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Afaik, there is no way to manually choose a track's embedded album art as the artist image.

I can understand it might be frustrating that a $1500 DAP and $1500 "sounds bad" you're kind of on an island where likely no one is going to have your setup 1:1 to troubleshoot. We here just try to keep folks away from overzealously chasing numbers and stats. If you're not using any EQ/DSP, the precision/sampling rate shouldn't really factor in much anyways (384kHz vs 768kHz). In contrast to UAPP and Neutron, Poweramp has a set output rate that everything must go up to before it reaches your device's DAC. If you have enabled SoX resampler in Poweramp, that process is going to be as transparent (or error free) as you can get. If your library is mostly 44.1kHz content and assorted DSD files, setting an output rate inline with those (44.1kHz, 88.2kHz, 176.4kHz, 352.8kHz) is appropriate. I DO NOT THINK SAMPLE RATE HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOUR BAD SOUND ISSUE. THIS IS JUST "THE MORE YOU KNOW". See the above feature voting request that would bring automatic sample rate switching to Poweramp.

Any luck with other output methods? The audio output menus at first can seam a little convoluted. You'll see a list of the output methods (opensl, audiotrack, hi-res, aaudio, and chromecast). Whichever method you select, you then see a list of all the output devices, with toggle switches and a settings gear next to each. Clicking the settings gear gets you to where you can set (or have Poweramp define) the output bit depth and sample rate. At the moment, you don't have any forced resampling happening, which for 44.1 kHz content is a good sign. If you were stuck to using opensl output (which hopefully you won't have to be), from the screenshots alone I don't see any settings that would cause issue just yet.

It appears in list view, not grid view, is what you're saying.

@André Inácio there's your answer.

Like 4 months ago the app was updated. The developer last visited the forum a week ago. Reading the tea leaves, it's none of my business.

Sounds like the earbuds are doing some sort of stereo->mono downmix when it senses one of the earbuds are not in use.

Neat! Snappy, too. It does not (yet? 😉) snap to where the currently playing song resides in the category being viewed by user at that moment, just to what category it is being played from. There are of course situations where currently playing song may not reside in the library category user is viewing at that moment, such as when limited by insufficient metadata tags, or when in playlists (song may not be in playlists at all, or may be in multiple playlists), among other situations (my imagination falls short).

> And I have my tags done thoroughly. Well I'd say that's certainly up for debate! No track number#, album name, or album artist, in a folder view nested in '2020' year category, that is an unknown album, containing one song (but also dozens), by 50 cent.. I don't think thorough means what you think it means.

When exporting settings/data it tells you what will/won't be compatible with older builds.

(Subjectively) It gets brought up more times across all platforms to voice opinions than votes end up casted. Not sure what that's about.

I observed a similar feature in FiiO's music app / default player as well.

Does it happen in the middle of playback or only when skipping ahead as in your clip?

Are you experiencing some problem that you fear will get worse? There is no explicit entry limit, afaik