Malagant

The Forum Mod/Admin (andrewilley) posted in July: Going forward though, @maxmp has stated that rather than releasing lots of rapid incremental releases, he's now planning on taking his time developing more lengthy/major projects which he hopes will be released a couple of times a year. He has also said that he is working on implementing a mechanism to support themed "add on" packs which will contain a number of the more major Feature Requests in one go, which will be optionally purchasable for a small extra price. But seeing as there have been no updates for a very long time (though there were planned 2 every year going forward), this PA-build is still a Beta release after 8 months, and there have been no "add on" packs so far afaik it is understandable that some members wonder if PA has indeed been abandoned. We all know the developer (max) is working hard and has for years worked hard on PA to develop and service the possibly best Music Player for Android on the market, but a little more information intermittently as to status might help members, new and old, who are impatient for information on PA-status and new developments.

Perhaps I have missed some info, but does anyone know if there is a special reason why this PA-build is not yet considered a stable version (still beta) after 7 months?

@andrewilley Strange.. I don't use any skins, just Poweramp default so can't really say. It never seems to happen when the Wallet Case is open, only when it is closed 'on top of' the Poweramp-display which is why I suspect the interactive case is the problem.

I tested this matter again now with the new build 967 and the same thing happens. The end time of the music file intermittently disappears from the display. I still suspect that my Samsung Smart View Wallet Case on the phone somehow interfers with the Poweramp-display, but am surprised no one else here has experienced something similar. Have there been any reports of this issue, @andrewilley and/or you guys have any idea why this happens?

Awesome!

I have wondered about this matter in the past week and a thought struck me today. Could this strange phenomenon have anything to do with the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra Smart View Wallet Case that I am using for my phone? I know it lets me access interactive display on the phone without opening the cover and uses some kind of technology to achieve this. I have never considered it affecting the phone in other ways, but I am beginning to wonder if it actually plays a role here. To test it out I played the same song 2 times today, first with the case/cover closed (like I usually listen to music on the phone) and this phenomenon happened again, the end time of the song disappeared for a while. The second time I had the case/cover open so it did not cover the front of the phone and I could see the Poweramp display with the song all the time, this time the phenomenon did not happen and the end time remained throughout the song. I tested with a second song (MP3) to see if it might have been a glitch the first time but the exact same happened again. I therefore suspect that the Samsung Smart View Wallet Case on the phone somehow interfers with the Poweramp-display. Could be I am wrong but I find it suspicious that it happens as described above. If anyone else has this Samsung phone (or other model) and also the Samsung Smart View Wallet Case and could test it, that would be helpful. Thanks.

Not sure if this matter has been covered before, it concerns the display on my Poweramp when a music file is running. Recently I have discovered that the end time of the music file intermittently disappears from the display for some reason (see picture 2 below with the circle I added). Everything plays fine for a while and then it happens. Often the end time re-appears late on during the play. Very strange indeed. It seems to happen on different music files (all MP3). Picture 1 shows how it is supposed to look. Picture 2 how it sometimes appears. Any idea what causes this? My phone / Poweramp info can be seen in my signature. Thanks for any help. .

@maxmp Thanks for the swift reply and explanation!

I tried to check if this has been talked about before but could not find it specifically anywhere. Sorry if it is an old topic. Is there a setting in PA where it is possible to make the dynamic visualization bars (see marked area below) in colours (same colours as the graphic equalizer bars above according to frequencies used) instead of (black and) white? If not, is this a feature which may be added to PA in the future, or must one use a skin / separate visualizer to get this effect? Thanks for any info.