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@Skylark001 100 * 5.7kb is just .5MB, that's less than a minute of mp3 music so I don't think that you need to worry about the size of the file if it's that small. Just go ahead and copy the Folder.jpg file to all directories were you have music. I think the "Settings > Album Art > Advanced Tweaks, "Force Default Image" will reset the album art for you in one go after you copy the Folder.jpg to the directories. Edit: I have never even looked at the size of my album art as the most important to me has been that it's a square crop 500x500 or bigger. My average Folder.jpg is 174k, with close to 1000 albums it makes 170MB. Buuut as I also have the image embedded in all files, then I guess the Folder art consumes around 2GB in total. Largest one is 14MB and that's embedded in 16 mp3 files + Folder.jpg, that's 240MB folder art for 16 tracks... Maybe it would be worth to spend some time on this... Edit 2: Just changed the 14MB cover file to a 1200x1200 232kB file, dropped the album size from 378MB to 146MB. And also updated my import check file to avoid things like this happening going forward.

Just curios, could you push the file through https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfoOnline? (Online mediainfo program) And post the image part of the output?

Another solution could be to add a 3.5mm impedance adapter, add 30 ohm resistance.

I can very well relate to your ordeal, went through it a couple of years ago. How come it's so hard to produce good quality low volume sound? Feels like everyone else want's more volume while you want less.

Could it be that the A54 runs the USB-C dongle in “Audio Accessory Mode” mode, which means that the AD conversion would happen on the phone instead of on the DAC of the dongle? Do you get the same hizzing with HiBy or USB Audio player? Have you tried to disable automatic audio routing in the developer settings? Guess I'm trying to ask if you know where the AD is happening, are you sure it's happening in the dongle or can it be already in the phone?

Take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/12ouw4a/background_noise_with_headphone_adapter/ and the part about testing with HiBy.

@andrewilley this will not solve your problem but I found https://www.soundguys.com/usb-audio-explained-18563/ quite interesting, quite good explanations on the ins and outs of USB Audio. A lot of devices supports “Audio Accessory Mode”, where the AD conversion is done by the phone and the dongle is just passive, this mode is something that Samsung has at least dropped on the the S22. The other type is where AD is done in the dongle and uses the dongles AD chip, these will probably cause a lot of compatibility issues going forward.

@andrewilley DLNA is another one of the fine "standards" that has evolved in random directions... there is a base requirement set and then all sorts of additions on top of that. Some DLNA servers like Plex will transcode things on the fly, but minidlna which I run doesn't do anything but serve the files as they are. (glorified web server) The xml snippet that I posted above had the media url in it, a very simple http://192.168.0.99:8200/MediaItems/3369.mp3 would play "Balls to the Wall". I use minidlna primarily to play CD rips in flac format on my home stereo. Setup is: NAS with minidlna DLNA server, bunch of CD's ripped as single file flacs HiFi cast as control point Chromecast audio connected with optical cable to stereo, the AD conversion happens in the stereo HiFi cast browses the content on the server, a play event will tell the Chromecast to do a http request to the server.

Personally I would hate to have the content of my DLNA library permanently added to my Poweramp library. It would be much clearer to have it as a DLNA category and let the DLNA server handle the "library part" of it. This would still allow for using the Poweramp player interface, equalizer, and hopefully fix the gapless playback which is a annoyance in DLNA. (DLNA typically ends the play of one track before loading next one, which gives a very annoying gap in playback). @Raalnewtes there is no way to check for changed content in DLNA, at the best you get a list of recently added content. Therefore it's better to just read the metadata served by the DLNA server. There are basically three components in DLNA Server Renderer, this is where the actual playback happens Control point, this is the user interface, you pick what to listen to from the library and where to play it. A lot of CP's do allow for local playback, in this cases the CP is also the renderer. DLNA is quite good at presenting a basic list of the content to the "control point" and just point it to the renderer. Some of the problems is the gapless playback as tracks are played one by one (very few devices allows for gapless), limited library views as most CP's only allows for the library views provided by the server. One of the challenges with external sources like NFS/CIFS/Samba/Cloud/DLNA... is that Poweramp will not get notified about changes to the files on the server, while with local content Poweramp get's a notification about changes to files and can update library accordingly.

@andrewilley there should be no need for heavy lifting like scanning the individual files with DLNA, that's handled by the DLNA server and there would be no need to import the DLNA metadata into the database as DLNA is a library of it's own, providing the browsing capabilities etc. So it should be doable to add DLNA as a live category like streams. The basic browsing is quite good, but a bit limited. A music player pulling the library into it's own library and enhancing it would be great... but... that would be opening of a can of worms... Example of metadata file that's provide by the DLNA for each object. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <item id="1$6$1$3$0" parentID="1$6$1$3" restricted="1" refID="64$138$0$0"> <dc:title>Balls to the Wall</dc:title> <upnp:class>object.item.audioItem.musicTrack</upnp:class> <dc:creator>Accept</dc:creator> <dc:date>1983-01-01</dc:date> <upnp:artist>Accept</upnp:artist> <upnp:album>Balls to the Wall</upnp:album> <upnp:genre>Heavy Metal</upnp:genre> <upnp:originalTrackNumber>1</upnp:originalTrackNumber> <res size="0" duration="0:05:43.306" bitrate="128000" sampleFrequency="44100" nrAudioChannels="2" protocolInfo="http-get:*:audio/mpeg:DLNA.ORG_PN=MP3;DLNA.ORG_OP=01;DLNA.ORG_CI=0;DLNA.ORG_FLAGS=01700000000000000000000000000000">http://192.168.0.99:8200/MediaItems/3369.mp3</res> <upnp:albumArtURI dlna:profileID="JPEG_TN" xmlns:dlna="urn:schemas-dlna-org:metadata-1-0/">http://192.168.0.99:8200/AlbumArt/857-3369.jpg</upnp:albumArtURI> </item>

I think a google search for "Poweramp build 307" gives the explanation... If not, please make sure that you are running the latest build and check for the option, should be there.

Luckily I don't have the issue with the streams providing album art, cross my fingers... But I do have the issue that one of the streams, also a Bauer media stream keeps on changing the "aw_01st.skey". I know how to get the skey through browser and inspect, I still have to figure out how to script it as it requires that the play button is pushed before the skey can be extracted. Once that's done it should be trivial to write the URL to a m3u and setup a automatic refresh on the phone.

Life is goooood! Added album art and switched to Grid view, now I can use PA both for local music and streamed radio as I now longer have to relay on the text.

By pure coincidence I got a similar file earlier today when I was trying to extract a radio stream url. So basically this is what you get when you capture a stream to disk. I'm not a developer and what I have been commenting on is your file which is a adts file and not a plain aac file. Poweramp uses the ffmpeg library to decode files for playback, I had a very quick look at it and I'm not sure if it's supporting adts. This looks pretty much like what you see when you capture video streams which are often in some stream transport format and must be re-muxed into a normal mp4 container better suitable for local playback. My strong recommendation is that you use VLC and convert the file to AAC, should be lossless as the audio stream in the adts file is AAC.

It's not a .aac file, the proper extension should be .adts. ADTS is a audio stream protocol used for streaming music over internet and not intended to be listened to locally. Some players such as VLC can handle it.

https://www.lifewire.com/adts-file-2619508 How do I convert an ADTS file to MP3? Use VLC to open and convert ADTS files. Select Media > Convert/Save > Add > find the ADTS file to convert > Open > Convert/Save. From the Convert dialog box, choose MP3 for the conversion format > set a destination for the converted file > and click Save > Start.

The bigger issue is the Stream Category list than the Now Playing screen. I can live with whatever is on the Now Playing screen, the pain I feel is on the Streams list as that keep's on updating with song title or a cryptic station name and makes it hard to spot the right stream. Second and third items are both streams from Bauer media. The first one in this example shows what it looks like when they are streaming music, then it displays the artist as title and "track title - channel abbreviated", during talk it looks like the second row where you have abbreviated channel as title and URL as track title. p3 and p4 are two streams from Swedish public broadcast company, there they push the stream quality as title. I would love to have a display name field that could be manually populated, if it would be blank, then PA should populate it from the stream. It's a pain to have to read the fine print to find "Mix Megapol" in the list, it's not obvious at the first glance that it's named "Miss Li / Hälsa Gud - MM STO" at this particular moment. List should read: CD Mix Megapol Rock Klassiker SR P3 SR P4 I just realized that I could add Album Art for the stations, would make it a bit better.

I pushed the file through MediaInfo at https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfoOnline. The file is a ADTS stream, probably recorded from a stream, the codec of the audio is AAC LC. Please see https://www.lifewire.com/adts-file-2619508 for some info about ADTS.

PA works fine for casting streams to Chromecast as long as your device can handle to receive the stream from internet, process it and cast it to your CC. My only grunt in that regard is that it renames the streams by the title of the stream, and there is a feature request open for stream naming. Hi-Fi Cast is fine for casting DLNA content to CC, and can also handle radio streams. Then there is a myriad of radio apps out there which are good at handling radio streams. Thing is that PA is primarily a player for local content, and it's one of the best apps for this purpose. Different apps for different purposes.

+1 on this as a lot of streams doesn't provide a proper title in the stream. I would love to use PA as a streamer but all the malformed names is a deal breaker.

@Arlaor I use Hi-Fi Cast for casting from my DLNA server to Chromecast and it's also good for Radio casting. Basically it tells the CC to play the URL and the stream will not pass through your device. (Can be tested by starting the stream and turn off WiFi on the device and the CC will continue to play). You can import your m3u file in Hi-Fi Cast in one go, so should be easy to test. -> Music Sources -> Radio -> Internet Radio -> Playlists -> "three dots" -> Import

Crude description on what's what in the Chromecast world, take it with a quite big grain of salt... Chromecasts are quite simple and doesn't work without internet connectivity as they loads the operating system from google once they are powered on. Google provides a simple Web Receiver for receiving content on the Chromecast and the other option is to develop a custom Web Receiver with your own bells and whistles. The custom Web Receiver must be hosted by the app developer. PA has it's custom Web Receiver hosted on a server owned by Max. Streaming steps goes something like: Chromecast boots and downloads the default Web Receiver from Google PA tells the Chromecast to go and fetch the custom receiver Streaming from phone -> chromecast starts Two quite interesting google documents https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/web_receiver https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media Kim

A bump for my old wish of having a sort-button added to the categories. Read through the thread and I must agree with @andrewilley that this is mostly a "one time" setting, but for some categories it would make sense. One category that I quite often want to change sorting for is the Albums category where I want to switch between By name and By date added. What I would love as a sort order for Albums is "Shuffle"! As of today I'm using @flyingdutchmans Playlist Manager to shuffle the Albums, then I take a look at the list and decide what to listen to. A bit cumbersome to launch an extra app when you could have it within the GUI of PA. Go to Album category Hit the Sort by button, select Shuffle Make your choice, tap the cover to play it This is just a great way of finding forgotten albums in a large library.

Couldn't resist! It's Friday after all!

Poor mans "OhMiBod Music"?