[Randomly missing metadata]

@maxmp please take a look at these files. Is this something that Poweramp should be able to handle?

[Randomly missing metadata]

I had a look at this using some Linux tools.

• mp3val (mp3 validation tool) had no complaints
• mediainfo, mid3v2 and id3v2 read the tags without any issues
• exiftool read the tags with a minor warning
  • [minor] Frame 'TSOA' is not valid for this ID3 version
• eyeD3 didn't show the basic tags such as title and artist, but it did show comments and user text frames

I then used id3v2 to remove the TSOA which gave an error "Frame ID TSOA not detected", but nevertheless removed the TSOA and the files displayed just fine in eyeD3 and Poweramp.

[Randomly missing metadata]

The problem might be that you have both id3v1 and id3v2 tags in the file. I don't have time tonight to look more into this, but I think mp3tag can drop the id3v1 tags for you.

 

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$ id3v2 -l 01MyTVandYou.mp3 
id3v1 tag info for 01MyTVandYou.mp3:
Title  : My TV and You                   Artist: VAST                          
Album  : Stripped/Orange                 Year: 2016, Genre: Other (12)
Comment:                                 Track: 0
id3v2 tag info for 01MyTVandYou.mp3:
COMM (Comments): (iTunPGAP)[eng]: 0
COMM (Comments): (iTunNORM)[eng]:  0000016D 00000181 000031E0 00002F99 0000F2F5 0000F2F5 00005D28 00006401 00012387 0000F2C1
COMM (Comments): (iTunSMPB)[eng]:  00000000 00000210 0000075C 0000000000644394 00000000 005AD925 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
COMM (Comments): (iTunes_CDDB_IDs)[eng]: 12++
TENC (Encoded by): iTunes 12.5.4.42

 

[Randomly missing metadata]

True. Would be good with a test file.

And what's also strange is that the Walkman app shows the metadata.

[Randomly missing metadata]

One reason can be if the files are slowly copied to the device, and Poweramp scans the tags before the file has been completely copied. I had a lot of issues like this a long time ago, if I remember correctly there was a delay added to the scanner or similar in Poweramp.

There are two things that you can try:

- FULL rescan of your library, this will rescan all tags of your files. Please note that this will also reset the "date added" to the library.

- Move the tracks out of your music folder, rescan, move the files back and Poweramp should rescan them as new files.

[Stream with 'radiorethink'-based URL]

Did a inspect / network in Firefox and found the following audio stream http://kdhx-ice.streamguys1.com/live which can be added to Poweramp.

[Moving Poweramp to a new phone preserving folder added dates]

I'm also using the date added sort, but I do only use it to go a couple of months back in time and that's to see if there is something new in the library that I have forgotten about. Personally I don't see the use for going much further back in time than that.

iTunes has it's own database file, so next time it's time for a change of PC's, then make sure that you copy across the database as well. It's also a good idea to have a backup of the database in case that your PC dies. The normal iTunes database is in some proprietary format, but you can also make it available as an .xml file.

Had a looooong chat with ChatGPT, leaves a bit to wish for... anyway, I got a python script for extracting album info out of the iTunes.xml file.

Album Artist,Album,Date Added
ZZ Top,Eliminator,2024-01-14T18:54:01Z
ZZ Top,El Loco,2024-01-14T18:54:01Z
ZZ Top,Gimme All Your Lovin',2020-06-01T10:10:31Z
ZZ Top,La Futura,2020-06-01T10:10:31Z
ZZ Top,One Foot in the Blues,2022-04-21T19:09:02Z
ZZ Top,Recycler,2020-06-01T10:10:31Z
ZZ Top,Rhythmeen,2021-08-26T09:55:20Z
ZZ Top,XXX,2020-06-01T10:10:31Z

So it would be a simple exercise to run the python script to extract the information out of the iTunes database and use that as input for creating the "dummy" files to populate the Poweramp DB.

[Moving Poweramp to a new phone preserving folder added dates]

This is where we can get creative... importing 3000 folders one by one would take a long time as it takes time to copy them across, wait time for scan...

What could be done is to create 3000 dummy tiny mp3 files, so one for each album, copy those across one by one or the first ones in groups of years, months... once that is done, then there would be 3000 albums in the DB, all with just the single dummy track. At this point the real content could be imported and the dummy files deleted.

I could quite easily script the creation of the dummy files for @jamesww if I get an excel or similar list of the albums, artists and date added, then I can create the 3000 dummies. The 3000 files can also be placed in a "year month" directory tree.

We could do a proof of concept with 10 files or so if you want to and if the result is fine, then we can do it for all files.

It wouldn't take me many minutes to modify some scripts that I have for creating test files.

[Auto-export of playlists]

MediaMonkey supports two way sync of playlists between PC and Android so I assume that the path "magic" would be handled by MM.

I guess the main issue is how to initiate a new m3u playlist, couple of ideas comes to mind but the following is the easiest that come to mind.

• Create some dummy playlists like z1, z2....m3u8 in MM. (Named z... so that they sort at the end of the list)
• Rename a z... in Poweramp to something sensible when you take them into use

I think this would work with MM and two-way sync.

[Poweramp always stops playback a short while after I go to another app]

Have you had a look at:

 

[Poweramp build 976 doesn't show correct tags on some FLAC files]

Personally I would "fix" the files. There is a windows batch tool available for ffmpeg. I have no experience with the tool, but it looks like you can add a source directory including sub-directoryies and there is a "Recreate source path" in the output part of the screen shot.

https://ffmpeg-batch.sourceforge.io/index.html

 

[Moving Poweramp to a new phone preserving folder added dates]

Please note that Poweramp is not using the folder date for the "date added", the "date added" is the date when a track was scanned the first time. A full rescan will be done in alphabetic order.

It should also be noted that the directories typically gets a new date as the directory is normally created as a new object and not copied.

How many directories are we talking about? If it's a "small" number of directories, then you can move them out of your library and move them back one by one into your library...

[Poweramp build 976 doesn't show correct tags on some FLAC files]

Looks like the issue is that the image sits in Block 0. I re-muxed the file with ffmpeg and that fixed the file so that the stream info is in block 0, the fixed file shows up correctly in Poweramp.

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ffmpeg -i "07 - sinistrailAB air.flac" -acodec copy 07-Fixed.flac

 

 

[Poweramp build 976 doesn't show correct tags on some FLAC files]

I had a look at the file saving issue in mp3tag and found https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-message-cannot-be-opened-for-writing/19020/14

ryerman says that the issue is that the picture sits in METADATA block #0 which should be used by the stream data. And the files uploaded by twask looks like they have the setup with an picture in block 0

METADATA block #0
  type: 6 (PICTURE)

METADATA block #1
  type: 0 (STREAMINFO)

METADATA block #2
  type: 6 (PICTURE)

METADATA block #3
  type: 4 (VORBIS_COMMENT)

METADATA block #4
  type: 1 (PADDING)

And for some reason the picture is twice in the file.

[Set Folders Hierarchy root to /sdcard/music if /sdcard/music is the only folder added to library.]

Search for "root" in settings and you will find the following.

[Add Support for Read Multiple lines at a time in Lyrics/UNSYNCEDLYRICS tag]

There are two older threads also dealing with second languages.

 

 

 

[3 reasons to add infrasound frequencies (below 20 hz) in the parametric equalizer even if you won't hear them: you can still feel them, it gives FULL control over sound, graphic EQ already has them]

And it's probably only a sub-set of the users that would get anything at all out of this, first of all you need a setup that is able to reproduce "sound" at <20Hz and secondly you need sources that has <20Hz content.

[2024 and still no proper AAC support]

What tool did you use to convert from flac to AAC?

[Bringing up album track list]

I have my "Line2 Press" set for Album under "Look and Feel" -> "Player Screen" settings. Tapping the Line2 takes me to the album view with the list of tracks on the playing album.

[Bringing up album track list]

I don't think that you can change what happens when you tap the album cover, but you have an option that tapping on the Artist/Album text takes you to the album. "Look and Feel" -> "Player Screen" in the settings.

[Restoring Poweramp App purchase]

One email two licenses is also mentioned in the following thread and it's unclear if it's working or not.

 

[Restoring Poweramp App purchase]

8 hours ago, adownlow said:

... so I purchased another licence on the website...

Do you have two licenses bought using the same email address?

[Connecting Poweramp on PC with Android subsystem for Windows - connecting dns web address to open computer files to play]

Poweramp is primarily for playing local music files, so you will not get a good experience by mapping the PC drive into the virtual phone.

It might be possible to use a windows junction (link) instead of copying all data into the user profile directory. Works at least with OneDrive where I have used junctions to have some additional folders copied to OneDrive.

Junctions are created in the cmd prompt.

Example:

mklink /J "c:\my music" "C:\Users\<username>\my music"

[UPnP/DLNA]

Cast a vote for the feature

 

[Support for naming radio stream]

I think this would be a candidate for the frequent asked list. It pops up every now and then.