yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] pinnewip:
Another option that worked for me is to modify spotify_preferences.xml at location /data/data/com.spotify.mobile.android.ui/shared_prefs/

The content of the file is an xml with <map> as root node, insert a new <string> node with the location of your external sd_card

example that works on my phone (xperia sola)

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?>

<map>

<string name="installation_id">somekeys</string>

<string name="storage_location">/ext_card/</string>

</map>

edit: don't forget to force stop the spotify app (or reboot your device)
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Chibi86:
Then it should very easy to modify to do that on this moded version, until then this solution no problem to use.

Edit: I don´t find anything in "data" location is possibly I need to root to get this to work?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Bergling:
I tried this, but the file keeps getting overwritten. Do you edit this file after you force close the app?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] pinnewip:
Yes, I do this right away after installing the apk, so the app is not yet started.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Geggan:
Anyone having a patched version of the latest 0.5.8.27 bulid?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] aggro666:
Works great in my Mercedes C250 :) Great work! Let's hope Spotify will incorperate this in an official release soon.

How much work is it to patch the latest version?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] patrikbrann:
Tried this and it works.

Thank you OP!! :))

Been struggling with looking for an update for my Alpine 133BT and when I found it yesterday it still did not work.

Found about this AVRCP problem and this patched spotify works! :)

One small problem thou, my display won't get updated when the track changes. Same if I change track or if it's change automatically.

If I toggle trough displays track/artist/song it get updated to the current song, when it changes. Same error again stuck on previously metadata.

Anyone else that have seen this and have a solution?

Also an updated version of this spotify would be great! :)

//Patrik
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] alejoar:
pleaseee update this to latest version!! :)
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] MaQy:
Same thing happens to my Parrot MKi9200, the first song gets displayed, but later on it doesn't get updated. Any suggestion?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Missfit:
Cant get it to work on my droid Razr i.. i've tried several diffrent installs, deleting all data/cache before uninstalling old app, deleting left behind spotify folder in phone, rebooting between installs etc.. from play music metadata sends fine to my carstereo and other carstereos i have tried, but not spotify. I'm running stock Jb 4.1.2 in my Razr i with intel chip. If you want to look into this issue (i guess the problem is spelled i.n.t.e.l ) i'll be happy to provide you with info. Thanks for your nice work anyway :)
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] mustangang:
My galaxy s3 works great ,Just like IOS. BUT Not on HTC butterfly x920d . Does anyone know how to fix it ?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
Hey guys,

Here you go, latest 0.5.9.29 version as of March 2013 patched.... let me know how it works.

- Dan
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] h3rnand3zz:
Thanks

Works Great!!!!

I really appreciate you updating this for us. Really helps out a lot....:good::good::good::good:
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] mbargerhuff:
Amazing that Spotify couldn't do this out the gate... Thank you!!!!!
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] futuregerald:
The updated APK didn't work for me, I just get install failed. I've cleared out the old version and rebooted, etc. no other apps are giving me trouble and the earlier one works still for me without issue. I also re-downloaded it twice.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] planetf1:
I had the previous work working fine, bit with the new one whilst out plays, I get no track data sent at all. Will look in more detail timeouts
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] mddsd:
Many thanks for doing this. :)

I cannot get this to work with my car Citroen C4 2012 and my phone Sony Xperia Z.

I'm able to get the Walkman app to send track info to the car, but not with the modified Spotify app.

I tried the latest one (0.5.9.29). Are there anything I can try in order to get it to work?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Luminair:
Confused here, do we need to rebuild the app ourselves using the supplied .apk, or just flash it over the existing Spotify .apk? If it's the latter, I'm getting an error regarding the app already being installed. Seems like I'm not alone.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] mddsd:
I believe that you need to uninstall the existing Spotify you have on your phone and then install this one.

Here's the instructions from the first post:

1. Download the .apk file and get it onto your phone (you don't need the AVRCP zip file at all - it's for reference only)

2. Uninstall your current version of Spotify

3. Install the custom .apk (you may need to turn on the ability to install from unknown sources first... It's in Settings > Security for me... Make sure to turn it off afterward)

4. Launch the app and log back into your Spotify account and enjoy.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Luminair:
These were the steps that I followed, and I still received the error in my original post (relevant: cleared Spotify cache/data before uninstalling). Installing just the .apk previously linked gives a message along the lines of "installation failed". Hmm..
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Luminair:
To clarify, is the intention that we will install the original Spotify .apk in the original post, then flash this .apk over it? Or simply install this .apk on its own?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] djwilliams100:
Simply install the modded apk. Make sure you remove old versions before installing
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] funkydude101:
Hey there,

I thought I'd take a look at the decompiled Slacker Radio smali folders but unfortunately I have no clue what I'm looking at in order to make it work.

Can you please explain exactly what was changed or added (if it's not too much trouble).

Cheers!
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Luminair:
Any idea what might be making the installation fail? I can get the initial version posted to install, but not the most recent.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] ach1974:
Hello everyone,

I was looking for this apk like everyone else for a long time, so last night I installed the initial apk, and don't see any data transmitting to the radio, I can hear spotify but no the text.

has anyone tried installing the latest on jelly bean 4.2.2 on galaxy s3?

I tried the initial post of adding the apk to the phone, unistalling and deleting all data from the spoitfy app and then installing the apk, and nothing happens, I have a pioneer 4400bth
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Luminair:
Installing the original version on my Note 2 running Paranoid Android 3.1 gave me the same results - no data transmitted to the headunit. I have a Pioneer X4500BT.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
Make sure your custom ROMs support AVRCP otherwise it will not show any track data. The AOSP android code does not include this and is added by individual phone manufactures so if you are running a clean ROM based of AOSP there is a possibility that AVRCP is missing unless the Dev added it.

Also just use one of the versions I posted and install it regularly and make sure allow unknown sources is checked on your phone. I haven't had anyone post issues with the slightly older version on like page 4 or so of the thread. Ignore the really old version in the very first post by the OP, it is really outdated by a few months. The changes to the new version were the exact same as the other version line by line and works fine for me, so both should work or not work at all. Shouldn't be one version does and the other version doesn't because that just doesn't make sense.

- Dan
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Luminair:
Was under the impression that ParanoidAndroid did support AVRCP since it's based on CM10, which does to my knowledge. Swapped to Jelly Bean's and immediately got it to work with page-4 version. Haven't tried anything newer yet, but this has all the functionality I need in it. Thank you!
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] ach1974:
After doing some searching cmod 10.1 which has android 4.2.2 doesn't support avrcp as you mentioned, they are working on a fix so add this, so wait patiently for it and add this apk, thanks again for the reply.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] nordvik:
Works great with sgnll and Nissan Leaf :D
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] JWise1203:
Thanks for the time and effort with this mod, working great for me!!

My car also supports a track progress timer through AVRCP. Could this feature be added to this mod?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] pinnewip:
Switched this weekend to cm9 and have also install problem (was on stock before where same install worked fine)

This is what I see in the logcat output:

I/ActivityManager( 1850): Displayed com.android.packageinstaller/.InstallAppProgress: +197ms

W/ActivityManager( 1850): No content provider found for permission revoke: file:///mnt/external_sd/Spotify_BTMetadata_Rotation_Mod5929-signed (1).apk

W/PackageManager( 1850): Cannot install platform packages to user storage

W/PackageManager( 1850): Package couldn't be installed in /data/app/com.spotify.mobile.android.ui-1.apk

D/InstallAppProgress( 5574): Installation error code: -19

I/InstallAppProgress( 5574): Finished installing com.spotify.mobile.android.ui
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
that appears to be an issue with the fact that the package is signed with a generic platform key...
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] jale:
How do you feel about updating the fix to the new version of Spotify? I have no idea what is changed, so it may not be worth it.

EDIT:

Newest version (updated today) is 0.5.11.4.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
i'll take a look at it in a little bit when i get home from the gym...

What's in this version:

- Fixed: An occasional problem that could remove offline playlists from the device.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
Here you go... once again, newest version: 0.5.11.4

I also changed the key used for signing...for those of you having issues before when trying to install, let me know if it works correctly now.

- Dan
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
try new version... no longer installs as platform package
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] mbargerhuff:
Awesome!!! You are awesome....and providing a service that Spotify should pay you for! ...thank you!
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] pinnewip:
Great, install does not fail anymore. Thx for the quick solution.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] jale:
EDIT:

Found the solution one page back, ROMs based om CM10.1 (JB4.2.2) doesn't have AVRCP support yet...

Original post:

Didn't work on my car stereo.

However, music files located on the phone didn't work either, so I guess that its something else, and not the Spotify app. Installed the app as instructed, no problems at all with installation/logging on/playing music.

What exactly are required for this to work? I have a JVC KD-X50BT stereo, and JVC states that it is AVRCP 1.3 compatible.

My n7100 is running AOSP (Carbon 1.4, JB 4.2.2).

http://support.jvc.com/consumer/product.jsp?modelId=MODL029038&pathId=139&page=3&archive=true
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] aggro666:
Thanks DanMc85, the latest version works great in my car :)

I have an Samsung S3 and a MB C250 by the way...
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
I was just curious, if someone else could try to recreate this issue.

If you are listening to a song on Spotify while connected in your car and you change tracks really quickly from your car stereo, not the phone, does your phone reboot/crash? I mean like one right after another so they either don't play or play just for a second or so and do it for like 10 skips in a row.

I was trying to figure out if it was Spotify or a combo of the ROM/Kernel I am using making AVRCP crash the phone not being able to keep up with the track data.

It is on the AT&T I317 version of the Note II.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] meatfoot:
no track information

I installed the latest version as instructed, and spofity works but the track and artist info are not getting passed to my head unit. The info is still blank, until I play from a source that supports track info like google play.

I am streaming from a SGS3 on to a kenwood KDC-X997.

Any advice would be great, I would love to have this feature with spotify.

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Chibi86:
app2sd

After trying to find a solution in the spotify code for some hours and don't understand anything how it's build (have programmed java before :S), and try some other strange solution to make app2sd to work without a result.

But some though is it possibly that you can sign a old version with this function with same appkey?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] jale:
Do you have a AOSP 4.2.2 rom? If so, it won't work.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] ToRvaLDs:
R: [MOD] Spotify app with AVRCP bluetooth metadata

It seems the new 05.12.52 version has the sdcard storage setting, someone can confirm?

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 con Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Chibi86:
SD-support confirmed

I can confirmed SD-support :laugh: > community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Android/Release-Notes-Spotify-for-Android-0-5-12-52/td-p/353438?nobounce

But the app choose the biggest free storage for you, so its not possible to choose storage place.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
Spotify completely changed the x.smali file... this may be a tough one to mod. I will have to take a closer look at it when I get a chance.

- Dan
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Skywalker676:
I m n00b

So can you tell me

This mod for what?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] jale:
This is for showing the name of the track that are playing in the display of your bluetooth car stereo.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] derzappo:
Awesome. Thaks alot!
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Fureeze:
I'm running the newest Spotify version on a i9100 with CM10.1 (4.2.2) nightly build. Will this work for my phone? In that case, is it absolutely necessary to uninstall Spotify before installing this? I have several GBs of offline playlists, and it takes loads of time to re-download them over my slow internet connection..
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] dustbinge:
I believe avrcp is not working on any 4.2.2 custom roms. For now at least, you need to stick with 4.1.2 roms if you want the avrcp metadata
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
Edit: Outdated version

Edit: Outdated version
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] mbargerhuff:
Thanks a million!!!!!:cool:
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] aggro666:
Tried it in my car on the way home! Works perfectly! :)

Thanks Dan!
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] mbargerhuff:
Darn... it's not selecting the sd card for storage... why do they make moving music so difficult LOL
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] ToRvaLDs:
Bluetooth song display work just on first song in this version, works great on older. Anyone with same problem?

Tnx

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 con Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] gehx:
I'm running Jelly 'Beans' - Build 14 (4.1.2) rom on Samsung Galaxy S3 (I535) and using the Spotify_BTMetadata_Rotation_Mod5929-signed apk, I get audio but I'm not getting artist and track displayed on my Kenwood KDC-X997..anyone have any ideas on how to get it to work?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Chibi86:
I get "Unknown" on Sony Ericsson headset MW600 with my Sony Xperia V (not root), latest moded version. :-S

Edit: Works with walkman so this rom has AVRCP support.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] fausto88:
It does not work in my Fiat Bravo 2012 Blue & Me interface. See the car phone is connected and when trying to send music, nothing happens

Wysyłane z mojego GT-N7100 za pomocą Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] shottogan:
initial trick to get song info displaying..

dunno how many phone combos this is relevant for, but, with my phone:

track info wont display until i switch over to my stock music app and start playing any song, while connected to my car stereo's Bluetooth. once that song info displays, switching back to / starting Spotify and playing a song will then have successful song info, changing with each new song (sometimes there's a slight delay).

if my phone is ever rebooted, i have to do the above again to get Spotify displaying proper..

hope this helps those who thought the patched Spotify installs here werent working for their devices!!

:good::laugh::good:

phone: Motorola, Android 4.0

stereo: JVC
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] MentalToast:
Can't seem to get it to work, Tried the march and the april one.

Galaxy s3 ATT SGH-I747 flashed liquid smooth jelly bean 4.1.2

JVC KD-X250BT

I uninstalled old spotify, installed new modded one fresh, then downloaded a 2-3 song playlist.

Seems to get the info from my default music app , doesn't get the time progression but it does get track information etc.

Whenever I try spotify either stock or this modded version my radio simply shows "stop" signalling it doesn't see any information being sent, the songs still play, however no track information sends, along with only the skip buttons work but the pause button does not. (all buttons work on stock music player, the skip but no pause also occurs on stock spotify)

I tried another suggestion from a user above to start a song on stock music then switch to spotify. Didn't work either, however I got weird results.

The controls were still bugged for spotify however it would read the information...but wonky.

Here's what happened. for the sake of easier to understand/explain I was playing "fly me to the moon" by sinatra on stock player app. and Bangarang by skrillex on spotify.

(using april modded apk)

Launch stock music player, play fly me to the moon (stereo reads everything properly)

While song is playing, launch spotify and play bangarang

(stereo switches to 'STOP' saying that the music is paused ( in the stock player)(bangarang plays over the speakers)

Switch back to stock player , play fly me to the moon that was just paused by switching to spotify,

(Now the stereo displays bangarang(spotify) song information even though the song is no longer playing and the app is closed/in the backround and the fly me to the moon is playing out of the speakers from stock player. (song infomration for bangarang shows up, fly me to the moon is playing)
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] MisterRio:
Could not get this to function, no info on display of my handsfree kit

I'm on a samsung i9300 using CM10.1

In my car there is a Parrot mki9100

Any suggestions maybe?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Geggan:
CM 10.1 does not support AVRCP.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] MisterRio:
Right.... thanks.

(FFFFFFUUUUU!)
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] svenb352:
Thanks so much for this! My iPhone 5 automatically worked with Spotify in the car (it even transferred the album art through the lightning cable/usb port in the car) but nothing ever worked with Android. Just got the HTC One for AT&T and this works perfectly with my 2012 Ford Focus Titanium and MyFord Touch set up. No worries, flawless :) Thanks!
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] jamieridler:
Can't get it working on my Galaxy SII, I know CM10.1 or what ever it was doesn't support it but what about Omega v23? Otherwise everything seems just as before, no track info of any kind on display on the car stereo through Spotify.

EDIT: Actually it does work but on my stereo I have to hit DSPL to cycle between title, band, album and play time, can't auto cycle and won't display all info on one rolling screen. Bizarre.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] rodnah:
I think theres a new version, 0.5.13.63

any chance for this being patched?

thanks
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Chibi86:
Only ****ing up the headsets play/pause-button, when I pause it start playing in walkman, and always has walkman songtitle in the headset.

Yes, I can close the app and the issue is gone but still has not fix the first issue.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
only change was Chinese language was added... unless someone in the thread needs it patched in Chinese, i'm not going to waste my time.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] robstunner:
trying this on my S4, facebook access token failure?
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] Chibi86:
Has not same appkey so facebook login will not work, you need to login with spotify user and password.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
What he said... use your real login, not facebook.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] robstunner:
thanks, but i created the spotify via facebook. looks like i have to delete my account and remake a non facebook one.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
Check back a few pages. I posted a link with an older version I posted to add a username to a Facebook login.

---------- Post added at 01:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:26 PM ----------

Actually here you go

https://www.spotify.com/us/login/?forward_url=/us/account/set-device-password/
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] matze49:
Hi!

A new version is availible since yesterday! :)

Version: 0.6.0.17

Hope you can modify this one in a couple of days/weeks! Like your work! :)

Greets
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
you got it...
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
Spotify - May

Here you guys go... I modded the new version of Spotify released a few days ago in the first week of May for Bluetooth Metadata. Also adds some nice new features and such.

Change log:

New: Now you can filter and sort your playlists and tracks.

Fixed: When returning to your playlist view, you’ll always go back to the same position.

Fixed: No more crashing when faced with special character$ in usernames.

Fixed: When you next log in, Spotify will remember what you'd been listening to.

Attached...
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] mbargerhuff:
Where would we be without you!!!! Thank you thank you thank you
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] PrOpANe84:
You are the man DanMC. Thank you so much for your work.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] gvoima:
You're a sweetheart mate! Cheers.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] ollohtc:
I have tried every one of your mods of spotify but i dont get anyone to work with Volvo V60 "Sensus 3.0", i have the latets version avaiable for volvo and i have tried it on the older versions to.

When i try the original Sony music app on Xperia Z i works fine, i get all the info of every song.

When i try the original spotify app on Sony Xperia Z all i get is "streaming" in the display.

And when i try your modified version i get the all the fields where the Title, album and the song title whould be, but i dont get the info all i get is "unknown" in all the fields?

I have successed in my Sony Ericsson MV600 headset to get the media info, when i played the original spotify i didnt se anything it was all blanked, but with your mod app i works great.

I can happily be a test subject to the Volvo / Sony Xperia Z version if you could try some other configs.

Thanks for the good work.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] rodnah:
i believe theres a new version? 0.6.0.20

thanks for your time
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] gloscherrybomb:
Hi,

Is there any chance you could please merge my landscape fix with large album art and improved layout from here? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=913147&page=5

I would do it myself but I no longer have a windows machine so am without the key tools. Would then be an awesome all in one mod :)

Thanks!

---------- Post added at 09:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:42 PM ----------

All you would need to do is copy over the layout-land folder...
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] DanMc85:
I.think we talked about this in the past via PM. I would love that mod but I think a lot of the source files in that folder changed. I will try it when I get home with one of the newer versions and see what happens.