Animae Gray

That's what I usually do to most bonus tracks and covers, but the main problem for me is that some songs are way more memorable than others and I don't want to overlisten to them, so I usually end up skipping those on occasion. Similarly, I might not be in the mood for some songs, like if there's a slow ballad in the middle of the album or something like that I might want to skip it. Lots of different situations where you might want to skip a track sometimes, but not always. The problem is if you use media file tags for this you might run into people who rate their audio files and their 1-star rating might not mean "skip the song" for them. In principle, since Poweramp seems to use a library database to access the audio files, it should be as easy as adding an extra property to audio files in that database. No need to alter the files themselves.

Hmm, I don't really use playlists or queue myself, but logically I think they should be added and kept as disabled. If someone went to trouble to manually mark tracks as "disabled" in the album's folder, it stands to reason that this choice should be remembered when you add the album to a playlist or queue. Also, adding them to a playlist will make re-enabling them later much easier because otherwise you'd have to manually add them which is a hassle. But it does introduce edge cases, like what if you add a whole bunch of albums to a playlist and half the tracks in those folders are disabled, so the playlist is a bit of an eyesore now with all those disabled tracks. The problem is that it's a great idea for albums because there aren't a lot of tracks in an album, but for people who like using long playlists it can be a bit of an issue. Though then again, if you're one who uses playlists you'll be adding a bunch of tracks to a playlist manually. If you don't want to listen to a track then you just won't add it in the first place. This skipping feature is relevant to those who like to listen to entire albums but perhaps want to skip a track or two. So there's not really a lot of clash between these two use cases, not that I can see at least. The other way around - disabling tracks in a playlist should definitely not apply to folders, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense because a playlist is already a curated subset. I don't know, it could be solved by a toggle option like "ignore disabled tracks when adding to playlist", as well as a toggle option "hide disabled tracks in playlist" to take care of the case where you have too many disabled tracks in a playlist for some reason. Haha, this is how it always works, you think of a simple feature, but turns out it has a whole bunch of edge cases and consequences. Anyway, I'd be really happy to see even a very simple implementation that works strictly in folders with no connection whatsoever to playlists/queues if implementing this extra stuff proves too cumbersome. Like I've said, I think this feature will be the most useful to people who like to listen to whole albums and want to skip a track or two, whereas people who use playlists will likely use playlists to manually select the tracks they want to listen to, so they have less of a need for this kind of automatic track skipping (they already chose the tracks they want, after all).

Hi, as someone who's almost always listening to whole albums and sorts the music via folders, being able to skip certain tracks in the album (folder, rather) would be immensely useful. Say, you don't particularly like (or you've listened to them too much and you're tired of them) tracks 3, 6 and 7. Just select those, hit skip, and that's it, the player will automatically skip those tracks. It should also be permanent, otherwise you'd go crazy selecting multiple tracks to skip each time you want to listen to that specific album. I know I can use playlists for this, but that's the whole point - I don't want to always select a whole bunch of songs and then it messes up the navigation because I always sort my music via folders, so I navigate through the folder structure. Select the tracks you want to skip and press skip: The playlist indicates in some way that these tracks are going to be skipped now: