Hey all. I'm on Slim ICS build 4.0.0 and I'm very satisfied thus far. I only miss 1 minor feature from other, more bloated ROMs: long press the volume controls to skip forward or backwards in the track list of the currently playing music app. I have added in every other features I desire through a few mods and don't want to install a significantly heavier ROM for just this minor feature.
I have found a few links through Google but I can't be sure that they work on ICS, or that they specifically skip tracks in the currently playing music app and not the stock player (I prefer UberMusic; don't want the stock music player starting and both apps playing music simultaneously).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1590848
http://forum.sdx-developers.com/?topic=20100.0
Can anyone post a flashable file that would fulfill my request? Or direct me in the right direction? I don't want anyone to Guinea pig the mods to which I linked. I have always had some ghosts after restoring Nandroid backups and my current setup is already perfectly suited to my needs. Thank you for helping, thinking, and/or bumping
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After dealing with far too many bugs, I recently switched from CM7 to SuperClean3. One CM feature I'm really missing however is the volume button music controls where you change tracks when the screen was off.
Any chance at all a general mod exists that I can load to get this specific functionality or is is something that's only enabled through custom roms?
Thanks!
I suspect that's a custom feature built into the CM Music app
You'll probably have to go to an app like PlayerPro to get that feature with a Stock based ROM.
It's not just tied to the stock music app, it works with all music apps on CM7. There'a a MIUI mod that adds this feature as well. I've seen the long-press volume to skip tracks added into stock roms too, although they were for the incredible. I'd think the functionality could be added into superclean with a similar method though, have you asked the developer about it?
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It's not just tied to the stock music app, it works with all music apps on CM7. There'a a MIUI mod that adds this feature as well. I've seen the long-press volume to skip tracks added into stock roms too, although they were for the incredible. I'd think the functionality could be added into superclean with a similar method though, have you asked the developer about it?
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I saw that MIUI mod as well which gave me wishful thinking something like that could be created for a stock ROM. I didnt think to ask the SC dev as he "milestone'd" it a few weeks ago, so just assumed he wouldn't. I suppose wouldn't hurt to ask.
Thanks for the responses.
No problem. I have seen that functionality built into other roms, (I'm thinking of the "Stock plus" rom for the incredible by jermaine151) so it definitely can be done. No idea how easy to implement it would be though, or if the dev would be willing to invest time into it.
I think there's an APP in the market called "next song" that will do this for most music players.
I'm an avid fan of XDA and in particular viperROM (Redline v2.5 RC2); this ROM is amazing and the best I've tried.. smooth, fast and great support.
I don't see many options for Google Music as far as widgets and lock screen widgets are concerned; I'd like to request a Sense version of a Google Music lock screen widget.
Additionally, skipping tracks using volume control would help me keep my hands on the steering wheel and my passengers from b*tching.
Thanks!
carlosesque said:
I'm an avid fan of XDA and in particular viperROM (Redline v2.5 RC2); this ROM is amazing and the best I've tried.. smooth, fast and great support.
I don't see many options for Google Music as far as widgets and lock screen widgets are concerned; I'd like to request a Sense version of a Google Music lock screen widget.
Additionally, skipping tracks using volume control would help me keep my hands on the steering wheel and my passengers from b*tching.
Thanks!
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At work now but... I know I've seen an app for a google music lock screen widget and another app (or mod?) that lets you skip with volume controls... I'm not 100% sure on the last one though... if I remember the names or get a chance to look them up I'll let you know.
EDIT: ok, Phantom Music Control is the app for lock screen widget, but is meant to work with widget locker. Still works for google music.
i've been a longtime miui music and playerpro user. N7player definitely takes the cake
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.n7mobile.nplayer
yo! Thanks for the suggestion mate. I've just installed it and it sounds and looks awesome.
I was using a semi-working Miui player port on cm7 as of lately (still better than stock Music.apk), but this made me uninstall it. This is now my default audio player.
Others tried: zimly, neutron mp, winamp, poweramp.
But this seems a winner. Thanks again.
no problem. just wondering how long it'll be before they make it a paid app. I think they should leave it free for awhile and gain more publicity. anyways, I wouldn't mind paying for this app especially if themes can be integrated
does not work on my defy nightly, can not play any song -.-
matchung said:
does not work on my defy nightly, can not play any song -.-
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Strange; which nightly? I'm on Maniac103's Feb. 20th and it works flawlessly...well, almost.
Here's a couple observations on that player and more:
This player excels in getting (and displaying) album art pics; it even makes them accessible to other apps. So this means that the stock Music.apk can finally and easily have album art covers for pretty much all songs and single mp3 files -that without any additional app such as albumart grabber [which didn't even really solve the problem anyway].
Cm7's lockscreen sees N7 player as the main player; so the lockscreen buttons control it and not the default player [big +1 in my book]. But there's no song name or albumart displayed on lock screen; no biggie and it has its own lock screen mode anyway..
So the only real need of keeping the default player installed is to quick-play a single song from within a file explorer (from the 'download' folder for example) because somehow, if you uninstall it there's no mp3 file type (mime) assiociated with the N7 player. So you get 'mp3 is not recognized file type by the system', 'System can not play this file type' ~or something similar anyway.
Now, all that being said, I still don't like to keep the cm7 default music player for one main reason: it also adds a "Videos" link in the app drawer wich links to a directory of all video files on the phone -hidden or not!!- .
You can't freeze (with TB or other app) that Videos 'shortcut' independently from the Music.apk nor you could (or would really want to) lock it (i.e.: add a password to the default audio player) with an app like Smart App Protector...
Any alternative? Yes: ICS's Music2.apk [attached - taken from the ICS dump release a long time ago].
Disclaimer: OK, this is not 100% proven science here; I did not check logcats and search for problems... but I haven't had any issue with this player yet for what I expect from it - but use at your own risks...
So backup, rename or delete the stock Music.apk from /system/app and place the ICS one in there and dont forget to set its permissions/ownership. Reboot and privacy problem solved!!
N7 and ICS' Music: best free audio combo in town
--> Music2 looks much better as well; more ice-creamy
Got some issues compared to Poweramp
- Can't detect song's cover art. Can't import from SD card. Need to download from internet
- No lyric
But overall is pretty impressive. Hopefully will get more feature soon
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Cm7's lockscreen sees N7 player as the main player; so the lockscreen buttons control it and not the default player [big +1 in my book]. But there's no song name or albumart displayed on lock screen; no biggie and it has its own lock screen mode anyway..
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Does anyone know if there's a way to get the cm7 lockscreen to control winamp? I use winamp becasue i have lots of flac files i'd rather not have to convert everytime i put them on my phone.
thanks
Very nice, I like the interface a lot but its missing features I like in Poweramp so going to stick with that for now... plus I only just payed for Poweramp so want my moneys worth before changing
Will be keeping an eye on how this app develops though, when things like lockscreen gestures and a few more control options appear I can see this one being a winner
Thanks for the head up
THX. Have a try
n7player Music Player...THX，have a try
It has beautiful UI and the effort on that part is very appreciated. But I must say, it comes nowhere close to the sound quality of Poweramp. None of them do.
Hi all-
I just recently dug my old Fascinate out and thought it would be great to listen to Spotify on my runs. I'd like to load a new ROM on it as its still on stock. Basically my primary desire is to milk as much battery life (while still being stable of course) as possible.
As a bonus, I'd like to have the ability to change track using the volume up/down like many newer ROMs allow and I'd be curious if there are ROMs or launchers that would make it a little more accommodating as a music player (e.g. larger icons?).
Any recommendations?
Thanks!
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Hi all-
I just recently dug my old Fascinate out and thought it would be great to listen to Spotify on my runs. I'd like to load a new ROM on it as its still on stock. Basically my primary desire is to milk as much battery life (while still being stable of course) as possible.
As a bonus, I'd like to have the ability to change track using the volume up/down like many newer ROMs allow and I'd be curious if there are ROMs or launchers that would make it a little more accommodating as a music player (e.g. larger icons?).
Any recommendations?
Thanks!
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I'd recommend GeeWiz Media. it's based off of Android 4.2.2, comes with google apps, uses stock Samsung RFS file system so you may get better performance and stability. oh and there's also no phone functions and no 3G data, so it's kinda like a tablet/iPod touch.
as far as changing the track with volume up and down, i know that CyanogenMod 10.1 has it. but that has the phone app and tries to connect to 3g, so that may be annoying. but i've had decent battery life on cm10.1 (all day, basically)
and if you want bigger icons from your launcher, go for Apex or Nova Launcher. the stock launchers (even cm10.1's Trebuchet) can change icon size. if you want giant icons, try BIG launcher in Google Play, there's a free version and a $10 version
That GeeWiz rom is exactly what I'm looking for! I also had no idea about changing the icon size with launchers. Perfect!
Thanks a ton for the suggestions!
I have been checking SamMobile for 5 months every day to see when Lollipop comes out for my area. The waiting game is officially over! Really impressed with the smooth GUI and performance (though the battery - 2500 mAh - will definitely not last as much as with KitKat).
One thing that really bugs me: I listen to a lot of music on my phone and the big lockscreen music widget was quite a blessing for me. It had a slider, next/previous track, play/pause, so pretty much everything. Now, Lollipop threw out the whole concept of lockscreen widgets and has only these notifications (which are pretty cool), but the music player notification is trash. Small buttons, no slider etc. I found a neat music player called Star, and it kinda solves the problem, but still no slider.
Did anyone find an acceptable solution to this problem?
Hi,
You can try PlayerPro, it has options for an alternative lockscreen widget.
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I really liked the stock player and all its functions, I really don't feel like playing for an app (I know there's a trial version...) that is practically the same as the stock one in 4.4.4.