The title says it all, google has truly missed the ball on this one. Now I have looked with zero luck. So im guessing the answer is no, but is there some sort of alternative music widget that will work with Google Music? Googles is way to boring. (Come to think of it every single google widget is boring and plain) I understand there are alternative app, but I used the cloud thing.
Welp thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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+1 the music widget does suck
i wish there was a full screen widget available.
But the 4x2 widget in CM7 suffices.
That's one of the main reasons that's holding me back from using the new google music.
Is there any way to change it, or let the big G know?
Not too happy with any of the music apps I've tried. Using DoubleTwist at the moment. Google Music didn't impress me too much not to mention it would take forever to upload my collection. Eyeballing Spotify but not sure I want to drop $120 a year on that service.
You have a screenshot of the CM7 widget? Just got my Captivate phone 2 weeks ago. Just rooted to get rid of AT&T bloatware and looking for an updated ROM from the stock FROYO.UCKB2 (2.2)
Seeing as other music apps were mentioned, a few examples are here: Android Media Players
is it not possible to get the widget from honeycomb? It's beautiful and it makes no sense to not have it in ICS
I agree, the single music widget provided with the Google Music app is terrible! And it's been that way foooorever.
I keep searching the Android Market every so often to see if any other 3rd party widgets have become available that will work with Google Music, but so far there's nothing I've found that has 100% compatibility.
The one I've ended up using is from the app called "iSyncr". I had actually purchased that app quite a while ago to sync my iTunes-based music on my Mac to my Android phone, and it turns out that the widgets that come with the app also happen to work relatively well with Google Music on my GSM Galaxy Nexus. The only glitch that occurs sometimes is that the widget can't show album art for some of my MP3s.
The iSyncr app comes with just 3 widget sizes: 1x4 and 2x4 and 4x4, and you can find them in the Widgets section of Android listed as "Music Ratings", after you've installed the app.
This is a link to the web site for iSyncr and it shows a pic of the 4x4 widget:
http://jrtstudio.com/iSyncr/iSyncr_Ratings_FAQ
My preferred music widget of the past was "Pure Music" and it was awesome!! Unfortunately, the dev for it says that he can't make it compatible with Google Music as Google has not released the appropriate APIs for him to do so. Really, really sucks because the Pure Music widget is really customizable and has a lot of nice options to alter how it looks.
Finally, I happened to have a brief chat via Google Plus with someone that works on the Google Music dev team and he said that one of the larget requests they get is to update the widget for the app and to offer more widget sizes for it. He said it's on their schedule of "things to do" during the first quarter of 2012, so here's hoping they actually do update it!!! <crosses fingers>
FYI: Pure Music Widget has now been updated so that it's compatible with ICS/Google Music app.
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.koxx.pure_music&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsIm9yZy5rb3h4LnB1cmVfbXVzaWMiXQ..
This is what I'd been using as my music widget on my many different Android-based phones over the years but I had to stop using it when I got my Galaxy Nexus and found that it wasn't compatible.
Really happy the widget has been updated and I can go back to using it!
for some reason Pure Music Widget isn't showing the Album art from google music for me. I can see the title and song name but no album art. song plays smoothly.
any idea whats wrong?
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for some reason Pure Music Widget isn't showing the Album art from google music for me. I can see the title and song name but no album art. song plays smoothly.
any idea whats wrong?
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I've noticed the same thing with some of my mp3 files & pure music widget. Looks like it has something to do with either the type of picture file used for the album art or how the picture file is embedded into the mp3.
Most of my mp3s display the album art just fine but all of the ones I bought from 7Digital don't.
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How do I configure Pure music widget to play Google music?
Any news on google updating their own widget by the way?
as far as I know, NO WIDGET can pull album art covers from the Google Cloud...
which sucks, because the widget ACTUALLY WORKS even though the music player sucks, but I like my cloud storage just to free up room on the phone
Try Cube player its pretty cool but album does get mixed up when flashing different Roms.
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I currently use Musicbee on my laptop - any suggestion as to a great one for the NT?
PowerAmp is my favorite android music player, but it has a bit of an issue with the status bar being on the bottom of the screen, making it hard to click on certain settings. I just use Google Music on it for the time being.
Google music here, can't beat the streaming.
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Google music in conjunction with Pure Music App. The pure music widget has a back button which I find useful.
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Zune and Foobar2000 on my desktop, Ubermusic on my SGSII and NT.
I like the google play music app, but the widget is the most boring thing I have ever seen. Any using/know of some installable widgets that run the google play music app but have some more functionality than that simple bar offered from google?
I was wondering the same exact thing...
I use double twist widget to control music downloaded from Google play music
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Me too. It is ugly and very limited. The old music app has been removed unfortunately. Any ideas would help
I'm sorry I know this isn't exactly the place to post this, and sorry for the all caps. But I AM TOTALLY ENRAGED BECAUSE NOBODY WOULD MAKE SOMETHING SO SIMPLE! and nobody would give an explanation as to why!
First of all, I know your music players can in fact, play music files, I tried every single music player avilable, yes I'm not kidding I tried all of them, over 50 of them. Most of them will start and play music. But that's not what's I'm after nor the reason I am so enraged.
Here is why:
THEY WON'T SHOW THE FULL ALBUM ART!!!!!
The ONLY music player, I repeat, the ONLY one out of over 50, that shows your embedded album art properly is the Neutron Music Player, but it's paied and I can't buy **** from the country I'm currently in. and the beep version is too old the touch controls suck.
WHY? WHY? WHY?
What's so difficult? You can make all these more difficult features work sometimes perfectly, but you can't make this very simple task of showing a jpeg image properly? Many of these features I have no idea why they have priority over showing an album art, especially when they seem more difficult to develop. I'm just glad I don't have an android tablet, I can't imagine how crappy it would look on one of those! I'm glad I use the iPad and all of my album art show perfectly in full quality it's just fantastic.
- lyrics and time stamped lyrics support. what's the point? most of you probably listen to music in your native language, what you can't understand what they're singing? Shouldn't you already know most of the lyrics in your collection? this seems like a difficult feature to develop because you have to make a scrollable surface for text ontop of the UI. Isn't that more difficult than just putting up a picture? in fact you have to show an album art anyway! why not just make it show the orginal one instead of the scaled down crappy version? it's like 5 minutes of coding!
- automaticly download album art and lyrics. I just don't get it, if you have pirated music you're too lazy to sort, get on a PC and there are plenty of programs for that! why would you do it over mobile network on your phone!?
-socal network intergration. I'm sorry I never use any of these features, I don't see the point of letting your friends know what you're listening every 5 minutes.
- n-band equalizer. get a better headphone, instead of your stock headset. it's 10 times more effective than any equalizer. the math involved in this must be very difficult especially those that can prevent capping or smooth the curve. Why does this have priority over the basic feature of showing an album art?
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A good music player is really very easy! but none of them will got that tiny final step! It's pissing me off!
Google Play Music: all you need to do is show the embedded album art, and get rid of that stupid blue background, just make it black!
Neutron Music Player: get someone to make you a new skin without all those 2006 style 3D effects.
Apollo Music Player: have an option to turn off the altomatic download, show the embedded album art.
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ok I just saw another thread giving out a bounty for a fix. Maybe I should do the same. I'll also put up a bounty of $50 for a music player that satisfies the following requirements:
-has the basic functions of a music player (play, pause, shuffle, supports MP3/FLAC/AAC)
-displays tag information such as artist, album, title, etc. with full support for unicode, no question marks, random symbols or squares.
-shows the FULL album art embedded in the file it is currently playing, with good quality scaling method without stretching, and without size limit (at least not below 2mb)
-appealing UI. For example, Apollo. Or some of the Chinese music players. Or the MIUI/ Meizu MX defult music players. NOT LIKE PowerAMP/ PlayerPro/ Neutron Player. The album art must at least fit inside the screen, meaning 720pixels wide or more.
-Power efficient, uses NEON instructions.
-buttery smooth
-ad free
optional:
-has lockscreen (Jelly Bean default) integration with FULL album art embedded in the file it is currently playing, with good quality scaling method.
-shows embedded lyrics
It does NOT have to include these features:
-sort by album/artist/recents or any other categories. as long as it has a list of songs I'm happy.
-anything to do with internet, streaming, downloading,free music none of that.
-equalizers, effects
woo you got a new phone there, what is it? android?
yea, the HTC one X on the latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean! here have a try! it's smoother than iOS!
oh cool! I heard it's also quad-core right? must be really fast!
of cours, browsing is a breeze!
how about music? I see it's got Beats Audio, is it a good music player?
errrr well it makes sound, if that's what you mean. but the sound chip isn't exactly top notch.
wait, what's that? why do your album arts look like crap?
errrr, for some reason all android music players show the crappy scaled down version?
What? why? you're been talking about all these high end hardware, the Infinity Display, the quad-core processor and the 1GB RAM. All these, but you can't even see the full album art? WTF? what a piece of ****!
Don't forget to add proper album track listing in order.. My pet peeve
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Sony device had cool media player specially Xperia S. It ported to all android device give a try.
Have you tried PlayerPro, its a great simple music player on Android. Fell in love with it after got sick of PowerAMP cause when you hit the back on PowerAMP it goes back to the library and not to my homescreen.
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Have you tried PlayerPro, its a great simple music player on Android. Fell in love with it after got sick of PowerAMP cause when you hit the back on PowerAMP it goes back to the library and not to my homescreen.
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It doesn't show the full album art. haven you even tried it before suggesting?
play doesnt use embedded art?
Ive used a few players over my stay with android, my vote is with google play music. jet audio player was pretty kick ass too but i didnt like the restricted options for free version(and it let the system dsp take over if present)
for google play music personally like the blue background, after all it matches the ics/jb theme. and unlike jet player, doesnt get choppy on lock/unlock and orientation change.
btw, embedded album art for google play... miss something?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47004548/Screenshot_2012-08-23-23-43-20.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47004548/Screenshot_2012-08-23-23-44-05.png
on the second screenshot shows why jb lockscreen integration and "FULL album art" wont always work. the jb system handles the album art on that.
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It doesn't show the full album art. haven you even tried it before suggesting?
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Obviously I tried it, you know heres a funny thing I use PlayerPro and it does show full album art
N7player does a good job finding album art, better than iTunes IMO because I export my library from iTunes using iSyncr and iTunes has failed to locate album art for several albums I have however N7 can locate many more covers that are missing once on my phone in addition you can tell N7 to place the art in your music folder so it can be made available to other players if you don't like N7's interface. i keep just shy of 12GB of music on my phone and i'm pretty happy with the album art situation myself it's more complete than on my iPod or iPhone.
you also need to keep in mind that all players have to search a database in order to recover album art and making sure all the relevant info is in your ID3 tags will help alot in getting the correct art.
You don't need to whine to make a point (which you do, or maybe not as it seems that you didn't dig deep enough in your pursuit).
1) Here's a surprise for you: mobile phones, and particularly smartphones, have their screen turned off when they're used as MP3 players. They'll usually be stuck in a pocket, not displaying album art. They play music, and keeping the screen on to show the cover art takes a hit on the battery.
2) Here's another surprise for you: few people bother with album art. People play pirated music.
3) And here's another surprise for you:
most of you probably listen to music in your native language, what you can't understand what they're singing?
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is an utter falsehood. People will listen to whatever sounds cool to them, be it gangsta ebonics at its finest, Levan's Polka or J-Pop.
What has value in music apps is not cover art: that's tertiary for most people. What differentiates them is usually format support (yes, lossless formats are not a given in all players), sorting algorithms (yes, people want to sort their music) and interfaces (there I agree that an overhaul may be necessary in the top dogs).
Are you starring at your music album art while playing music and keep screen on?
I think most people just play music while screen off. Doesnt make sense. The most important of music player is how they produce sound quality! Not album art!
And one more things is go make you own music player if you good enough or DONT USE ANDROID!!!
BTW I prefer Google Play Music.
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- lyrics and time stamped lyrics support. what's the point? most of you probably listen to music in your native language, what you can't understand what they're singing?
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Lol well i'm from Australia and you think I must love listen to the horrible crap thats the so called "real" mainstream western music.
Apparently OP doesnt know how to use android.
If you never used a Droid phone, then dont buy a highend one!
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Rockbox.
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Apparently OP doesnt know how to use android.
If you never used a Droid phone, then dont buy a highend one!
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On the contrary, I'd start with the best phone possible. Otherwise you miss out on cool things. I'm very happy that I could pick the best Android phone of the time (Galaxy S) when I started using Android...
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Rockbox.
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if only x.x
Am I the only one who found Rockbox a little annoying to use?
poweramp and playerpro both show embedded art
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Am I the only one who found Rockbox a little annoying to use?
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Really? I found Rockbox the easiest to use. Simple, clutter-less, no-nonsense interface. The default Cabbie theme may not be that visually appealing though. So I changed to another one. At least it's a lot better.
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Really? I found Rockbox the easiest to use. Simple, clutter-less, no-nonsense interface. The default Cabbie theme may not be that visually appealing though. So I changed to another one. At least it's a lot better.
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I felt it seems to lack the nice interface that PlayerPro has.
Don't know if this already mentioned but my default car dock now shows Pandora rather than Tune In Radio. When the car dock starts, you can see that one widget change from TuneIn Radio to Pandora. I also just now noticed that if you flick the screen to the left 2 times, it should list your music players you have on your phone. Whatever from the list is the last one used, is the one that will come up in the car dock default widget.
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Don't know if this already mentioned but my default car dock now shows Pandora rather than Tune In Radio. When the car dock starts, you can see that one widget change from TuneIn Radio to Pandora. I also just now noticed that if you flick the screen to the left 2 times, it should list your music players you have on your phone. Whatever from the list is the last one used, is the one that will come up in the car dock default widget.
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Nice tip. Now I can use Pandora while on the car dock mode. :good:
In an interview about the phone before release the rep stated you would be able to make your own shortcuts to other apps (he expressly stated music and other), glad to see they didn't make him a liar like they have done to so many other reps
You rooted or stock? I went between stock car dock and another market one this passed weekend. Stock never changed or allowed me to put Pandora in.
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I forgot how to do it but its there, it should be an option when removing links
Would love to know how you did that, it doesnt show up for me.
Yup, I knew it'd be there when I saw the one x get it.
It replaces the music shortcut on the home page, with the last used music app.
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I'm rooted running Stock with Goodies with the latest OTA. All I did from the car dock home screen is scroll to the right til you see the music apps you have installed on your phone. You have to have more than just the built-in TuneIn Radio. Choose a music app and go back to the Car dock home screen and it should replace the default TuneIn radio shortcut with the music player you just chose.
How does it decide what a music app is? It doesn't look like its picking up Play Music or Dogcatcher, the two I would care about.
I'm using CarHome Ultra because it seems to have nice customization options.
One of them being it will start up when my bluetooth connects to my car. I also like the fact I can put shortcuts to facebook, Gmail, etc on one of the numerous screens.
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Don't know if this already mentioned but my default car dock now shows Pandora rather than Tune In Radio. When the car dock starts, you can see that one widget change from TuneIn Radio to Pandora. I also just now noticed that if you flick the screen to the left 2 times, it should list your music players you have on your phone. Whatever from the list is the last one used, is the one that will come up in the car dock default widget.
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I'd really like to know how you did that. I want to add either Pandora or Slacker in there. TuneIn isn't really useful to me.
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How does it decide what a music app is? It doesn't look like its picking up Play Music or Dogcatcher, the two I would care about.
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I second this question. When you swipe left twice, it actually just gives you the options for Internet radios (TuneIn, TuneIn Pro, SoundHound, and Pandora for me), but there's no option to change what music player is being used. The one used by default is HTC's Music player, which only plays music stored on the phone/sd card. Like maxpower, I'd like to use Play Music, as all my music is stored in Google's cloud.
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I second this question. When you swipe left twice, it actually just gives you the options for Internet radios (TuneIn, TuneIn Pro, SoundHound, and Pandora for me), but there's no option to change what music player is being used. The one used by default is HTC's Music player, which only plays music stored on the phone/sd card. Like maxpower, I'd like to use Play Music, as all my music is stored in Google's cloud.
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It has already been stated twice, the last music app that you used is what will show up in the tile on the car home screen. This is the only way you can change it. You can also add additional music apps by going to the HTC music app, then hitting menu, then add app shortcut. I added SiriusXM this way, now it shows on in the car music apps screen.
Wow.. Thanks.. It does work.. Went to the default music app.. Hit menu and added Google play music.. Went to car dock app.. Swiped left and tapped on the play music icon and now it's on the front of the dock app.. Thanks again..
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After all this time I never knew those options was there. Now I use the car mode a lot more.
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This is cool but it doesn't recognize my Akimbo audiobook player as a media player :crying:
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This is cool but it doesn't recognize my Akimbo audiobook player as a media player :crying:
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Read 2 posts above yours on how to add it
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Wow.. Thanks.. It does work.. Went to the default music app.. Hit menu and added Google play music.. Went to car dock app.. Swiped left and tapped on the play music icon and now it's on the front of the dock app.. Thanks again..
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You sir are a genius.. its stupid you have to do this but awesome you found it
i had the droid x and the stock music player showed the lyric.. is there one like that
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i would love to catch up with the lyrics along with the song as this is a lot helpful to to get well the words running with the music .. so tell me what is the right way i may get it .. is there any web link for download or something else .. please suggest ..
musiXmatch Lyrics... stand alone or in conjunction with something like PowerAmp via a plugin.
Tunewiki displays lyrics, although I just got an email from Tunewiki saying it won't be available anymore after June 28. I just installed and it displayed lyrics to music that was playing in Google Music app, but the lyrics didn't scroll in time with the song
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ndroid&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
Now Playing has this feature:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.underwood.now_playing_trial