So I noticed today while trying to get album art for my music that on the lock screen it now shows the music at a size that's far too big for the screen. No idea what's causing that to happen since it was fine before I added new art today. Any suggestions?
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a5pe4 said:
So I noticed today while trying to get album art for my music that on the lock screen it now shows the music at a size that's far too big for the screen. No idea what's causing that to happen since it was fine before I added new art today. Any suggestions?
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Album art is full screen in the lock screen. Since album art is square and the phone is not, the art is zoomed in to eliminate bars on the sides. This probably accounts for it seeming over sized. It's the same on my phone. I like the look of it myself.
But that doesn't make sense when there's no art or anything like that. It used to show the artist and song name and now it's too zoomed in. Also words on actual covers are cut off. Here's an example of one without art
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a5pe4 said:
But that doesn't make sense when there's no art or anything like that. It used to show the artist and song name and now it's too zoomed in. Also words on actual covers are cut off. Here's an example of one without art
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How would the phone know what part of the album art to show because wording can be anywhere. As mentioned because it shows it full screen now vs a lil square box below the title and such, it has to zoom the image to fit the whole screen which will cut off the sides so that the top/bottoms can fit.
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But that doesn't make sense when there's no art or anything like that. It used to show the artist and song name and now it's too zoomed in. Also words on actual covers are cut off. Here's an example of one without art
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Take a look at this link: http://www.gizmag.com/review-android-kitkat-44/29821/pictures#7
Its supposed to cut off the sides.
Unless I'm crazy I don't believe it did this until now. My cover art also looks to have lower quality now. I guess it's possible that I haven't noticed till now but it doesn't make sense to me why this would happen in KitKat. Check these out. Do yours look similar?
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That's because it's zooming in on a low-resolution image, hence the fuzziness
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design choice?
Wouldn't it make more sense to show the entire album artwork rather than leaving half the screen blank? Or am I the only one who feels that way?
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I agree. I think it looks really ugly. There is room, so why not show the full album art.
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I don't suppose there is any way to edit the app to change this?
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Azure465 said:
I agree. I think it looks really ugly. There is room, so why not show the full album art.
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+1. Feel the same way. If not the fullscreen album artwork (or whatever shenanigans they could do) we deserve the rest of the space being wallpaper or something other than a black empty screen.
Ahah, I agree with you, looks kind of weird. o:
I have gotten use to it now. It doesn't look that bad I suppose. I still wish they used the screen better. I think they made it like this to match the calling menu. It looks very similar to the screen I get when somebody calls me. So maybe it's to make the UI more constant?
i think this is an example of effective use of whitespace to separate the unlock section from the player controls.
This allows the user to have more functionality in one screen without compromise the content. So you get your album artwork + player controls + your 2 or 4 way unlock menu in an uncluttered layout.
Good design choice IMO
Excellent choice of music, by the way.
poweramp has a really good music lockscreen with not just the normal play/pause and forward/backward controls, but also with star ratings and shuffle/repeat controls i think
Perhaps its so that it also displays correctly when using pattern lock?
wow that's actually pretty clever O.O
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Perhaps its so that it also displays correctly when using pattern lock?
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Now that is the first good answer to this question. That must be it.
Still, I would think they would employ a better solution that this. Either allow the album artwork to take up space based on the unlock screen you are using, or have an entirely different lockscreen like other music players.
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Now that is the first good answer to this question. That must be it.
Still, I would think they would employ a better solution that this. Either allow the album artwork to take up space based on the unlock screen you are using, or have an entirely different lockscreen like other music players.
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As much as I'm a Google fanboy, I'll admit that they do have a tendancy to half ass things. There could be a good reason or the engineer could have been simply distracted by a humorous T-shirt.
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Hi every one just wanted to share this app with you all.
Ive been asked by a user to port this over to your devices so here it is.
It an iPhone Styled Music Player.
It looks as it does on the iPhone/iPod Touch.
Once again just want to share this with you all and hope you enjoy.
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Bad....
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I know its not perfect and its not my app. Im just sharing it for a friend.
It does need quite abit of work but it is just a beta to see if he could do it.
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why no preview ? i need to check it out before trying ..
There is screenshots up in the OP
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Works partly. I've encoutered some bugs. If you or your friend can try to fix some of these it'll probably soon be a pretty good port.
- Partyshuffle mode sometimes causes force-closes.
- Player sometimes gives error about music file formats not working.
- When clicking the "next" or "previous" button, the player sometimes crashes.
- When it has just crashed on a certain song, opening it again and clicking on the "now playing" button, it will crash AGAIN.
- When in "tracks" screen, you need to fix the "a to z" listing, The letters are too small, and don't work, also, no search.
- When searching sd for playlists, it keeps looping with the pop-up message "Scanning SD card...", and on the background you can read a message: "An error was encountered on your SD card."
- When playing on speaker, the sound quality is not always very clear / clean. Sometimes has some sort of scratching noise in the background.
Will post more bugs as soon as I find them!
Good that you're trying to port it, I sort of like it, but like I just made clear, it needs some fixes!
Good luck! :good:
EDIT: Oh, and the included video player: As soon as I click on a MP4 movie, it asks me to play with the stock gallery or the other video apps I've got installed, it doesn't play.
Any news on this?
Hi everyone, I scrolled down a couple threads but didn't see a question about this so I figured I'd ask.
I was wondering if there's a setting within the camera app to fill out the entire screen ? Basically to take out that big black block below? I notice when I take a picture and compare it with images I took on my S6 on this phone. The s6 photos take up the entire screen while the s8 photos don't while viewing in the gallery.
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Hi everyone, I scrolled down a couple threads but didn't see a question about this so I figured I'd ask.
I was wondering if there's a setting within the camera app to fill out the entire screen ? Basically to take out that big black block below? I notice when I take a picture and compare it with images I took on my S6 on this phone. The s6 photos take up the entire screen while the s8 photos don't while viewing in the gallery.
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Change the photo size.
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Hi everyone, I scrolled down a couple threads but didn't see a question about this so I figured I'd ask.
I was wondering if there's a setting within the camera app to fill out the entire screen ? Basically to take out that big black block below? I notice when I take a picture and compare it with images I took on my S6 on this phone. The s6 photos take up the entire screen while the s8 photos don't while viewing in the gallery.
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No. Can't set that up. Because of aspect ratio of screen compared to camera. Highest is 16:9 9.1Mpix. You will fill screen as view finder due to setting that allows camera app to be full screen but not actual photo...
The sensor and the screen aren't even close to the same aspect ratio, so having the viewfinder in the app fill the screen would cut off a lot of the photo you're taking. Sadly, the options are either some black space on screen, or not seeing all of what you're doing.
Is it possible? I am annoyed that it only works with Samsung Music and all the rest have to rely on the typical ugly notification controls. I was hoping something like this would be possible: https:// www.xda-developers.com/how-to-add-third-party-music-apps-emui-lock-screen/
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Is it possible? I am annoyed that it only works with Samsung Music and all the rest have to rely on the typical ugly notification controls. I was hoping something like this would be possible: https:// www.xda-developers.com/how-to-add-third-party-music-apps-emui-lock-screen/
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Musixmatch I believe has this feature and player pro does I'm not sure if any others do though but will keep an eye out
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First we need to find if it's an API that allows for full screen widgets on the UI or is it's an app specific thing or both. If you replace S7's Samsung Music with S8's you get the updated look (that also is not matching the aspect ratio of S7 so it's a bad idea to do) which makes me think it might be a combination of things, like there is an API that allows such thing and the app is responsible what will be projected in the end.
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First we need to find if it's an API that allows for full screen widgets on the UI or is it's an app specific thing or both. If you replace S7's Samsung Music with S8's you get the updated look (that also is not matching the aspect ratio of S7 so it's a bad idea to do) which makes me think it might be a combination of things, like there is an API that allows such thing and the app is responsible what will be projected in the end.
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Actually a set number of apps have a lockscreen overlay which is what Samsung music app does screen is still locked when displaying the controls but with player pro there is a full lockscreen with music controls etc... And unlock swiping and musixmatches is pretty nice
Musixmatches lockscreen
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Nice! My only issues with both of them is that their implementations is fiddly and they don't support gapless playback. Music Pro says it does but it fails to in a terrible way.
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Is it possible? I am annoyed that it only works with Samsung Music and all the rest have to rely on the typical ugly notification controls. I was hoping something like this would be possible: https:// www.xda-developers.com/how-to-add-third-party-music-apps-emui-lock-screen/
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You can check out BlackPlayer Pro on PlayStore. I've been using it on every phone that I had, isntead of the stock music player. There is a free version and there is a pro version which costs about 2 dollars I think, totally worth it though. It also has built in tag editor, option to download album art etc. And you can edit the way it shows the notification on the lock screen (only you'll have to buy the pro version for that). Would not change it for a thing!
When using split screen mode, can anyone change the split position to anything other than the middle of the screen? Something like 1/3 of the screen for one app, 2/3 for the other.
I believe I was able to do this a few weeks ago (maybe with an earlier ROM, I'm on 1.13 now) but it doesn't seem possible anymore.
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When using split screen mode, can anyone change the split position to anything other than the middle of the screen? Something like 1/3 of the screen for one app, 2/3 for the other.
I believe I was able to do this a few weeks ago (maybe with an earlier ROM, I'm on 1.13 now) but it doesn't seem possible anymore.
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I can still do it. On 1.13 myself (Sprint phone, if it matters).
On my (same firmware) Sprint phone, I can move the border, but it doesn't stick. It bounces back to the middle. So, you can view more of one, but only while holding it.
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On my (same firmware) Sprint phone, I can move the border, but it doesn't stick. It bounces back to the middle. So, you can view more of one, but only while holding it.
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Wait....are you referring to portrait or landscape? Because landscape doesn't resize....
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AarSyl said:
Wait....are you referring to portrait or landscape? Because landscape doesn't resize....
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Portrait
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Portrait
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Certainly weird.
You have to change the screen size in display settings then it will Stick in other positions
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You have to change the screen size in display settings then it will Stick in other positions
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Hmmm . . . just tried that, and no different
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Hmmm . . . just tried that, and no different
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Bingo, you're right!
Not sure if my elder eyes will like small, but at least it's good to know the mechanism.
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You have to change the screen size in display settings then it will Stick in other positions
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Nice tip (had no idea about this) but it's not what my U11 used to be able to do. This method allows sticking the slider in 3 positions and only in small size, but I used to be able to do this with all positions and with normal screen size.
I can't resize on portrait mode either...WWE U11 on 1.13.401.1
And the split screen is really poorly supported...take a look:
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Both phone are loaded with same font, same font size, same display size, and same app opened...Wondering how could this happen