schedule. Not Apple's. There are almost as many restrictions now on Android as there are within iOS. But there are millions of users out there that could benefit from a better experience. Currently the only real options on iOS are Neutron and more recent player BTR AMP. I use both devices and have always expected at some point Poweramp will get ported. I highly doubt this will impact development on the Android side nearly as much as Google has done recently.

I can understand it might be frustrating that a $1500 DAP and $1500 "sounds bad" you're kind of on an island where likely no one is going to have your setup 1:1 to troubleshoot. We here just try to keep folks away from overzealously chasing numbers and stats. If you're not using any EQ/DSP, the precision/sampling rate shouldn't really factor in much anyways (384kHz vs 768kHz). In contrast to UAPP and Neutron, Poweramp has a set output rate that everything must go up to before it reaches your device's DAC. If you have enabled SoX resampler in Poweramp, that process is going to be as transparent (or error free) as you can get. If your library is mostly 44.1kHz content and assorted DSD files, setting an output rate inline with those (44.1kHz, 88.2kHz, 176.4kHz, 352.8kHz) is appropriate. I DO NOT THINK SAMPLE RATE HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOUR BAD SOUND ISSUE. THIS IS JUST "THE MORE YOU KNOW". See the above feature voting request that would bring automatic sample rate switching to Poweramp.

@maxmp Poweramp is the best music app on either platform and you are the best music app developer of this age overall I believe. With closed environment like IOS, yes you can port Poweramp there but with limited features and infrequent updates. Poweramp is the sole reason why many of us are sticking with Android phones. I'd request you rather stay in android world and develop this amazing app further. As @andrewilley rightly said, the list of frequently requested features is quite long 😉. I know even if your involvement is 10% only with Poweramp for IOS, your focus will be diverted anyhow. Stay here 🙏

Fair enough. I didn’t know if that was part of helping identify the issue, which is that it sounds bad. If it sounds great, I’m not too concerned about the numbers.

First, Poweramp processes all audio in stereo PCM (32/64 bit). It does not pass any formats through natively, they need to be converted to PCM first. So no native DSD I'm afraid. And as for above 768kHz? That would make a great app for annoying bats I guess, but I'm not sure how much mainstream traction such a feature would attract. As far as I know, 384kHz is the highest you'll get. Andre