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[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Added an option to show controls for ~10 seconds when hidden. Was trying to think of something better to display when hidden too.

Do me a favor and shoot be a screen of the overlapping widgets.

I really need work on the direct mode and make it more reliable. Right now if it fails it falls back to default which is almost always Google Play.
[Android Apps and Games] drakenabarion:
Oh certainly here is a screen shot:

http://db.tt/XkSIwdpb
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Thanks that helps.

BTW, Sweet background
[Android Apps and Games] drakenabarion:
No problem - the background I got from one of the screen shot threads but I do not remember the link or author... http://db.tt/F1zXdiFy
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Thanks its even better local ;)
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Are you in the beta group? I think I have your widget fixed.
[Android Apps and Games] drakenabarion:
Oh I am not in the beta group. If I can help, I would be glad to join.
[Android Apps and Games] stopeject:
Thank you, it solved all my issues!
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Posted v97 with support for auto hiding widgets and vertical alignment for wigets to push them to the top, bottom middle of the view.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Looking for a few beta testers for a Pebble watch integration, looks like I should be able to get all of the metadata over to the watch without too much trouble.

Ideally testers would have a Spotify account since that appears to be one of the problem areas.
[Android Apps and Games] Okluzhion:
I've noticed that the app/widget doesn't get all metadata from certain players, for instance NexMusic. It shows album cover, song and album title, but the artist name is not present. With Sony Walkman everything is showed, though.
[Android Apps and Games] Phill360:
I've been using the app for about month and its great. I have had a couple of force closes on the 4 x 1 Big Text when I try to place them.

Also I have a feature request, I wondering if we could have the option to change the font and the size of the font.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Just posted v.104

Lots of new toys to play with.

Updates:

- Native Support for Zooper, UCCW and minimalistic text. When enabled the following variables are made available without the need for Tasker. It acts like its coming from Tasker so any addtional tags for tasker are still required for example Zopper requires an additional T "#TMU_ISPLAYING# "

MU_ALBUM - Album name

MU_ARTIST - Artist name

MU_TRACK - Track name

MU_COVERART - URI to Bitmap containing current coverart

MU_ISPLAYING - 1 if playing 0 if not

MU_CURR_APP - Current media app "pretty" name

MU_CURR_PACKAGE - Current media app package name

- Rewrote direct mode from scratch. Should be far more reliable now. Its soo much better Ill probably make this the default in the next release.

- Added new option to launch music application if Android killed it or it is not currently running. Will launch when user attempt to control a dead music application. Should help cases where the controls dont do anything.

- Added Pebble watch support?? Based on the API this should basically fill out all media information for Pebble watches. Dont have a watch yet so this is just a best guess right now.
[Android Apps and Games] Phill360:
I'm loving the new integration with UCCW, but I can't get the artist to display when using Zplayer and HTC MUSIC
[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
This is a great update! Your app opens the door to totally customized music widgets :thumbup:

Two questions:

1. Did you test the new tags in UCCW? I tried using them as I would use a normal tasker variable but they never changed to the artist or track currently playing.

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2. Do you (or anybody else for that matter) know a way to use a Tasker variable as a file path in UCCW?

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[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
I did when I added it but I normally use Zooper so its possible I broke it along the way. I double check and make sure its working as expected.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Looks to work Ill play with it some more though.

Just to make sure your using this UCCW

Did you enable it in MU settings?

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[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
Ah, didn't realized it had to be activated in the settings! Everything is working perfectly now, thanks again! :thumbup:

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[Android Apps and Games] Jessical:
Cover art just displays text location in UCCW... :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] Thunder07:
and thats the way they work :p

well, he's trying to convince Zooper's developer to add support for them... so that would be your best bet in the future!
[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
Judging from the description posted, that's the intended way.

UCCW currently doesn't have a way to convert the path to a picture that I'm aware of. Might have to contact the developer to see if they can add it. :)

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[Android Apps and Games] Jessical:
Ah, right. That sucks. :laugh:
[Android Apps and Games] griddark:
Not sure if this has been asked or answered, but could someone post the location of the icons or add the ability to add our own custom ones? I want to use transparent ones to make my theme work better.

Thanks, love the app.
[Android Apps and Games] rdxhd:
Can the music control be directly in UCCW? I was able to get the variables but I can't figure out how to control the music from the UCCW.
[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
You can use hotspots in uccw with media utilities shortcut feature to control the music from uccw.

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[Android Apps and Games] :
I'd like to report a bug.

The lockscreen media controls are being received by this app and not by the actual music player, which leads to the controls not updating. For example, pressing 'forward' on lockscreen does play the next song, but doesn't update the title and album art displayed on the lock screen. I tried messing with experimental features but that didn't help.
[Android Apps and Games] Rokus:
I'd like to know if it's possible too. BTW nice work on the app.
[Android Apps and Games] rdxhd:
is there a way of getting the length of track and/or how much time has elapsed for a track using UCCW?
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Thanks everyone for picking up the slack while I was out of town.

Been side tracked with adding support for external applications so I have not made the existing icons configurable yet.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
No way that I know of yet. Its on the short list for new features though.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Thanks if you get a chance shoot me a PM could use a hand testing fixes for this.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
The coverart is mostly a placeholder. The feature works but very few other applications can take advantage of it right now.
[Android Apps and Games] leews24:
Hi. First off I discovered Media Utilites a few days ago.

Its a great app, no doubt, for themers and music fans like me, this is great.

I've ran into a few problems here and there while dealing with it, here goes.

1. I get a small notif popup on the bottom of the screen that says "no notifications' everytime a new song is played. Is this deliberate?

2. I got the variables in to UCCW as tasker variabls, says MU_TRACK, only it doesnt show the track title, but "---". Same for the artist variable.

I can;t get it to work on zooper at all, but that can come later.

I'm on an ATT GS4, rooted but touchwiz and all.

I've selected the touchwiz music app as the media app by the way.

The post might sound like I'm bashing it, but I love the app and the direction its headed!!

Really look forward to the updates, this is a really good app in beta! Thank you dev :D

Update:: I'm starting to think that media utilities isnt picking up track data. I dont see the track info on the widgets either, and I tried Touchwiz music, Google music, and Now pplaying.

If I can help anyway with this 'bug', tell me and I'd be happy to help, although it seems like I'm the only one with this issue.
[Android Apps and Games] Northernmost:
Uh-oh 4.3 woes

Hi Chris.

I updated my Nexus 4 and 7 to the final release version of Android 4.3 and now:

Media Utilities FCs whenever playback changes from one song to the next. This happens with Google Music and Now Playing - I've not tested it with other players as yet.

Media Utilities FCs when you try and open the configuration app itself.

Playback controls don't appear to be working reliably from Tasker tasks. Perhaps 1 in 4 control request work (and are immediately followed by a FC).

I've tried clearing data, uninstalling and reinstalling... but no dice. I've submitted a number of crash reports so hopefully they will prove of some use.

I'm happy to test anything so please pm me if I can be of any use.
[Android Apps and Games] Northernmost:
That was quick :) Just picked up the new release (116) and all is good once again. Many thanks Chris!
[Android Apps and Games] Wargzam:
HI I;m wondering if anyone can give me a quick rundown of integrating MU with Zooper? I tried to add a text module with %TMU_ARTIST% as the parameter, but got nothing.

I know it's a beta, so I'm not trying to ***** in case this is just a bug (I see above that another user couldn't get it to work with zooper). I am just new to Zooper (just downloaded it today) so I want to make sure I'm not doing it wrong in the first place.

I'm very excited to see this app get more mature!
[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
You need to enclose the tags like this #TMU_ARTIST# in Zooper. You should see this be immediately replaced with the info in the editing preview window. Also make sure you have checked Zooper under the App support settings in MU.
[Android Apps and Games] Wargzam:
DUH. #, not %. It's working now. Thanks a lot!
[Android Apps and Games] kstano83:
Any chance for a ''complete noob tutorial'' on how to set this up in tasker/uccw/zooper? I just have no clue how to do it. :)
[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
Here is a a very beginner friendly tutorial by Scott Weber on how to integrate Media Utilities and Zooper: http://www.webermatters.com/blog/creating-a-zooper-media-widget-with-media-utilities/
[Android Apps and Games] MysteryE:
same thing happened to me, but I use Neutron Music Player instead. I thought the app not compatible. but when I use default Samsung Music Player, the title and artist name not shown, still "---" shown in uccw widget.

UPDATE:

seems not compatible to Note 2 default music player & Neutron.

tried Google play music and hacked SONY walkman music, it is working just fine. +_+
[Android Apps and Games] shadeMe:
Hello, I'm having trouble getting Tasker to use the variables MU adds. Basically I have a metadata changed state setting a user-defined variable to the following: %MU_TRACK - %MU_ARTIST - %MU_ALBUM. However, the variable gets set to that exact string - The variables aren't substituted with the actual metadata. What's more, all three of them are apparently recognized as user-defined variables themselves and show up in the monitored variables list.

Apologies if I'm doing something noobish but I'd be grateful if someone could point out the mistake I'm making. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Nevermind - I fixed it. Was using the wrong variable names.
[Android Apps and Games] patrickmac110:
pebble integration

If it's supposed to be listed as a music player in the Pebble app, it's not. I'm not entirely sure what integration with Pebble is supposed to accomplish with Media Utilities, I have a pebble watch so if you need me to test anything, let me know.
[Android Apps and Games] BOY_:
I keep getting force closes when playing Pandora. Seems OK with Google music. I've played with every setting I can think of and am stumped. Specifically, I'm trying TK use a resized 2x2 cover art widget and the 3x3 controls widget.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
The pebble integration was a test to see if I could fix the metadata displayed by the pebble watch. Works pretty well but looks like a a few applications post data even if they are not playing.

Just got a pebble watch, looking into adding it as a music player for the pebble app.
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Getting a force close of MU or Pandora?
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
If you are using the stock player you need to enable "Alternative Collection"
[Android Apps and Games] BOY_:
MU
[Android Apps and Games] batesapps:
Thanks, did you send an error report to google?
[Android Apps and Games] BOY_:
I have, in fact I just sent another one. :(
[Android Apps and Games] pakman023:
Is there any chance to make media utilities work with player pro?

Envoyé avec ma brique Galaxy Note.
[Android Apps and Games] marciozomb13:
FC of Music Players

Tested with Player Pro and ZPlayer and it app works but after 2 or more music playing, the player closes with or without FC notification, after unistall Media Utilities, issue is gone.
[Android Apps and Games] thejulianath20:
Zooper to show Current Running App Icon?

How do I get my Zooper/Media Utilities Widget to show a bitmap of the Current Playing App?

I have the artwork and buttons all work great and I made a bitmap icon for MU to be able go switch apps... But I can't figure how to show what app is currently playing...

I tried making a bitmap with the Advanced Parameters set to sdcard/icons/music apps/#TMU_CURR_APP#.png and put PNGs of all my current apps in that folder location and named the PNGs the correct names but Zooper/MU won't show them...
[Android Apps and Games] Okluzhion:
Would it be possible to get metadata-only widget without album name?

Sent from my Xperia Z
[Android Apps and Games] PUERTO_RUK:
Does anyone know how to get the song time or remaining time to display like the track title? I selected Rich Text, made the variable #TMU_SONG_TIME# but no dice. I'm trying to learn this on my own, but could use the help. Pretty sure the code isn't right. Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Okluzhion:
That's just not possible. There is a list of available commands a page or so back, so check that out.

Sent from my Xperia Z
[Android Apps and Games] thejulianath20:
Can anyone help with this?
[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
Bill Surowiecki created an iconset for this. Maybe this helps you out.

I'll quote his G+ post below, since I'm not sure if it's accessible for everyone:
[Android Apps and Games] thejulianath20:
Where does that xml go? I did see this but it was kinda confusing...
[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
Don't extract the zip, just put it into /sdcard/ZooperWidget/IconsSets/. Then you can add a Bitmap Icon Set on your Zooper Widget and select "Current Music App". Now the icon should automatically change depending on the currently playing media app (as long as it's one defined in icon set that is...)
[Android Apps and Games] thejulianath20:
And how do add a icon that isn't defined? Unzip and add an icon into the icon set and name 13.png and then change the xml to include it. Then zip it back up?
[Android Apps and Games] thejulianath20:
Its supposedly available now but it won't work for me yet...
[Android Apps and Games] PUERTO_RUK:
I did but wasn't sure if those commands were all that's available. Thanks for the response

---------- Post added at 03:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:01 PM ----------

Would you happen to know the command for it? That's pretty much all I need to make my music player theme complete. That and a track progress bar
[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
Track time, current time and progress bar information are available in a beta version of music utilities. There should be a general audience release of this soon.
[Android Apps and Games] onesound:
widget template and icon, and more...

Hi guys, This is my first reply in XDA.

media utilites is a great idea app. it made me register XDA. :)

first, I tried to make widget by zooper widget pro. like zune style.

I can't find template file so I made it. if someone wants to template, hope this helps.

and I upload flat style MU icon too. it looks good with other flat icon packs.

second, could you support streaming apps in south korea? (like spotify),

3 Most used streaming apps in korea. (maybe you can't download these. not worldwide service.) I tested.

BUGS : play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neowiz.android.bugs[/url] (coverart X, Album name X, artist name O, track name O)

MELON : play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iloen.melon[/url] (ALL x)

MNET : play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mnet.app[/url] (ALL x)

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] shadeMe:
I'm having trouble getting Media Utilities to work with the Now Playing music player app. While MU recognizes the latter and displays it in the list of supported/active players, the metadata variables don't get updated. Neither do the Tasker states trigger. I've tried enabling the alternative data collection option - No dice. Any idea what's going on?
[Android Apps and Games] Krsnik:
I am using Media Utilities with Zooper and have a bit of a problem with the cover art.

The images are often not the same size so they tend to be bigger/smaller than intended which makes it really hard to design a nice looking widget all the time.

Would it be possible to add an option to provide the cover art images with a fixed size (with options for streching, croping and so on)?
[Android Apps and Games] Okluzhion:
Can I ask you how you managed to get the coverart working? I always get the full path to the file written, never got it to display an actual image.

Sent from my Xperia Z
[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
You both should check out the tutorial I linked to earlier. It should clear up any problems :)

Concerning fixed size cover art: that feature should be included in the next release of MU.
[Android Apps and Games] Okluzhion:
Ah, how did I miss this!

Sent from my Xperia Z
[Android Apps and Games] Krsnik:
Thanks! I already use the cover art successfully, it's just the fixed size cover art I'm waiting for :).

Is there a beta program for MU anywhere?
[Android Apps and Games] Krsnik:
I have one other problem with MU and Zooper concerning cover art.

When there is no cover art for a song MU apparently doesn't update the cover image so Zooper displays the cover art of the last song where an image existed.

Is it either possible to add a variable to determine if the current song has cover art or similar to the default N/A string add an option to display a default N/A image (or just an empty/transparent image)?
[Android Apps and Games] pbecks1963:
beta user, speed-problems

[MENTION=5215640]batesapps[/MENTION],

I am a beta user and got a nice looking full screen media player using zooper and MU. That's really nice but i find the controls just to slow. (play/pause/skip). Also the speed with which the coverart/track info is shown is very slow. Then there are times that the coverart can't be found or the songinfo can't be found. (track/album/artist)

I use playerpro as my mediaplayer and have this config in mu:

enable/open player if inactive/zooper/all the experimental feautures (rectangle coverart)

I am on CM10.2 (android 4.3)

I love this app because it lets me make my own mediaplayer-widget!
[Android Apps and Games] Wargzam:
I am part of the beta. How are these features used? What are the variable names? I see the "send song progress" option in the MU settings, but I have no idea how to actually leverage the info.
[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
Check the release post by Chris Bates. It contains all the new tags :)
[Android Apps and Games] Wargzam:
THanks for the quick reply. that link is broken, though. :(
[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
In only works if you are in the beta community on G+. Since you said you are in the beta I assumed you are also in the community because that's the only way to get in the beta release program as far as I know.

To make it easy:
[Android Apps and Games] Wargzam:
Man, I'm super confused. I thought I *was* in the beta community. To be specific, I though this was the beta community:

https://plus.google.com/communities/107139153057065253112

What version is the beta up to now? Maybe I'm not in. I'm currently running 0.131.

In any case, thanks a lot for the reply.
[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
Sorry to brake it to you, but I don't think you are in the beta ^^ That's just the Gallery community to present the widgets you made using MU. I think for the beta group you need an invitation by the developer.
[Android Apps and Games] Wargzam:
But I thought the song progress stuff was beta only still! haha

I guess he must have promoted that stuff to stable release code.

No worries. Thanks for your help in any case.
[Android Apps and Games] MaddScientist:
hey does any one know how to add progress bar for now playing music..already got track times and such
[Android Apps and Games] kwerdenker:
Use a Progress Bar module and #TMU_TRACK_PERC# as Value under "Edit Progress Min/Max/Value"
[Android Apps and Games] lukeskope:
Never mind
[Android Apps and Games] stopa46:
When is the next update?
[Android Apps and Games] AlanShezar:
Hey, is it possible to add play, pause, skip, ... icons? I'd like to have the icons from the Sony Walkman app. The Walkman widget is only available in stock launcher and i use Apex. I want to make a widget that looks like the Walkman widget.
[Android Apps and Games] Okluzhion:
You can do it with help of Zooper widget. :)

Sent from my Xperia Z
[Android Apps and Games] PRKarl:
Can anyone say for sure if this will work with Rhapsody? I tried adding it as a media app in settings but there doesn't seem to be communication between Rhapsody and the app.

Thanks in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] rabbid10:
Great app. Totally what I was looking for. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] feneso:
:confused:

I got Zooper Widget Pro and Media Utilities in may Galaxy S3. My media player is 'Now Playing' and I relaly like it.

I watched video tutorials (mycolorscreen, in YouTube) and read other (like in zooperwidget.org), because I'd love to create my own music player widget. Everything goes fine (artist and track information) untill I try to use a bitmap to get the cover art. It is not working. The cover art is not coming up. I get only the folder icon that zooper shows while configureing it.

When I choose tasker (in bitmap) #TMU_COVERART# the folder does not appears in the box bellow (it shows only [b/]). If I choose one especific file in the albumthumb folder, it shows up in the zooper configuration. I don't get why the covert art does not appears automatically

All my covert art shows up correctly in the Now Playing widget.

MP3 files are in a folder located in the external SD card. The albuns cover art seem to be located in a folder created by the app (media player or the Album Art Grabber) in the phone internal memory.

Can someone teach me how to apply the cover art with Now Palying, Zooper Widget and Media Utilities??

By the way... I get the "Media Utilities has stopped" message many times. But, as it is a beta version, I believe it is expected.

Thanx.
[Android Apps and Games] bhassh:
i am a newbie too. and had somewhat similar issue. So I am just wondering whether you have ticked against the checkbox for Zooper in Media Utilities Settings (Application Integration)?
[Android Apps and Games] thorcyar:
bug ?

hello

I think I have spotted a bug with UCCW integration as stated here on uccw thread :

it is with every "media utilities action" called by uccw.

UCCW version : 2.9.9.9

media utilites version : 0.0.126

can you confirm it's on media utilites's side please ? Can anyone reproduce ?