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[Android Apps and Games] Tomdroid:
Some input:

Lockscreen: Would be nice to have the controls stuffed away in a drawer, e.g. just show the cover with artist/album/title info and have the user slide this up to reveal the actual controls. This way accidental key presses due to screen turning on would be prevented. (See e.g. Mort Player for inspiration.)

Album art: For some odd reason (maybe the above mentioned file name exclusions?) most of my album art doesn't show up in the main window, widget and lockscreen, but does so in the library and folder view. All my album art is named after artist and album (e.g. mozart_requiem.jpg). The only ones I see in all windows seem to be those (mis-)named as folder.jpg. I think the app should just stick to taking a/the jpg from each album folder and be done with it, no matter what name the file has.

Tag editing: Would be nice to have the option to quickly edit tags on a per-album level, meaning an editing tags globally for all files in a folder / an album instead of having to do it for each song.

Service: Yes I know, it's not really necessary but still I'd welcome an actual "stop playback" that preferably shuts down the service upon app exit instead of just having a "pause playback" with the service idling in the background.

Anyway, good work so far, really looking forward to the release! :)
[Android Apps and Games] str355:
i'm really liking PowerAMP, i'll be buying it when it hits the market :cool:

any chance of being able to change the colour of the buttons/text on the widgets and being able to remove the path of the album on the 4x2 widget?
[Android Apps and Games] CapsLockKey:
I've noticed I'm getting some interference and click noises at certain times when doing various tasks on my phone. Biggest one is hitting the power button when putting the screen to sleep.
[Android Apps and Games] asturel:
It is mounted...PowerAMP makes the 'Musicfolders' dir also on the sdcard..
[Android Apps and Games] PilgrimToHyperion:
http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2010/10/27/is-poweramp-better-than-winamp-for-android/

Well done Max, making headlines!
[Android Apps and Games] wowser21:
The new version resolves my folder scanning issues. Great job!

Would it be possible to add the "Recently Added" playlist that comes with the default music player when you are in library mode? I use this playlist to listen to th e newest music that I've added to the phone. If we could also view album art when viewing "All Songs" or inside of each "Genre" that would be great also.

Will definetely be buying once released
[Android Apps and Games] RadYOacTiVe:
This thread is moving too fast for me, can someone post the link to the new version?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] DD83:
Best music player out there for android

I freakin loved this thing. Max mp, two requests and you'll have me advertising for you:

1 off you could change the widget options of playing the first and last song in the folder to shuffle and repeat, this would be the best music app anywhere, on all OSs.

2 even after moving my music into the proprietary music folder within the "music folders" method, the music is still only recognized under the folders setting and not the library setting. That irks me.

Other than that man, this **** is stewed to perfection! Much props, period!
[Android Apps and Games] schizophrenia:
please please please fix the AlbumArt.jpg issue on main UI.

thanks.

I still can't figure out why only 2 out of my 13 covers showed up while they all have been named the same AlbumArt.jpg
[Android Apps and Games] khaytsus:
It's linked a few pages back, 113.
[Android Apps and Games] dukins:
What he said. Especially the Album Art request. Almost a deal breaker. Shouldnt have to rename all your jpegs to folder.jpg just to view the album art. Im a music buff and have tons of music. Love the app though.

Also player should resume to last album/artist played when sd card disconnected and reconnected. Should not have to restart shuffle again when sd card unmounted (mixzing does this).:D

One request is to have a 4x4 widget also. :D
[Android Apps and Games] niles1:
This is indeed one of the best music players, but theres still a few things i want to suggest: first one is that show album art on the widget (maybe something like htc sense music widget?) second one is that you should add option in settings for landscape coverflow such as iPod touch music player has that when you rotate the device it switches to coverflow. Thanks alot for making such awesome music player
[Android Apps and Games] hypersonicx:
For those with Album art problems. If you load the album art to the mp3 tag information and not the ".jpg method" all your music will have album art. Theres also a program on the market that will add missing album artwork.

I got about 2k mp3s and every single track has album art. If the artwork shows up on the standard media player itll show up on poweramp also.
[Android Apps and Games] Jumba:
Love the app! Two requests: please de-link the pre-amp from the eq. And add the ability to save eq presets. :)
[Android Apps and Games] DD83:
Also, if you could add a visualizer (don't know if that's asking too much) it would be the best thing since cable!
[Android Apps and Games] kenkiller:
Anyone tried with BT stereo earpieces? Seems AVCRP isn't implemented yet.
[Android Apps and Games] DD83:
I'm using some motorola bt headphones and everything works great...even the controls on the resources are very responsive
[Android Apps and Games] TheUntouchable:
Mh, dont know why, but i am not having a lockscreen widget with modaco R9..
[Android Apps and Games] CapsLockKey:
This is only true if you use the method you mention, and actually tag the artwork to the mp3. Unless there's an app that will automatically tag every piece of art in my folders to the mp3s, that's a lot of work when the method I currently use works fine in every other player I've tried but this one. Personally, I do it the way I have because I like using WMP to sync my music and just use Album Art Grabber to fill in the cover art once it's loaded (wish WMP would do this itself).
[Android Apps and Games] Babydollll:
I am looking forward to purchasing this as soon as I am given the chance!!! Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] Tomdroid:
No, it doesn't. In fact in the cases I mentioned the standard player does show the album art just fine, while PA only shows it in the library and folder view, but not in player, widget or lockscreen. So the OS player actually seems to follow the logic of "jpg in album folder = album art".
[Android Apps and Games] Tomdroid:
Using it with SonyEricsson MW600 and it works - except for rwd/ffwd and displaying track info on the HS screen but that's due to Android supporting an ancient AVCRP version only.
[Android Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Widget already shows album art... :rolleyes: Install 113.
[Android Apps and Games] moggyx:
Dude, seriously f%%%ing awesome app. Love it!
[Android Apps and Games] kenkiller:
strange...I'm using the Motorola S9 on the 113 build and nothing is working. I'll try again. :(

edit : now it works....after uninstalling another audio player. There should be a setting somewhere which tells android to allow which program to received controls (not in poweramp itself, but as system setting in Android). :D
[Android Apps and Games] ksidirt:
Pretty sick. Worth buying to support the dev, IMO.
[Android Apps and Games] owziee:
Release it, release it, RELEASE IT!!! :) :) :)

I want to purchase it

NOW

before I'm broke again! :D
[Android Apps and Games] eniamg02:
I believe he said nov 1st was going to hit market?
[Android Apps and Games] surveysays:
would be cool if they had it to where you can change song and pause song from notification bar. i personally like that better than using an widget. other than that this app roxx
[Android Apps and Games] r@nd0m:
That would be a nice feature as well.
[Android Apps and Games] sg10:
Love it. Already ditch samsung player.
[Android Apps and Games] m2thedeep:
Some quick things that I noticed that I'd like to mention:

When I hit the shuffle button when I'm listening to an album, the player shuffles every song in my music folder and not just the songs on the album.

Sometimes the player changes orientation in my hand so I was thinking that maybe being able to lock the screen orientation would be a cool feature.
[Android Apps and Games] dvdivx:
I just wish it had a visual display in lieu of album art like winamp/windows media player. Also selecting individual files is a pain. Currently I'm using tinyplayer since it works great at selecting individual files, but is very minimalistic compared to poweramp.
[Android Apps and Games] bdormael:
Best music app for android at this time.

Two small feature requests:

- To show on the now playing screen the number of songs it played from how many songs in the queue. (eg. "playing 12 of 124" )

- To be able to hide the equaliser options in the now playing screen, once it is set, I don't touch it anymore
[Android Apps and Games] apeatan:
Really loving this player....Keep up the good work Max...willing to give support here....:)

2 Thumbs up!
[Android Apps and Games] PilgrimToHyperion:
Max! Compatibility Request: I'm using Leedroid 2.2d and I've added the ability to unlock my phone from sleep by pushing the slider / scroller 2x. 1st push to wake up, 2nd push to unlock. With this version's lockscreen functionality, I have to push the scroller, push the lock icon for PowerAmp then push the scroller again to unlock. Possible to get rid of the lock icon via settings maybe please? Wonderful app! I'll be buying the full version when it's out 1 Nov!
[Android Apps and Games] lkh2904:
Hi max!

thanks for the great app. it is the BEST music player app that i have ever used!

If im allowed to make some suggestions i would like to recommend:

1. skip songs with volume keys when screen is off (eg when playing in bed trying to sleep and dont want to look at the bright screen...)

2. lyrics on and off my tapping the album art in the main UI?

3. gestures working on lockscreen

4. when scrolling down the playlist (i use playlists rather than folders) i wish there had been alphabets on the right hand side to guide through me where i am at the moment..

!!Thanks heaps!! i really love the app and cannot wait for the full version to come out..

thanks for the best music player app ever i was seriously annoyed by how android music player apps dont skip songs as fast as they should like iphone etcs.

thanks so much!
[Android Apps and Games] r@nd0m:
My playlists are not saving... Anybody else had that problem?

Also noticed interference when playing songs intermittently too, which is weird. Like a static noise.
[Android Apps and Games] Div033:
I've noticed significant battery consumption from this app. It sounds fantastic and is my favorite music player by far, but it may only be practical to use when plugged in. To clarify I am not referring to it being a battery drain when its not in use, but rather the reported CPU usage during playback from SystemPanel is pretty high. I've tested with both EQ on and off and both seem to have similar battery usage patterns.

Am I alone in this boat?

Sent from my Droid Incredible using the XDA app.
[Android Apps and Games] FunkyMcBain:
Suggestion, don't know if you can but could there be a filter added maybe for the album art downloader that discriminates between images based on resolution? The images it's pulling down right now are pretty crummy quality. I know it's nit picking but it'd be sweet to have some nice high res images cause everything else in the app looks so solid.

Still having problems with long files and fast forwarding. If I try to move the time slider far into a very long track, like an hour, it just restarts from the start.
[Android Apps and Games] FunkyMcBain:
I'm also getting a lot of force closes for some reason, other apps crashing becasue of PowerAmp

EDIT: Force closes are related to my phone settings more I think
[Android Apps and Games] MaxMP:
You need to compare total CPU utilization (with "adb shell top" or tools like OSMonitor). Per process cpu % utilization comparison with other music apps doesn't make sense at all, as other music apps use system codecs which live in system processes and other music players basically do nothing when music is played by system.

Generally, PowerAMP cpu utilization when playing (with equ enabled) is lower or equal to cpu utilization while playing with standard players.

Of course stuff like album art downloader will drain some battery unless battery efficiency mode is on (in poweramp settings).
[Android Apps and Games] Hoos:
Thank you MaxMP. This is the first Android music player that I really like enough to be happy to buy/donate for it.

As a beta release, this is a really polished and nice app.

It also integrates nicely with WidgetLocker and doesn't overwrite the use of the volume buttons to turn on the Evo. That's very nice for my needs.

Keep up the good work. It's really appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Maybe depends on the format, I'm playing 128kbit ogg's (to save memory card space, although eventually going to put my high quality VBR mp3's on there since I have more room than I used to) and I see 6-7% average CPU usage while playing via top. I'm using Eq, not using Tone, moderate volume, playing through Sennheiser CX300's..

I haven't measured the discharge rate at all, however. I usually do this with new programs like this one, I'll do it over the weekend sometime. But to me it's very reasonable so far, and seems at least on par with other players.
[Android Apps and Games] kkssgg:
Hi MaxMP, just wanted to report using build 113 (or was it 130):

- app crashes when I want to run it again after some time (for example I started it in the morning, was plugging and unplugging my headphones whole day so it was playing nicely but in the evening want to start it and it shows force close (music still playing probably from buffer), from what I know it's the issue when app lost some of its memory to other processes

- does the gui (cover/time/etc) is being updated when app is not in foreground? I just got feeling that it does update interface such as progress bar even when not in foreground, would be nice not to do so to save power

- widgets play/pause button reacting bit slow to pressing (a second or half a second after pressing it changes button image > or II, feels like the action is sent to player and when player changes state it widget gets new information, maybe do immediate change of the button state on click as well so it does not feel laggy.

- option to hide notification bar when seeing player (white does not go along with black player and you could have more space to see)

- option to send crash report to you (it often shows button when app force closes to send report to you, hope that it will be available in the release candidate/final version

- possible not to stop playing when rescanning folders? maybe play from buffer (some computer players do that so you can edit tags etc and music will be playing without any stopping/pausing)
[Android Apps and Games] Div033:
Ahh I see, thanks for the response. Ill give it more time using the tools you mentioned, but it makes sense now why it would report using higher CPU than the other players.

Sent from my Droid Incredible using the XDA app.
[Android Apps and Games] MaxMP:
It doesn't. You can clearly see this behavior with something like "adb shell top -m 10" while playing something in PowerAMP.

I can't reproduce this behavior on hi-to-mid devices (n1, sgs, droid), on hero/g2 there is some noticeable delay in widget update, mostly because widget updates happen on low priority thread. Though, commands from the widgets/other gui are executed immediately. It's the visual update lagging. And it's faster or like the standard htc music widget anyway.

This is done on purpose. SD card throughput is not unlimited, especially for some slow sd cards, and we want as much it as possible for file scanner. Also rescan action usually happens when card just mounted, when no music is playing.

Other issues you highlighted are already resolved or in TODO list for v.2.
[Android Apps and Games] kkssgg:
great, thanks for info! looking forward for further releases, cannot wait when app gets into the market!
[Android Apps and Games] gozmon:
I've tested allot of music apps and this is the best and most comprehensive. It is really impressive.

Is there a good place to post bugs and make feature requests?
[Android Apps and Games] gozmon:
Feature Request:

Please add ID3 tag 'Popularimeter', ID: "POPM", Rating parameter, and "PCNT" Play counter. they really help alot when maintaining play lists synced from other devices.
[Android Apps and Games] LockheedX:
Love this!

This music player is the best looking player available. Wow!

Just started using WinAmp, then just gave this a fair shake and there are a lot of things I love about it, and a few things I am bugged about after using it after winamp.

One of the things that could be better is switching between different UI elements. There is a lot of steps to go between the library and the playlist, the now playing screen and the library. Winamp has the pull up and pull down menus within it, and they make it really slick to get to everything really quickly.

Love the ability to choose folders to scan! Would like it to be able to select nested folders though, not just main folders on the SD card. I use /sdcard/Media/Music for my music so that would be helpful.

The other thing that would be awesome is a lockscreen controls! Winamp does this OK, not really stoked about it making me take an extra step to unlock everytime, but at least I have easy controls.

The way this app is organized is amazing, great DEV!!!

Right now getting a lot of force closes on the MotoDroid

Can't wait for full release.
[Android Apps and Games] nsolarz:
any chance on support for Plays-For-Sure drm'd songs? i use rhaposody and while i love the app, the lack of support for 50% of my music prevents me from using it full time :/
[Android Apps and Games] demize!:
Yeah, with just some cursory usage it's a winner. Aesthetics are very important to me as well as functionality so you're very polished and I like that in an App for a high end phone. I would like to see some visualization options in lieu of album art if user desired, like an oscilliscope or something you know a couple of choices. I haven't tested the tag editing as I friggen lost like 250 tracks, and sure hope it responds to my Zaggs bud remote commands. I had to get rid of Squared which I like BC it wouldn't even with the plug in. Is there lyric support, if so then you profit.

if your phone is Loki, use Odin, you'll be Thor.
[Android Apps and Games] elburna:
+1 for showing albumarts when browsing single songs/all titles. Almost no music player except sense does this and I wonder why... Apart from that: This is great Arts ;) Keep up the good work!
[Android Apps and Games] ExilHh:
Hi from Germany,

thanks for this great App. Loving it!!!

Only thing i'm missing is a real" Exit" Button...the player stays in the running processes.

But even without this missing Button its the best player in town and i use no other player since i ve installed this one.

Mike
[Android Apps and Games] bob akane:
HI

I discoverded this application 2 days ago.

I tried the built 68 and I found the gapless very good. Then I put the 113 built and the gapless is not as good as the older version. (I used ogg Q6)

For me gapless is one of the most important things for music player...

Improve this point, add replay gain and possibility to save personnal eqs and your application will be perfect for me. (with these points you will have what I love in rockbox firmware)
[Android Apps and Games] MaxMP:
Pressing area above progress/seekbar in main ui takes you to now playing selection. I.e. it's one press action as in other players. The difference here is that PowerAMP doesn't use concept of separate "playing now" list. It plays exactly the selection made in Folders/Lib, including the playlists.
[Android Apps and Games] tienhn:
Great app so far, I found that I can start playing when headset plugged in but there is no option for stopping when headset is removed.

Also when I move the app to sd card, the widget disappear
[Android Apps and Games] tienhn:
Another suggestion, please sort the song base on the track number data rather than filename alone.
[Android Apps and Games] brokali:
Loving this app can't wait for final release. Makes my kicker hp541 shake off my head. I do agree this needs an exit button
[Android Apps and Games] stibbs:
Enjoying this app, best music player.

Everything was working perfectly, but then I rebooted my phone and now nothing shows up under Artists/Albums or any of those options. It can still play everything from Folder View (Scans everything, just doesn't seem to read the tags or something?)

Any ideas?

Only setting I changed before the reboot was adding my /music folder to "No System Scan For Folders" so that it didn't show all my album art in the gallery.
[Android Apps and Games] affmalg:
Hi,

As everybody else i like this app really much :)

But one thing I don't manage.

My music is sorted like this /Artist/Album/Title

But the Folderview just shows me all my Albums.

I have tried some options but they didn't change anything.

Can some one tell me how this works that I get at First the Artist then the Album...?

Best Regards,

affamalg
[Android Apps and Games] Saintscar:
i use widget locker to just insert the normal powerAmp widget (attachment below)

you dont have to unlock, because widget controls are accessible in widget locker

more compact and by far better looking than all the other player controls

thanks for this great player btw, will buy it for sure
[Android Apps and Games] eniamg02:
New version beta has lockscreen controls.
[Android Apps and Games] dj-darkside:
Do you have a Downloadlink?

Thanks, I've just seen the latest version on it I have.

Now I find the Lock Screen Widget under the settings.

Thanks ;)
[Android Apps and Games] bjrmd:
me too

that's why a 4x4 widget would be great
[Android Apps and Games] ivorycruncher:
Wow, I dropped Winamp like a hot potato once this thing got lockscreen widget capability. I'll have to spend some serious time with it to see if there are any features that I think are missing or need to be tweaked, but I have yet to see any bugs with it, even though I know there are bugs that are being fixed. Shoot, this thing honestly gives the iPod app in iOS a run for its money. This one doesn't have the fancy album browser (just eye candy anyway), but it pwns all with EQ controls (with iOS, you have to go into the system settings control panel to mess with EQ, and it's just presets, no individual sliders you can tweak with).

Right now the one and only feature request I have is to be able to have the widgets (both homescreen and lockscreen) match the theme/skin that's applied to the player interface. Right now I have it set to Aluminum, because it fits my phone's overall color scheme better, but the black/glowy-blue look of the widgets clashes a bit. If the aluminum theme could be applied to the widgets, that would be awesome!

EDIT: I will definitely be buying this when it launches in the Market!
[Android Apps and Games] khaytsus:
You using 113? There is an option to pause on remove and resume on re-plug.

And all apps will have problems with widgets if you move them to the SD card using the Froyo method.
[Android Apps and Games] khaytsus:
FYI people, use WidgetLocker and you'll have Lockscreen capability for any of the widgets you want. I Have the 4x1 w/ Art on WidgetLocker, works great. :)
[Android Apps and Games] ilangoadigal:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=783427
[Android Apps and Games] AlaskanDroid:
This app is simply amazing. I just grabbed it, so I have not given it the white glove yet, but I expect awesomeness.

Thanks, Dev! Keep up the fantastic work. I LOVE the interface.

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA App