andrewilley

What output methods have you tried in Settings=>Audio=>Output? OpenSL ES is the default, but you could try AAudio, AudioTrack, or Hi-Res for example? If Samsung have broken one method for you, one of Poweramp's other modes might help. Andre

@AnkitDas Have you tried another Output method, AAudio or AudioTrack for example? Andre

You've probably got a Preset assigned which is kicking back in automatically. When you advance to a new song, PA will look for any user-assigned presets for that song, folder, album, folder, genre, or output device and apply any required Preset accordingly. If you open the EQ screen, you'll see the name of the currently selected preset in the middle of the screen. If you then make an adjustment, the assigned name will disappear and the button will revert to the default wording 'Preset'. However next time you change to a new track, the required preset for that track will be re-loaded. You can enable 'Auto Save' in the three-dots menu to force any slider changes that you make to be saved back to the currently in-use Preset. Andre

@BriD55 Your phone has presumably been updated to Android 14, which is what will have caused the problem (see earlier messages in this thread). We still don't know why Android has only now started passing on these commands from car head units, but Poweramp is just following the instructions it receives. Max thought he'd solved it with the 'Ignore Repeat/Shuffle' option, but some do still seem to getting through (it's hard to test every situation as it only affects certain devices connecting to certain car head units). It should be further addressed in the next release of Poweramp though, whenever that occurs. Or maybe Google/Samsung will correct the issue from their end, as it only started happening with Android 14. Andre Andre

@6b6561 Poweramp doesn't care about "/" vs "\" delimiters, both will work fine. Andre

Probably non-standard tag names. Wavpak used to only support ID3v1 or APEv2, so issue might be there too. Try MP3Tag or TagScanner, and if they don't work as expected upload a sample file for checking. Or perhaps consider converting to a more regular file format. Andre

No idea, what changed yesterday in your system? Have any of the apps or system updated, or did you make any manual setting changes? Andre

@Ajm Yes, your assessment is correct that you would need to use some sort of external mechanism to get your music and Playlist files from your PC to your phone. Poweramp has no integrated file management systems, it basically expects your music to be present in local storage ready to be scanned into its database. It can do a few specific tasks such as user-requested deleting of files you no longer need, tweaking embedded tags on a song-by-song basis, searching for online cover artwork or lyrics based on the embedded song tags - but nothing that could really be called music file management. The fact that you only want a subset of your PC (or iTunes) music collection on your phone makes any kind of automation very difficult to set up. I'm the same, I have close to a terabyte of random audio files on my PC, but only about 80Gb of them on my phone. I initially set that up using manual folder drag-and-drop, and I can't really see another way to do it reliably. There are music management tools that automate syncing, such as MusicBee or MediaMonkey for example, but again I can't really see how they could decided what sections of your content to copy. Also there have been issues experienced by some users with regard to updated content not being flagged as refreshed for Poweramp's database. I use FolderSync (as mentioned above) for certain tasks, but pretty tightly defined - for example automatically copying content from internal podcast app locations into my chosen music folder hierarchy. It can copy across shared systems too, so if your music is in an FTP location or SMB share (mine is on a NAS) then it could sync content from external folders on there to folders on your phone. I use it to automatically back up my phone's new DCIM/Camera content to my server's photo storage overnight for example. But again, defining suitable rules would be tricky. What FolderSync would be very good at would be maintaining a sync between your tablet and your phone though, so you'd only need to manage the content on one device and any changes could be automatically echoed over onto the other device(s). Playlists can be created and managed within Poweramp, or loaded from existing M3U/etc files. M3U files work well across platforms as long as the filenames and the first folder they are contained within are consistent (so for example a given filename is contained within the same album folder on all of your filesystems; higher levels of folder naming and storage references like C:\Users\etc are ignored) Andre

Poweramp will send audio to whatever device Android says is the current chosen output (this can sometimes be adjusted in Samsung devices using their SmartThings menu). But normally, connecting a BT device which is set up to act as an audio profile (i.e. not for only phone calls) should then route the audio to it. Try unpairing and re-pairing the headset and check that it is set for stereo music output (also called "A2DP"). You could also try resetting the Output method in Poweramp back to Default, or try a different encoding method in PA Settings=>Audio=>Output (e.g. try AAudio, AudioTrack, or Hi-Res instead of plain OpenSL ES). Auto-playback resuming can be triggered in several ways. It can be enabled/disabled in Poweramp (in PA Settings=>Headset/Bluetooth) but it's also possible that the BT device itself is sending a KEYCODE_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE button event, which Poweramp will then respond to. You can check this via the log in PA Settings=>Headset/Bluetooth=>Last Processed Commands. Recent builds of PA (e.g. 981) have an extra option in the Headset/Bluetooth menu to force ignoring of any commands received within a certain period after a BT connection is established, which may help in this sort of situation. Andre

Tested build 976 on Samsung Galaxy A70 / Android 11, and build 981 on Galaxy A54 / Android 14, and balance works fine on various output methods (Bluetooth, Wired headset on A70, USB DAC, with OpenSL ES, AAudio, High-Res where available, etc). Balance control works fine on all of them. Try resetting the Output menu to default and also the EQ screen to default, or finally try a complete reinstall. Note: Even at either maximum setting, the balance control does not completely mute the supposedly disabled stereo channel, it just attenuates it to very nearly silent. Not sure if this is by design, but it wasn't what I was expecting to happen. Andre

@eng 6955 Again, please vote for user-customisable formatting strings for the current Title, Artist-Album, and metadata lines, which could then be set up however you want (within the limitations of needing to be tags that have been scanned into the music database). Andre

PA can only process commands that it receives via Android. If Android does not pass the command onward, PA can't do anything. Andre

No, it's not currently possible to change the current Title/Artist/Album wording, either in song lists or the Player Screen. Nor the metadata content. There is a popular Feature Request to make this text user-configurable though, which you can add your vote to here (when your account is two days/two posts old): Andre

That log seems to show multiple connections and disconnections, did you do that manually or did the connection keep resetting itself? The audio path is via Bluetooth (quite common for Android Auto, even with USB cabled devices) so worth trying with DVC turned off in Poweramp, and/or with Absolute Volume Control disabled in Android Settings=>Developer Options. Andre

I guess the TL;DR answer to this is not easily, and not with any sort of automatic syncing process. Poweramp expects you to provide it with a local folder location (on device or SD Card) that already contains your music files in a folder/subfolder layout of your choice - artist>album>songfiles would be easiest, but you can work out your own if you wish. Metadata (artist, title, album, genre, cover artwork, etc) should be embedded within the audio files as tagged data so Poweramp can organise everything neatly into its music library. Any playlists should be provided in a standard format (e.g. M3U or PLS) and must contain references to the specific songfiles using the exact same filenames and first-level containing folder structure (e.g the same album subfolder name). The root device-specific storage structure is ignored for better cross-system portability. Playlists are only resolved by looking at the subfolder/filename locations of the music files, they cannot identify particular songs by tag content. Poweramp has no automatic storage management tools though (other than user-requested file deletion), so you would need to download all of your music files from iTunes first, along with any playlists converted into (for example) M3U format, and then copy all of that content to a suitable location in your device's storage. Poweramp can pick it up from there. There are music syncing apps out there which can, with a bit of work, maintain a matching file library across several devices. But we have seen a few issues occurring with such setups, especially in relation to files not being recognised as refreshed when changes are made. My own personal preference is to do the job manually myself using drag-and-drop so I have complete control - but then I don't use iTunes at all, and Apple do have a habit of re-complicating anything they come near. Andre