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[I've moved this discussion out from the Build 981 Release thread, as it has nothing to do with issues with that particular build]
From the 'Year' Category you drilled down into '2020', which would show you any albums that are notionally treated as being from 2020. Remember that in cases where songs from one album which have different Year tags (e.g. Collections or Best-Of albums) Poweramp has to make a best assumption as to which year it should to assign for the whole album.
When you then drill down to view a single Album - in this case, due to the limited tagging, you selected 'Unknown Album' - you would see all of the songs in that album, regardless of the various Genre, Year, Artist, etc tags. The Album level view would no longer be filtered to show 2020 songs only, it would show the whole album.
If you want to only see songs which have a specific tag of 2020, once you have opened the Year in question ignore the album titles and tap on 'All Year Songs' at the top instead. Every song in the resulting list should be from 2020.
Personally, I have almost no songs with blank Album or Album Artist tags by the way. I give them a fake name for sorting purposes, to avoid ending up with albums in the list with just one song inside. I have several generic album names I use - such as "(Singles)" for most rock/pop stuff, "(Film Music)", "(TV Themes)", "(Musicals)", etc. I enclose the names in brackets by the way, so they get sorted at the start of Album lists rather than being stuck somewhere randomly in the middle of a long list of album names.
Andre
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You may not be able to access that folder hierarchy natively on Android 14+ (Google restrictions) but you can still connect your phone to a computer using a USB cable and open an explorer window on the PC.
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@mr sam You've seem to have done what you need to. Set the High-Res Output frequency to the maximum you need, and everything will be played using that setting.
Lower quality source material will be upscaled, there is no "output follows source" option as yet. Once your account allows, you can upvote this as a feature request:
Andre
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It says that selecting those later items will mean the backup is not compatible with OLD builds of Poweramp, it's fine for recent builds.
The new format of backup file (which is more of a ZIP archive, containing lots of extra stuff such as Ratings, Album Art files, List Memory settings, etc) uses a filename extender of .poweramp-settings, whereas the old simpler backup file wrote/read .poweramp-backup files. From memory, it was around 2+ years ago that those new export/import features were added - so as long as you're not trying to go back to seriously old archive builds of Poweramp which can only read/write the original backup format, you'll be fine.
Remember that not everything about your setup will be restored - for example 'Date Added to Library' for all files will be reset to the new reinstall date, and restored internal playlist names will now include the restore date in their names. Hence my suggestion to just use a different skin in the meantime.
Andre
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All backup options exported from 981 will be compatible for importing back into the previous stable release (976). Or just use a different skin in the meantime.
Andre
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Just uninstall 981 and install the current version from the Play Store. Not much point though, 981 doesn't have any particular reasons to avoid that I'm aware of.
Andre
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Drop an email to poweramp.maxmpz@gmail.com and it should be possible to update your incorrectly entered address.
Andre
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Personally I've always felt the Settings=>Library=>Queue=>'Start Playing Queue: Immediately' option should do as you ask. So if enabled, any action which adds something to the Queue should immediately commence playback of the queue, even if playback is currently stopped. It just seems logical to me, given the wording of the setting.
Another related thing which would make more sense to me would be if the 'List Item Click Action' choice was applied when clicking on the 'Play' or 'Shuffle' icons in lists too. Thus if the user has chosen to 'Play and go to Main UI', then clicking on the 'Play' or 'Shuffle' icons should (a) start playback and (b) also go to the Player Screen as requested. [Note to @maxmp - that menu wording should probably now say "Player Screen" rather than of "Main UI" in order to fit with new overall consistency]
Andre
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@oskado You should see the same type of folder explorer when importing as you saw when exporting (access permission must be granted). What location where you trying to use? By default if you don't change anything, I think the backups go into PA's data folder, Android/data/com.maxmpz.audioplayer/files/ . File explorer apps can see into this folder up to Android 13, but from Android 14 onward Google's restrictions mean you might have to use a USB connection to a PC to view the contents. Did you check the backup file was present before resetting your installation?
Andre
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If you have a backup then you can restore from that, or you could copy back from your original master copies on a computer perhaps? But otherwise, unless your device has a Recycle bin for files deleted from apps, then unfortunately overriding the warning prompt and opting to Delete Files rather than just the deleting the playlist entries is not reversible.
If the files were on an SD Card, you might be able to use a disaster recovery program on a computer to find and restore the deleted content, but try to avoid writing anything new to the SD Card in the meantime.
@maxmp Perhaps the wording in the warning prompt could be changed slightly to reduce the chances of this happening inadvertently? Suggest a tickbox to confirm file deletions:QuoteRemove Entries?
Selected entries will be removed from the Playlist/Queue. Song files will not be deleted from storage unless you confirm below.
☑ Also Permanently [ Remove ]
Delete Song Files [ Cancel ]When the user ticks the box, the 'Remove' button wording could change to 'Delete'.
Andre
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I still miss the 3.5mm headphone jack too, serious mistake in so many devices removing it.
Andre
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There is already a voting item for this request:
In the meantime, you may find that enabling Settings=>Look and Feel=>Start at Library goes part of the way to solving your problem. There will of course always be some 'top' level where the Back buttons exits the app back to the Home screen, as that is standard Android behaviour. Some apps provide a warning prompt before exiting, but as PA remains functional in the background and can be restarted with a tap anyway, it doesn't really seem necessary in this case.
Andre
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AutoEQ parametric settings tend to assume Cascade mode I believe, whereas for some other adjustments it may not be desirable.
I would suggest the value the user defines in Settings should be used as the default, but it would be nice if each EQ Preset had the option to override that mode if required (e.g. in the AutoEQ case).
Andre
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@flyingdutchman Yes, that was the workaround discussed in the other thread.
By the way, does your app allow for background re-syncing - for example when a new album is added to someone's library, or when a rating is modified in PA and needs writing back to the audio file? Or is it a one-shot proceas that would need re-executing manually every so often?
Andre
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The exported backup file should be in the format <date and time>.poweramp-settings . Check that you can find this with a file explorer app first. When you know where it is, use Settings=>Import Settings/Data and tap the 'Select File' link at the bottom of the Import page, then navigate to the location of the saved file and tap on it. Choose which elements you want to restore, and tap 'Import' to set it going.
Andre
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Poweramp's ratings are internal to the app's local database - i.e. you can create them inside the app only. They are not read from, nor written back to, audio files.
For a recent discussion, and a partial workaround, see
Andre
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@nreuge Great, glad it worked for you. The idea came a bit out of left-field, but I couldn't see why it wouldn't do what you wanted.
Andre
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There are buffer settings in the Output options. However as Poweramp is designed for local file handling, and one of its goals is low latency, the options are measured in milliseconds to smooth out processing delays, which would probably not be enough to compensate for a flaky/disconnecting wi-fi link. You would be looking more for a buffer that goes on to pre-load a significant part of the whole song after playback has commenced, which is not currently a PA feature. I'll move this to Feature Requests.
Andre
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I don't see the specific problem you are encountering when shuffling very large M3U8 playlists, but it is definitely not behaving as expected.
@maxmp When I try to play a huge (17,000+ song) M3U8 playlist in Shuffled mode, playback commences from the start of the list, in normal order rather than randomly. Trying to then tap a new song from elsewhere in the list causes playback to return to the last song played again, and then it continues in order from there. I can send you a log if you can't duplicate this effect.
@maestro30k For now, a workaround would be to convert your M3U8 playlist files into internal database format playlists, which you can use in the meantime. Just long-press on an M3U8 playlist, select '+Playlist' from the pop-up menu, and use '+' to create a newly named internal playlist containing all the same songs. This should allow shuffled playback when desired as the shuffle problem does not seem to affect large internal playlists.
Andre
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I think it will probably happen in some form at some point, but there's potentially a lot ahead of it in the wishlist that might have wider user-base appeal. Keep on up-voting it anyway.
Andre
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@Jimi Please add your vote to the Feature Request poll.
Andre
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I'll try creating a huge M3U file later when I get home and see what happens.
Andre
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If there are multiple occurrence of the same tag (e.g. two ARTIST tags in a FLAC/Vorbis file) then they will both be displayed, with a semi-colon separator. That is by design, and it is why two tags were saved inside the file in the first place. You would need to edit the tags to prevent this.
Ideally every audio app should support split tags, and/or multiple tags, but not all do.
Andre
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What sort of Playlist is it? File-based (e.g. M3U) or created internally in Poweramp using the '+Playlist' facility?
Can you use the '>>' button to skip manually to a new song during playback, and if so what happens when that song finishes?
Can you scroll down and play individual songs within the playlist?
What does the track counter show? It's in the middle of the line of four buttons under the song info (may need to be made visible using Settings=>Look and Feel=>Player Screen=>Show Track Counter) and should start at 1/xxxx - where xxxx is the total number of songs in the playlist. The counter should increment with each new song played.
I've just created a new playlist with 18,000 songs (created from everything in my 'All Songs' list, added twice) and tapping the Shuffle icon in that list's header results in random songs from the list being played as expected, with playback moving on to a new random song at the end of each one.
Andre
Poweramp switches playing through Phone audio profile when connected in car instead of car audio profile
in Poweramp Bug Reports
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Some Bluetooth devices send their own resume commands upon establishing a connection, which can cause playback to commence just because a connection has been established. Most people do not want this behaviour, so there is an option for PA to ignore such instances for up to 10 seconds after connection, see Settings=>Headset/Bluetooth=>Ignore Bluetooth Commands. Set it to zero if you do want the headunit to assume control.
Poweramp also has its own controls for restarting playback on connection, see Settings=>Headset/Bluetooth=>Resume On Bluetooth.
Personally I would suggest ignoring whatever the headunit may (or may not) be sending, and use PA's own resume setting instead - which in theory should give you more consistent behaviour. If your vehicle supports it, Android Auto generally provides a better experience than just Bluetooth.
Andre