andrewilley
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Sounds like something laggy in your device's storage. Try waiting a few seconds before starting playback? IS your music stored locally, on SD Card, or elsewhere?
"Albumart glitches badly" ? Not sure what you mean by that, can you post a screenshot?
Andre
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5 hours ago, Wibbly said:
Thanks for the reply. I meant in terms of tone controls being in two places in the app.
They aren't. The Tone control knobs in the main EQ screen allow you to set how much boost - e.g. +6dB - you want applied to the Bass or Treble in the current song. The Settings page allows you to configure the target frequency for those knobs, and how wide the boosted zone should be (Q).
Andre
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That does not seem to be a plain shoutcast stream, nothing on my PC plays it. The root website URL requires a login, do you have to be logged in with an account to listen on a computer for example?
Andre
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The options in the PA Equalizer=>Settings=>Equalizer page are global controls which govern how these functions work internally (for example the frequencies that are used as the central 'target' point when you turn the Bass or Treble knobs up or down).
The controls in the actual EQ screens are more about the level of local adjustment required at the time of listening.
Andre
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1) Correct, a CUE file can be named anything.cue. The corresponding audio content is found using the FILE line in the cue file, which looks for a matching file in the local folder.
2) I don't know of another way to provide metadata other than embedding it. If there is no metadata, PA will use the filename for the song Title, and if there are leading or trailing digits in the filename, those will be used as the Track Number.
3) M3U files are not parsed for any title/etc details, all that is used is the storage subfolder location of the audio file. Any displayed info for listed songs is the data that was already in the Library from when the audio file was originally scanned.
A bit more testing later, and it seems that multiple instances of the FILE line are supported, but the same requirement exists that there must be more than one track defined for every valid FILE entry. So if you add a fake "TRACK 02" entry, the songs will become visible. But then of course you've got a ton of spurious songs in the CUE 'folder' which aren't needed.I created a TEST 1.CUE file:
TITLE "Test Album" PERFORMER "Test Album Artist" FILE "Test File 1.mp3" MP3 TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "Title One" PERFORMER "Artist One" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Title Two" PERFORMER "Artist Two" INDEX 01 00:30:00 FILE "Test File 2.mp3" MP3 TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Title Three" PERFORMER "Artist Three" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "Title Four" PERFORMER "Artist Four" INDEX 01 01:00:00That resulted in a songs pseudo-folder like this, where tracks 1 and 2 are based on the first audio file, and 3 and 4 are played from the second audio file:
So the problem for you is still the restriction of requiring more than one song to be defined for any given audio file. The logic is quite sensible in that if the CUE file just creates one song, why not keep it simple and use the actual MP3 file instead? Your usage case is pretty rare, but as you've described it I can see the case for allowing single-track CUE files, so @maxmp any chance of allowing that in a future version of PA?
Andre
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Hmm, Poweramp is at its heart a MUSIC player, not a podcast / audiobook player, but I would have thought the existing folder system should allow you to do what you need. I'm suggesting using folders by the way, in preference to embedded Category tags, as I find tagging information can be pretty unreliable in podcasts/etc.
I would suggesting organising your audio files in this sort of layout:
/Audio/Podcasts/subfolders/etc
/Audio/Audio Books/subfolders/etc
/Audio/Audio Plays/subfolders/etc
/Audio/Music/subfolders/etcSet 'Folders Hierarchy' as your default Library View, and you can then drill down into whichever section you like from there. You could even use two master folders instead of one Audio folder (enabled separately in the Music Folders menu) called Music and Spoken Word (or something similar), and nest everything else in subfolders underneath those two names.
As for shuffling only the music content and not the podcasts/etc, open the Music folder so you can see all of its subfolders, and tap on the 'Shuffle' icon in the header area. Note: that will result in shuffling by subfolders first, and then their contents; if you want to shuffle songs completely randomly from any Music subfolders, enable Settings=>Library=>Shuffle=>'Shuffle All Songs in Folder Hierarchy'.
This works very well for me anyway, and I listen to a lot of podcasts and audio dramas too.
Andre
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I've just done some tests, and - presumably to reduce redundancy - Poweramp appears to ignore CUE files which contain just one track index. I assume this is to avoid the sort of issues which I recall from a long time back, where people had got ripped CDs with separate CUE files for each song in an album, a situation which should be handled via tags rather than CUE files.
Of course the official purpose of a CUE file is to split one master audio file into several smaller chunks (normally tracks) for playback purposes, it's not really designed to provide metadata that should be embedded in the audio file. Hence, per the spec, only one FILE command is supported, at the start of the CUE file.
Andre
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Not tried it (I used metadata) but a single CUE file per each audio file should work.
Andre
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@Loweaul Just tap the 'X' symbol at the top-right of the pop-up to close it without taking any action.
Andre
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I don 't see why Kef's update to also support Google Cast 2.0 should break existing functionality, but from what you've said that does seem to be what they've done.
@maxmp Any thoughts on this, do you have any other test kit which supports Google Cast 2.0 and does that break legacy Chromecast playback too?
Andre
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Poweramp does announce song details via the status bar Media notification of course, which is available for any other app to use should it want to. I agree it seems an annoyingly pointless thing to do, but if Telegram (or Discord) wants to know what's playing, the information is available.
Andre
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So you want to spam all your friends with details of your private music listening, even though they can't hear it?
Andre
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@6b6561 That was kinda what I was assuming was being asked, but I can't see support for video-intended subtitles coming any time soon (which would include the more-common SRT format too). LRC seems to be the de facto standard for audio file text streams, and as you say it's easy enough to convert anyway.
As for "desktop lyrics display", I assume the request is for floating lyrics which can hover over the top of other apps, which has been requested once or twice before I think. That would require extra Android permissions I suspect, and possibly be questioned for an audio player app. Are there any Android music players which offer this?
Andre
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Do you mean WebVTT? If so, why, as that's a video subtitle system isn't it?
Andre
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By "local" files I meant ones that Poweramp is reading and decoding to PCM for processing, and then outputting in full again to the Chromecast device. As opposed to a streaming service (YouTube etc) where the loudspeaker actually does all the heavy lifting, all the phone is doing is telling the speaker where on the internet the music resides and the speaker fetches it.
Retrieving from the NAS and outputting the same content to the speaker could be the issue here though (it's not something that Poweramp natively supports, although some third-party apps can map the NAS's content into Android's storage framework). Have you tried putting a few of your audio files into the phone's internal storage as a test?
Andre
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Oh, and a bit of into about your device, its Android version, chosen output method, etc would help too. As a new member here for about an hour, your entire first post basically only says that for you, playback stops after 30 seconds. You don't even say if this coincides with the screen going to sleep?
You also mention that lots of people have apparently bought Poweramp based on your recommendation. Are they all having the same issue, and if so is there anything that all your systems have in common?
Andre
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2 hours ago, Dwaynebmw said:
This started about 5 days ago. Nothing was added to my phone.
Nothing was changed.
So I have to assume it's the app.
Why do you have to assume it's the app if neither the app or anything else has changed. Are you saying that nothing at all has ever been updated via the Play Store?
Andre
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Again, is the difference due to playing local files on the phone - versus streamed content such as YouTube/Spotify. They are handled in completely different ways.
Andre
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I assume you have disabled the 'Prefer Downloaded Album Art' option? Although that shouldn't cause the default placeholder Poweramp logo to be shown when there's an in-folder image.
And you've checked that the image files are within the allowed spec for Poweramp to use them?
Andre
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Do the other apps play local content correctly - i.e. files on your phone rather than sourced/streamed over the internet? Often the issue can be bandwidth, are both devices on the same local wireless network (e.g. 5GHz signal vs 2.4 GHz). Does the problem eventually correct itself if you leave it trying for long enough? Have you tried disconnecting and re-pairing both devices' wireless connections?
Andre
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What you ideally want is presumably a bit-perfect (or at least no resampling) mode, which is something you can vote for in the Feature Requests system:
Andre
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Skins wouldn't do it either, they only work with content provided by the core app. Not sure what you remember I'm afraid.
Andre
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It's often referred to as "scrubbing", and yes I agree it would be nice to have audible feedback when you move the scroll cursor back and forth - in the same way that there is audio confirmation when you use the FastForward or FastRewind features by long-pressing on >> or <<.
Andre
More comprehensive Backup / Restore for settings and database entries
in Poweramp Feature Requests
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@RiedRied As long as it's the new format of backup (extender will be .poweramp-backup) then it's a ZIP file.
Andre