[Q] Spotify in lockscreen how to enable - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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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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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lenny81 said:
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.
bleys121 said:
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.

Google music not working!

After deleting my album art from a few songs with album art grabber, google music started to bug. Whenever i play a song it starts with dashes and end with 0. Also when i move the cursor, it skips the song. Please help asap
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xmagiicsx said:
After deleting my album art from a few songs with album art grabber, google music started to bug. Whenever i play a song it starts with dashes and end with 0. Also when i move the cursor, it skips the song. Please help asap
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Have you tried to uninstall and re-install "Google Play Music" from the market?
Otherwise go to Settings > Apps and clear App Data
Tried to do both( uninstall updates and clear data) however is not working
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xmagiicsx said:
Tried to do both( uninstall updates and clear data) however is not working
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Connect phone to a PC and check for music and artwork cache folders under Android folder.
Remove them, disconnect phone, restart phone and try again.
Is the music on the phone, or in the cloud?
My music is in the storage. Ill try that method when i get home
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xmagiicsx said:
My music is in the storage. Ill try that method when i get home
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I think the folders are;
Internal Storage\Android\data\com.google.android.misic
Internal Storage\Android\data\com.android.providers.media\albumthumbs
If you still have issues, then move (not copy) all the Music files to your PC and check the ID3v2 tags in Windows Media Player or iTunes.
Some tag editors may change more than just the album art. Fix them there, then move them back, or get a Google Music account and upload them to the cloud. You can edit the tags in the cloud with a desktop browser as well. I have more than 11,000 songs in the cloud and less issues than when I only kept a small number on my phone.
Also its label .mpga instead of .mp3
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Now its not working on itunes either due to having no album art
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I found a solution, I need my album art back to return to mp3 form however I can't install the file, I need to get it from somewhere
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Sending music on the S4

Is it not possible to send music from the stock music player app anymore? I can't S-beam songs to other devices like I would with the s3. When pressing the menu button on the s3 or long pressing on a song a share button would appear which would let me send music, now I get "share music" which launches group play and just let's you play it on another device... only sharing method is via Bluetooth but I want the functionality back to send music via sbeam with the stock music app as it was a feature I used a lot as all my friends and family have s3's..please let me know if I am wrong. I know I can go through a file manager and send a song like that but I'd prefer to do it from the music app as everything is organized
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Anyone please?
I'm looking for answers for this also. Is there a mod zip to unlock this like the hotspot mod?
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This worked great. Not sbeam but it works
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.majedev.superbeam
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Notifications stopping player

Hello, I know that is normal in all Android but there is a way to do notifications stop pausing my music's?
Because I use Facebook and this is boring me =/
Thanks guys
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Velcis Ribeiro said:
Hello, I know that is normal in all Android but there is a way to do notifications stop pausing my music's?
Because I use Facebook and this is boring me =/
Thanks guys
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I also found this annoying, especially while watching video etc. The only solution I ever found was to mute the sounds, which stopped the alerts interrupting the music or video playback, and as a bonus, you still hear the ringer through the headphones
If you have/use tasker, you can create a policy that detects when your watching films or listening to music and automatically sets the alerts to mute, then sets it back when your done.
But how to mute? I selected mute sounds in configuration and player stopped too.
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I just mute it using the mute/vbrate toggle in the quick setting menu and still am able to play music via google play or videos

[Q] Music player on lockscreen

Hi,
if I insert the headphones into the phones jack poweramp automatically starts up and plays music, tho however for a split second I can see the music controls on the lockscreen, however some reason they dissappear right after? Is there some way to get them to stay?
Thanks in advance
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