andrewilley

@XanaduBananadu Android assigns the current live output device, Poweramp merely sends content to it. Upon connection to a BT Stereo device, that would normally be used for audio. Andre

Just because a picture happens to be of a singer/band, that doesn't necessarily mean that you've saved it as an Artist image, you could have make an Album Cover out of any picture you like. From Poweramp's point of view, images that it considers as being of artists will be used next to each singer/band in the list of available Artists, and also in the header area at the top of the album list for that artist. It won't be used next to any album titles, nor on the Player Screen. Of course you could have manually assigned the same photo to anywhere you like. Artists (or Album Artists) Category list - where each item displays alongside an artist image: Drill down one level to see a view of just one Artist's content - uses the artist image as header: Then drill down into an individual Album view - no artist image is used at all, only images for the album and songs: Andre

Agreed, all of the various "All <Catgeory> Songs" lists should behave the same way as the "All Songs" Category, which does not show track numbers. A missed flag for those lists I guess. Andre

Always best to make sure you are actually working with the files you thought you were... Andre

The Frequently Requested Features section is really for requests that have generated mutiple popular threads from different users, not for one-off ideas. Andre

@ihaspei There is already a control that does basically what you want in Settings=>Library=>Lists The option I use (above) only shows the Track# info when viewing songs within album or folder views - so not in All Songs, High/Low Rated, Most Played, Playlists, Queue, etc. For example: It also does not include the Track# on the Player Screen, which you can find from the optional 'Show Track Counter' feature anyway. The above also neatly illustrates why I was asking for empty Disc# tags to be treated as being null values by the way: I don't need to see a superfluous '1' next to every song's meta info for albums that only have one disc and for which the embedded Disc tag is empty. A Disc Number is only relevant if I have actually set tags for Disc#=1, Disc#=2, etc. For example: Andre

There is no option to do that at present. There are only two lines available (as the same two strings are used for both the library lists and for the Player Screen) and they are currently fixed to "[Track#] Title" and "Artist - Album". There is a popular Feature Request to make the content of those two lines user-configurable using formatting strings though, for which you can add your vote here (once you've reached the voting threshold): Andre

I'm at a bit of a loss on this one. Perhaps try a Full Rescan (in Settings=>Library) in case something has changed since the files were first scanned and the later modification has not been updated into the database? Otherwise there must be something different in the embedded data between this one album and all her others. There isn't a separate entry for Amy Grant in the lists is there? For example sometimes I've found a slight punctuation or spelling issue can create two entries. I just did a check with a specific artist for whom I've got a large number of albums (38) and the exact same album titles appear when I drill down via the 'Artists' Library Category as I see when I drill down in the 'Album Artists' view. I made sure that the sorting order was set to 'By Title' for albums in the two List Options menus (as I sometimes use 'By Year') and the two lists of this artist's albums were both fully complete and correctly sorted - with any prefix articles ("A", "An", "The") correctly ignored in the ordering process. In this case, the Artists list actually contained one extra song (573 songs) compared to the Album Artists view (572 songs) because this artist also had one song which was separately contained in a "Various Artists" collection album, which of course had a different Album Artist tag so it did not appear in their 'Album Artists' listing, while it did appear in their 'Artists' listing. Andre

You can of course put individual artist pictures into each separate file - i.e. embedded within the file's metadata contents, using an external tag editor program. You can basically put anything you like in there, and PA will display it when it plays that file. But PA's automatic or manual download system for Artist photos only applies to the Artist lists. Such images will never be shown in place of album cover art, either in lists of albums or songs, or on the player screen. Andre

@WaynesWorld Does that whole album have each track tagged with both Artist and Album Artist? Could be that one got missed and only has Artist tags. Andre

@maxmp Excellent, I actually didn't know Reverse is now a stand-alone live action on existing content. I just tried it and it works fine now, I must have missed that one being added. As for full-path sorting, I guess it should behave in the same way that filenames already do - so anything without a valid path/filename gets added at the end of a re-sorted list in simple alphabetical order. And Track# sorting for the songs within Album groups (instead of forcing alpha by title) will definitely make a number of people happy, it's been quite a common request. And it'd fall back to alpha by title if there are no track numbers, so everyone should be happy. Andre

@Dragolth You may be able to import specific elements from the backup safely - for example Playlists, Ratings, EQ Presets, etc. But while porting raw settings from one device to another ought to work in most cases, there could be complications so it might be better to just tweak the options again on your new system. Andre

@LA2A I think a lot of people would be happy with an automatic output-follows-source-frequency mode - as far as Android hardware or DACs allow anyway. Attempting to be completely 'bit-perfect' would effectively mean that Poweramp would just become a data copier, a middle-man for transferring content byte-by-byte from an audio file directly to an external DAC. Similarly, forcing the final output to match with 24-bit or 32-bit content would ultimately be pretty pointless too, as all of PA's internal audio processing is handled using 32-bit float anyway (with 64-bit float used for DSP/EQ work) so it will already have been modified from the original source data. Andre

Could you maybe add a few of the minor requested Re-sort options in there while you are at it? Just very simple stuff like Re-Sort By path>filename, and Re-Sort By Artist>Album>Track#. And also allow the 'Reverse' item, when ticked on its own, to reverse whatever the current order might be? Same for Playlists, which have the same extra gapping in their version of the Re-Sort menu too. Andre

Could these songs have already existed in the library from a previous version? Try using Search in the header of the Recently Added list to see if they are present, but further down the list. If they could be a lot further down, use List Options to set 'No Limit' as the number of entries. Andre

Perfect, I always like a happy ending. Andre

The app interface will be closed when you Close All Apps, however audio playback is maintained by a background service that does not need the app interface to be present. That is by design. The media player item in the notification area just indicates that something is playing, if you stop playback it will disappear. It's an Android thing. You can try Importing Settings now if you like, there are tickboxes for each type of feature so you don't need to import everything at once. If something breaks, just re-install again and make those particular changes manually next time. Andre

Did you do a clean install of PA and then import your backed up Settings from your previous device? Could be some corruption in the settings file, so maybe try a completely clean install (no settings) and change just the Skin settings for Pro Buttons, and see if that then sticks. Changing Shuffle mode is easy, just tap the icon on the Player screen. Andre

Even 32-bit float gives a theoretical dynamic range of 1,528dB. For reference, the loudest thing that ever occurred on earth was estimated to be Krakatoa erupting at around 300dB - and remember that dB is a logarithmic scale not a linear one, so these sort of numbers are basically meaningless in the real world of listening to music. Andre

I didn't know they had an Android audio player app, I thought their system was computer based? Andre

From what Max just said, it would be fixed 32-bit for most of the audio pipeline - regardless of the source fidelity (16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, sampling frequencies, compressed or lossless). But float64 is used within the DSP processing code (such as EQ if enabled, etc). Andre

@maxmp Globally is fine - and it would obviously need a one-off Full Rescan once implemented in order to update the database. Not sure if it even needs an extra manual switch though? The current logic of trying to parse [Track-if-numeric] and [Title] details from the source filename seems perfectly fine if there is no embedded tag data at all. But if there is at least a Title tag then it seems redundant to even try to glean anything extra from the filename. And while you're at it, in the same way that a missing Track tag generates null content for Track# (rather than inventing Track# = '1'), so a missing Disc tag should do the same for Disc#. Currently if there is a valid Track tag, even a missing Disc tag stills creates Disc# = '1' rather than generating a null Disc# field. It looks neater in the library views if Disc# is only displayed when it is actually necessary - i.e. when it was scanned as a real value of '1' from the file. Andre

Just checked back a while, and from the release notes when the Poweramp v3 audio engine was first introduced: Poweramp core DSP now uses 64-bit float internal math, helps a lot for accurate high amplification of bass So yes, internal processing is 64-bit - but floating point not fixed. Andre

I think internally the DSP audio engine already uses 32/64 bit (possibly as floating point, but I'm not sure?). @maxmp will be able to provide more detail anyway. Andre

I was just checking on something else for different issue, and I noticed that this bug still remains in the current builds. Incorrect track numbers are still being generated from the start (or end) of song filenames, even when the file is fully tagged but with a deliberately empty Track# tag - such as when a song is a single and not part of an album, so it shouldn't have a track number at all. For example, all of the below song files have correct Title, Artist, Genre, Year, etc tags - but specifically no Track# tag. However PA creates incorrect numbers from the filenames instead of leaving them blank as intended: With or Without You - U2.mp3 The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3.mp3 5 Years Time - Noah and the Whale.mp3 7 Years - Lukas Graham.mp3 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton.mp3 Temptation - Heaven 17.mp3 19 - Paul Hardcastle.mp3 22 - Taylor Swift.mp3 Oh, and the related bug of the Disc# entry being assigned a notional value of '1', even though the Disc# tag is not present/empty, is also still there - but only when a Track# tag is in the file. Andre