Google music is by far my preferred app to stream my music, but as much as I like it I hate the fact that the widget does not display the album art. I tried Pure Music Widget in hopes to circumvent the problem but all it displays is a picture of a blank cd.
Are there any hacks or alternatives that could fix this? And by alternatives I mean not an entirely new based cloud service but something that ties into Google Music.
Offline Music Importer in the play store (not free despite listed as free) will allow you to use google music tunes in other apps, not very intuitive though. I think I read the paid version of double twist can see offline google music also.
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True however for me what's the point of having streaming music if I have to download to my phone. I was looking for something that can stream from my Google account and display the album art in the widget
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The widget doesnt show album art because Google didnt design it that way. Plain & simple.
Yes I know that which is why I was asking if there was a hack or an alternative app that ties into Google Music to achieve that function.
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Hi, I'm searching a music widget for the nexus which works with the standard music player and can show album art.
Pure Music Widget unfortunately doesn't (yet), searching several threads and the market didn't help.
Thanks for some tips.
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bumo in case anyone else know- i am pretty sure there used to be one... need to remember it... anyone?
****edit**** Phantom music control used to work- https://market.android.com/details?id=cz.jhg.musiccontrolwidget&feature=search_result not sure if it still does.
The widgets that come with the iSyncr app work with the Google Music app and can show album art. Only issue I've noticed is that the widgets seem to be sensitive to how the album art picture is actually attached/embedded in the music file. Most of my MP3s show the album art just fine but there are several that have album art and the iSyncr widgets can't show the album art for some reason.
These are the only widgets I could find that work fairly well with the Google Music app. I tried several others but none of them worked as well as the iSyncr ones. (And it was luck that I discovered these because I use iSyncr to sync playlists from iTunes to my Galaxy Nexus, so the widgets were already on my phone).
Would be awesome if the Pure Music dev could get his Pure Music widget to work with Google Music but he's posted that he can't do it until Google releases the necessary APIs, so that may not ever happen.
Just found out tonight that Pure Music Widget got an update (almost 2 weeks ago, now) that makes it compatible with ICS/Google Music app.
Very good news, IMHO!
but still it dont work with google music cloud service. I cant find any widget that works with the cloud album art.....
Gis24 said:
but still it dont work with google music cloud service. I cant find any widget that works with the cloud album art.....
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Yes, and I'm sorry to say that this situation is unlikely to change. Everything I've read since the Google Music service started has indicated that this is Google's fault; they haven't released the API for the Google Music service and this prevents devs from being able to add in this functionality.
So it's Google's fault, not the devs of the various Android music apps.
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Try a different Music Player
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/17/cyanogenmod-9-music-player-released-for-download/#more-58688
this is the cyanogenmod 9 music player and well, it is still in beta.
However, it's very much like the actual Google Music app, but I think that this one is slightly better. The 4x2 widget for this app also shows the album art as well.
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http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/17/cyanogenmod-9-music-player-released-for-download/#more-58688
this is the cyanogenmod 9 music player and well, it is still in beta.
However, it's very much like the actual Google Music app, but I think that this one is slightly better. The 4x2 widget for this app also shows the album art as well.
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+1 this.
all the widgets, 4x1, 4x2, 3x1, and even 1x1 have album art. CM9 Music is a really nice improvement on the stock music app. if you are into the transparent look, you can also get a version with transparent widgets over in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21843241#post21843241
Any one found a way to sync Google Music with the HTC Music Player?
Don't want to install two music players... This should be something HTC needs to think about!
It's not possible. You have to install the Google music app for streaming.
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itchy67x said:
It's not possible. You have to install the Google music app for streaming.
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****, why don't they fix it :S
xmoo said:
****, why don't they fix it :S
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At a guess, google want people to use their app and only their app for a service they are providing for free. I wish it looked better though as it is very basic. If it looked like player pro, that'd be nice
twistedh said:
At a guess, google want people to use their app and only their app for a service they are providing for free. I wish it looked better though as it is very basic. If it looked like player pro, that'd be nice
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Yes but since HTC makes a phone for "U". This should be in it
beats audio works with everyplayer which is great
If you set some of your music to be available off line then Google Music syncs it to your phone. You can then set the folder it syncs it too to be visible so the music then shows up in all your music apps.
Only problem with this is google sync doesn't embed the album artwork and I also think it renames the files and strips the MP3 tags leaving you with just a bunch of files ....unless this has changed
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We can only hope Google will release the music api. Until then there is an unoffical api.
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Sense 4.0 music player only adds installed music apps like Google Music or Spotify into the UI
Anyone looking for a music streaming app should check this out. Its like the Russian Facebook but it has music and video streaming services and you can create playlists, add favorites and it even caches the songs you play often. Make sure to get the one with the black icon though, because the official one with the blue icon removed the music feature
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Not too sure if this is already been posted but I know it's a function/feature we've all been dying to use: the ability to stream Google Music to a 3rd party app besides the the stock one.
I've been using it for about a day now on the PlayerPro music player & it works pretty darn great.
Anyhow, enough talk & on to the show: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2169761
EL TEJANO said:
Not too sure if this is already been posted but I know it's a function/feature we've all been dying to use: the ability to stream Google Music to a 3rd party app besides the the stock one.
I've been using it for about a day now on the PlayerPro music player & it works pretty darn great.
Anyhow, enough talk & on to the show: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2169761
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Nice find!
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About a week into it or so. It does have its quirks where the system file that hosts the script becomes unmounted but a simple sync & remount solves the problem.
I've also noticed that if you add music to your Google Play library the GMusicFS app will not auto sync your music, you have to do it manually in order to get the music to be recognized in whatever 3rd party player you're using.
I've also used various music players such as Winamp & JetAudio & both work great as well.
An added bonus is no more tiny widget via Google Play Music, you get to use the larger widget that comes with those alternate players plus the ability to view lyrics & tweak the sound that these players have built in; something the Google Play Music app lacks.
Since the Google music app doesn't really work on stock LG roms, does anyone know of any alternatives that let me access my music as well as Google Music all access?
I've been googling around and haven't had much luck but I thought o would ask here as well..
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It's a one-time paid app but GMusicFS works well for me. Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblesoft.android.gmusicfs
You use it in conjunction with Google music, and you can play tracks from it in other audio players. The Dev is on XDA. The link's for the free trial.
All Access works. I've played stuff in Poweramp before. Most others work, as well. The app also has pinning functionality, by album. Overall a good alternative to the official app, and works well for mixing local and streaming playback. You can append whatever you want to mark the Google music tracks, so you know which will need a data connection or not (eg. FLAC files of your favorite music and streaming the more occasional tracks).
You do have to synchronize when your music library updates, and you can't add to the library or search the entire Google music database.
It's not bad, though, if you like All access as much as I do.
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