[Sharing equalizer preset(s) as a file]

Share and receive equalizer presets from friends. Amaze them, inspire ourselves and to make better eq presets. 

[Visualization location, transparency & aspect ratio]

On 3/27/2019 at 6:13 PM, blaubär said:

Changes to the visualization have already been discussed in these forums, see for example

Search in the forums, perhaps you'll find someone whose existing request you can support.

Thanks for pointing out. But I think still it's a good idea to open a dedicated thread for a specific topic. I have already done a search through the forum about this feature. However, couldn't find any. 

BTW, what do you think about this idea?

[Visualization location, transparency & aspect ratio]

Someone please come and reply...

[Visualization location, transparency & aspect ratio]

Please add another location to show visualization on replacing album art.  (The current options are pretty ugly. )

Please also add options like transparency, location and aspect ratio to adjust the visualization, each, individually. 

Below is a concept video of the new location. 

[Why can't Poweramp remember songs ratings?]

On Fri Jan 04 2019 at 10:46 PM, maxmp said:

Ratings are stored locally in Poweramp database - it’s fast and works for any file. 

There are file formats which don’t support rating, writing files on the fly is time/memory/cpu intensive (and may break some files if tag is already semi broken or non standard), there can be very large files and slow storages, huge embedded album art, and all kind of crazy tags in the wild.

All that makes “online” tag writing not managable, but there are plans to sync ratings to/from database via separate action in settings.

I really need this feature as well. It helps a lot on organizing music tracks, especially when there's a large amount of tracks. Since phones nowadays are fast enough to handle those kinds of tasks (even in real time), please at least add a switch to control whether to write ratings to files or not. 

BTW, solution to damaged tags: Just rebuild the tag from broken info. Of course, prompt to user before executing. 

For unsupported file types, it's possible to leave them aside with prompt to user. The prompt may include info that warns user about unsupported file and possible loss on tag information if the file location has been moved. 

p.s. Although this feature haven't been added to PA yet, New Playlist Manager helped a lot on organizing my music files (thanks to @andrewilley for sharing). 

[About equalizer name displaying...]

Shall we put the save & reset button into long pressing/holding on equalizer name?

Or is it better by only expanding the equalizer name to match the first letter of 'B'ass?

Or maybe even more, move the equalizer name to the top as a title?

[About equalizer name displaying...]

The current v3-build-816-play is displaying too less text on equalizer name where it can barely fit several characters. I'm not sure how this should be improved but it's surely a problem existing. Maybe we are going to discuss here about it. 

[Queue does not exit when completed]

Version: v3-build-802-play

Note: I've already turned on "Auto-Advance From Queue". 

Problem: After one queue has finished on playing it's last track, Poweramp starts the queue again, and does not return to the playlist where I started from. 

Hypothesis: This issue is likely to be caused as Poweramp treats queues as playlists and uses the same Repeat & Shuffling settings from the previous playlist.

Possible Solution: If possible, please let Poweramp remember those Repeat & Shuffling settings independently for queues. 

 

Thanks! 

[Custom Volume Level Panel on any screen (including on home screen and apps)]

Hopefully, this will be added in future updates since it's very important for people like me to know their volume level at anytime while adjusting. It can also help on protecting people's hearing. 

Knowing your volume level also helps you to maintain your sound level at a safe zone. By remembering your favorite volume level, you can understand how much volume to increase in a noisy environment. 

[Not-able-to-scroll indicator bug]

Version: rc-build-799-play

Here's the screenshot for the bug. The bug occurs when the meta menu is scrolled to the bottom and user continues scrolling. The indicator shouldn't be visible outside the menu box's boundary. 

[Lag when entering a folder tile at right]

This is a quick note since I didn't have time to test and figure out the reason for this bug. 

Sometimes, when I press any tiles at right, nothing happened for 1 sec and then enter the playlist with no animation. This bug does not happen to the tiles at left. 

[Searching in settings]

BTW, RC 799 looks sick. The help messages are perfectly designed and looks great. I'm pretty sure there are also some minor changes to the UI, is it right? Since I'm feeling different to the previous build. 

[Cast to device]

Don't you really just connect your Chromecast device in native Android settings? I believe for most Android devices there should be an option called "Cast" or "Wireless display" like mine showing below in the img. 

Edit: Of course, you can have the option in pa directly. It does look much feature complete for an audio player. Also, it will be better to have the button showing automatically while Chromecast device(s) is found. (Will be looking sick like iOS!!) @maxmp What's your opinion? (too much to work idk hahaha...)(as a hobby programmer, I do know that it does require a lot of work to be done for this. So, appreciate in advance for even replying. )

[About Volume Button]

It's might be better to add an option to enable/disable volume panel on the main UI. Or there will be too much stuff for the first look. 

[Searching in settings]

Sometimes it's hard to find a specific setting. E.g. I'm struggling to find the switch to enable/disable 5-star-rating. So, it will be good to add search function in settings. (and it's also friendly to pa beginners)

[Interesting, what is this?]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17U3LIXMjcprv5zCQYJt0cWmtFPVEh8UH?usp=sharing, all screen recordings for this topic are inside this link. Look at the filename for description. @maxmp

[Interesting, what is this?]

I have confirmed that playlist track deletion causes the sorting widget to appear. However, I haven't confirmed what causes the multi-selection problem. 

Update: Well, sometimes it does not appear by only going back to playlists. You will probably need to swipe to right and enter playlists again to reproduce the issue. I'll post a screen recording later. 

Update: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NcVcwO_VA6vmCqbYMQZteijMoFm60hTb/view?usp=sharing, for screen recording of the sorting widget issue. 

Update: BTW, I found that connecting/disconnecting USB DAC will cause every app to refresh, including pa, is that a common thing on Android Oreo?

[Interesting, what is this?]

Ahh, I think both of the problem is somehow to do with the playlist track deletion action. When I tried to delete track/s, the sorting widget appears on the tiles. 

And pa becomes kinda laggy after that. (even on my 835 chip powered phone)

[Interesting, what is this?]

39 minutes ago, maxmp said:

Thanks for the reveal / report. Dragging mode somehow persisted everywhere for you, can you reproduce that consistently?

Not really. Although I've met 2+ times, it is still occasional and only appears when I played music for somehow a long time (like 20min+). I'll still be following the bug and I think it probably is to do with USB DAC plug in/out events. 

 

BTW, the multi-selection does also have some problems. In my playlist, I can still see the previous selection when I enter multi-select again. 

Update: After I tried to rename a playlist, I entered playlist multi-select again and another playlist has been selected randomly. 

[Interesting, what is this?]

Also, it will be better if it's possible to flag tracks just like in the image. So I know which track I've checked or not. (I usually remove tracks that sound bad)

[Interesting, what is this?]

BTW, it is not functional yet. However, the swapping experience of these tiles are soooo good! It is super satisfying. 

[Interesting, what is this?]

@maxmp u haven't hide them completely. Because of that, I am now spoiled for the new feature...?

[Shuffle not rotating through all songs]

On Sun Sep 02 2018 at 3:42 AM, placerej said:

Seems to be working now, with the update to 795. ?

Yes. It's working now with build 795. Nice work, max! @maxmp

[Shuffle not rotating through all songs]

On Thu Aug 23 2018 at 4:43 AM, maxmp said:

I tested current dev build and changing shuffle mode definitely reshuffles (and the next track meta info also changes), though, I'm not sure if this works for 793 build.

Sorry, max, for build-793 it does not work. As my previous post said, even with your method 793 still doesn't want to re-shuffle. (for playlist only, others not tested)

[Shuffle not rotating through all songs]

The shuffle button only shuffle songs once. After that whatever how I press the shuffle button, it plays with the same order. 

(The shuffle button I'm using is in and at the top of the playlist screen. )

The shuffle button only shuffle songs once. After that whatever how I press the shuffle button, it plays with the same order. 

(The shuffle button I'm using is in and at the top of the playlist screen. )

BTW, I'm currently using "Re-sort, Shuffle" as an alternate method. First, turn off the problematic shuffle function. Then, use the built-in random re-sort function to re-sort the playlist. Now, you can play your pre-shuffled playlist sequencially. 

(I think this only works if you have a playlist. It does not work in "Folder" screen. )