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54 minutes ago, milklover12 said:

The poll is closed. I wanted to make sure if MAXMP will add this feature in the next build

Not very likely in the near future builds, as Chromecast won out as the next requested major feature. I would hope it may appear at some point in the future though.

Andre

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Pardon the old man grumbling, but who needs to store music in the cloud when Spotify and Apple Music exist? Where do you get these tracks and why? I'm wondering, maybe my worldview isn't enough to use Dropbox for a broader purpose. I registered Dropbox storage to keep my documents safe. I chose between Google Drive or Dropbox, but hundreds of family photos have already been uploaded to the GD, and I don’t want to mix content. Moreover, I was convinced by this article https://blog.coupler.io/what-is-dropbox-security/. How do YOU use Dropbox?

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7 minutes ago, AbramYetman7 said:

Pardon the old man grumbling, but who needs to store music in the cloud when Spotify and Apple Music exist?

A couple of reasons come to mind. Those services often do not have a truly lossless service, or come at a cost that wouldn't be necessary if you already have a copy of the same music that you have already purchased. And more importantly, there are often titles that some or all of these service providers do not have rights to. And since many newer devices have removed the option to add external uSD card storage, the cloud may be your next best solution. Of course this does add the potential cost for data if your package doesn't include enough to cover your usage.

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17 minutes ago, AbramYetman7 said:

Where do you get these tracks and why?

From an extensive CD and vinyl library that I have collected over the last 40+ years in my case. I'm sure this is similar for many others as well. Why buy again what you have already paid for?

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@MotleyG  Same here, I have a huge collection of audio files, varying from rips from my CD/DVD collection, radio shows, concert recordings, theme park audio, etc. Including some quite esoteric stuff.

If you can find me one single streaming service that has everything in my collection, and 100% guarantees that they will never remove any existing items from their service, then I'll happily sign up. If not, my music is where I know I can always find it, and where I can play it on any device of my choice, with or without an internet connection.

Andre

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I personally would rather have option to connect to a lan storage (instead of things like gdrive for example) in some better and more solid way, such as a more complete/polished implementation of smb or ftp connectivity for example. The way we can do it now is pretty squishy, tags and pictures won't load and you can't seek, a remote controlled icecast stream works better but the setup is pretty bonkers and it comes with its own limitations.

But any advance on this area is interesting to follow

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Maybe an option to do it via plugins? 

ie. a plugin would be responsible handling the source of files (ie. connecting, authentication, crawling through folders, caching etc) and then it would be passing the music file, ie. mp3 (steam/file?) to Poweramp to play,
or plugin would be passing playlist/queue to Poweramp and Poweramp would be requesting from plugin the file/stream on playlist/queue change

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I've been using Poweramp since 2013 or earlier, still use an older phone with an sd card slot mainly for my music library. Unfortunately, its life is ending soon. My next phone might be one without a slot. I have my collection on my Dropbox. Hoping cloud support will be available soon, or maybe it is already? I don't frequently visit our forums.

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You can sort of do it now for some storage types by mapping an external storage to a locatimn on your device’s storage.

But it'd be very slow and unwieldy for large collections or from commercial sites, as Poweramp would need to scan the tags from every remote file into its local music database.

Andre

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3 hours ago, Paolo Diawatan said:

I've been using Poweramp since 2013 or earlier, still use an older phone with an sd card slot mainly for my music library. Unfortunately, its life is ending soon. My next phone might be one without a slot. I have my collection on my Dropbox. Hoping cloud support will be available soon, or maybe it is already? I don't frequently visit our forums.

There are still some good Android devices being released with SD cards and even headphone jacks. If a large library is a priority for you, I’d consider that to be an important factor for your shopping list. Motorola is one I have been looking at. 

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We can’t just add cloud storages, such as Drive, to Poweramp and expect the same behavior for tracks from these storages. Poweramp has a Library filled with track tags/metadata. To do so, tag pre-reading is required (scanning). This won’t work for cloud services for any reasonable library size (for example, 1k songs).

I’ve seen two approaches for players which support cloud storages:

- just show file lists as is and only scan tags during playback. So no any library features are available for cloud tracks.

- pre-scan or match user tracks using own servers. Library features are all there + some extras are possible. These players are coming with a subscription fee as servers are not free.

If you know some other example of cloud storage playback implementation - please let me know. 

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@maxmp Yes, I think the only way it could work would be to allow the user to add extra items to the Library Categories list - e.g. "Google Drive", or "Dropbox'". Tapping on one would initially have to ask for the user's credentials (which could be saved) and a root folder location, and then it would open a file explorer style view to that particular online storage location showing the subfolders and files available, with the ability to drill down to see more content.

I guess there could be a List Options setting to allow PA to optionally background parse through the contents of files as soon as a folder is opened, looking for tag info to replace the displayed filenames - in much the same way that the current Library screen does background online searches for cover art after you open a new view.

But it certainly won't be as pretty or nicely displayed as the current local Library content, it would basically be a list of streamable files independent of the main local Library database.

Andre

 

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