Karsten

I understand your point and I'm glad we have managed to sort out our communication issue 😉 Thank you for this explanation. I missed this one, because I'm doing all changes only on PC, using mobile devices only as r/o players. Even if I had solved the issue with Poweramp it would still be the same with my car audio system because it behaves exactly the same. So my method kills two birds with one stone 😄 I'm aware of the benefits of playlists, and I'm using them to a great extent, but rather to manage play order of tracks and not to link files from different locations. I simply like to be able to copy a "Best Of" folder to whatever device, and it will works w/o any extra effort to avoid unresolved references 😊

So, you can assign individual cover art to a playlist, so that it appears with this cover art in playlist view? I don't see this. It's just the same as with albums. Once again: My post was intended as a practical workaround to the question/issue brought up in post #1. If this is an exotic use case and by intention not supported by Poweramp - well, then it is as it is and I accept that. I have found a means to handle such cases, and I have shared the information so others can use that as well if they think this would help them. Also I have not complained about this fact with a single word. I'm always open to constructive feedback, but I can't see anything like this from your posts.

Then probably you didn't get my point. Which (in my understanding) corresponds exactly to what is described in the first post of this thread. I maintain quite a few self-compiled "Best Of" collections/albums. Each of the tracks in such a collection comes from a particular album, and has the corresponding album art assigned. I would like to keep this per-track cover art, but at the same time have a different cover art to represent the entire collection in album view. Let me illustrate this with an example - see below Windows Explorer screenshot of my personal "Best Of" collection/album of Dire Straits. Without the "00 - Best of.mp3" file (created as per "exercise" in my prev post) Poweramp would pick the cover of "01 - ..." as cover art in album view. If Poweramp can do this w/o the need to have such dummy file (and I just missed this), I would be happy to know how.

A workaround that works pretty well for me is to tie album cover art to a dummy mp3 file which is associated with the album. This way I am not only able to maintain per track cover art and at the same time separate cover art for the dedicated album. It is also something that I can fully control from my PC, which hosts the master library for my mobile applications, like tablet/smartphone and car audio system. No need to patch anything on Android. The dummy file is a 1-second silent MP3 file. See attachment. Side note: for whatever reason, the workaround does NOT work with the 8 kbit/s silence files you can find eg on github. Important condition, as per my observations: For album cover art, Poweramp takes the first "track 1" file, in alphabetical order (in case there be more than just one track 1 file in the album). I'm using file names starting with "00". This works perfect for compilations with files in %track% - %etc% as well as %artist% - %title% notations. These are the steps to include separate album cover art for an album with individual per-track cover art: Copy the dummy file to the album folder. Assign a name to the file so that it is first in alphabetical order. Tag the file: - "Title": determines how the file appears in a track (title) list - "Track": must be "1" (or "01") !!! - "Artist": the album artist displayed by Poweramp in album view - "Album": album name, which makes this file actually part of the album - "Cover": add the desired album cover art Done!! Side note, and request to Poweramp folks: When applying this method to a big library with many different "Best Of" compilations, it is almost certain that you are making errors. I found it quite frustrating, that updating files from PC to Android, and re-creating the Poweramp library in many cases did not work to fix the problem. Poweramp seems to do caching, which survives the re-creation process. The only method I found that worked safely, is to move an album folder out of the music library to a temp location wait until the change is reflected (album disappears) update the files in the temp location move the album back from the temp location into the music library Would be great if next versions of Poweramp could avoid this tedious update process! 00 - Dummy.mp3