Lifelog app not tracking Poweramp correctly, only showing <1 minute

[sg1969]

Hi,

I just got my smartband a couple days ago, and noticed that for some reason it's not able to track how much time I spend in Poweramp music player. It just stays stuck on "<1 minute" no matter how long I use it for. For example I started listening to music at 06:00am, and in Lifelog it detected that, but only for 1 minute. I listened to music at least 30 minutes on the train.

I have restarted the core a few times, I've made sure I'm running the latest firmware and software (both phone and core), using a Z1 unbranded UK.

[grebble]

Hi,

I have found this too, using Google Play Music on my Nexus 5. The Lifelog app only logs use while the music app is in the foreground and the display is on. Background listening and song title logging only works with the Walkman app at present.

[sg1969]

Yeah, thinking about it it kind of makes sense, since you wouldn't want all your background apps to be tracke  all the time - for example if I browse the web for 5 minutes then switch to a different app, I don't want Lifelog to keep tracking the browser while it's in the background.

So I'm guessing the functionality to keep tracking certain apps (liek Walkman for example) is either some kind of whitelist within the Lifelog app (which would be good since Sony can keep updating it), or implemented within the music app itself (which is bad news for us end users, since the devs will have to implement it into their apps - if they even can, that is -  and I don't see this happening)

I've been meaning to do it for a long time now, but I guess it's finally time I convert all my ALAC files to AAC so they are compatible with Walkman - or maybe Sony can add compatibility with ALAC *hint hint* (probably  will never happen, just like iTunes never supporting FLAC natively...)