[Poweramp builds 971-976]

Build 976 promoted to stable.

[Menu wording, particularly translations]

@andrewz thanks for the reports, these are really helpful. Some fixes were added to the dev build.

As for menu label widths - menu uses lyrics_short label, which is specifically shorter and fits menu quite nice.

[On Nothing Phone (2), any audio seems to resample to a fixed rate, then resamples again.]

@1meter in this case of Bluetooth connection, the allowed sample rates are defined by the codec, firmware bt stack settings, phone + bt device negotiation, and if multiple sample rates/bit formats are possible, developer options can be taken into account.

7 hours ago, 1meter said:

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong while using LDAC, but I've found that no matter what the distance or settings, I can't get Poweramp to not resample the track to 16-bit 48 khz. It just does the same thing as the picture above. Am I doing something wrong?

Poweramp will resample to whatever the sample rate you set. This will be resampled again to the codec sample rate as needed. 

If you want to get 96khz from LDAC, and your firmware is playing safe (as 96khz is not reliable for many devices on distance > 20cms)  and not allowing that by default, try to set (in Developer options) LDAC bitrate to 990kb and LDAC sample rate to 96khz.

If Poweramp output sample rate is set to auto, it will use 96khz automatically. Also try AudioTrack output, not the Hi-Res output.

[On Nothing Phone (2), any audio seems to resample to a fixed rate, then resamples again.]

@1meter Equalizer app shows sample frequency as reported to it (via visualization component). If this is incorrectly reported, there may be some errors in the visualizations, but not in the DSP part as internally Android should know the frequency it's operating on (or there is a major bug in a firmware, immediately obvious).

As for multiple resamplings, bluetooth codec will force sample rate and it's not possible to change it. The codec and codec parameters are negotiated by the Android BT stack and the BT device (some hints from Developer options may be taken into account as well). In this case I would suggest selecting the Poweramp output sample rate to avoid extra reamplings as much as possible.

For LDAC over BTR, please note that 96kHz is there only when BTR is within 20-30cm from the phone, it transparently jumps to 48khz if distance is any larger. It's transparent to human ear as humans do not hear frequencies above 20khz (but the sample rate can be measured in base of BTR easily due to the 3.5 output easily connectible to the analyzing device).

[Prevent starting on bluetooth press]

@eng3 if Poweramp is last used music player, Android will resume it next time "resume" button is pressed. (The resume "button", or command, may be just a single press on buds, or double press, etc. - depending on the headset/device/firmware). Some Android 13 firmwares have bug when Poweramp "Beep" option always makes Poweramp as last active player for some reason. Workaround for that was added to Poweramp build-975 (or you can temporarily disable Beep option). Thanks!

[Deezer Intergration with Poweramp]

I don't think Poweramp (player) has any Deezer related functionality. Do you mean Poweramp Equalizer app and its Known Apps info message regarding players? This is added by me and this means there is a Deezer known issue, not the Poweramp Equalizer issue. This should be reported to the Deezer devs, as previously they supported 3rd partry equalization on Android, then broke it.

[Poweramp not casting properly]

@Meshman thanks for the detailed report. The symptoms like you're describing are the indication of connection failure FROM chromecast TO the phone. For example, chromecast is in the different subnet with one way routing allowed (so you can find and control chromecast from the phone), or firewall/network setup allows some types of connections and disallows others (Isolate clients router/access point option), or you have firewall on the phone denying incoming connections for your network. More details here: 

 

[No album art, track progress lost after returning from sleep - Android car head unit]

Keep service obviously won't help as headunits like to shutdown completely and kill apps (almost) without the notice.

There is a standard "shutdown" Android broadcast message android.intent.action.ACTION_SHUTDOWN which alows apps to store the state before device is switched off.

On the earlier days of Android headuinits, some OEM modified that for some reason to something like OEM_NAME.intent.action.ACTION_SHUTDOWN and the next OEM which used the same firmware/source, modified it further to OEM_NAME2.intent.action.ACTION_POWER_OFF, etc., etc. and now each headunit OEM has own SHUTDOWN intent variant - just due to that original headunit firmware developer who modified the system intent name and the every next OEM2-3-4 using global find/replace for "OEM" to "OEM2-3-4" in sources.

If you don't know the shutdown intent for your headunit, try to write "android.intent.action.SCREEN_OFF" (no quotes) in Settings / Misc / Shutdown Intent. Provided that headunit switches off screen when it's powered off, that may help.

[Visual effect on TV screen at home]

@TONY CORISH that requires sending video which will destroy phone battery, increase latency, bring more chances for stutter, and reduce audio quality due to the recompression. Given all that it's not appropriate for a music player focused on audio quality.

There is an alternative way to render visualizations on Chromecast device/TV itself, but it's not a small project and it requires large % of user base requesting this. Thanks!

[Please Add Full Support To USB DAC!!]

It can be also DVC issue, so try No DVC option for the appropriate Settings / Audio / Output / <your output> / <your device> settings page.

 

[Completely disable Dolby Atmos on Oppo Find X5 Pro]

@romain8991 if you mean hi-res output, try AAudio or AudioTrack outputs + appropriate sample rate/bit width settings - may be they are more compatible/stable for your firmware.

[Album Art over Bluetooth]

@Si64 it should work out of box - Poweramp sends album art which is shown (I hope it's shown for you) in Android notification and Android lockscreen. BT uses the same image. May be your BT stack is dependent on Now Playling list - ensure "Now Playing List For Connected Devices/Apps" option is enabled in Poweramp. May be there is another issue with the BT stack, for example it doesn't like too large images, or image format. Try to toggle options Settings / Album Art / "Send High Resolution Album Art" and "API Compatibility". Thanks!

[Poweramp builds 941-945]

@Criste Stolvads unfortunately it's not possible to support older versions of Android, which also are not supported by Google as well. Also, Poweramp will increase the minimal supported version soon (to Android 7 or 8).

[Album Art over Bluetooth]

This functionality is implemented (or not) by the firmware and player has "no say" in how BT protocol works, unfortunately. There are some options in Poweramp which will disable Album art or may otherwise break this functionality, but if it's supported by firmware/phone/end-device, it will work out of box on default Poweramp settings.

[How to invert left/right audio channels on Android?]

@Chomuske there is no such option for Poweramp now, but you can request it. It will work in the player only though, so the player option may be not a solution.

[Unknown artist but info/tags shows artist?]

@AlbertWest Poweramp doesn't trigger "foreground" scanning process (when there is a notification with some scan progress and scanning happens in the "foreground" background). Instead, Poweramp tries to scan as much as possible while it's in the foreground (while UI is on top or when playing). Recent Androids kill background app in about 30 to 60 seconds (and some Chinese firmwares will do that sometimes even for the foreground app) - so scan may not complete fully for a larger library. Poweramp will attempt to scan rest of the library next time unless scan is disabled in Settings / Library / Scanner.

The "foreground" scanning with the notification and progress was there, but was removed by user requests.

[Reverb and channel ballance to be saved with devices]

@Lexy auto save is just an toggle-able option. And built-in (device/auto eq) presets are locked by default (and there is easy undo via Reset action).

[New buttons for lockscreen and AndroidAuto: Next Folder and Previous Folder]

@andrewilley exactly. But still it's better this (configurable) way.

[Unknown artist but info/tags shows artist?]

@AlbertWest this may happen if Poweramp has never actually scanned the file. Actually normal rescan (available also in list header menus) should pick up those.

[album art images change kbps rate]

@soundpimp for Poweramp and flac, the bit rate estimation during tag scan differs from the playback estimation. The first one excludes tag size, but the playback estimation (as implemented in ffmpeg) uses whole file size for the estimation, including metadata. This is usually OK for the moderate image sizes, but if you push very large image for some reason, indeed it offsets displayed bitrate while playing.

Thanks!

[Poweramp Skin Sample]

@Toonces what errors? Thanks!

[LP track's order]

@meryl marques while in album list, ensure sorting (header menu / List options) is set to Track #

[Poweramp overrides bluetooth device controls when another app is in use]

@elucid8 the issue is not reproducible on the recent Poweramp builds (97x). Please upgrade if not yet.

[New buttons for lockscreen and AndroidAuto: Next Folder and Previous Folder]

@andrewilley there is just one set of buttons used by Android everywhere (notification area/Auto/watches/etc.). We just provide list of buttons once, we can provide different sets to Auto or Notifications.

[Reverb and channel ballance to be saved with devices]

@andrewilley if you have preset A with all those reverbs and stuff, and preset B without these, what happens when you select B after A? Does it apply A reverb and B doesn't change it? Or does B resets reverb to defaults?