andrewilley

@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

No, Themes are for the core app, they do not (currently anyway) adjust the appearance of widgets. Andre

Very much device dependent, but when music is playing with an Always On Display you will usually just see simplified content - such as the song title/artist. On the actual Lock Screen - the one where you can swipe/etc to unlock - you should see Android's media control widget, which can vary between different devices and even Android versions. For example this is on a Samsung Galaxy A54 with OneUI 6.0, Android 14: What you see is based on how you have got Notifications configured by the way, it's the same information that is also shown in the statusbar pull-down media panel. Andre

Yes it does - as long as you have some artist tags that use the Split facility anyway, and you have the Split feature activated. You obviously won't see any difference if you don't use the feature in the first place. For example, I created a test audio file with the Artist tag set as "TestArtist A ; TestArtist B", and semicolon is one of the symbols I use for splitting multiple artists. With the 'Show Unsplit Combined Categories' option turned off, I just see the two individual artists in the Artists list: However with 'Show Unsplit Combined Categories' turned on, I see the two individual names plus an extra entry showing the full unsplit contents of the tag too: Andre

You can't. There are a few font styles available in the Widget setting panel, but not that one. Andre

It means in (for example) the Artist list you will see the full unsplit artist names, rather than only being shown the individual separated names. Thus a song like "Under Pressure" which is tagged as being by "Queen ; David Bowie" would be shown in the Artists list under the names "Queen" and also "David Bowie" as expected, but it will also have an additional entry showing the full name in the tag, i.e. "Queen ; David Bowie". Pretty niche to be honest, and it can clog up the lists terribly, but it's there if you really want it. Andre

Not sure what's happening with your music collection, but mine goes back as far as I have music (which is admittedly not very much from the earlier years, film scores mainly): Andre

If you purchased Poweramp from the Google Play Store you don't need an order number, just reinstall the unlocker app from the Store (you must be using the same Google account). If you purchased from the website directly, you should have received your ID code by email to the address you used when originally purchasing. Use this in the Settings=>Already Purchased? screen. If you have lost your ID, please contact Support so they can resend it to you. Email to poweramp.maxmzp [at] gmail.com Andre

What so you see in Poweramp itself, those views appear to be from a File Explorer app. Have you at some stage manually downloaded artwork for the Albums in question, which will override embedded images. Try long-pressing on one of those songs in PA and see what Info/Tags shows (are all the tags correct, and is there a reference to Album Art (and what size is it). Also, try selecting Album Art from that same menu and see if it shows whether any Embedded Album Art is an available option. Andre

Poweramp is a local file music player, it is not a Bluetooth receiver. The only way to use Poweramp in the scenario you describe would be to use a Poweramp app installed on your phone to play the content out via Android's Bluetooth output, and use the headunit to receive that signal for listening. The headunit would act just like any other Bluetooth receiver. Android Auto on the headunit works the same way, with the actual audio being generated by Poweramp on the remote phone (playing its local files) which can be controlled from the AA implementation on the headunit's screen (or from the phone of course, that's where the work is actually being done). If you want to play files on the phone, let Poweramp play them and AA provide the screen interface. Andre

No, Poweramp on your headunit cannot play music sourced from an external Bluetooth source. It needs to be able to find and scan the audio files from within the local storage. You may be able to get your phone's storage to map into the headunit as if it were a USB drive though. Andre

'Add to End' simply means that when you use the '+Playlist' button from the menu, all of the currently ticked songs will be added at the end of whatever existing playlist you choose in the next screen. Of course, if you decide to create a New playlist for the songs (using the "+" icon at the top-right of the selection screen) it makes no difference, as the new playlist will only contain those chosen songs anyway. I don't think installing a new update via an APK file requires a re-validation of an existing saved licence, but it's probably worth waiting for input from @maxmp to confirm this first just to be safe. Andre

By the way, is this question about the main Musc Player app, or the stand-alone Poweramp Equalizer app? Just so I can move the thread to the right forum. Andre

I've felt for ages that since "Unknown" isn't an actual album title or a real artist name, this notionally-named entry should be displayed at the very end of Category lists or Search results, like an appendix, rather than hidden away in the middle of the 'U' section between Ultravox and Vangelis. It's one of a whole list of Requests that I complied a few years ago of relatively trivial tasks that for a few hours' work could make the app a bit easier or more logical for users. Andre

Build 934 was the first release to include the new option which allowed the '+Playlist' and '>>Queue' buttons to insert the songs in a shuffled manner. This can be controlled using the 'Insert Position' option in Settings=>Library=>Queue or Settings=>Library=>Playlists. You can also change the inserting modes by long-pressing on the '+Playlist' or '>> Queue' buttons in the song selection menu. To add the songs that you have selected into an existing playlist, just tap the playlist name in the screenshot that you included in your post. To create a new playlist for the songs to go into, tap the '+' button at the top-right of that screen and give it a name. But if there is any way you can install a more recent build (APK files of Poweramp can be easily downloaded from the website Download page) then the functionality will be a lot more polished. Andre

@Panzom Just download the latest APK file from the Downloads tab at the top of this page, and install it. https://forum.powerampapp.com/files/category/2-poweramp-v3-latest-releases/ Andre

The only device-specific EQ settings that are provided in Poweramp are those listed in the AutoEQ database. If yours is not there, you can see if anyone is able to supply readings for the next update. Andre