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Will the name of the random albums be present in the playlist names? Would the list names be something like: - Rand 1 - Artist - Album Or are the playlists just "Random 1...5"? Is it a "one button" exercise to re-shuffle? Go into your app, re-shuffle and magically have the old random lists replaced by 5 new ones?

I found a solution, a no bells and whistles Album Player https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cooked.albumplayer Fire up Album Player for the "decision" making and fire up Poweramp for the playing.

Funny coincidence. This is a feature that I where going to request and it's something that I really miss in Poweramp", I use it more or less daily on my iPhone. Swipe blindly method doesn't really work with +800 albums across +100 album artists, play random album is also out of question as that's to random. A quick random re-sort and pick one of the first 5 albums... usually one of the first five is something that has been forgotten and suits the mode.

I know, but I couldn't resist the besserwisser bait... And you are right that album artist is what will do the magic for @Skakner as currently all his albums are by the artist "".

Peter Gabriel...

I think it might be https://www.devolo.co.uk/about-devolo/press/devolo-combines-pcs-to-entertainment-systems-the-new-dlan-audio-extender-distributes-music-throughout-the-entire-house that the OP refers to, first time I hear about this solution.

See Max comment from a couple of hours ago in "Issue doing payment" thread.

Sounds like a Google issue, might be that it takes time for the purchase to be synchronized internally at google. Does it show under https://pay.google.com/gp/w/home/activity

"concept" albums as an example, there you can have tracks at lower/higher volume levels which makes sense if you listen to the complete album as it's intended to be enjoyed, but things gets interesting when the tracks are shuffled.

And does the country in your payment profile match the country of the voucher you bought? https://pay.google.com/gp/w/home/settings

My vote goes definitively to "Track gain" on all shuffles even if it's a album. I quite often shuffle albums and there can be quite severe jumps in levels. Reason for shuffle an album is a 30m commute by car and without shuffle I would always miss the last tracks of the album, pull out the album of the day, shuffle and hit the road.

Good idea! "automatic" ReplayGain has been requested a couple of times, in the form of "album mode" and "track mode". Good point that shuffle is actually "track mode". ReplayGain modes should be: By album By track By playback order (This would be the "automatic" mode)

It's clear what tags forms an album, no question there. Questions are more along the line of: What cover will be shown for the album, is it the one embedded in the first or last file? Will it change if the particular file is removed. What year will be shown, and will it change as tracks are added or removed. Will album length be updated if an album is replaced. Will date added change if tracks are added later. "Recipe" for test album: Four song album TPE1 & TPE2 = "Test Artist" TALB="Test Album" Or should I make it a "Various Artist" comp album? different TIT2 in all tracks: One, Two, Three, Four different TYER in all tracks: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 different album art in all tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4 "in friendly letters" different TLEN in all tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4 minutes Anything else that I should add while I'm at it?

Sounds like I will reverse engineer album behaviour... I will update my old faithful test mp3 creator script when I find some time with a scenario to create a: three song album different TYER in all tracks different covers in all tracks different TLEN in all tracks Anything else that I should add? And then run a couple of "add" and "removals" and see how the album updates in Poweramp.

Quite a lot of question marks, but I guess Max would be able to sort out the question marks pretty quickly. I can draft a FAQ on this once the question marks are straightened. Then we would know what's considered an album and how updates affect the entity.

@andrewilley@maxmp I think ""albums" would be a candidate for a FAQ article, as "albums" comes up every now and then in the forums and a non-technical user will not understand that there is no such thing as an album as there is nothing in the tag world that would form an album. "album" is used all across the GUI, and these are seen as an album by the average user. - What forms an "album": Tracks that have the same "Album artist"(TPE2) & "Album title"(TALB). - Is there a "album" table in the Poweramp DB or is the album views dynamically created when needed? - What Year (TYER) and what Artwork is displayed for an "album"? Use case, compilation album with different years in the tags. Is it taken from the first/last/"random" track added in the album? Will it change if tracks are later added that are part of the same "album"? - If the Year and Artwork comes from first/last file added to an album, will that affect the album? - Date added? Is this the date of when the "album" where created the first time? Or is it the date when the first/last/"random" files are added to the album? Will it change if tracks are later added that are part of the same "album"? - Will files of different formats be considered the same "album"? Maybe a candidate for a feature request "Option to separate albums by file type" - Album length, will the album length be change if tracks are added/removed from the album? - What happens to an "album" on a full re-scan? Will it be re-created from scratch? (assuming that there is a DB table for "albums") - Other?

I have a bit of OCD when it comes to my music library... 10k tracks across 800 CD's... The cleanups of tags/naming/normalization/... has always started with a innocent "I will fix the ones that I listen to", and it always ends up that i trudge through the bulk of it... End-result is a library organized in "Artist\Album" folder hierarchy, so it's relatively easy to apply something across all tracks in a album, so I ran the normalization on a folder at a time.

There are two different gains, one for album and one for tracks. Track gain sets all the tracks to an equal loudness. Album gain keeps the loudness relative to other other unchanged, but the average album loudness is normalized. If you listen to albums you obviously want to use track gain but if you listen to playlists consisting of individual tracks, then you want to use track gain. You have a setting for this and it's called source and can be found under the RG settings. There is an old feature request for having Poweramp setting the source based on if a "album" is being played or individual tracks. But as it's now you need to set it according to your own listening preferences. If you only have individual tracks, then you could apply track gain across the bulk of tracks, but if you have albums, then you should add the gain album by album in order to not loose the intended loudness differences between the tracks. Some people find it easier to reach for the volume dial than to go through the hazzle of normalizing. It's a pain to go back and re-do a library, I have done it a couple of times before I got to what works for me.

I tend to have a "crap" folder on all my devices where I stuck away icons of things that can't be uninstalled or disabled. So everything that I want to hide goes in there.

This goes back to the "jam factory"... google is preventing apps to hide their icons, guess this is to prevent "stealth" apps.

It's a free text field that you can use in any way that you want. I use it for album information, what type of album, whether it's a Live/Studio/Compilation album and number. My comment for the tracks on Genesis "We Can't Dance" album as an example "S14 - 1991", which reads as "Studio Album number 14 year 1991".

A m3u8 playlist is basically a text file, so you should be able to edit the file and import it. That's how I maintain most of my playlists.

I found the topic interesting and did some googling. mp3 chaptering is an extension to id3v2.3 and id3v2.4 and there are tools out there to create files with this kind of tagging in them. I'm not sure how commonly it's used or if it's supported by PA and I'm not curious enough to search for a test file or create one. https://id3.org/id3v2-chapters-1.0 http://id3v2-chap-tool.sourceforge.net/

SD cards can be damaged and phones can be lost and stolen, so I would backup SD card content as well.

How about: "Date by added/modified" "Date added" will change in case you run a FULL re-scan on your library.