Yup
Yup
Chris
Common sense isn't anymore!
...after listening to FLAC on my phone I've ditched my mp3s, I'll live with a smaller selection of FLACs, but it's a small price to pay for the improvement in sound quality, I've squeezed 44 albums onto a 16Gb card with a bit of space left for normal phone functions.
I think I first reported that powerAMP didn't do gapless, actually it does, perhaps when I first checked it I'd stressed it out by asking it to play a 24/96 track first.
It's working fine now, I tried andLess and it does play well too, I just prefer powerAMP's ability to give you a file navigator, so you can structure things in music/flac/artist/album structures, or you can view by artwork in a flat album name alphabetical order. It also gives you player control when the phone is 'locked', in the same way that winamp does.
The DSP effects and tone controls aren't worth having IMHO.
Anyway I've spent my £3 on it now so too late to go back
Cheers, Will
I had issues with andLess playing AAC files - so I got rid.
Trying powerAmp now, and when I scan my library none of the flacs come up.
Which is a pain, as the player quite happily plays flac.
Chris
Common sense isn't anymore!
Hi Chris,
Unfortunately these players have to use the android media library, for some reason, and as yet android doesn't recognise FLAC, but probably it'll be a future enhancement.
Make sure your library is pointed to your FLAC collection, the default is Music, I've put my FLAC in a folder under music, and it recognises directory hierarchies.
when you select menu, there's an option for 'folderers/lib', on that next screen there're 2 options at the bottom, 'folder' & 'library', for flac set it to folders, at the top there're 2 options, one for a flat list of the albums in album name sequence, or the other is a hierarchical list of the folders, so if you can be bothered to store artist/album structures this is useful.
It puts it's own poweramp cover art file in each directory.
For the time being I think this is as good as we can get until android recognises FLAC at an OS level, but it's not too bad, particularly when one can only put 40 or so albums on the phone.
Cheers, Will
nice thread, cheers
I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.
I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.
Radio paradise and last FM have nice android apps if you've got all you can eat data. And if you've not already downloaded Google's music manager and done the backup thing then you really should.
One of these days... I'm going to cut you into little pieces.