Media Utilities 0.0.152

Public Open Beta

Updates:

• Crash fix for Google Music
• Android 4.3 support
• Native Support for Zooper, UCCW and minimalistic text. When enabled the following variables are made available without the need for Tasker:
  • MU_ALBUM - Album name
  • MU_ARTIST - Artist name
  • MU_TRACK - Track name
  • MU_COVERART - Path to Bitmap containing current coverart
  • MU_ISPLAYING - 1 if playing 0 if not
  • MU_CURR_APP - Current media app "pretty" name
  • MU_CURR_PACKAGE - Current media app package name
• Rewrote direct mode from scratch. Should be far more reliable now.
• Added new option to launch the music application if Android killed it or it is not currently running. Will launch when the user attempts to control a dead music application.
• Added Pebble watch support.

Check out the reviews:

• droidhorizon.com
• galaxy-note2.wonderhowto.com
• xda-developers.com

Other links:

• Google+
• blackbearblanc.dk

Description:

Media Utilities is not a music player but a collection of widgets, notifications, and Tasker plugins that work with your media players. Media Utilities automatically determines your current music application and integrates with it, providing seamless integration to simplify your life.

Widgets:

Media Utilities provides over 10 widgets, each with a different look and feel, most of them configurable to your specific tastes. Widgets show track, artist, album, and cover art for the current music application without configuration required, seamlessly showing information from Pandora to Spotify in a single widget.

Widget configuration:

• Background color (transparency, gradient)
• Border color
• Border width
• Several button skins to match your personal taste

• Show/Hide buttons based on need );

• More all the time ul>)

  Tasker:

  Media Utilities provides both state and action plugins to allow you to dream up your applications without having to deal with figuring out how to control each individual music application.

  Plugins:)

• - State – Is playing whenever music is currently playinge)

• - State – Is Not playing whenever music is paused/stopped))

• - State – Notify when play state is changed))

• - State – Notify when any metadata is changed. (play state, track , artist, album))

• - State – Notify when track is changed but not when play state changes))

• - State – Notify when the current music application is changed)e)

• - Action – Play/Pause – Simulates play/pause for the current music application))

• - Action – Play – Simulates play for the current music application)e)

• - Action – Play (Smart) – Simulates the action of a play command without doing a play command for the current music application))

• - Action – Pause– Simulates pause for the current music application)e)

• - Action – Pause (Smart) – Simulates the action of a pause command without doing a play command for the current music application)e)

• - Action – Next – Simulates next for the current music application)e)

• - Action – Previous – Simulates previous for the current music applicatione)

• - Action – Current Media – opens the current music application)

  Notification:

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  Media Utilities provides notification controls that automatically control your current media application.e)

  Features:

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  • - Configurable buttons and look and feel)
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• - Automatically shown when a music application starts playinge)

• - Optionally only shown for music applications that don’t already have notification controls, for example, Pandora))

• - Behavior is configurable to match your specific needse)