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  1. Since I was advised - and actually have understood for a while - that converting from one lossy format to flac does nothing to improve the quality of the audio, and that converting from flac to ogg (another lossy format) causes some degradation, I have decided on a new plan: First, I re-downloaded all of the tracks I purchased from iTunes. Most are in the unprotected m4a format, but a couple dozen are older downloads, which were protected in m4p files. Those are the ones I originally burned to CD's, then re-ripped into flac or ogg. Perhaps if I were to purchase a newer (ie; remastered) version of some of those tracks, I would get the m4a rather than the m4p files. I have some tracks I purchased from 7Digital in mp3 format @ 360K (or is it 340K? - not important here). I was never able to distinguish the difference between a Rock & Roll track I ripped from a CD into flac and one I purchased on iTunes. My player on my Android phone has always been Poweramp (purchased ver). On my PC, I use MusicBee. I 'sync' tracks manually. Normall, after I purchase them from iTunes I would convert to .flac and send them to the phone after applying ReplayGain. But now, to get back on track, I am simply applying RG to the AAC (m4a) files or mp3 files I purchased, and sending them directly to the phone. For the tracks I ripped from CD's into .flac, I will continue using .ogg Vorbis. I tried using the AAC converter in Foobar2000, but there was an error. When I looked it up, I read that updating the converter files might help, but in my case it did not. Since OGG is working fine, and Poweramp will read ogg or aac. I think that the whole reason I started using .flac - even for aac files purchased on iTunes - is that I liked to create 'DJ mixes' with many tracks in Reaper DAW. My thinking was that if I wanted create a mix-down that I would want to have all of my tracks in lossless format. I never even considered the fact that Reaper (and any other DAW) will happily open m4p, ogg, mp3, and a slew of other compressed formats. So, when I create a mix, I can just as easily use the aac files, then render the mix-down as anything I want. I seriously doubt that I will be able to detect any difference between a mix-down rendered to aac compared to flac.
  2. I just realized that when RG is applied during conversion in Foobar2000, the change is made to the music itself, but if RG is applied after conversion - using the scan and apply functions, then RG is applied in the tag. I think this may be what is happening for me. I did allow Foobar to apply RG during conversion to ogg. The main reason I used flac instead of aac is that much of my music library was ripped using EAC from the CD's. I wanted a compressed, yet lossless format. I realize that converting aac from iTunes to flac isn't doing anything to improve the quality; it was just a habit I got into. I guess I'll go through my entire library, and if I have an aac file, I'll just apply RG and send it to the phone for PA. If it's a .flac file, then I guess I'll convert to aac, apply RG and send to phone. I could make things easy on myself for now by simply replacing the ogg files on the phone with the flac files on my PC. But eventually, I may run out of storage space, since the 256GB on the Pixel 6 is all that I'm ever going to have - there is no SD card slot on this phone.
  3. Hey guys; I had been playing all of my music (classic Rock) on my Android phone with Poweramp from .flac files which I had either ripped from my CD's or purchased on iTunes (then converted to flac from aac - I know this is silly, but...) I applied RG to all of the flac files before uploading them to the phone (was a Galaxy A51 running Android 13). The volume level was good on all tracks. Now, I have a new phone (Pixel 6 Android 13) and decided to convert to ogg to save time (and space) uploading to the phone. Once again, I applied RG to the files as I converted them using Foobar2000 to .ogg level 6. I left the default RG analyze using set to EBU R 128 and did not apply any preamp gain. I am now noticing that many of the tracks are not at the same level; some are too soft, and some too loud. I have checked my settings in Poweramp (3.x build 957 purchased version) and they're all the same as I had before. I have also listened to the tracks in Foobar2000 on my Windows 11 machine, and there is a noticeable change in volume between some tracks. That said, when I load some of the flac files into Foobar, the level is good on all tracks. I'm thinking that perhaps because I applied RG in Foobar2000 during conversion from flac to ogg, that something went wrong; or that ogg files just don't play so nice with RG as flac do. If I cannot fix the issue, I will probably just replace the ogg files on the phone with the flac ones - I did get the 256GB version of the Pixel 6 so I have enough space. Any ideas? Thanks Ultrarunner
  4. OK. Thanks. I thought perhaps tracks would drop off the recently added automatically after they had been played, or after a set amount of time. So I'll just clear the list manually after I've played all of the new tracks.
  5. What criteria determines when a track is added/removed from the 'recently added' list? I have found that when a track is uploaded to the Poweramp library (on my phone), it will appear in the recently added list, but so does another track that I uploaded a couple weeks ago, and have played. I thought that perhaps the recently added list would be cleared when more tracks are added to the library folders, but it appears that there's something else that must take place before a track is removed from the list. Would I need to remove those older tracks manually? Thanks for your help Ultrarunner
  6. Wow! Thanks. My bad! I can't believe I missed that. I guess it's because I've been playing all songs, never even going to the ... menu. When I did go to the menu, I found that just about everything was ticked, so I un-ticked everything except recently added.
  7. Hello; Is there a way to select recently added tracks? I have searched through the settings, but cannot find this feature. I would like to be able to select tracks I have added within x days to add to queue or a playlist automatically. Thanks for your help Ultrarunner
  8. Hey guys; I have spent the last hour Googling for this song in which Joe Walsh receives a collect call from Joe Vitale. The operator asks Joe something like (I don't recall the exact words) 'is this Mr. Walsh', to which he answers 'I think so', and the operator replies 'Sir, you should know something like that'. I might have the Joe's mixed up; maybe it was Joe Vitale receiving the call from Joe Walsh, but I seem to recall it being a Joe Walsh song. I thought it was one of these songs: In the City Life's Been Good Over and Over Rocky Mountain Way But I have listened to all of these songs, and have not heard that phone call. I know the song Life's Been Good has the Wah Wah's at the end, but no phone call. I own copies of only 3 Joe Walsh songs: Life's Been Good One Day at a Time Rocky Mountain Way I think it's time for me to purchase 'But Seriously Folks', but I don't think any of those songs have the phone call. Thanks for your help; this is really eating me. Ultrarunner
  9. It's ironic how my brain is working (or not) on this issue: I have OCD tendencies, and as such, have this thing about how my tracks are listed. Normally, I will allow PA to select a track, using one of the shuffle modes. But a while back, I decided I wanted to play my entire library from A to Z. When I realized that there were many tracks that begin with an article (the, a, an), I became obsessed with changing that. But now, the same OCD is causing me to re-think the situation. Perhaps MotleyG has the best idea; just leave the tracks alone, and a solution will come along one day. So now that I've gotten halfway through the process of moving the article to the end of the title and in (..), I think I may just let the titles be what they are - as released, and wait for PA to add the feature we are discussing. If I could just get rid of the OCD, I would be a much happier camper - overall... Edit: And one more thought: Simply eliminating the article from the beginning of the title may not be appropriate for some tracks: Example: The Doors "The End". I don't think it would be appropriate to title this track "End", or "End (The)". It just doesn't sound right, and destroys the impact of the title as it was intended by the artist.
  10. Yes, a global feature would work for me. I agree with andrewilley on the punctuation issue as well. In the meantime, I am changing the titles of tracks that begin with an article, so that PA will sort them as desired. Pretty much work, but definitely do-able.
  11. Thanks. Maybe in a future release? Should I post this in the Feature Requests thread?
  12. Hello; Is there a way to change the sort order for all songs which would result in article like 'the', and 'a' being ignored for sorting purposes? For example: 'The House of the Rising Sun' will not be listed with songs that start with 'H', but will be listed with songs that start with 'The'. In MusicBee on my Windows 10 PC, sort ignores the article if it is the first word of a title. I can also specify a custom sort order by setting a tag. It does not appear that Poweramp reads this tag. Thanks for your help Ultrarunner
  13. Thanks. Now that you mention it, I remember that is exactly what I had done when I was trying to find duplicate songs in the shuffle.
  14. Something weird is going on with my PA app on my Galaxy A51 (Android 11) phone. I had been playing in 'shuffle songs' mode which I turned on from the 'All Songs' category. I wanted to find a specific song, so I went back to the 'All Songs' category expecting to find the alphabetical listing of all songs in my library. There has always been the main list in alphabetical order with the index on the right. I would swipe down to find the first letter of the song I wanted. But now that index was not visible, and the main listing was anything but alphabetical. I couldn't figure out what was going on, so I went into the Apps settings and did a 'force stop', then cleared the cache and data. I then restarted PA and found the track listing and index as I would expect. Of course I needed to go to settings to restore my previous preferences. Any idea of what I might have done to have this happen?
  15. I did a bit of searching on the phone for a list of files in the shuffle play, but didn't find anything. Does such a list exist as a file that can be read by another app or by PA itself?
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