andrewilley
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First, avoid trying to grant access permissions to overall root locations. That is specifically forbidden when using Android's Storage Access Framework for the device's internal user storage and SD Cards, but even if it is permitted for USB mounted storage (which it seems to be treating as a folder within its overall file system) it's probably not a good idea. Instead, grant access to one or more specific folders, and store everything else as subfolders within that.
In general terms though, if you enable access to a top level folder (or in this case, a master USB location) then everything else within that will be enabled too - i.e. all files and subfolders. However if you later disable even a single subfolder, the overall folder has to be disabled as it is no longer fully selected, and each activated subfolder is enabled instead. Thus any files stored at the top level of the master folder will no longer the picked up as the master folder is not selected for access.
I got caught out by that logic myself a while ago when configuring the backup regime on my NAS drive: I could easily backup an entire volume (which caught all files and subfolders on the volume too) but if I disabled even a single folder within the volume, the volume itself was not considered as a backup source, only the selected folders - and crucially not any files stored at the root level of that volume. If you want the root files scanned, the whole volume has to be selected.
So in this case, just put your M3U files into a 'Folder 4', and enable that for scanning too.
Andre
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@flyingdutchman Yes, the required changes in the Luminous skin appear to need the Poweramp SDK to be updated, which won't happen until the 981 versions go from beta into stable release. For now, either rolling back to PA 976 or using a different skin will fix the issue.
Andre
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Have you tried adjusting the Notification type and settings in PA Settings=>Look and Feel=>Notifications? I would suggest using Auto normally. Also check PA Settings=>Album Art=>Always Send Album Art.
When you say the artwork disappears, does the shading remain or does it just have a plain white background?
On Android 14, it should normally look like this:
Or when in minimised state:
Andre
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I think a lot of people just use the forums for Support, to ask a question or report a bug, but they often don't then hang around afterwards to chat further once their issue has been addressed. We have about 95,000 registered users here, but only a small proportion actively post.
There is also a Facebook Chat Group , but that seems to mostly consist of, in roughly equal measures, people asking for the best equalizer settings, people showing off their own Player Screens (for some reason), and people asking what skin the second lot are using and can they have a free copy.
Andre
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You can configure whether the Folders link in that pop-up menu goes to the 'Folders' or 'Folders Hierarchy' views by using PA Settings=>Look and Feel=>Player Screen=>'Navigate to the Folders'. By default it is set to Off, which means the link takes you to 'Folders Hierarchy', but if you enable that setting it will go to 'Folders' view instead.
Remember that simply viewing a new category using those four links does not change the existing playback mode though - so even though you are now viewing a Folders Hierarchy songs list, playback will continue using the existing order as defined in (for example) the Recently Added category. If you tap on the currently playing song, playback will continue using the new Category order (to avoid the song being started again from the beginning, disable the option PA Settings=>Library=>Lists=>Click Restarts Track).
Andre
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Tapping on the cover artwork area is intended to always show you the song you are listening to in its "currently playing" category order. So if you had started playing from the 'Recently Added' view, that is the Category which you will be taken back to when you tap on the cover. From there you can see the next and other forthcoming songs in their playback order.
If you wish to be taken straight to the Library overview, or to your chosen default Home Library Category (for example, my default is set to 'Folders Hierarchy') just tap on the Library icon instead:
Additionally, you can also long-press on the cover art area (or alternatively tap on the three-dots menu icon) to see the currently playing song within a different category, in case you perhaps want to choose a new song from the same Album, Folder, Genre, etc. If you do tap on a new song from the selected list, that will become the currently playing song and the viewed Category will be used to control the upcoming songs sequence.
Andre
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You can set the default view shown when you tap the Library icon. From the top-level Library view, tap the three-dots menu, select List Options, and long-press on the Category that you wish to use as the default. (This choice can later be overridden by long-pressing on the Library icon rather than just tapping).
But from the Player Screen, tapping on the album artwork area will always take you to the current playback category list (e.g. back to Recently Played if that's the category you manually launched playback from).
Andre
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There's a lot of cross-dependence between the artwork (Other) settings, the background details and style, and the size and shape of the widget on your homepage. But I agree that one setting often interacts with another in perhaps unpredictable ways.
Andre
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It sounds as though you have got read access to your music folder (and hence all of its subfolders, such as your playlists in the 'Playlist_Manager' folder) but not write access for editing/deleting/etc. One way to check would be to try to delete a song file (after having made a copy first obviously) and see if that works. Might be worth disabling storage access in the Music Folders menu (so zero songs in Library) and then granting access to your main music folder again. You don't say which Android version your headunit is running (sometimes they are quite out of date) but I'd start with Legacy File Access Mode turned OFF.
Andre
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Remember that 'Date Added to Library' applies only to individual songs. Any other Category levels - such as folders, albums, etc - will just be interpreted as best guesses based on the Added dates of the contained files (usually that would be the Date of the first contained song encountered in the scanning process, which has nothing to do with alphabetical or any other sorting order, it's low-level raw filesystem ordering).
The date that a given file was first Added to the Library is an internal field though, nothing is visible in the regular list views. Modifying the audio or tag contents of a file won't change its Date Added to Library, but changing anything about the filename or its overall path will.
Andre
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Not sure if Settings=>Misc=>Now Playing List would help in this case, as I dont know if it uses the same GetFolderItems API. It works very nicely in Android Auto anyway.
Andre
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That is a skin related issue, it shouldn't occur on the default skins. Or revert to the last stable release build of Poweramp, which should also work.
Andre
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@Donnie1490 Make sure you are running the latest beta build of Poweramp (981) and enable Settings=>Headset/Bluetooth=>Ignore Repeat/Shuffle. That should make Poweramp ignore the Repeat or Shuffle commands that are being sent to it. If this does not work for you, please post your 'Last Processed Commands' log here (from the same menu).
Andre
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Very strange then. Using Settings=>Album Art=>Delete Cache should prompt you first, and then delete any image files found in the Android/data/com.maxmpz.audioplayer/files/ subfolders.
Try a test of creating a new cached image file by (for example) choosing a new image for an Artist and then check that the new picture file has been saved into the expected selected_artist subfolder.
Andre
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You can still access the Android/data hierarchy via USB cable from a PC, even after Google's ridiculous locking down, without needing to use Shizuku. But it's a pain to have to do either.
However 'Delete Cache' should work to remove the contents of the cache folders, I just tried it on my second device and it worked exactly as expected. Is it possible you updated your system at some point but might have imported settings, as the path for the cache used to be different a few years ago (there used to be an underscore prefix to com.maxmpz.audioplayer). Just clutching at straws really as I can't think of any other reasons why it would be possible to set new cover artwork but not remove the cache.
Andre
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Hmm, should be OK after 3 posts and a few days.
Try going via the main voting index (you can place votes directly on that page too): https://forum.powerampapp.com/ideas/?mode=popular
Andre
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On 1/8/2024 at 10:04 AM, andrewilley said:
A bit off-topic, but I've found that rolling back the system 'Files' app on my Galaxy A54/Android 14 (using Settings > Apps > 'Files' > Uninstall Updates) removes the Grant Access restrictions to the Android/data/subfolders hierarchy.
It's now been properly broken again by some recent Google/Samsung Android 14 update. The workaround of rolling back the system Files app version no longer allows access to the subfolders in Android/Data/ via Solid Explorer. Grrrrr...
Anyone else got any other bright ideas, apart from rooting or using USB cable access from a computer (which does still work) ?
Andre
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A Full Rescan only scans the music files, it does not update (or remove) any previously downloaded cover artwork from the cache storage.
Settings=>Album Art=>Delete Cache should remove any downloaded image files from the cache folders though - i.e. from the subfolders in Android/data/com.maxmpz.audioplayer/ . Of course if you have the auto-download option enabled, covers will get repopulated for anything that does not have embedded artwork.
Andre
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The existing licences will remain valid, and the core app will still receive updates either via the Play Store or to download.
Feature packs are going to be a way to purchase extra bolt-on features, beyond the core app, at some point in the future.
Andre
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36 minutes ago, 6b6561 said:
I do only use it to go a couple of months back in time and that's to see if there is something new in the library that I have forgotten about. Personally I don't see the use for going much further back in time than that.
That's really what it's intended for, just to see what's been most recently added. Not really intended for long-term use going back over years/decades of music collecting.
Andre
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@maxmp Thanks for the clarification Max. In this specific context though, there's nothing in the exported #EXT tags that Ted415 would need to reinstate, as ratings will already have been restored via settings Import. I think he can safely forget #EXT lines for ease of comparison and editing.
I knew about radio streams using #EXTINF title data, although that does get overwritten by any broadcast song details which can make the Category view a bit confusing when random old song titles from the previous listening session are displayed as the main title instead of showing the more useful station name. Maybe titles in stream lists could retain the station name in such cases? (Although that would mean the Player Screen and Library List needing to use different %title% strings, which might mess up animations)
I assume by "EXTING" song titles you meant "EXTINF", but I've never seen that title text used anywhere for songs in PA - even when audio files have no tag data of their own? Reading "#PLAYLIST:" names might actually be quite useful though, as parsing them for display as list titles could deal with the complaints from users about seeing filename extenders (".m3u") in the Playlists category view.
Andre
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All of the #EXT lines are ignored by PA anyway, it only needs the path to the song file.
The white lines in the All Songs list are the ones that are also found in the other pane, so it's probably the white ones that you want to remove from the All Songs list. I'm not sure how to block-select and remove based on matched comparison results off-hand, I've never done that. Might be worth Googling, e.g. https://superuser.com/questions/562208/notepad-compare-two-files-and-remove . The Unix diff command would do it automatically (assuming the files are sorted), but that depends on how Unix savvy you are.
Andre
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@Ventdelinfini As Max has said in the past, the experimental high-res feature is not always compatible with every manufacturer's ROM and/or 3.5mm output, also also disabling DVC may assist in making it work. Have you tried using some of the other output methods - AudioTrack, AAudio, etc? There is obviously no point trying to use high-res on a tiny phone speaker anyway, but 3.5mm output (if it's available) is more likely to work.
Andre
Fix the selected view (default browsing method)
in Poweramp Feature Requests
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@Vache Yes, it makes for a handy way to change the playback Category (switching from a Recent song to the Album it came from for example) without interrupting the currently playing song.
Andre