andrewilley

If it's working for you, and you are happy with the sound, don't mess. Andre

@maxmp The question was if they update using an APK file (copied over to the now non-networked device), will installing it over an already validated version of Poweramp trigger a reauthentication requirement, or will the currently validated licence continue to work? Andre

AAudio is another good Output method to try, which does support some hi-res options. But the Experimental Hi-Res mode avoids a lot of Android audio processing, so that might be what is fixing your problem. Andre

LRC data should be saved as Unicode (UTF-8) to avoid precisely the issues you describe. 7-bit ASCII will work fine too, but any content in the extended 128>255 range is never guaranteed to be processed using any specific code page by applications. If UTF-8 is not used, Poweramp's Tag Encoding setting would be used (PA Settings=>Library=>Scanner=>Tag Encoding) but that only provides a basic set of choices - otherwise the full list could be hundreds of lines long, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page. I assume this is how you want the content of that LRC file to be displayed? Andre

As you say, there's a lot of activity after connection, either from the headset, from Android, or from Sony's installed software. There is a feature in the latest Poweramp builds (currently 981, available from the Downloads tab above) to ignore Bluetooth remote commands for up to the first 10 seconds of a Bluetooth connection, which might be worth trying. I'm not sure if that is limited to ignoring only button-simulating events though - e.g. KEYCODE_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE ACTION_DOWN and KEYCODE_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE ACTION_UP - which are not occurring in your log. Andre

As far as I know, WSA uses a dedicated storage location that is sandboxed and completely isolated from normal Windows storage. You'd need to copy any files that you want it to access into that dedicated storage area. However recent updates to WSA are meant to now provide limited access to content to some subfolders in your C:\Users\<username>\ personal Windows storage area, which might help: https://github.com/microsoft/WSA/discussions/321 Andre

Poweramp's graphic equalizer offers from 5 up to a maximum of 32 bands, including customisable first and last frequency. The default, like most EQs, is 10 bands (ISO recommended setting). You would probably be better defining 32 bands accurately, rather than trying to create 127 and having them averaged back down again which might not be what you want. Andre

Poweramp playlists can be from one of two sources: 1) They can be file-based - so loaded from M3U/etc files saved in your music folders. Any changes you make will be permanently written back to the same file. You will see the full filename with its extender in the Playlists category (for example "Filename.M3U") or 2) Internal, database-stored, which are created by the user within Poweramp. They can also be imported from Android system playlists (although that legacy feature has now been depreciated by Google, but it should still work). That type of playlist can be named anything you like, and you won't see any M3U/PLS/etc file extenders as they are not files. Normally Android System Playlists are only loaded once, when you first set up Poweramp, but you can force a re-read from the Anrdoid system at any time by using Settings=>Library=>Playlists=>Import System Library Playlists. Note: you do NOT need to use this feature for file-based playlists, they should be read and updated automatically whenever the next background music scan occurs (usually at least each time you start the app). Andre

PA uses separate Artist and Album Artist tags too. The Album Artist tag is used to ensure tracks with varying artist names (such as collaborations within one artist's album, "Various Artists" collections, etc) are grouped together into a single album entity. However the individual Artist names quoted for each track will still be available in the Artists list, and shown in the Player Screen. Note: in addition to there being separate Artist and Album Artist categories available as Library views, you can force Album Artist to be displayed instead of Track Artist - but that would mess up the display of any songs where you need to see different details for each track. See Settings=>Library=>Lists=>"Album Artist Label for _____". But using it would mean the every song from a "Various Artists" collection would be listed as being by "Various Artists", rather than being able to see the unique singer(s) or band for that one song. Andre

If an Artist name is different in any way (apart from its capitalisation) then it is considered to be a different name, there's really no way of getting around that. ABBA is not the same artist as ABC for example, even if they look a bit similar. Even "Rolling Stones" and "The Rolling Stones" would be treated as separate entities for sorting and display purposes. Minor differences in capitalisation will still be treated as the same artist as PA's scanner is case-insensitive. The first variant that PA encounters during its scans will be used for all future variations in lists. I'm surprised you don't have the same problem in JRiver to be honest. You could try adding the artist's generic name as a second separate item in the tag, which would at least ensure all of their songs are visible under one specific entey, but it would look pretty messy as both versions would be displayed. Andre

Ratings in Poweramp are internal, saved within a local database, and are not read from (or written back to) external sources or file tag data. Does JRiver embed its ratings into the actual audio files - e.g. using MP3's "POPM" tag system? If so, you could use an external app called Music Playlist Manager to copy any embedded ratings from the data in the files into PA's local database. Andre

I'm actually not fully sure of the answer to that one, in my head I assumed it was only possible to buy one licence per email address but I could well be completely wrong about that. You could contact Support on poweramp.maxmpz [at] gmail.com for confirmation though. I assume neither of your devices has Google services available as standard, but it is always possible to sideload them manually and then you could juat use a single Play Store licence and save yourself the extra fee. Andre

Separate Album Art can be defined for a "various artists" album, which will be shown in album lists and as the header for the album page, while still displaying individual song covers sourced from embedded images. Artist images are separate, they have nothing to do with song or album covers. Please have a read through all the posts in this thread, and if it's still not working as it should, please provide full details of what you are seeing in the Artist category, album list, songs list, and the player screen. Ansre

I agree that an option of where to go to when playback stops (e.g. for single song or single category playback) would be nice. I would suggest: 1) Remain paused at start of the current song [which is the current behaviour] 2) Return to the start of the first song in the current category and pause. (In 'Single Song' mode, that would still do action 1 of course) 3) Move on to the next potential song, paused ready to continue in order. That would mean the next song if using 'Single Song' mode, or the start of the next Category if in Category mode. Andre

@Tsuki100402 Please allow at least two working days, although occasionally it can be a bit longer. Andre

1) Set the Repeat icon on the Player Screen to 'Advance Category' - which in layman's terms means "Play All Categories", so after one folder/album/etc has finished, the next one will be played, and so on. 2) If the headunit is not issuing a valid shutdown broadcast message (e.g. android.intent.action.ACTION_SHUTDOWN ) to any running apps before it cuts the power, there is no way for Poweramp to know that it's about to be unkindly killed and thus needs to save its current status. Pressing Pause before you cut the power will probably fix this for you, although sometimes even that is not sufficient and you may also need to exit from Poweramp too. Andre

@ScoobyDad Probably a silly question, but before we troubleshoot any further, you haven't accidentally enabled Settings=>Album Art=>Force Default Image have you? Andre

Even when Play Next is working properly (i.e. when >>Queue is set to 'At End') all it does is to insert the chosen songs at the start of the Queue. Given the recently added extra options of the other Playlist/Queue buttons, I honestly no longer see the point of Play Next existing at all. One simple 'Insert at Start' option added to the >>Queue modes would do the exact same thing, and be more consistent with the modes available for the similar +Playlist button. Andre

@Ascension Shining I concur. The reason why the Play Next>Shuffled option does not work is that it seems to be basing its functionality on the current >>Queue mode instead. Thus if '>>Queue' happens to be set to Shuffled, the Play Next button does the same thing - i.e. it inserts the chosen songs randomly throughout the whole remaining queue. And Play Next fails completely if the Queue has not commenced playing yet. For example, if I use it to add five "War of the Worlds" tracks to the start of an existing queue (which contains just Pure Moods tracks in this case) the following happens if the queue has not commenced playback yet: Andre

The Player Screen content visible behind the Info/Tags panel in your screenshot does not seem to contain any song info - an image translator seems to say that the only thing displayed is "<filenname>.flac" and "Unknown Artist". It looks as though the song data has not been read into the Library Database correctly for that song at least. Do you see song info (Title, Artist, Album, artwork, etc) for other songs, or it is just a few that show in lists or the Player Screen as filename only? Try a FULL Rescan in PA Settings=>Library, and see if that picks up the missing content during the second (longer) phase of its scan. Andre

PA is specifically designed to not wipe out people's entire Libraries when a storage is (possibly temporarily) unmounted. Prior to this, there we a lot of complaints about music collections, ratings, play counts, internal (database stored) playlists, etc being wiped just because (for example) an external storage was not yet mounted when PA first checked for available folders. There is an option in Settings=>Library=>Scanner to force a scan on USB or SD Card mount or disconnection though, but I'm not 100% whether it will remove songs when a whole major folder hierarchy is missing (it probably does not, because it most likely triggers a simple rescan rather than a Full Rescan). [Edit] Hmm, I just tested by renaming my single master music folderk, so PA could not longer see it when I next started the app, and all of my music collection had vanished immediately. Renaming the correct folder name back again caused a Full Rescan to occur in order to find all my music again. After the scan, ratings and play counts had been wiped, and internal playlists were unlinked from their music content (placeholder filenames were visible but not playable, it needed a specific 'Rescan/Resolve Playlists' to relink the actual song files) . That wasn't what I was expecting, as I thought PA would act as though the storage had been unmounted, but clearly that is handled as a separate process. Andre

There are two types of playlist. File-based Playlists are M3U (or similar) files saved in your device's storage. You can just copy them from your old device to your new device along with your other music files and they should work fine. Internal Playlists only exist within Poweramp's music database, and you'd need to first export them to individual M3U files for copying over. You can also use Settings=>Export Settings/Data on your old device, then copy the backup file over to your new device and use Settings=>Import Settings/Data (you can choose which items you wish to Export/Import). Andre

Correct, if you have not defined any symbols for splitting multiple names within the Artist tag out into individual names, the 'Show Unsplit' feature has nothing to do as they are always shown verbatim anyway. There is some more discussion of this feature in: Andre

I'm surprised that any phone does not have at least a basic built-in file explorer (e.g. Samsung has 'My Files'). But you can sideload apps directly via a USB cable from a computer using the ADB system, with the command line "adb install file.apk". See https://www.makeuseof.com/install-apps-via-adb-android/ for full instructions. Install a file explorer first, and then you can install other apps using that locally on the phone later. The Add to Playlist functionality has not changed dramatically since build 934 though. You clearly are getting as far as the screen where you can either select one of your existing playlists, or press '+' to create a new one (you show this in your screenshot posted on Thursday). What happens when you press '+', as you should then be prompted to give a name for the new playlist? Andre

'Play Next' is perhaps a bit of a legacy misnomer, especially now that there are variable settings for the main 'Add to Queue' feature. It really just offers an extra 'Insert at start of Queue' feature which has the effect of playing the new songs next. It still obeys the normal Queue rules - i.e. Start playing immediately, Start after current song had finished, or start playing after current category (Album, folder, etc) has finished: There is an additional switch only for the Play Next button, which forces the 'Play After Current Song' mode (i.e. it ignores the above general Queue options): All of these enqueuing options assume Poweramp is already playing by the way, there is no feature to automatically resume playback when you add something to the Queue. You still need to press Play. There are a couple of minor bugs with the Play Next feature that I've noted before but which still seem to be present in the current build. The same issues were fixed for 'the Add to Playlist' and 'Add to Queue' buttons, but are still present in 'Play Next': If the existing Queue has not yet commenced playing, using 'Play Next' will simply intersperse the new songs alternating with the existing songs, rather than placing them all at the start of the Queue. The Play Next>Shuffled option does not seem to work, songs are always added in order. Personally, given the new flexible options available for 'Add to Playlist' and 'Add to Queue', I think it might be simpler to just remove the 'Play Next' button completely and replace it with an 'Insert at Start' mode for the Queue button (mimicking how adding to playlists works). This is really what the button already does, so it seems a bit redundant now. Andre