album art - Themer General Discussion

Still having same issue with the album art not showing correct as in a previous post,also found that when choosing to change the angle of the battery bar it doesn't work,which seems pointless having it,was this an oversight or should it not be able to have it;s angle changed ? latest version installed

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Nice
Like the idea.. keep up the good work

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alldroid said:
Still having same issue with the album art not showing correct as in a previous post,also found that when choosing to change the angle of the battery bar it doesn't work,which seems pointless having it,was this an oversight or should it not be able to have it;s angle changed ? latest version installed
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For the album art, what music player are you using?
For the battery bar, designers tend to rather use Zooper as it's a lot more capable of editing battery bars.

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yeah I understand re bar but why have the option to rotate it,that doesn't make sense,I have used the default music player,music player pro and dfx music player,still can't get it to recognise proper cover,and to be truthful it's the only problem with this build I have found

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exactly the same with google music player,reboot does not sort the problem

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great idea

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as.smadi said:
great idea
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thanks for the intelligent input ????
have another issue,the theme I am working on has a music player,so due to the problem I decided to remove the music screen,only problem is themer won't let me,no matter which screen I select as default it won't let me remove the screen I want to

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alldroid said:
thanks for the intelligent input ????
have another issue,the theme I am working on has a music player,so due to the problem I decided to remove the music screen,only problem is themer won't let me,no matter which screen I select as default it won't let me remove the screen I want to
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Hi mate this is why I have gone away from themer for the time being.
As I found you can make a phone look just as nice using zooper pro and kk launcher and I have not had one crash.
My main reason for this is a lot of advanced string codes that work fine in zooper pro just don't work in themer zooper.
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cheers Joe I was looking at the kk launcher the other day,may have a play around later on and finally get round to using zooper maybe

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alldroid said:
cheers Joe I was looking at the kk launcher the other day,may have a play around later on and finally get round to using zooper maybe
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Not a prob mate! Is very smooth and updated regularly. There are a few things that you need kk prime for.
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dj_mol3y_x8 said:
Hi mate this is why I have gone away from themer for the time being.
As I found you can make a phone look just as nice using zooper pro and kk launcher and I have not had one crash.
My main reason for this is a lot of advanced string codes that work fine in zooper pro just don't work in themer zooper.
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Would you mind letting us know what some of these advanced string codes are? I have been a hardcore user of Zooper pro since its inception and I can think of a sing sting that does not work with Zooper Themer. Have of the advanced stings in use today in most widgets, come from myself and a handful of other hardcore Zooper Pro users in the G+ community.
The only things that do not work are custom built Tasker stings, as this would be impossible with Themer based themes distributed via the app.
If you are talking about MU support not being in there, well, there has been a vote entry for this addition for about a month now. Its been sitting at the top of the feature request list since I created it. http://support.themerapp.com/forums/224109-feature-requests
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alldroid said:
Still having same issue with the album art not showing correct as in a previous post,also found that when choosing to change the angle of the battery bar it doesn't work,which seems pointless having it,was this an oversight or should it not be able to have it;s angle changed ? latest version installed
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If you are not getting album art, please check the following setting in your device settings.
Settings > Security > Notification Access > Make sure Themer IS checked.
You should get a popup whenever you hit "choose source", prompting you to check this if it is not. We have had a few users state this does not happen. We are tracking the bug to try and resolve it.

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yeah already checked that,I am getting album just not the right cover for the album playing

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alldroid said:
yeah already checked that,I am getting album just not the right cover for the album playing
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Ahh Ok got ya...
My bet, is that the players you are using are not fully supported by the version of MU in use in Themer.
There was an option in the stand alone version of MU for "alternate metadata collection", which would enable scaping of the data, including coverart, from players that do not conform to the standard Android method.
We can not add this method into the Themer version of MU right now, because it would/could cause issues. Basically it would require our users to switch between modes of collection based on each of the players in use.
I have been hoping to get the devs here to look into adding support for this, and turning it on/off based on the currently selected player.
This is really just a matter of finding the time to do all of the testing.
In the mean time, can you confirm that this is the problem. Try using GooglePlay Music for your player and see if the coverart displays correctly.
Also I just started this thread at our site to help with this if you would like to contribute.
http://support.themerapp.com/forums...2-add-more-players-for-themer-media-utilities

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ritalin said:
Would you mind letting us know what some of these advanced string codes are? I have been a hardcore user of Zooper pro since its inception and I can think of a sing sting that does not work with Zooper Themer. Have of the advanced stings in use today in most widgets, come from myself and a handful of other hardcore Zooper Pro users in the G+ community.
The only things that do not work are custom built Tasker stings, as this would be impossible with Themer based themes distributed via the app.
If you are talking about MU support not being in there, well, there has been a vote entry for this addition for about a month now. Its been sitting at the top of the feature request list since I created it. http://support.themerapp.com/forums/224109-feature-requests
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If you are not getting album art, please check the following setting in your device settings.
Settings > Security > Notification Access > Make sure Themer IS checked.
You should get a popup whenever you hit "choose source", prompting you to check this if it is not. We have had a few users state this does not happen. We are tracking the bug to try and resolve it.
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Its this like
When I use a progress bar for music as a track time bar.
Works for a bit but then stops and won't start again till a reboot.
When using string to show/hide a image.
Image will only show not hide.
Album art just shows one album art image for all albums.
And some time when using track time it seam's to be a double speed ie will so 10 seconds in just 5 seconds
Here are the codes I use
#TMU_TRACK_PERC#
[bo] $#TMU_ISPLAYING#=1?1$ [/bo]
[bo] $#TMU_ISPLAYING#=0?0$ [/bo]
#TMU_COVERART#
[bo] $#TMU_ISPLAYING#=0?0$ [/bo]
#TMU_PLAYTIME#
But they all work fine in zooper pro but not in themer zooper.
But it might be my phone as I have one of the few devices that has a x86 Intel atom CPU.
But at the same time if it is my phone why is zooper pro working fine.
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ritalin said:
Would you mind letting us know what some of these advanced string codes are? I have been a hardcore user of Zooper pro since its inception and I can think of a sing sting that does not work with Zooper Themer. Have of the advanced stings in use today in most widgets, come from myself and a handful of other hardcore Zooper Pro users in the G+ community.
The only things that do not work are custom built Tasker stings, as this would be impossible with Themer based themes distributed via the app.
If you are talking about MU support not being in there, well, there has been a vote entry for this addition for about a month now. Its been sitting at the top of the feature request list since I created it. http://support.themerapp.com/forums/224109-feature-requests
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If you are not getting album art, please check the following setting in your device settings.
Settings > Security > Notification Access > Make sure Themer IS checked.
You should get a popup whenever you hit "choose source", prompting you to check this if it is not. We have had a few users state this does not happen. We are tracking the bug to try and resolve it.
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Is like this music widget using zooper pro it works fine but not in themer zooper things like.
The jog wheel has no rotation but in zooper pro there is rotation.
Track time speeds up. And so no.
Here is a SS of my music widget. I did want to make a full DJ theme for themer.
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it is the same with any player I try but if I rollback themer it works fine,it happens in this lateest version,I am updating firmware tonight to kitkat will let you know if the problem is the same,I would assume so but will see

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dj_mol3y_x8 said:
Is like this music widget using zooper pro it works fine but not in themer zooper things like.
The jog wheel has no rotation but in zooper pro there is rotation.
Track time speeds up. And so no.
Here is a SS of my music widget. I did want to make a full DJ theme for themer.
Sent from my XT890 using xda app-developers app
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Everything you have listed here is for Media Utilities based variables. So this is nothing to do with Zooper Themer itself.
When you have two version of Media Utilities installed on a device things get odd with Themer.
You have to remember that Themer itself has its own baked in version of MU, then you are adding a stand alone version (not sure which one) on top of it.
Dont ask me why, but Zooper Themer does NOT work with Themer MU. The variables just do not work at all, because the Themer version of MU does not broadcast anything for Zooper to pickup via variables. I have argued for this feature to be added since before I began work here. There is a thread at the support site asking for this to be added. Its been at the top of the list for some time now, but one more vote never hurts.
http://support.themerapp.com/forums...5218-media-utilities-support-in-themer-zooper
Once this support is added, it will work just fine.
BTW about 90% of what you want to do with Zooper and MU is getting ready to be possible in Everything Widget. Since I have yet to get them to budge on the Zooper MU thing, I have slowly had them add in a good deal of this stuff to EW. You should see it in the next update. Im sure you are in the same boat as me, and would rather do it in Zooper, but it is what it is. As a small bonus, due to the way EW renders layers, the reaction time for changes shown on screen with this stuff is much faster. Its not quite instant on touch, but its much faster than Zooper.
There will be no rotation in EW though, nor should you ever really use it. This is due to the way both EW and Zooper render widgets. First off you cant get faster than 1fps, which looks like ass. I introduced the spinning record idea to the Zooper Pro community, and worked with a few other guys to see how well it could be optimized. In the end, we decided it didnt look good enough to warrant the battery drain it causes.
You have to always keep in mind that Zooper renders the widget you see on your desktop as a flat PNG image. Every layer in your widget is compiled into this one png. So this means that if you have something that is changing in the widget on a per-second basis, it is asking Zooper to re-render a new PNG every second. This will MURDER a battery. The best you can do is set the rotation to only occur when music is playing, and to be static when paused.
FYI, Everything Widget does the same flattening to PNG that Zooper does. The difference is that each layer in the widget is flattened into its own PNG. This is the reason why EW will be faster to change an image (play button to pause button for example) because it does not need to think or take into account all of the other layers when it re-renders. It only changes the layer that needs to update.
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alldroid said:
it is the same with any player I try but if I rollback themer it works fine,it happens in this lateest version,I am updating firmware tonight to kitkat will let you know if the problem is the same,I would assume so but will see
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Hmmmm... There have been a few users recently that needed to completely un-install > delete MCS folder > reinstall.
I would suggest you take this route to see if it fixes your issue.
Since you are flashing a new rom on your device, I would suggest a fresh install from the market, and not a reinstall of a backup.
Let me know how it goes.

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@ritalin
Thanks I'll give it a try with my new theme.
I made this theme using just zooper pro but it will save the widget template to sd then redo in themer zooper and see if that works.
Here is my new theme

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I tried to use themer zooper for my new theme.
But the track time bar don't work, and no track or album info, and wrong album art
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funnily enough the new firmware flash sorted it out,or seems to have done so far only tried it with google player but is now displaying the correct album art,as is the default music player,player pro doesn't display anything,will try out a few more later on