What happened to my ability to access music on my home network Teradrive?

[BigOboy]

I love Poweramp . Got my paid android version six years ago. I have absolutely no complaints except suddenly I lost access to my home network drive where I store all my media. I am now forced to put a huge sim on my phone and download the songs I want to hear. Is this Samsung or Google flexing their monopolistic muscle in order to force us to use their media apps instead? 

 

[andrewilley]

Poweramp has never had the ability to natively access networked storage, although it is an existing Feature Request for the future. I also have no idea how you store networked content on a Teradrive in the first place (an obsolete Sega console/computer) or did you meant something else?

If you mean that your audio files are stored on a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device which your phone can access via wi-fi, the only way to do that would be to run an external app which allows mapping of network SMB shares into your local Android file system (something like this https://forum.powerampapp.com/kb/en_us/faq/smb-samba-cifs-r44/ ). If you are doing that, can you still see the shared location in a file explorer app? Is the location still visible and enabled in Poweramp's Music Folders section screen?

A bit more information on what exactly you are trying to do, and using what hardware/software, would be helpful.

Andre