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  1. On 11/6/2023 at 5:47 PM, l4kr said:

    Just market High-Res audio as "Bitperfect", remove all resampling options, add a bit of bass, and boom, people will be blown away with "Bitperfect audio quality" from Poweramp. Easy solution.

     

    I suppose that might fool the ignorant, but those of us who don't want our music artificially bass boosted and have the means to see what the current bit rate our device is actually outputting would drop Poweramp in a heartbeat and never look back.

  2. On 7/19/2023 at 2:07 PM, andrewilley said:

    @MotleyG Bear in mind that not every purchaser of the app would be willing to purchase such an in-app extra. So while Neutron/UAPP are taking that higher fee from every user, in PA's case an in-app purchase might only be wanted by a tiny fraction of the overall historical userbase - maybe a couple of thousand, it's hard to say. So months and months of development costs for such a downloadable add-on (e.g. a hard-coded DAC driver which gets around Android limitations) would need to be covered by that number of paying users.

    Andre

    Adding the ability for player output to match the source file would require "months and months" of development time?  Really?

    However, I will say that any attempt to gouge existing customers by charging extra for this feature will not likely go over well.

  3. On 5/13/2023 at 1:49 PM, Yash O said:

    Instead of complaining here it is better to take this to the Google and Android Devs, those schmucks should work on this issue, not the third party devs

    I'm not sure what you're talking about.  There are a number of other audio players for Android that are able to automatically set the playback sample rate based on the source file, so it has nothing to do with Google or Android and everything to do with the developer of Poweramp stubbornly refusing to even entertain the idea of adding this feature to his software until recently.

  4. On 3/10/2023 at 8:21 AM, maxmp said:

    @andrewilley yes I have this in the backlog, but I do not have ETA for this change yet. This is technically possible for Poweramp. Obviously if sample rate/format is changed, no crossfade/gapless, but these options still continue to work within same album/folder/list for the same track sample rate/format.

    Well, this is certainly more promising than the hard "no" we've gotten earlier in response to this request.  I've stopped using Poweramp because of its inability to automatically play files at their native sample rate, but if this feature is added, then I'll never use anything but Poweramp because I love everything else about the software.

  5. On 6/2/2022 at 8:35 AM, andrewilley said:

    @Mountain Man ... output-follows-source-frequency (or "No Resample") has already been considered several times as a possible feature, but for the time-being Max has rejected it as impossible to implement in PA in a standardised manner that would work across all (or even most) Android devices and output methods, and it could also conflict with other features.

    Yes, I'm aware of the excuses, and yet at least half-a-dozen other Android audio players have implemented such a feature without the difficulties described.  You might say, "Well then, why don't you use one of those other apps instead?" and I am -- Neutron, at the moment -- but it also can't be denied that Poweramp has the best interface on the market, and I would love to see its functionality expanded to include a highly requested feature that should almost be considered standard for an "audiophile" music app.

  6. Yes, "bit perfect" is often used when one means "no resampling".  The latter, of course, would be a very worthwhile feature for Poweramp.  All the silly excuses for not implementing it, such as breaking crossfading, or that not every device supports all sample frequencies, could be mitigated with a simple disclaimer on the option screen that says, "Warning! Setting output frequency to follow the source file may not be supported by all devices and can break other features like crossfading and gapless playback. Only enable this option if you know what you are doing!"  Boom.  Done.

    The present workaround of setting a single frequency and forcing the player to resample everything is not desirable as you are either causing your hardware to work harder than it needs to (in the case of upsamping), or you are not getting the best quality that your hardware is capable of (in the case of downsampling).

     

  7. Seems like every time this topic comes up, the developer of Poweramp inevitably dismisses it as a technically unfeasible or undesirable feature, and yet other player software seems to do it without difficulty, including Neutron, FiiO Music, Onkyo HF Player, HiBy Music, just name a few off the top of my head.  I have no idea why he is so reluctant to add a frequently asked for feature.  Poweramp has, in my opinion, the best interface on the market, but lacking this feature is a significant deficiency, and I could never recommend the player to someone else because of it.

  8. Those are not problems without solutions.  The easiest would be a warning next to the setting that simply states, "Enabling this feature could cause problems with playback and crossfading if a playlist contains files encoded at different sample rates." 

    Personally, I would love it if Poweramp had a "Frequency Follows Source" feature like Neutron.  Honestly, it's a bit ridiculous to have to set the playback frequency to the highest rate file in my library and then force my hardware to work harder than it needs to for everything else with zero improvement in playback quality.  This is the reason I stick with Neutron even though I really like the Poweramp interface.

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