hypomaniac-eric
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1 minute ago, andrewilley said:
You may have diagnosed the issue right there.
Just load the problem files into MP3Tag and simply resave them, that certainly fixed the sample you uploaded anyway.
Andre
any idea what media monkey is doing to the files? The dev never responded to my thread about it over there in their forums. and one thing i hate about MM is there's no open in containing folder option. or a way to manually search for albums for tagging. it wants to auto tag by sampling the files but it gets it wrong sometimes. if only MusicBee was still compatible with Android 12.
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8 hours ago, andrewilley said:
I agree the second picture is probably pointless, as it's just a lower resolution copy of the first, however having two images is within ID3 spec so that alone should not cause PA to misread the first one.
I think there's just something a little off about the way the metadata has been saved. On my PC, neither ZoomPlayer nor VLC recognise either image. However if I then re-save the file from a tag editor (e.g. MP3Tag) it works fine in both of those apps, and also in Poweramp. So the issue does seem to be with the original file format.
Perhaps Max can track it down from your sample file and design a workaround, but in the meantime just load the problem files into MP3Tag and re-save them.
Andre
Funny thing is i don't remember having this problem till using Media Monkey. And on the computer Media Monkey reads it just fine or on the app last i knew.
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15 hours ago, Fitzian said:
There's two album art images embedded into this file.
Have you tried using just one image and see if that fixes things?
No because the whole album has more then one and most of my music collection has more then one cover. many of my albums have rear covers and inside the leaflets. Only 4 songs out of the whole album is problematic.
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5 minutes ago, andrewilley said:
@hypomaniac-eric I would suggest avoiding using Media Monkey or any other auto-syncing programs, just copy a few folders of files directly for testing purposes first. And start with a clean fresh installation of Poweramp.
Andre
Her's was a fresh install of Poweramp. I didn't have this problem with Musicbee but i quit using musicbee because the dev wasn't interested in updating the app to be compatible with Android 12. He told me i should switch to media monkey.
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4 minutes ago, andrewilley said:
@hypomaniac-eric I would suggest avoiding using Media Monkey or any other auto-syncing programs, just copy a few folders of files directly for testing purposes first. And start with a clean fresh installation of Poweramp.
Andre
Here's the song from my phone.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ORnPA5qI5g9LynPD25XPwU2hzOBe3jIA/view?usp=drivesdk
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On 7/21/2022 at 5:08 PM, andrewilley said:
When you put this music onto the other phone, did you just copy these files to a fresh install and get the same result - without copying any other settings data or image caches?
If so, please could you share a couple of sample files for testing.
Andre
I synced her phone with a wired connection with Media Monkey. I bought the pro version for android so i can sync wirelessly to my phone. I tried clearing the album covers cache in Poweramp settings. I'll share the files through Drive later.
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Ever since I've been using Media Monkey I've been having problems with Poweramp having missing album covers for some songs. I spent 30 minutes last night trying to fix four songs and even redid the album covers in Media Monkey on the computer, which are embedded btw and deleteing them from the phone and resyncing multiple times with no success. I've been waiting over 6 months for a solution. I didn't get anywhere in the Media Monkey forum. Also my i put music on my gf's phone and the same songs are missing album covers in Poweramp on her phone.
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I love Yaps and Liv Dark the most. YAPS have tons of settings and spectrum analyzers but it can be overwhelming to configure at times. and Liv Dark is really stylish and easier and less overwhelming to customize. I have Aurora, Luminous Black, and some others too.
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On 4/9/2022 at 6:07 PM, dvhttn said:
What about connecting to other BT devices? Any improvements or the same? I've found car stereos the worst for BT connections. Have you got the latest firmware for your stereo? Have you tried a factory reset (on the stereo) and/or a complete reset/delete of ALL BT devices on that radio? I had one stereo that, on power-on, checked each BT device it had been paired with in order. And it was slow about it (!!). So if my phone was 4th in the list then it would take a long time to connect and start playing.
I have now a 2015 Honda Jazz with a stereo that runs an altered/locked-down version of Android 4.(something). Depending on whether I press pause on the phone or stereo (for Poweramp) depends on whether music plays immediately the next time they connect or is still on pause - + loads of other issues.
Basically, you may not get to the bottom of the issue you're concerned with and even if you know what causes the problem (if it is the stereo) getting it fixed will prove somewhat frustrating ....
I factory reset my stereo several times. only had one device on the stereo. There is no new firmware to download for my stereo as of September. I just looked now and there is firmware updates from January. bug fixes and bluetooth issues. It's a Pioneer. I would hate to spend a lot of money on a stereo and it not work right. I gave up and bought a Bluetooth adapter to use use for it. after a year of problems with it i am tired of playing with it. the adapter connects and plays music in 3-4 seconds.
UPDATE: I got the firmware updated on the stereo and so far in the last two days the phone connects every time and in 10 seconds instead of 40. took them almost a year to update the stereo since i had it. I had it a year from the beginning of April.
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update about 2 weeks ago i was on the phone for 2 hrs with tech support about my bluetooth issues on my phone and resetting the data and cache for the bluetooth service didn't help either. My phone is still not connecting automatically to my car stereo most the time lately. and still takes forever when it does connect. takes exactly 40 secs.
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anyone?
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I still am having problems. still takes 30 seconds to connect and play music for 3 seconds then 5 seconds of nothing then it connects and it takes several minutes before i can use the pause button or other buttons on the stereo to control the music. I've tried All the AVRCP profiles. I even reset the bluetooth settings. I don't know if there is a different setting to try on the stereo or the phone. it is a 1 year old Pioneer stereo.
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5 hours ago, MotleyG said:
This has absolutely nothing to do with Poweramp. But it does suggest something between your phone and car radio is not working as it should. Do you have any other device you can try pairing to this car to compare? Wife, kids, friend - anything just to try pairing? If the same happens the car radio is to blame. If not then your phone is not working optimally.
I never said it was a Poweramp issue. I tried my Galaxy S9+ awhile back and the few times I tried it it was fine. I will have to try again. And i switched out the car stereo last September with the older one and the problem was still the same. Can you tell me what the AVRCP profile does? I tried all the settings.
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On 2/15/2022 at 8:21 AM, MotleyG said:
Does any other app connect and play faster than this? Try the native media player as this should have the best interaction with your phone. I can't think this is a PA specific issue if the BT connection itself takes that long. I would try to re-pair the BT connection as @andrewilley suggested. If that fails, I would have to think there is an issue with the device or it's OS.
I tried resetting the blue tooth. no change. i tried the AVRCP profile and no change. And each time i try to repair the car it fails several times and takes 10 mins to get paired. then whenever it connects I counted 30 seconds each time start the car and the music plays for 3 seconds then blanks out for 5 seconds and then plays fine.
I haven't tried other players yet since Poweramp is the default app.
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On 2/5/2022 at 5:03 PM, andrewilley said:
@hypomaniac-eric Turn off the Bluetooth Absolute Volume feature via Android Settings > Developer Options (usually on Samsung that means turning ON the slider marked "Disable Absolute Volume". Then you can safely turn DVC on within Poweramp.
Andre
I think i did that after i read your message. the problem I'm still having is it takes over 30 seconds to play music on the car stereo. the stereo says connecting for at least 30 seconds. I'm several city blocks down the road by the time it plays music. it's really annoying. my previous phones would take 5-10 seconds at the most before the music starts.
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1 minute ago, Beda said:
update YAPS to v183(=actualy latest) and look here
btw: now is problematic (at least for me) only "Poweramp Default", but "Poweramp Default Rounded" work 😉
The play store didn't automatically update tons of apps. I thought it all was updated. So i got everything updated now and the skin works again.
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I went to use Poweramp and it defaulted to the default skin and i get an error message for Yaps.
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On 1/31/2022 at 9:03 AM, andrewilley said:
If you use DVC, check that your phone's Bluetooth Absolute Volume mode is disabled in Android Settings > Developer Options. Or just turn DVC off for Bluetooth output via PA Settings > Audio.
Andre
I forgot what the difference is DVC vs not using it. Can you enlighten me? In Poweramp settings, I have "No DVC for Bluetooth Absolute Volume" selected. will that work or do I need to turn it off completely at the top of the screen saying "Enable Direct Volume Control"?
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On 1/31/2022 at 8:25 AM, Martin Niehaus said:
When connecting to my car's sound system via Bluetooth initially for about 5sec the volume will fade in and out rapidly. I use android, and I predominantly play flac format. Is there a setting I need to change?
Are you using a Galaxy 21 series phone? because i had that happen to me with MP3's. It was doing it from April to the present. I got a replacement and it's a bit better but now it takes almost a minute to fully connect and play music only with the car stereo.
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On 1/15/2022 at 3:12 AM, andrewilley said:
So once any given song has 'lost' its embedded artwork in Poweramp, the artwork is no longer visible via any category view or the player screen - and using the Info/Tags display indicates there is no embedded artwork within the file? Normally with no embedded artwork found, PA would try to auto-download a cover.
When this next happens, could you post a copy of the file using the category songs > Share feature (to ensure it is current version found on your device storage). Save it to a temporarily shareable location such as Dropbox or Google Drive. Also what is the time/date stamp on the relevant file?
Andre
"So once any given song has 'lost' its embedded artwork in Poweramp, the artwork is no longer visible via any category view or the player screen - and using the Info/Tags display indicates there is no embedded artwork within the file?" yes that's correct. I haven't checked the category view i don't think.
I'll try to share it with you next time.
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On 1/13/2022 at 5:14 PM, andrewilley said:
@hypomaniac-eric Sync apps never seem to work reliably 100% of the time, but I don't know why other than if they haven't finished copying when PA first scans the file. I don't use them at all for that reason. I use TagScanner to add tags and artwork, foobar2000 for ReplayGain, and then manually copy the resulting files from my PC to my phone (mostly with Solid Explorer's wi-fi FTP server) and I never seem to have the problems that people seem to experience with the automated sync software. Actually I tell a lie, I do use one file moving app called FolderSync just for podcasts. I've never managed to find a podcatcher that allows me to define specific named folders for each downloaded podcast, so I instead have a background copying task in FolderSync which checks for new auto-downloads in their default location and moves the files into my MusicFolder/Podcasts/ folder hierarchy. PA then picks them up on its next scan, and that's never caused me any problems with missing content (although most don't have embedded artwork to be fair).
If you ignore looking at or rescanning playlists, do the actual songs themselves - in Folder View, or All Songs, Albums, etc - show the correct artwork? Are these completely new audio files, or ones that existed before and have been modified elsewhere and then copied back to your phone?
What happens if you edit one of your songs that PA currently shows with missing artwork using a tag editor such as TagScanner or MP3Tag, and then copy that new file over to your phone, then rescan in PA?
Embedded cover artwork is not cached anywhere between sessions, it is loaded 'on-the-fly' from the files when you open an album, folder, etc view. The most recent few hundred retrieved covers remain in memory during that session, in case you return to that view immediately, but once they have expired if you reopen the same folder again you will notice the images getting reloaded as they populate their way down a long list (using Compact List view makes that most obvious).
Andre
The songs hadn't been messed with and every so many times i sync with Media Monkey it breaks more album covers. some of the songs in question had a bunch of covers with different resolutions. i deleted the extra ones and to fix the problem songs i had to delete and re add the covers in Media Monkey even though they was already embedded or saved to tag, then sync again. sometimes Poweramp doesn't want to see the changes. i had to delete some songs from my phone and then sync to get those songs back with embedded covers in Poweramp. But I'm playing whack a mole with this problem. every time i fix a bunch of mp3's and whole albums then i sync and then more songs or albums lose their covers and they was perfectly fine before. i never had this problem with Musicbee but as many know they hadn't updated the app for Android 12. I had problems with a wired sync on Musicbee with Android 12. the dev's solution for me was to switch to Media Monkey. Unbelievable. I never heard of a dev referring someone to competitor software. I haven't used the other software for the tags yet. I can't understand why Media Monkey is screwing up my songs. Many of the songs that have embedded tags show as no embedded on Poweramp. I don't know if there's a bug with Media Monkey that damages or removes the artwork during a sync. Funny thing is the Media Monkey app shows the album covers on the same songs that Poweramp doesn't. But when i try to look and see if they're embedded or not i can't find a way to see that on the MM app. I hope this helps.
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On 12/22/2021 at 7:51 PM, hypomaniac-eric said:
I deleted all the files in the playlist and the playlist and resynced and then full rescan on the Poweramp and now the playlist is fine. I was at the gym and wanted the Christmas Upbeat playlist and now that one is broke. it wasn't before. how can i sync with media monkey without my playlists or mp3's getting messed up in Poweramp? I had to switch to Media Monkey because Musicbee won't sync right with Android 12. the dev isn't too interested in making an update to the MusicBee Wifi app. He told twice to try Media Monkey instead. does anyone else have this problem or know a fix?
I'm having this problem again. spent 20 mins trying to fix it and it sucks because it always happens when I'm in a hurry. I completely redid the album covers on one album and it is saved in tag on Media Monkey awhile back and it was fine till today. but Poweramp says there's no embedded tag. i deleted the playlist 4 times and did a full scan each time. The album covers was working on this playlist for the last week. i just resynced to update my phone. now i have several album covers missing from various albums. for some it's a few songs in the album and for others it's the whole album. but i checked them all and they have embedded tags according to Media Monkey. I am tired of this. is there a fix coming soon?
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6 hours ago, andrewilley said:
It's not that album covers don't read, it's that Poweramp could not find that exact named folder/file combination in its music library at all - so just shows a filename quoted from the playlist as a placeholder, and it most likely won't play.
A FULL Rescan may be needed after external file syncing to find the music files first, and then to resolve the playlist entries afterwards.
Check the M3U playlist file too (it's plain ASCII, so can be loaded into any text editor) to make sure it is showing the correct filename and containing folder for each song. Any other directory info is ignored, only the first level of folder needs to match.
Andre
I did do a full rescan three times before and nada. I know the Playlist works on the computer and on Media Monkey app. It's like there's some corruption between media Monkey and Poweramp. Don't know if Poweramp isn't reading the Playlist right or what.
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23 hours ago, hypomaniac-eric said:
After syncing Playlists with media monkey now my Christmas Playlist is broke. Half the music is broke. Album covers don't read and some files don't load. I tried clearing album cover cache and Full Rescan 3 times plus deleting all the music from the Playlist and resyncing. Still the same. Problem for worse and affected more files on the second resync. The files work fine in the media monkey app.
I deleted all the files in the playlist and the playlist and resynced and then full rescan on the Poweramp and now the playlist is fine. I was at the gym and wanted the Christmas Upbeat playlist and now that one is broke. it wasn't before. how can i sync with media monkey without my playlists or mp3's getting messed up in Poweramp? I had to switch to Media Monkey because Musicbee won't sync right with Android 12. the dev isn't too interested in making an update to the MusicBee Wifi app. He told twice to try Media Monkey instead. does anyone else have this problem or know a fix?
Album covers missing on some songs
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just redid the covers in MP3Tag and resynced MM and Poweramp got the covers for all the songs in the album right away. i didn't have to delete anything in Poweramp to resync. Now if i can get the dev at MM to fix whatever bug is in the program. that's another story. pity the best two music programs on the PC is buggy or has a buggy app.