Runrig Fan Paul Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 Hi. I am copying music files (either .wav or .mp3) from a named artist & album folder to a named folder in /Music on my Android phone micro SD card. Poweramp does not recognise the Artist name or Album name, and just displays "unknown artist/ album", but it recognises the individual track names. Why is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingdutchman Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 It sounds like your mp3 tracks have some tag information missing. Simply use an app such as audiotagger and complete the mp3 tags such as artist and album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runrig Fan Paul Posted August 9, 2016 Author Share Posted August 9, 2016 Hi TheoKlink. Thank you for the advice. I'm not having problems with Power Amp recognising my mp3 files though. It is the .wav files I am having the problems with. Specifically these are the files I downloaded from a Digital Download Code provided with a vinyl album I purchased. Considering that Power Amp sells itself on the basis it can recognise and play most types of music file including .wav (with associated album name etc.), without the need to first convert everything to mp3, I feel like I've been ripped off. It is like Power Amp is a backwards step, as I'm sure some of the older music players could properly list and play .wav files, including album titles, fine. Does anybody have any other suggestions please, or a direct contact email or phone number for Power Amp? Many Thanks Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingdutchman Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 The thing is wav files do not have mp3 ID3v2 tags so do not hold artist, album details etc which is what pa uses to arrange its library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runrig Fan Paul Posted August 9, 2016 Author Share Posted August 9, 2016 Thanks TheoKlink. PA should advertise the fact it uses these tags before a commitment to purchase is made. Also how do you explain how PA then seems to read artist & album information from the WMA files extracted from many CDs, if it needs the mp3 tag information? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingdutchman Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 Mp3 ID3v2 tags are the standard way of displaying mp3 media information. I am sure there are a few other standards but am not familiar with them. Why don't you have a look at this http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ You could of course transcode you wma files to mp3. Foobar does this for you if I remember correctly or rip your cd's into mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runrig Fan Paul Posted August 9, 2016 Author Share Posted August 9, 2016 OK ,- many thanks TheoKlink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 WAV files do not contain complex tags, they are just audio streams. So it's nothing to do with Poweramp that it can't display tags. I would suggest you use FLAC format rather than WAV though (foobar2000 and other programs can batch convert them for you) as FLAC is a losslessly compressed format that supports full tagging. So you get the same full audio quality in a smaller file. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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