orskar

Just thought it might help to mention, I did find a bit of a fix myself. I only had the issue happen after changing to a new phone, and had reset my settings to default rather than using my imported old settings that worked okay initially, due to my library not loading properly at the start. After trying everything I, eventually re-imported my old settings to see what was different and found setting "Audio Focus" to "Short audio focus change">On, Duck Volume>Off, Permanent Audio Focus Change>Off, would stop that specific issue from happening and could use the earphone buttons without any fear. I rather have the Audio Focus settings tuned how I like but it's a temporary fix I guess until a fix comes from Android/Xperia/Poweramp? However, there is another APTX Adaptive related issue only in Poweramp with occasionally volume dips mid track, seems to happen on only very busy/detailed tracks and very randomly. It's only happened with the new phone (Xperia 5V). Pausing the track and waiting a few seconds and playing again seems to resolve the issue. It's definitely not a wifi interference thing as it's happened in dead zones. Based on the above, I've just seen a setting in the AudioTrack output about "No Duck", so have to wonder if it's a buffer and/or CPU thing. Unfortunately with my current primary earphones, they default to APTX Adaptive, so I'm stuck trying to make it work. I'll try the playing around with the audio buffer in Poweramp and "dontkillmyapp" just in case. Plan to turn on "No Duck" to check if that is the cause for the volume dips, since it should in principle pause the track instead. I do note it did seem to work perfectly fine on my old phone (Xperia 5 III), so it might be an Android update issue