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I recently de-googled my phone (/e/-project) and am now faced with the fact that I cannot use the google play store to download my winamp unlocker (the play store .apk simply won't install). So I have a question whether it is possible to get my play-purchase validated by non-play means I am using aurora and microg store right now.

I love the fact that you can cast to groups and chromecasts through the app, but it'd be great if it was possible to change what you're casting to instead of disabling the cast and then re-casting to the new device/group. So, whilst casting, you can still see the other groups/devices available to select. Google themselves only just started doing this recently, so not sure if it's available for others to do, but it'd be great if you could!

When a song is playing, you touch the 3-dots button and go to "lyrics" (attached image), you're redirected to a Google search for the lyrics, so, why not adding a setting to modify where the lyrics will be searched, like DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yandex, lyrics.com or even custom provider? It's easy specially for lyrics.com since their links are like this: "https://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/[song game, it can have spaces]", for example: https://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/We don't talk anymore

I haven't been able to find an answer to this, so apologies if this has been addressed. Why does Poweramp need to verify my purchase through Google Play License Verification when I already have the Poweramp Unlocker installed? I found this out in a very unfortunate way and it disturbed me tremendously. I was in the middle of a trans-atlantic flight while listening to Poweramp when suddenly the music stopped and I received a pop-up message that Poweramp was not able to verify the purchase through Google Play License Verification/APM. I am sure this happened because I was in the air at 38,000 feet and I had the airplane mode turned on to disable any wifi and mobile data services. Anyway, I had the Poweramp Unlocker installed as well, so I am not sure why my license had to be verified online? I thought the purpose of the Poweramp Unlocker was to unlock Poweramp without having the need to verify a license online since I had already paid for it by buying the Unlocker? The reason why I found this most frustrating is that I no longer was able to use Poweramp for the rest of the duration of the trip because I was not able to get any mobile data service until I landed, which was about 5 hours later. I had to resort to the stock player that could not read my Poweramp playlists. I felt like I had paid for the license but was unfairly prevented from using it. So, was it something I missed in the settings to fix this? Or is there another explanation that I am aware of that justifies this? I feel that if Poweramp needs to verify a license through Google Play, that I shouldn't need to have the Unlocker installed or at the very least, it needs to warn you well ahead of time that it needs to verify a license so that someone doesn't get caught off guard and unable to verify their license for hours and therefore lose access to an app they paid for. Well, just wondering - not angry, but just frustrated that I couldn't use it when I really needed it.

I'm finding that when I request a song via Google assistant (to play on default player Poweramp), the track will play but only after about 30 secs. Visually what's happening is: Once the request has been made, the assistant screen disappears, Poweramp opens with the requested track loaded, but the actual playing of it is delayed. Anyone else find the same/solved this? Thanks