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[Live Wallpaper] Album Art - RELEASED!

Have spent a bit more time working on Live Wallpapers, and the newest one pulls your album art and shows it on the home screen, a bit like the screensaver OS X comes with.
Features:
* Accesses your Android album art library (if you see it in Music Player, you see it here...)
* Shuffle feature
* Compatible with LauncherPro
* Very fast (approx 0.5 seconds on first load)
* Smooth scrolling between screens
* Periodically changes individual covers
* Opaque setting to make pale text easier to read.
Update:
Thanks to the team of beta testers who did a great job helping me identify bugs and implement a few new features. The Album Art Live Wallpaper is now released to the Market for 99p, and a demo is also available for free.
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Album Art Live Wallpaper
Album Art Live Wallpaper (Demo)
Free copies:
If you encounter a serious problem in the demo (for example, it won't load on your phone) and you work with me to fix it by sending a log entry etc, you get to keep a free copy. ;-)
Update v1.1 (16/07/10):
Just uploaded version 1.1 to the Market. Amongst other fixes this addresses an issue where incomplete album art collections resulted in a large number of grey Android tiles (missing artwork) showing on the home screen. The app will now make 10 attempts to find a replacement tile before giving up and moving on.
Update v1.2 (19/07/10):
Various bug fixes; possible solution for Droid users ("Use internal storage" option), greyscale rendering.
Download the demo below or on the Android Market. It's only 99p and took a huge amount of time and effort to get to this point, so if you like it, please buy it!

It looks snazzy enough, I wouldn't mind being a beta tester.

I would really like to try this out. I put a lot of music on my phone to listen to frequently.
wouldn't mind being a beta tester for you if you need anymore.

I would love to help test as well.

I'm in to be a beta tester for this awesome project.
an option to specify a folder from gallery will be awesome too.

PM'ed you mate
JD
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Sign me up! I love my music, and I would love seeing it everywhere else!

This is why i love the zune player on windows, i love seeing the all my album art as the music plays. Great idea!

sign me up looks great!

I'll be a beta tester!!
Still trying to find a 250Gb SD card to fit all my music on

Would love to be a beta!!! Sign me up!!!

only two testers? Let me be no. 3.
errh... waited to long, now I am not no. 3 anymore.
Anyway...

Are you guys just posting here, or pm'ing him? He did specify a pm to let him know. Just checking. Also, let him know about your phone, what kind it is(most likely N1 if you're reading this thread), what rom you're running(which I forgot to do, it's Cyanogen 5.0.8), and what kind of home you have, I'm sure he'd want to see a wide mix of home replacements to see if any of them have any issues.

+1 on picking the folder to display.

count me in this looks nice

I'm down for whatever...count me in.

Amdathlonuk said:
I'll be a beta tester!!
Still trying to find a 250Gb SD card to fit all my music on
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Let me know how that works out for you lol
I'm interested in beta testing also.

Me too!
+1 tester here, sounds like a phenomenal idea!

I wanna be a beta tester too

count me in too!
also another idea would be to have this
as a background to the waveform live wallpaper
that would be sick when listening to music :]

PowerAMP is looking amazing!

Probably already mentioned here??? But I've just tried PowerAMP, check it out:
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Support:
-MP3, MP4/M4A,loseless ALAC,FLAC, OGG, WAV, TTA, WMA
-Has own codecs
-Widget
-Choose music from SD card
-Tegs, lyrics
-Skins, 2 in beta version
-Fast scan of files ( in 1 second 1000files, depends on phone speed)
-EQ
Looking forward to future updates, this is the best music experience you can get on android atm (at least according to myself )...
[highlight]Mod Edit: Links removed due to being expired trials[/highlight]
Here's a great video demonstration made by rollercoastervj

Does it work on Android 1.6?

No sorry, only 2.0+ versions...

is this app in the market?
cant seem to find it

For some reason it seems it only can be downloaded from warez sites atm but since it's a beta I don't know if it would be against the rules to post it here???

I'm absolutely loving this app. Thanks OP!

I've been using it for a while and its great!! If this is beta I cant imagine how good the final will be. I bet you browse the same site as me

stanglifemike said:
I've been using it for a while and its great!! If this is beta I cant imagine how good the final will be. I bet you browse the same site as me
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Me? No, I wanted to check this app out and it took me <5 secs in Google to find it.

Looks good but still missing a few basic features. App also force closes a lot on my Droid X.

m2thedeep said:
Looks good but still missing a few basic features. App also force closes a lot on my Droid X.
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Care to expand on the first part of your comment?
Also, I'm used to looking at just the Evo forums, so there you have it - working great for me.

Omg im jalous.. cant have it :-(
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pwnst*r said:
Care to expand on the first part of your comment?
Also, I'm used to looking at just the Evo forums, so there you have it - working great for me.
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These are a few gripes I have with the app, the first one being the most important:
When going through the library of artists, once you pick an artist you are taken to all songs by the artist and not to a list of the albums by the artist. Sometimes when pressing the back button, the app closes to the homescreen instead of showing the previous screen. If you're playing a song and are browsing your playlist, album list, etc. there's no quick way to return to the player screen that shows the current song that's playing.

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Me? No, I wanted to check this app out and it took me <5 secs in Google to find it.
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No, was referring to the OP

m2thedeep said:
When going through the library of artists, once you pick an artist you are taken to all songs by the artist and not to a list of the albums by the artist.
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I agree, that's a biggie.

I just upload a video of the app to youtube. It is my first video so dont expect pro stuff Just a video of fingering around with PowerAmp

Thanks for the great video, I learnt a few new things from it
This is definitely the best audio player I've seen on any mobile device, PERIOD!

this is really nice! TFS!
Although the widget could be better..and the home screen of the app could be made simpler but overall this is nice...
definitely nice to have SD folder view!
I winder how it would par with MixZing

Trying it out right now so far loving it good looking out great media player
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I picked this up and I really like it so far. The ui is great even though there are a few oddities still. When selecting an mp3 from Astro it goes to the player but it doesn't play the file I just selected...the player comes up with the last song that was being played. Still messing with it though and it looks great so far.

i think one feature that would make this a killer music player... that if its possible to restrict musics off one folder (eg. "Music") in the root of SD... this way i dont have to listen to machine gun and other android game sound fx on my media player... veryyy annoying..!!!!

[APP] CalcTunes - Desktop-style music player for Android [ALPHA 0.47]

I've been working on this for almost a year now off and on. I wanted a media player that gave me more control then the stock player included with Gingerbread (CM7). This drove me to try other players such as MortPlayer, which could play folders directly. It lacked the ability to have multiple root folders, however, so on a device with multiple storage directories (internal, sdcard, network server, USB, etc) it made listening to music difficult. The new players in ICS still fail to achieve this, as the Android MediaScanner backend they use only looks for auto-mounted locations. If you use NTFS, ext3, USB storage, or any other system that Android will not automatically mount, it will not find your music.
To remedy this, I decided to write my own music player (which is also my first Android app) based around the concept of having multiple "libraries" which are built by selecting a set of root directories to scan. You can have more than one library, such as having all of your home server's music scanned in but a separate library for on-device files. Libraries can span multiple storage locations or just single locations.
It's still very much a work in progress, but it's stable enough to be useful. I just implemented a swipe system to switch between views, adding a track info view which has tag and file info as well as a large album art view. Eventually I want to add Last.Fm artist/song info, lyrics, and possibly other content to this view using tabs. The scanner will pull album art from Last.Fm when you scan a library.
I also added support for DSPManager/AudioFX, which apparently is a per-app thing on CM9+ ROMs. It should be compatible with Gingerbread and up, one of my goals was to keep GB supported as I have an Archos tablet running CM7 that has a great DAC for audio.
The project is open source under GPL, hosted on GitHub here: https://github.com/CalcProgrammer1/CalcTunes
Version 0.47 Alpha: https://github.com/downloads/CalcProgrammer1/CalcTunes/CalcTunes.apk
I'd appreciate feedback, so far it's only been used by me and my friend. There are rough edges. For one, playlist functionality has not been implemented yet, so the placeholder items do nothing. The filesystem browsing is primitive. The notification doesn't work properly. Other than that, it should be reasonably stable.

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The app is awesome but I think it needs some redesigning
The UI look squished in

It works great so far, running the same hard/software as you.
I greatly enjoy the UI.
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Wow looks really good except the orange color
The App force closes everytime I click on the record icon
I am on Android 4.1.2 / HTC ONE X

I will definitely try this one and would like to suggest two things for future updates - 1. .lrc format lyrics support. and 2. a customizable music widget which could support different skins. Thank you.

It force closes when trying to add a folder to the library and when clicking on the record
System only shows the files on the internal memory (sdcard) but all my music is on the external (sdcard-ext)
Using Atrix 4G rooted Stock 2.3.6

You can change the color in the settings, I use orange to match my phone's theme. As for the force close, I forgot to add that you need OpenIntents OI File Manager (or CM File Manager on many CM ROMs) as I use its file selection intent to select library folders. I would like to add a widget eventually, but first I want to improve the media info view, add playlists, and improve the notification to show album art and have controls on ICS+ devices where it is supported.

eymas said:
It works great so far, running the same hard/software as you.
I greatly enjoy the UI.
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Turn off small-screen mode in settings, it is broken and needs work. That looks awful compared to what it should (some reason two lines were highlighted? small screen now-playing bar has broken year field?) and the new large-screen layout uses swiping. Like I said, still very much an alpha release!

[APP][4.1+] For Music Lovers: Browse and Listen to songs from top Billboard charts

Hello XDA, I'm the developer of a new Android app called Billy. It lets you browse and listen to the most popular pop/rock/dance songs currently.
Here are some screenshots: i.imgur.com/I7jatsU.png
The songs list is grabbed from Billboard.com, which is one of the most credible sources in song popularity charts. Songs are then streamed from SoundCloud. Apart from listening to songs, you can also watch the corresponding official YouTube video of each of those tracks and have a look at the most popular albums of artists.
It's available on Google Play. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vibin.billy

well done
do you consider releasing the source code?
I found the Ui navigation to be very smooth.

tugapt said:
well done
do you consider releasing the source code?
I found the Ui navigation to be very smooth.
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Nothing special really. Though I will put the code on Github in some time.
Please give the app a rating/+1. Thanks

Really nice app. Looks great and feels liquid smooth!!! Can't play the songs tho.... error 1-1004, see screenshot.
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Feature request: can you implement a link/search to external/other cloud player (for me spotify....)?

I'm music lover but I can't access google play store as it is blocked in my country (Sudan) could some one please attach the apk! [emoji4]

Awesome! As said smooth control!! Code released already?? See you! Keep up! Hope there will be anothe music app...not satisfied with Spotify ! Best wishes!!

Quite nice. Note: There are several of these on Play with more feeds, but awaiting more feeds here. UI is quite navigable.
Since the screen is quite sparse, used Xposed Appsettings to show more songs. Lower "DPI" and magnified font size to compensate so still readable. However, tab-bar now covers half of the title bar. So ... might suggest the number of songs/pane be adjustable and scaled within the app rather than from outside (anyone tried this using Paranoid's DPI settings?).
Might also embed a simple youtube player rather than rely on that app being around (since there are alternatives and many of us do not keep it).

Again.
Hi Dev.
I would love to give your app a good rating and +1 but i can not.
Your app does not work with wifi/proxy and i live on it. Fix the wifi network to allow proxy please.

Great app! Already rated 5 on gplay. I'm running on a little bug here when playing a few songs:
And also... Is there a way to have more content available? Thanks in advance!

nice app!
keep the good work on:good:

It definitely a great concept. With more genres to choose from it would be a killer app! I'm looking forward to see the future of this.

ahmed.gubara said:
I'm music lover but I can't access google play store as it is blocked in my country (Sudan) could some one please attach the apk! [emoji4]
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Just install VPN changer on your device like zenmate and access the google play

Way to Go
I'm supporting your app, I'm even going to recommend it to my small reader base of a local spanish Android blog we're starting, hope it gets you a bit more users and constructive feedback.
My Opinion: Is pretty good as a discovery app, I'm having no errors luckily. A way for autoplaying the sections (playlist?) would be nice. I also backup the Deezer/Rdio/Spotify linking idea. Great job man! I like your app.

I'm having the same trouble like everyone else. And it can't play the YouTube video without a YouTube app.

darkluna said:
I'm having the same trouble like everyone else. And it can't play the YouTube video without a YouTube app.
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Yes, it happens with a few songs because SoundCloud is not providing MP3s for them. I'm trying to fix this.
Next, I think I made a bad generalization that everyone will have the official YouTube app. I'll have to fix this one too.

lexihel said:
I'm supporting your app, I'm even going to recommend it to my small reader base of a local spanish Android blog we're starting, hope it gets you a bit more users and constructive feedback.
My Opinion: Is pretty good as a discovery app, I'm having no errors luckily. A way for autoplaying the sections (playlist?) would be nice. I also backup the Deezer/Rdio/Spotify linking idea. Great job man! I like your app.
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Yes, I'm looking into this idea. Thanks man.

OP: the actionbar has only half text when the phone is in expanded mode.Great app by the way and I can see that you are gearing it up for android L

NFS420 said:
OP: the actionbar has only half text when the phone is in expanded mode.Great app by the way and I can see that you are gearing it up for android L
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Related to but I reported using Xposed Appsettings. Actually in expanded mode as well.

NFS420 said:
OP: the actionbar has only half text when the phone is in expanded mode.Great app by the way and I can see that you are gearing it up for android L
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Noted.

Dovidhalevi said:
Related to but I reported using Xposed Appsettings. Actually in expanded mode as well.
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WHOOPS:silly:I didn't see that and i too use xposed appsettings...but i keep my phone's default dpi at 145 then upscale systemui.apk and nova launcher to 160 . then its all ok but it cuts the actionbar text for only billy when i enable expanded mode

Coolest Floating music player just like facebook chat heads.

Checkout Atiora Player its supports floating window just like facebook chat heads. You can fully control your music while chatting with friends or browsing the internet without leaving the application. And the best part it's fully free with no ugly Ads Enjoyyy
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tesla.atiora.player

link ?

Sorry for not being able to post the link here(needs to post 10 posts). Plz search by "Atiora Player" in google play.

Tag editor updated.

Hey, I hope it is okay to post the link from Play Store here for you:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tesla.atiora.player
I don't know if you can edit your first post and include the link as bare text.
I have tried it and it's quite promising. I would like to help you to translate it to German language. Can you send me the string file so I can translate it?
And I have a request: I have several albums, where the song's artist does not match the album artist (see screenshot), because it includes some kind of "feat. XY". For example, the album artist has been tagged as Five Finger Death Punch, whereas some tracks have an "feat. XY" in its artist tag. Therefore your player lists each song with "feat. XY" as by a separate artist (which is absolutely correct, as it uses the artist tag) with its individual album, despite the fact that all songs are from the same album. For me this is quite annoying, I would like to have all songs sorted by the overall album artist Five Finger Death Punch. The album artist tag is part of the ID3.2 tag, so I would ask you if it is possible to include another tab for album artists.

Thanks a lot orville87 .
Regarding the album artists tab, I'll try to implement the feature asap. Currently I'm working on some customizable grouping functionality and some major modification on the floating window.
Kindly PM your email id i will send you the file . Feel free to suggest any modification or functionality. Thank you again.

Leonidas10 said:
Thanks a lot orville87 .
Regarding the album artists tab, I'll try to implement the feature asap. Currently I'm working on some customizable grouping functionality and some major modification on the floating window.
Kindly PM your email id i will send you the file . Feel free to suggest any modification or functionality. Thank you again.
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You can send me a PM with the file or a link to the file by clicking my user name above my avatar.

orville87 said:
You can send me a PM with the file or a link to the file by clicking my user name above my avatar.
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Hi, sent you the resource bundle.

Awesome player, thanks a lot ☺

rodaven said:
Awesome player, thanks a lot ☺
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Thanks rodaven. Glad you liked it.

Updated to v1.0.0.1
A cute thumbnail floating player added. Performance optimized. And bug fixes.

Updated to v1.0.0.2

request
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makes the floating playe come up automatically when you go to others apps..and a way to removes the small thumbnail player...overall is 5 stars.great works

Updated to v1.0.0.3
v1.0.0.3
-Now floating player can be activated automatically(you need to check the option in settings under floating player) while application is running in the background and music is being played.
-In thumbnail floating player
Long press of play/pause button will close this player
Long press of previous button will open Music Library
Long press of next button will open Fullscreen player
-Performance improvement.
-Bug fixes.

karlaidy said:
makes the floating playe come up automatically when you go to others apps..and a way to removes the small thumbnail player...overall is 5 stars.great works
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Check out the latest update v1.0.0.4

Leonidas10 said:
Check out the latest update v1.0.0.4
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Thanks man..that perfect

Checkout the latest update various Bug fixes and performance improvement.
Updated to v1.0.0.8
-Performance improvement.
-Bug fixes.

Just downloaded the music player. Experience is too good. Features and UI looks really awesome.