Windows 11 Will Support Android Apps Natively

I don’t really think anything would need to be modified in Poweramp. The Emulators that currently exist work with Poweramp just fine. Windows would have to build into their emulator drivers that simulate a generic android sound device that most Android apps would recognize and that you could select in Poweramp. It would simply pass through Poweramp selecting an already supported (simulated sound device) to your default sound card that does all of the work? You either have a Hi-Res sound card or you don’t. In Amazon Music Unlimited, Tidal and Spotify I just select which device I want to output to, and I then change my sound card settings to 16bit/24bit/44/48/96/192 or whatever I want and that’s the quality I get.

I have an emulator but never really cared to see how it handles sound quality, I’ll look at and see.

[Edit] I haven’t used my emulator for Poweramp in forever. So I have a really old version of Bluestacks and Poweramp 589. It won’t let me update to 905 to see how Hi-Res works. I played a 24bit/48kHz song with no issues. It played it at 16bit/44kHz though. So not sure if that’s the Bluestacks emulator or the really old version of Poweramp. Neither of them has selectable Audio settings.

I really wanted to use the emulator so i could work out all of the tagging bugs on the PC and preview in Poweramp before sending to my phone. Unfortunately the Emulators required the music library to be in “Documents” which is bleh. I keep my files SSD and my OS SSD isolated so things run smoother. If the new Windows 11 allows me to select any storage location and Poweramp runs smoothly (regardless of audio quality) I will definitely upgrade.

Edited June 27, 2021 by Absinthequ