micromothman

Thanks, Andre, this has been very helpful. Clearly I was stumbling around not really knowing how things worked in detail. It makes much more sense to me now. Greg

Thanks for replying, Andre. Sorry for the garbled and then edited message, I am SO frustrated, for the umpteenth time. I'm still totally confused. When you say "I've highlighted the Player Screen's Shuffle icon again in the image below" - I don't see anything that looks remotely like that in my Poweramp. I looked at the menu you mentioned: "PA Settings=>Library=>Lists=>Header Buttons" and everything is enabled. Here's what my screen looks like: OK, wait... I set a bunch of things back to factory defaults, restarted the app, and now i actually see the menu you described. WOW. For months I've had limited menus and no idea why nothing worked right. Somehow I wasn't able to toggle back and forth from limited controls, to full controls. I think this works now, thanks. Though I still don't know exactly what was wrong. Greg

I know shuffle modes are covered in the FAQs and in previous discussions, but the menus outlined in the FAQ simply are not there in my player. Most importantly it seems the "long press" does not work, so I have no way of setting the shuffle mode. This drives me crazy, it keeps reverting to "shuffle songs and categories" no matter what I am trying to do. Is it my phone? I love everything else about Poweramp but this has been driving me crazy enough times that I'm just about done with Poweramp. Can someone please explain?

Thanks for the replies. I had already looked for a duplicate file structure, and could find no such thing; there was no "extra" music folder, only one music folder plus its 100s of subfolders. No sign of duplicate artists, albums etc folders. It wasn't until I drilled down to individual albums that the duplicates appeared. If there was some minor difference in the file strings of 2 identical songs, I hadn't actually checked as I was not prepared to individually go into 1000 different albums to delete them at that level. Well, it was actually only a seemingly random 1/3 of albums. Fortunately I do have a backup of my playlist m3u8 files from a few months ago. I'd hardly changed them recently as I find it really difficult to add files to playlists on a tiny touch phone. No easy way to select multiple songs across years, artists, etc. That leads to another question - is it possible for me to run Poweramp on a desktop PC, to create and edit playlists there? So much easier for me to work with my 10,000 song collection on a full screen computer with a mouse. Greg

I've been a Poweramp user for about 5 years, on 2 or 3 different phones. Currently on a Samsung A52 5G. I love the app WHEN IT WORKS but I keep having this recurring problem and am pretty frustrated. I get a recurring problem - for no apparent reason, about 1/4 of my massive music library is suddenly duplicated, now many albums have all the songs in twice. I didn't do anything to the storage to trigger this, it just suddenly happened overnight. I've had this problem about 3 times already over the past few years. Previously a full rescan fixed it, but this time it makes no difference. Running out of patience with hearing everything twice, I tried deleting the app data. OK, that was probably a bad idea. The duplicate songs are gone, but now I lost my playlists, which had been carefully curated over many years. Sigh. Are my playlists permanently gone? Why does this duplicate song problem keep happening?