Spyglass Jack Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 OK, this is driving me nuts. In V2, I could play a bunch of folders (e.g., all of a band's albums) simply by opening their parent folder and clicking play. When I try to do that with V3, it will play the first subfolder and stop. Is there a way to tell V3 to play ALL the files in the hierarchy? I don't want to create a queue or a playlist, I simply want to have it play everything under the opened folder. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clever_man Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 @Spyglass Jack, try to change repeate mode on the main screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyglass Jack Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 Forgive my ignorance. I don't see the option. I see a "shuffle" option, but I don't see a way to change it. Thanks for responding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clever_man Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 @Spyglass Jack, button near shuffle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyglass Jack Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 I see shuffle and play... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clever_man Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 @Spyglass Jack, on the MAIN screen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyglass Jack Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 Advance List? Is that what I want? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clever_man Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 @Spyglass Jack, yes, I think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyglass Jack Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 Thank you for your time and patience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Repeat mode should be set to 'Advance List' ('List' being the old v2 word for what is now referred to as 'Category'). That way playback will continue on to the next album (or folder,or whatever your chosen listening category is) after the current one finishes. @maxmp We've discussed this a few times, but the 'Repeat' icon options are getting a bit dated now, and the wording needs updating to v3 'Category' terminology. Or better still, could you take the opportunity to add that 'single song playback' option that has been so often requested at the same time? (https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/16724-option-for-stop-after-actual-song/?tab=comments#comment-71539) That would result in six simpler to understand, and more elegant, play/repeat options - only one of which is actually new (the 'one song' option):Play One Song | Play Current Category | Play All | Repeat Song | Repeat Category | Repeat All Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyglass Jack Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 My problem stemmed from the fact I completely forgot there was a "main" screen, because I don't see a button for it, and I never thought to "swipe" back to it. So, I never saw the repeat options when I was hunting for a solution. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeller Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 That Play button is unusable for me. I'd say it's bugged. It plays all files in that category level. Not playing files from subfolders. If only subfolders are present, it plays files from a higher level, which is unexpected and confusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeller Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Ok, inconsistent behaviour. I set playback to "advance list" at another place, which is clunky. Then I use that play buttons. In most cases it insists on playing back stuff from a higher hierarchy, in rare cases it plays as expected from the first visible subfolder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeller Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Please watch the video. It plays the exm folder as expected. All others which I tested it does not. I forgot to include sound, but you can see, most of the time it starts playing that "Freeman Hardy..." track. Instead of playing tracks inside the visible scope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeller Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Issue still exists in the last two betas. I still don't get why the play button mostly plays stuff outside the visible scope instead of subfolders. I wonder if nobody else has this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 I don't know what's different about your setup that is causing this either, it works as intended for me. It might be worth setting PA back to all default settings (clear app data) and see if that changes things? As a precaution, you should export your current settings and any internal playlists first. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeller Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 *sigh*, yes, I'm doing this. Will see after the scanning if it works out. Will have a close look on every setting then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeller Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Same behaviour on vanilla Poweramp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeller Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 An observation: it now always plays "05 Sweet Exorcist" track. It's displayed on top of the "_Diverse" folder. After restore settings it always plays "Freeman Hardy" track as shown before. It is now also on top of that folder. Both files are in the library in both cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 I've just managed to duplicate this issue. It only seems to occur when you are several layers deep in Folders Hierarchy. For example, if I am viewing the subfolders contained within /MusicFolders/50 Music/ and I tap on the Play icon at the top of the screen, it works as expected and I start hearing the contents of the first folder in that displayed list (which would be /MusicFolders/50 Music/10cc/*.mp3 in this case). However if I drill down one layer further - for example into /MusicFolders/50 Music/Adele/ - then when I tap on the Play icon (expecting to hear the songs /MusicFolders/50 Music/Adele/21/*.mp3 and then /MusicFolders/50 Music/Adele/25/*.mp3 ), Poweramp instead starts playing the contents of some higher level folder, in this case the songs in /MusicFolders/50 Music/Adele/[Songs]/*.mp3 . By the way @maxmp , while researching this I found that there seems to be a discrepancy in the sorting order used in Folders (set to sort 'By Path') vs Folders Hierarchy (set to sort 'By Filename' as there is obviously no 'Path' option). I use round brackets "(" at the start of folder names to force items to the top of a list, and square brackets "[" to force things to the end of the list. In Folders mode, the first few items of my 50 Music folder are shown as expected, thus:10cc ABC 21 - Adele 25 - Adele (...etc...etc... down to the end of the list...)War of the Worlds [Songs] Whereas in Folders Hierarchy, drilling down into 50 Music , I see: 10cc [Songs] ABC Adele (...etc...etc... down to...)War of the Worlds Not sure why the square-bracketed item [Songs] is being sorted in between numeric and alphabetical names in Folders Hierarchy mode, but where I want it to be (i.e. at the end of the alpha list) in plain Folders mode. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeller Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 Yes, observed the sorting thing as well. I disagree about the depth of folders. I found it: Play button works as expected only inside folders which start with a lowercase character or number! Please have a look! I. e. if a folder starts with a capital letter, PA plays something else, as already described. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmp Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Thanks for the details on the problem - most probably will be fixed in the next 850 build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmp Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 @andrewilley regarding folders sorting. (Plain) Folders uses case-sensitive sorting when sorted by Path. Folders hierarchy uses case-insensitive sorting for its (default) path sorting. For the next 850 build I'll try to use case sensitive sorting in both cases, though, somebody may complain (or not) as folders hierarchy sorting will change a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 52 minutes ago, maxmp said: For the next 850 build I'll try to use case sensitive sorting in both cases, though, somebody may complain (or not) as folders hierarchy sorting will change a bit. Yes, I can see that might causing problems for people who were depending on the old functionality in the other direction. Perhaps an option for choosing whether file/path sorting should be strict and literal ASCII, or more of a smart system rather like Windows uses (case insensitive, strings of several numbers treated as numeric values rather than strict ASCII so '9' comes before '10', etc) Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeller Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Thanks, playback not fixed yet 😑 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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