Hi,
I'm simply trying to find a solution for background playback with a quality dedicated media player like VLC or Winamp. For playing mp3s. On my rooted stock 4.2.2 Gnex.
Both VLC and Winamp say they have background playback, but I don't see anything in the settings addressing it, so I assume it's the default behaviour for them both.
Yet when I start playing an mp3 opened from my file explorer, then press home screen to multitask and do something else while the music is playing, the music stops - then resumes when I go to the VLC/Winamp multitask entry again.
What gives? What's the problem that's happening? Is it some OS memory behaviour issue? How can I force VLC or Winamp to keep running in the background when minimising it?
Thanks for your help.
Hm, never had that problem with Winamp, but I would not count on VLC being able to do that as it is still a very, VERY early beta.
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Step 1: Open "System" by going to Settings
Step 2: Now that you are in "System", scroll down to "Default Apps"
Step 3: Look for the title Music Player and right click on it, once you've done that you will see a list of apps that pop up, now choose your default app you want, in this case choose "VLC for Windows Store".
Enjoy listening Music in the background with VLC
- Rawbert
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so i decided i wanted to change my homescreen, and wanted a music widget. had little luck finding one that supports the stock music player, so have recently installed poweramp, which seems like a great player, and has a nice widget.
the problems are that it tries to play all my mp4 videos and some small app sounds, which is annoying. is there a way to filter out the small files? as for the mp4s, ive tried to deselect the folder from my external sd\video folder, but every time i do that it either crashes the program or just reselects it. i think it sometimes crashes randomly also, but cannot be sure having only used it for a day.
also, ive downloaded a lot of album art, and works well within poweramp, but ive tried to go back to the original player and the old album art is displayed. is there any way to embed the album art back into the songs or whatever needs to be done?
sorry if these questions have been answered before, but ive had no luck searching or playing about in the settings myself.
might think of some more, but for now any help with the above would be great.
If you go to the settings, go to the folders/library section and click Music Folders it will come up with a little pop up type box called Folders Selection
it'll take a little while to load your whole folder list so dont worry, but when all your folders are shown, untick everything, and then find just the folders where your music files are stored and tick that. That way only files from those folders are played
And as for album art, there's no setting in poweramp for that as far as i know, and i dont know of any apps that do that, but there is one easy way to do it that should work perfectly, (it shows my album art on any player)
On your computer, download the Songbird player. Then set which folders are you library etc etc so all your songs come up in the player. Then get the album art files you've downloaded on your comp, and you can edit the album art of each song or whole albums.
To change the album art, click on the song or highlight all the songs in an album (to do this, click the first song on the album, hold the shift key, then click the last song, and all the songs in between will be highlighted too); and right click the selection.
Click view metadata
Where the artwork is displayed, click the replace button
In the box that pops up, navigate to the folder where your album art is stored, click the correct album art and click open, then close the metadata box by clicking the okay button at the bottom and the album art should be changed.
It is a bit of a long process if you have a lot of albums, but at least it doesn't mess up like those automated album art changers or tag editors you can download...
Hope this helps
nice one
although like i said ive tried that folder selection thing. ive unticked the videos one, and it just crashes, or fails to work.
Hmm... i've no idea why that happens.
Go the poweramp page on google play or go to poweramp's own site and email them. That seems to be an issue with the app itself
Hello There, As im exploring The Captivates Somewhat good OS Tweaks of the Phone, Some people May Download better music players, Now the android music player definetly isn't the best one:/ So if you hate having to go ALL THE WAY to that one certain music app heres how to make The Original music player go to your Other Music Player So I was annoyed for days because the default music player was automatically popping up or playing instead of ZPlayer in my case. I could not find a exact answer online so with some determination I figured it out my self and hope this will help out someone else.
1st you want to go to your settings- click applications- manage applications
Click the All applications list, now go to every music player in your app list including your default one make sure the play by default button is not checked, if it is checked clear it. Then be sure that your force quit them all.
2nd now setting default player is not in the settings which is why its so annoying to figure out. Your phone comes with a folder called " My Files" if you haven't gotten rid of that, open that folder and find a music file and when you try to play it from there a choose player window will pop up. Now BEFORE You choose the player you want as your default click the checkbox first will have green checkmark. Then choose what player u want as your default from the list and its set.
To verify go back to settings click applications- manage applications- all applications scroll to the music player u set as default and the box at the bottom should now be checked as your default music player.
For Music Players : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1844199
It`s great! thx!
I've been thinking about switching back to Play Music or ubermusic, but the default Samsung one plays nice with the lockscreen and that's just too convenient.
Hello.
I have two problems during creating media player nased on this tutorial:
–> http://www.zooper.org/wp/archives/4695
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You’ll notice that I mentioned 4 bitmaps earlier (Previous, Next, Play and Pause), however there are only 3 control bitmaps in the widget. There is a little trick that you can apply that will allow you to swap out bitmaps depending on a certain MU variable. I leave this with you as a challenge.
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Sorry, i am not so smart. How to make play/pause button with replacing icons?
2. I am already using “Now Playing” player and zooper buttons working well (findig this player as my top one) but for cover art and track/artist info i still have displayed data from samsung music player or google player.
After run MU i choosing Now Playing. Reason is that my default player cannot be Now Playing (cant choose this one on my device)?
My device: Galaxy Note 2.
Thanks for answer in adwance.
It's a simple variable expression to switch symbols(play/pause for example).
Create a bitmap for a play button and in the "advanced parameters" section add this variable:
$#TMU_ISPLAYING#=1?[bo]0[/bo]$
Now create another bitmap, this time for your pause button. Add this variable for the advanced parameters:
$#TMU_ISPLAYING#=0?[bo]0[/bo]$
What this does is lowers the opacity of each object depending on what state the widget is in(playing or paused). Make sure your pause bitmap is above your play button in the module manager stack.
As for other issues, what player are you using to play music? You have to make sure Media Utilities supports your music app of choice. Open Music Utilities and go to settings. Make sure you've enabled it to work with Zooper and all other widget utilities, and also make sure to add your media player in the media apps if you haven't done so already. I only use Spotify, Google Play Music and GoneMAD Music Player and it works for all 3 of those apps.
Hi All, just wondering if anyone noticed that if you select advanced in the music app's settings->SoundAlive screen, the changes you made don't stick after shutdown/reboot?
I know there's other music players, but I decided I'll try this music player out and so far I like it except for this bug..
Hey guys,
Currently using the Hellkat ROM but I had the same "issue" with JediMindTrick.
Issue is, even though I set Poweramp as the default music player in Android, some apps withe the option to launch music still uses the ROM stock music player when using such an option.
Example, Apollo is the stock music player in the Hellkat rom and after installing Poweramp I set it as my default music player. But when I select the music icon from within the Runkeeper app, it launches Apollo instead of my default player.
I searched for quite a few hours today and found some information related to "intent". I'm not a DEV some bare with my ignorance but tis apparently a way for devs to link to a stock app from their application.
So since Runkeeper and other such apps aren't giving the choice of which app to use when selecting the music icon and start the stock music app instead, I was wondering if there was a way to change the "stock" music app, by editing a conf file or something...?
Thanks!
Download an app to remove system apps from the play store and remove the offending app. It will usually clear the defaults if it's properly uninstalled and you can then set your default music player to your preferred one.
go to settings >> apps and get app info for the stock music player. clear the defaults and see if that works.
if not you can download titanium bavkup pro from the pla store and delete the default player so your phone has no choice but to use your preferred music app.