Si6776 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 I've long been using Poweramp because of the way it handles playlists. I have a large playlist of nearly 3000 tracks, and I generally have this on a continual shuffle, so that I get a variety of songs played all the time. What I love is that I can add to the Playlist and the new tracks will merge into the already playing playlist, and will still pop up at random. This is different to every other music player I've tried, as others either add new tracks to the end of the playlist, so you have to wait till the playlist reaches the end to hear them (unless you reshuffle, then risking repeats), or tracks won't be added to the current playlist until you start the playlist again. I'm curious as to how Poweramp achieves this. What's different about Poweramp playlists, to every other music app I've so far found? Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/17981-a-question-about-playlists/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingdutchman Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 I suspect that as shuffle is on, the new tracks get shuffled but Poweramp ensures it does not play a track twice so you still get shufffle but no repeats Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/17981-a-question-about-playlists/#findComment-79735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si6776 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 40 minutes ago, flyingdutchman said: I suspect that as shuffle is on, the new tracks get shuffled but Poweramp ensures it does not play a track twice so you still get shufffle but no repeats Yeah, but I'd still be interested in how it does it, when other music apps don't seem to be able to. Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/17981-a-question-about-playlists/#findComment-79736 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmp Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Poweramp is not derived from Android Music Player sources as many other players do, thus, it doesn't use its approach to in-memory current playlist / queue. Poweramp lists are kept in database and shuffle "session" is thus persisted. Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/17981-a-question-about-playlists/#findComment-79740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si6776 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 28 minutes ago, maxmp said: Poweramp is not derived from Android Music Player sources as many other players do, thus, it doesn't use its approach to in-memory current playlist / queue. Poweramp lists are kept in database and shuffle "session" is thus persisted. That makes sense, thanks. Is PA unique in this? Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/17981-a-question-about-playlists/#findComment-79744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmp Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 I guess, some players which implement own library + scanning may have approaches similar to Poweramp. Link to comment https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/17981-a-question-about-playlists/#findComment-79746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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