EthelTheFrog

ReplayGain is essential to my listening experience because, for no good reasons, the Loudness War is still a thing. Unfortunately, ReplayGain scanners, though better than nothing, are never perfect. Varying dynamic range levels can trip them up, and it doesn't really make sense to normalize the loudness of, say, a death metal album and an ambient synth album. Typically, these error margins are acceptable because it usually only takes a few seconds of listening and a few volume level adjustments to find the sweet spot. However, this isn't always the case. One of my all-time favorite albums is raison d'être's Mise en Abyme (2014). This is a dark ambient album whose first track is a 12-minute slow build. Here, the error margins of the ReplayGain scanner aren't acceptable. I want to set the volume at the outset and know that the climax 10-ish minutes in is going to be at the right volume. Thankfully, the album is mastered at the K-14 level, so I can turn off ReplayGain, set the volume at the level that the ReplayGain scanner seems to approximate (70% in Poweramp with DVC enabled with my Hiby R5 and Campfire Audio Andromeda's), and listen away. Obviously, not every album is mastered at K-14. But I would still like my ReplayGain to be more accurate so I don't have to adjust the volume level. To this end, I have discovered that, at least with my setup, 1% on the volume knob is equal to 1 dB. So, if I listen to an album (without a ReplayGain tag) and the comfortable listening volume level is 62%, I'll edit the ReplayGain tag to -8.00 dB to match the 70% of the K-14 level mastered albums. I do this in Yate (on Mac), but then I have to delete and re-upload the files onto my DAP. It would be very helpful if I could edit the album ReplayGain tag in the app to effectively bake-in the volume level without having to reconnect my DAP to my computer.

Cool! I will definitely try this out.

Ok, so this is totally off the wall, but I figured I'd post it in case anyone else is interested. I'm often in the position where I know I want to listen to something but I can't choose what. I'm sure we've all been there. Years ago I read some literature on choice paralysis that concluded that the optimal number of options for an intelligent choice is about 5. So here's what I do in these situations: I have some Python code that scans the music collection on my computer, randomly samples some albums, and then generates image files of those options. I then bulk transfer a bunch of these images to my DAP for access when I can't decide what to listen to. I pull up the next image and then choose one of the albums. This process works fine, but it would be cool to have something similar work natively. I've attached an example of one of these quasi-album shuffle iterations.

Thank you, Andre. I was able to get it work with the correctly-placed folder.jpg's. My problem was that I needed to use the Android File Transfer app instead of simply copy/pasting from my Mac to my micro SD card.

Hi, I just purchased a Hiby R5 Gen 2 and installed Poweramp as my go-to player. I primarily use the "Folders Hierarchy" view because my library is organized by "/Decade/Year/Artist-Album". As is, the app automatically chooses each folder's thumbnail image as the album art of the first song in the terminal folder when everything is sorted alphabetically and numerically. For example, the thumbnail for the "1980's" folder is Angel Witch - Angel Witch because that album was from 1980 (1980 < 1981 < 1982 etc.) and because, within the "1980" folder, the "Angel Witch - Angel Witch" folder is the first alphabetically. Is there a way to manually choose the thumbnail image for each folder level? I have tried playing around with folder.jpg's, but that hasn't worked. If this is not possible, I would like to suggest it has a feature. Ideally, I would like to change the thumbnail for "1980's" to the artwork from my favorite album from the 1980's, and so on for other decades. And I would like to change the thumbnail for "/1980's/1980" to my favorite album from 1980, and so on for other individual years. I'm on the most recent version of Poweramp, and my device is running Android 8.1.0. Thanks.