Google Music lock screen controls missing - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I tried a quick search using tapatalk and didn't find anything. Most of the time the controls for Google Music aren't showing up on the lockscreen while music is playing. Is this happening to anyone else? Sometimes they are there but most of the time they aren't. I've tried clearing data and cache, uninstalling updates and reinstalling. Running stock, not rooted.
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Google my music widget not displaying artwork?

Hello guys I have a bit of an issue with the Google play music widget, it doesn't display album art from albums I've imported manually but does with music present installed on the phone. If i open one of the albums from the widget, the app displays the imported album artwork fine. What am I missing?
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Anyone?
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Anyone?
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Happens to me to, I guess its a bug of the nexus 4 or jellybean
MIne does this too. I displays some but not others. It's wierd.
I have the same problem on my Nexus 10. Seems like the My Library widget only displays the artwork for media stored in the Play cloud not on the device itself. Google should fix this.
@HankStorm Yeah I had just copied my albums to the PC, then uploaded to cloud, I can now see album artwork from the widget and download the albums from there to my phone if I so wish. Only took about an hour to do ha!
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It's a real shame Google won't let you upload straight from your device as I download a lot of mix tapes straight to my phone.
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Kill any other media players you have running. That worked for me. Widget was back in an instant.
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Kill any other media players you have running. That worked for me. Widget was back in an instant.
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Thanks for the advice, the widget worked fine to start off with. It just didn't show artwork for albums imported manually and stored locally on the phone. It's sorted now though.
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Download apps like album art grabber which will get u all the art work .
after that just clear the cache and force close the play music app and reopen it all the albums will appear
berz said:
Download apps like album art grabber which will get u all the art work .
after that just clear the cache and force close the play music app and reopen it all the albums will appear
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As I said in original post. The albums already contain artwork. The app displays it just fine, the widget doesn't. It did fix by uploading the albums to cloud. But I will try the fc as you suggested next time and see what happens. Thanks
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Same boat. I thought about using the Play Music system with the cloud and all to see what happens... but man, what a bunch of extra stuff to do.
Call me old school but I've never used any kind of 'manager' I just copy and paste, how does it get more simple?
I'm having this issue and it's very annoying. album art grabber doesn't work it thinks most of my albums already have art and the ones that have zero it downloads something but it never appears even after clearing the app cache and force closing.
bblzd said:
I'm having this issue and it's very annoying. album art grabber doesn't work it thinks most of my albums already have art and the ones that have zero it downloads something but it never appears even after clearing the app cache and force closing.
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same problem here on nexus 5 ,play music app shows art work fine the widget doesn't, seems a bit long winded to have to upload it elsewhere and then back to phone ,surely the widget gets its info from the app?
piebobs said:
same problem here on nexus 5 ,play music app shows art work fine the widget doesn't, seems a bit long winded to have to upload it elsewhere and then back to phone ,surely the widget gets its info from the app?
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Seeing as it's only a problem with the widget I abandoned it. Not worth uploading everything and then having to distinguish between On Device or not, potentially streaming files that are available locally.

[Q] Spotify in lockscreen how to enable

Hey guys
So I use Spotify a lot
I need to know how to enable the Spotify app controls in the lock screen...
Example: play pause skip track album art
It was working for 2 days and today its disappeared
Please help thanks
Gits
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Same problem here with an S4 on Vodafone UK. There haven't been any firmware updates so perhaps the Spotify app has been updated, breaking the lock screen controls.
Wipe data for Spotify.
Your synced songs won't be deleted
Oddly enough I noticed it had just started working again today. I hadn't done anything with Spotify so who knows what fixed it.
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Pandora Album Art and BT Info

I have been having issues with Pandora with Lollipop. Prior to Lollipop, the album art displayed on the lock screen. I have found that when the album art is displayed on the lock screen, the artist, album and track info seems to transfer over BT to my car fine. Is it just me or is there an issue? Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have uninstalled and reinstalled Pandora several times to no avail. Google Music play seems to work fine.
TIA,
Wjones
Not 100%, but I'm pretty sure it has to do with the lock/security method you use. Swipe to unlock w/no other password/pin/etc seems to work.
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I am only using the swipe. No pin or password.
Thanks for the reply.
Wjones
I have the same issue with my note 4 on lollipop. I use swipe unlock as well.
I googled and can't find an answer

How to stop apps like Music from staying in the background?

How can I kill the Music app when I am done using it. It is still attached to the play controls!
This is a very annoying issue. I can not believe Google missed it.
I don't use the music app. But have had other apps do similar. Have you tried opening the Play Store app or the Movies app and then close it? I've found opening and closing an app that does it correctly may help. The apps with issues just need an update to fix them.
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Darnell_Chat_TN said:
I don't use the music app. But have had other apps do similar. Have you tried opening the Play Store app or the Movies app and then close it? I've found opening and closing an app that does it correctly may help. The apps with issues just need an update to fix them.
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After restarting the nexus player it still has the play/pause button connected to the music app. I ended up disabling it completely.
No if I can find an eq that works on it.
johnciaccio said:
After restarting the nexus player it still has the play/pause button connected to the music app. I ended up disabling it completely.
No if I can find an eq that works on it.
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I believe you have to hit the stop in the app (on screen)to disconnect the app. Also if you start another app that connects to the play/pause button it should disconnect as well.

Stopping Mifavor from killing Play Music

More than a little annoyed by MiFavor cleaning running apps when the screen is off. For apps I installed I can deactivate that in settings but how do I fix it for Play Music (does not show up in that menu, presumably because its a system app)? It is really annoying when casting music....
It's a system app so you can't disable the cleaning for system apps. Use another music player from Google play.
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I would but I only use play music because of all access which doesn't properly work with other players...
Maybe I could root and convert it into a normal app?
Yes, remove it from system and then install it as a normal app. I think there might be an app to clone it with a different name as a standard app.
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