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  1. andrewilley's post in Fix the selected view (default browsing method) was marked as the answer   
    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
  2. andrewilley's post in List/Sort by filename - Weird behaviour was marked as the answer   
    Poweramp's alphabetical sorting process uses plain ASCII text sorting, so the above is exactly how content should be sorted (individual digits are just another type of alphabetical character as far a sorting goes, they are not consecutively processed to generate larger numbers).
    To force numerical processing of alpha-sorted text, you need to pad out the smaller numbers with enough leading zeros to cover all of your possibilities - so 0001, 0002, 0010, 0011, 0100, 0101, etc. Exactly the same principle as you'd use for prefixing track numbers as 01, 02, 03, 10, 11, 12, etc for filenames in album folders.
    There is a existing Feature Request for 'smart' sorting options, which would include numeric interpretation of consecutive strings of digits, which you can vote for here (once your account has enough activity):
    Andre
  3. andrewilley's post in List items align to bottom was marked as the answer   
    No, a single message to a text contact, or WhatsApp etc, appears at the top of the screen with empty space below it. New messages get added further down the page until scrolling becomes necessary. Just like Poweramp does with short lists.
    Andre
     
  4. andrewilley's post in Poweramp autoeq target was marked as the answer   
    The device presets list comes from the crowd-sourced AutoEQ database.
    https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq
    Andre
  5. andrewilley's post in New Phone - Playlist Issues was marked as the answer   
    Well none of those will work if you have now changed the master Music folder name, as you placed all of those audio files directly inside the SD Card's root-level folder Music , rather than the normal process of them then being inside a tidy structure of further subfolders inside Music (e.g. separate subfolders for Genres, Artists, Albums, etc). Thus the folder Music would in this case be the first level of containing folder, and that's what Poweramp will be trying to match. So for example it would be looking for a file called Summertime.mp3 located directly inside any folder that it can find in your designated storage area called Music.
    I assume that only some of your collection is stored this way, most of it is in specific named subfolders? The simplest solution for the above single files (other than just using the system Music folder on your new phone) would be to move any audio files which previously existed directly within the Music folder (which you have now named Music X) into their own additional subfolder called Music so the matching rules would now work Thus the path to those singles files would become something like /Music X/Music/Summertime.mp3. 
    Andre
  6. andrewilley's post in Apply equalizer preset to folder and all subfolders was marked as the answer   
    No, it's not currently possible to assign any preferences - such as 'List Options' controls, or EQ Presets - to a whole hierarchy of folders and subfolders. You can only assign options for the song files contained directly within one folder at a time.
    However you can assign an EQ Preset to a whole Genre (or any other Category). Open the Genre view that you wish to control, and select 'All Genre Songs' at the top of the list, and tap on a song to start playback of that genre's songs. From that point you can go into the EQ screen, make your slider adjustments, and then use three-dots-menu=>Save/Assign to create a new named Preset which you can assign for all songs in that Genre by ticking the box at the end of the list.


    Andre
  7. andrewilley's post in A quick settings tile to turn the EQ on/off. was marked as the answer   
    Sounds like a good idea to me, in the same way the main Poweramp music player app has basic Play/Pause a control icon in the Quick Settings pull-down panel.
    Andre
  8. andrewilley's post in Bringing up album track list was marked as the answer   
    Tapping the album art will take you to the currently playing Category type, which if you started in All Songs will be that one.
    You can view a different Category by long-pressing (or use the theee-dots menu) and selecting, for example,  Album.
    Andre
  9. andrewilley's post in Album art doesn't work if artist name is too long. was marked as the answer   
    Embedded artwork from within the audio file should still be displayed, but remember that any downloaded artwork needs to be stored the image file in a cache directory (named as  "<artist> - <album>.jpg" , or using Title is there is no Album detail) which may well have an issue with handling extremely long filenames (it is not generally considered safe to use filenames longer than 127 characters in Android).
    See this Guide to find where to look for cached image files so you can check.
    If the problem is occurring with embedded images though, that may need looking into.
    Andre
  10. andrewilley's post in Add option to display artist name above song title was marked as the answer   
    User-customisation of the overall Title and Artist-Album lines, plus the small metadata line provided in lists, is quite high up the new Feature Voting process (it's number three at the moment, behind adding a 'Now Playing' list and customisation of the row of feature buttons on the Player Screen) but anyone following this thread can add their votes here to express their interest:
    Andre  
  11. andrewilley's post in No album art was marked as the answer   
    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 
     
  12. andrewilley's post in Some "Queue" options are unclear. was marked as the answer   
    '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
  13. andrewilley's post in What is the "Show Unsplit Combined Categories" option? was marked as the answer   
    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
  14. andrewilley's post in I want to install Poweramp on an iPhone as I no longer use Android was marked as the answer   
    Currently Poweramp is an Android app. While it may be possible to cross-compile it for other platforms at some stage in the (fairly distant) future, for now your choice of switching to an iPhone means you can't run Poweramp, or indeed any other Android apps. 
    Andre
  15. andrewilley's post in Add Music to Poweramp Equalizer was marked as the answer   
    It's an equalizer only. It doesn't play music files directly, it merely adjusts the sound created by other apps.
    Andre
  16. andrewilley's post in Add the option to disable 'Tone' alone was marked as the answer   
    Sorry about that, I thought it was fairly clear when I said "If you want to have no Tone adjustments just set both knobs to zero".  No need to start digging into the underlying range configuration settings, just set the main Bass and Treble knobs to 0%.
    Andre
     
  17. andrewilley's post in Lyric symbol in Track list was marked as the answer   
    Presumably you mean only for when a song has its own embedded lyrics, or if there is a local matching LRC file, as any song can have lyrics provided from an external source (e.g. MusiXmatch)
    Andre
  18. andrewilley's post in Poweramp Shuffle Randomization? was marked as the answer   
    No, they will be shuffled in amongst other songs which have not be played at all (depending on the Shuffle mode in use of course - I'm referring to All Songs shuffling here).
    Andre
  19. andrewilley's post in How do I export my equalizer presets from my phone to my android head unit ? was marked as the answer   
    Yes, just use Settings=>Export Settings/Data. You can choose to only save your EQ values, or other stuff too if you want. Then copy the resulting file over to your new device and use Import Settings/Data.
    EQ adjustments are normally tailored to the listening device though, so they may not sound the same in your car as they did for your headphones.
    Andre
  20. andrewilley's post in Tagscanner splits titles containing commas when exporting to csv was marked as the answer   
    Seems OK to me. You may not be able to just click on the CSV file or drag it to Excel to open it though. I found that in Excel I needed to use menu>Data>From Text/CSV. Otherwise it does not seem to recognise the forced-verbatim fields that are enclosed in quote marks.
    For example, a CSV export ready for Excel should be a text file with all of the fields delimited by quotation marks (to avoid the problem you describe with commas in fields):
    "Mamma Mia";"ABBA";"ABBA";"01";"1975";"Pop ; Disco";"210" "Hey, Hey Helen";"ABBA";"ABBA";"02";"1975";"Pop ; Disco";"193" "Tropical Loveland";"ABBA";"ABBA";"03";"1975";"Pop ; Disco";"182" "SOS";"ABBA";"ABBA";"04";"1975";"Pop ; Disco";"198" "Man In The Middle";"ABBA";"ABBA";"05";"1975";"Pop ; Disco";"176" "Bang-A-Boomerang";"ABBA";"ABBA";"06";"1975";"Pop ; Disco";"180" "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do";"ABBA";"ABBA";"07";"1975";"Pop ; Disco";"193" "Rock Me";"ABBA";"ABBA";"08";"1975";"Pop ; Disco";"182" "Intermezzo No.1";"ABBA";"ABBA";"09";"1975";"Pop ; Disco";"223" "I’ve Been Waiting For You";"ABBA";"ABBA";"10";"1975";"Pop ; Disco";"216" "So Long";"ABBA";"ABBA";"11";"1975";"Pop ; Disco";"183" And the default settings when importing that into Excel with menu>Data>From Text/CSV should result in:

    (you can control which tags get exported by using the 'Edit' function in TasScanner's Export menu) 
    Andre
  21. andrewilley's post in Changing album art was marked as the answer   
    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
  22. andrewilley's post in Pro buttons and Dark Skin settings won't save on my new phone (s23) was marked as the answer   
    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
  23. andrewilley's post in Save the L/R balance setting to the EQ preset was marked as the answer   
    See my reply in the main music player app Feature Requests section (any such feature would apply to both systems).
    Andre 
  24. andrewilley's post in Save the L/R balance setting to the EQ preset was marked as the answer   
    There is an existing Feature Request to allow the Save/Assign feature in the EQ screen to allow choosing which EQ elements the user wants to store. You can vote for it here:
    Andre
  25. andrewilley's post in Poweramp randomly skips to the next song: MP3 was marked as the answer   
    Plays fine for me. Was the file that you uploaded the actual version from your phone's storage, or was it a separate master copy from a PC etc? Try copying it to your device again, into a different folder for now, and see if you have the same problem with that version. Is your music saved on SD Card, or in your device's main storage, as it could be storage corruption or access issues.
    Andre
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