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@vierwood There are two factors you need to consider when setting up a shuffle sequence, the Shuffle mode and the Repeat mode. Taking Genre playback as an example, you can trigger listening in several ways.
1) If you open the category view for a Genre (let's use "Electronic" as an example) you can simply tap on the 'Shuffle' icon in the header area for random playback to commence. The sequence will be to pick one album at random from that genre first, and shuffle all of its songs. After that album is finished, playback will move on to another randomly chosen Electronic album and that will be played in shuffled order, etc.
2) However If you want to listen to every individual electronic song in your collection completely randomly (i.e. with no album grouping) there is one extra step. First tap on 'All Genre Songs' at the top of the Genre list, and only then tap the 'Shuffle' icon. Playback will be a completely random selection from all of your Electronic songs - 176 of them in my example case.
Note: if you always want to shuffle all of the songs in a Category, i.e. never grouped by albums first, you can avoid that extra 'All Genre Songs' tap by choosing Settings=>Library=>Shuffle=>Category Items Shuffle = Shuffle Songs.
Finally (phew!) what happens at the end of each album - or at the end of the whole genre song list if that's the method you have chosen - is governed by the Repeat icon on the Player Screen:
- If you set it to 'Repeat Off', playback will stop at the end of each album (or at the end of the genre songs list).
- If you set it to 'Repeat Category', playback will restart again with the current album (or the same genre songs list) in a newly re-shuffled order.
- If you set it to 'Advance Category', then at the end of the current album (or the full genre songs list) playback will move on to a new album (or genre category). This is not what you asked for, so this is unlikely to be the right mode for your needs.
The wording of those Repeat options is a bit of a legacy throwback - which hopefully might get updated in some future build to help avoid confusion for new users - but basically think of 'Repeat Off' as really meaning 'Play Current Category', while 'Advance Category' means 'Play All Categories'.
Manually pressing the '>>' or '>>>' buttons will override the automatic Repeat action by the way. So '>>>' will always move on to the next album/Category, as that is what you have explicitly asked to happen.
For more info on using the different Repeat and Shuffle modes, see:Andre
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@pedrospdc Have you tried enabling different output methods for Bluetooth (in PA Settings=>Audio=>Output), increasing the buffer size for the chosen method, or reducing the sample-rate or bit-depth? Also try with DVC turned off (or on).
Andre
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If it's happening with all songs, the option you need to disable is Settings=>Library=>Store/Restore Per-Track Progress.
If you want to keep that functionality for long tracks only (useful for podcasts, audio books, etc) there is an adjustable threshold slider on the same page (which is probably set to very short at the moment).
Andre
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Great. YAPS seems to have more options than you can shake a stick at, so it can take a bit of mastering, but it's very flexible if you persevere.
Andre
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Even when using a USB cable connection, it's quite likely that the audio content will still be passed from your phone to the Android Auto headunit via Bluetooth (although that can vary for different headunits). There may be a setting in the AA controls to autoplay, or you can use the options in PA Settings=>Headset/Bluetooth.
Usually the headunit's volume/etc controls will still work when listening via Android Auto, so you should be able to adjust those via its own Audio Settings screen. You can also use the EQ page within Poweramp, but you'd need to do that from the phone rather than the headunit. You can also assign EQ presets in PA if you wish - for example so a particular set of EQ/tone adjustments trigger whenever your car is connected.
Shuffle modes won't be changed unless you select a new playback type - e.g. by tapping the 'Shuffle' entry at the top of an Android Auto list. You can also adjust the active Shuffle mode using AA's on-screen control buttons (note: the available buttons shown on the AA screen can be reconfigured using PA Settings=>Misc=>Buttons; you can't change the basic '<<' , 'Play/Pause' , and '>>' buttons, but the rest are configurable).
Andre
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Latest build is 981, should be visible in Settings=>About, but sounds like you've got that anyway.
Andre
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@oskado It does sound very much like something is changing the filenames (or folders) so songs gets read as a 'new' items. You can long-press on any song and select Info/Tags to see the audio file's path and exact filename.
As for how I copy files to my phone, mostly I just use a file explorer app with networking capabilities to access my NAS. Sometimes direct from the PC via USB cable though, or wirelessly using FTP transfer from Windows.
Andre
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@Kloppstock There is no need to delete any old playlists before creating a new one, you can have pretty much as many as you like.
Deleting an internal playlist (i.e. one without an .M3U or similar extender) requires no permissions.
Deleting a file-based (M3U, etc) does require access permission, but since any such playlists would have been stored within your already-accessible music folders (they wouldn't have been scanned otherwise) that should not require any new permissions.
When you try to send a log, yes you would need to have some sort of email handing app available. But even if you don't have internet access on the device in order to send it directly, you could still copy the resulting text to the clipboard, and then paste it back into a blank text file in a text editor app. Then copy that file to somewhere that does have proper email access.
Andre
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@PietDB There are button-style commands being sent by your BT headphones in that log. You can tell Poweramp to ignore such events for up to ten seconds after a connection is established which may help. Settings=>Headset/Bluetooth=>Ignore Bluetooth Commands.
Andre
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@taffer Strange, I can't duplicate that on either of my Samsung devices, in the standard or third-party skins. Is there any particular sequence of operations that causes this, or does it happen every time you swipe away from the lockscreen with PA playing?
Andre
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@abidali The stand-alone Equalizer app works by triggering Android's audio path manipulation features, which were only introduced in Android 9 (and ideally 10+). It cannot function without those tools as it has no direct access to read, manipulate, and re-output the audio data from other apps.
Although the internal equalizer in the Music Player app looks similar in terms of its user interface, it is completely different under the hood. It works on the audio content directly, which it has already read from the audio files, using its own built-in processes.
Andre
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Are you playing via Bluetooth? If so, this could be a known Android 14 bug in which the BT connection requests the player app to change its Repeat and/or Shuffle modes. Any such commands can be seen in PA Settings=>Headset/Bluetooth=>Last Processed Commands, and you will notice the Repeat and Shuffle icons on the player screen will change modes accordingly.
PA can now be instructed to ignore these spurious commands with Settings=>Headset/Bluetooth=>Ignore Repeat/Shuffle.
Andre
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Generally, Poweramp supports a subset of the dozens of tags already defined in the official specs. And neither ID3 nor Vorbis define an 'Artists' tag as far as I'm aware. It's not really possible to support every extra tagging variant invented by various third-party apps for their own use.
PA does support multiple artists though - either via separator symbols within tags, or using multiple instances of Vorbis ARTIST tags - and it can also display the full unsplit strings too, if the user selects that option.
Supporting the isolated tags for ARTISTSORT, ALBUMSORT, TITLESORT, etc is something that has been suggested in the past, but it's not on the to-do list for adding any time soon as far as I know.
Andre
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@abidali Unfortunately your Android version is too old, the stand-alone Poweramp Equalizer app requires Android 9 or later. The music player can be used on Android 5+ but it cannot equalize other apps' output, only its own.
You can probably upgrade your headunit though, Googling it shows Android 11 is fairly readily available. Be very sure you are using a compatible upgrade for your device though.
Andre
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As these sort of 3-hour files will be too large to send via email, please could you temporarily upload a couple of samples via a file sharing site such as Dropbox, Google Drive, etc for testing. As Max has said, there are so many variables in the somewhat ad hoc way that you are creating these files (and even within AAC handling generally) that real examples would be the only way forward.
Andre
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Do you have any official AAC files which you could use as an example? i.e. not audio data that has been de-muxed from ripped video files using various utility programs.
As far as I know, raw AAC files and tags don't play well together though, and there is little by way of official spec (https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=36098.0#:~:text=Raw ADTS AAC files have,defined and recognized tagging system.). You might do better wrapping the audio data into a better supported container first.
Do your problems still occur with the music once you have converted the content to FLAC?
Andre
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4 hours ago, JohnD said:
Damn that android and it's crappy default behaviour.
The exact look depends on your device manufacture's firmware and the Android version you are running, but for example on a Samsung device with Android 14, and 'Music' enabled in its Android Settings=>Lockscreen=>Widgets page, you should see one of these two versions of the media widget - either minimised with just three basic icons, or expanded with five icon (with the outer two configurable). Both versions seem fine to me (they are based on the design of statusbar pull-down media control panel). What do you see on your device?
Andre
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I can't understand quite how the sequence you describe can occur. Could you do the following to send an error log:
1) Select any song by long-pressing on it in some song list.
2) The selected song should then be shown as ticked, with various option icons along the bottom of the screen.
3) Tap the '+Playlist' icon.
4) You should then see a screen (which you posted a screenshot of in your last message) with a list of existing playlist names, and a '+' icon in the top-right. Tap on the '+' Icon.
5) This is where you should see a text-box ready to enter the name for a new playlist.
6) If that doesn't happen and the song is instead placed into one of your existing playlists, please could you create a log as follows: Go into PA Settings=>Get Support=>Send Log. Tap 'Send' and in your email app send the log data to gpmaxmpz [at] gmail.com for testing, mentioning this thread as reference.Andre
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Adding new folders is fine, they would simply be picked up by the next background scan and songs added to the Library as new items. Ratings are not read from audio files by the way, they are only created internally within Poweramp.
Ratings can be overridden by special "#EXT-X-RATING:<n>" lines in Playlists when they are read and applied to a specific song. Prior to the backup options in 'Export Settings/Data', this was the only way to save and restore Ratings from the database. If you don't want this to happen, you can turn it off by disabling Settings=>Library=>Playlists=>Import Ratings.
But otherwise, unless you are finding some odd database corruption which is only affecting certain fields, as long as the filename and its exact path have not changed, the rating and date-added details should not change. They are linked to the path/filename though, so any change in that will cause song to be treated as a new item, even if the Title/Artist/Album info is exactly the same.
Andre
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- The "About" item is at the bottom of the Settings menu, which is the standard place to find it in Android apps.
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The layout of the media control widget in Android's lockscreen is defined by Android, not Poweramp, so it too is as per the Android standard (unless you override that and use a previous/legacy incarnation anyway).
Android requires three buttons to always be present - 'Play/Pause', '>>' and '<<' - but it does also provide apps with some flexibility to change the additional controls either side of them if necessary. As these extra buttons are mostly useful for Android Auto (which supports more than five icons, via an overflow icon) Poweramp offers that choice to the user via the 'Buttons' option in the Android Auto subsection of Settings=>Misc. As per the notes in that menu, for Notifications and Lockscreen Widgets only the first two items will have any effect.
Andre
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All of those issues sound like files that are no longer in the same folder folder locations that Poweramp first saw them in. Ratings, Last Added, etc are not based on song/artist/album tags, but on exact paths to a specific audio file. These are all stored in an internal database.
Changed folders will be found again, and songs re-added to the Library, but as 'new' items. Have you changed any folder or file names?
Andre
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I know YAPS offers font sizing, but I expect others do too.
Andre
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You can increase the magnification of the system fonts overall, or for PA specifically you'd need to use a skin with per-item size adjuatment options.
Andre
Can Poweramp display videos while playing video files
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@Stanley Xavier Poweramp itself is not a video or multimedia player, it's a music (audio only) player.
However you can use the separate stand-alone Poweramp Equalizer app to manipulate the output from other media playing apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.equalizer
Andre