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To be honest I'd be looking at how you converted the files as a first step!

Ah. Didn't notice that 'tag', must be my eye sight what with being an old bar steward ... Both albums do point to the same folder location so I'm assuming that this is a bug where the database doesn't get cleared for some reason? Should be easy enough to duplicate though. I deleted the folder and did a full rescan. Poweramp now showed no presence of said album, in folders, albums, artists or album artists which was to be expected. I copied the folder back and another full rescan and it now just appears the 'once' where it should do. It would seem that a full rescan holds onto some information in these circumstances so it should be something for Max to look into when he has a spare ( :-) ) 5 minutes. I suppose it could be some cache issue but I did clear that as well. At least if it happens again (unlikely for me though possible) I know how to get around it. Cheers.

So. I have all my music as mp3s stored on an SDCard. There is a 'root' folder here called 'mp3' and every album I have is in an individual folder under mp3. No nested folders. Recently I got an album as mp3s which was a duplicate of an existing one but recorded at a better quality so I copied all my tags and replaced the folder/existing album on my sdcard. I then did a full rescan. What I have now is a copy of both albums in the datebase BUT only one album on the card. I have checked and I have this album only once on my phone (I'm rooted so used a file manager to search the whole thing - only one instance). Within Poweramp I see 2 albums under artists, album artists and albums. 'Folders' just sees the one album/folder. Checking the tags and Poweramp reckons it can see both old and new versions. Both play. However ...... .... I'm thinking that Poweramp has somehow got confused by me doing a rescan with seemingly the same album in the same (name-wise anyway) folder with all tags to all songs the same. The only difference would be tags such as bit rate and things like song length (a second or so different for some) plus file size. Anyone seen this before? Not exactly losing sleep over it just thought it was curious and would like to know why (user error/bug?). I'm thinking I'll just delete the folder, full rescan (hopefully that'll remove both copies) then replace the folder and rescan again. Any comments/information needed before I do this? Ta

Yep, I definitely wouldn't like to be Max coding around stuff like that!

Ah, the disc max. is 99, that must be what I vaguely remembered. So effectively 99x999 if I want track numbers to be valid. That's fine for what I'm after. As for "in the digital media world this limit does not apply", that's very true. But software development means compromises are made, limits are put on structures mainly at the whim of the developer. Which is why I thought I'd find out, in this case, what those limits are. Sorted. David

Basically as the subject asks but I use 'track' and 'album' as they are used historically for real physical media. I did search but couldn't really find anything but I recollect seeing '99' as the max. number? The reason I ask is that sometimes I make up an 'album' from a lot of miscellaneous tracks so a max, if it exists, would be nice to know. And how does this work if an 'album' is split across 3 'CDs' (in mp3tag this would be the 'discnumber')? (I know I could name the albums slightly differently such as 'XYZ Volume 1', 'XYZ Volume 2', etc but it'd be nice not to). Thanks in advance. David

Just to add that I've recently started using (got working!) Android Auto on our works vans (new Mercedes box vans). I can confirm the play/pause issues mentioned above but also a different issue that's probably related. If the playing gets interrupted for any reason (for example, today my phone holder, and thus my phone, fell off the windscreen and broke the cable connection. Plugging things back in and everything was fine except that PA would only do the play/pause thing. But a subsequent 'play' only led to an immediate 'pause'. I tried play on the head unit and phone with the same results. I decided to leave it as it was and about 10 minutes later (when I could next stop and check) it started to play again when I hit the 'play' button. The playing has been interrupted for other reasons over the last week and a similar thing has happened. Note 9 running a mostly stock Android 10 with the 864 version of PA.

What do you mean here? If you turn the ignition off then BT should not be connecting/connected at all as there's no power to it. And any connecting/disconnecting is to do with your phone and/or the BT device you have in your car. PA and other 'apps' just use the BT connection as negotiated between the phone and car stereo.

Same here - and the same symptons described by you above with the brief music clip then pause. However, I'm using Android Auto for Phone Screens rather than AA as you seem to be. Dunno if that helps at all ...?

I use mp3tag on my PC. It allows you to choose as many tracks as you like to embed the same album art in. Using it at the moment coincidentally ....

829 works with absolutely no problems for me with a BT ear piece, BT headphones and my car stereo headunit (Kenwood).