MuzeiMusicExtension

A simple music extension for Muzei, which displays the artwork of the currently playing song in Muzei.

1. The music extension receives MediaController Metadata/Playstate changes (via the NotificationListenerService)
2. The artist name, album name and track name are retrieved from the Metadata
3. The extension retrieves artwork from the internet and passes it to Muzei.

Muzei Music Extension is on the Play Store

Changelog:

Current Version: 2.1.0

2.1.0

• Google have nerfed manifest declared broadcast receivers, which means we can no longer listen to metachanged events from various apps, since they're not targeted directly at Muzei. So, we now rely exclusively on the NotificationListenerService for metadata & playstate changes.
• Use Shuttle's artwork API, since Last.FM is unreliable. Since the API redirects to the url of the actual image, we no longer need to parse any JSON, so Retrofit/OkHttp are no longer required.
• Since Muzei performs its own caching, and Google prevent us from discovering artwork on disk, we now just fetch artwork exclusively from online sources. We no longer need access to the MediaStore.
• The option to revert to default artwork when music isn't playing has been removed. Since artwork providers could be local or remote, and it's difficult to determine the actual play state, we now just display the most recent artwork.

2.0.1

• Crash fixes

2.0

• Migrated to Kotlin
• Migrated from Volley to Retrofit
• Use Dagger for injecting network related modules
• Use regex when performing folder search, covers more artwork naming possibilities
• Fixed an issue where Muzei didn't have permission to access artwork Uris (using StreamProvider)
• Added SetupActivity, which requests for necessary permissions (write external storage)
• Bump minSDK to 21 (Lollipop)
• Added onboarding screen for requesting permissions
• Added a Track model to encapsulate track data
• Don’t attempt to store non-local artwork on disk or in the MediaStore. Just pass the url to Muzei and let it do its own caching.
• Update to AppCompat & use SwitchPreference in Settings screen
• Disable custom BroadcastReceiver if NotificationListener is running - no need for both, and NotificationListener is going to be much more reliable.
• Remove any sort of gleaning of track information from the notification in the NotificationListenerService, and instead just look at the MediaController Metadata

1.0.6

• Fixed a crash occurring when toggling notification settings
• Fixed an issue where default artwork wasn't working
• Possible support for Apple music (untested)
• Various minor changes

1.0.5

• Remove 'api' folder & reference maven repo for API dependency.
• Use 'MediaController' on Android 5.0 for retrieving metadata from NL Service
• Update gradle build version
• Minor tidy up
• Add untested support for SoundCloud (assuming they use a fairly standard intent for media updates)
• Version bump

1.0.4

• Added support for new Spotify app
• Added support for jetAudio Music Player & jetAudio Music Player Plus (both untested)
• Various minor bug fixes
• Fix issue where artwork wouldn't download if a MediaStore album art entry was present in the MediaStore (even if that entry pointed to a file that didn't exist)
• Add more paths to search from on device (.png locations, cover. & album.*)

1.0.3

• Fixed ClassNotFoundException

1.0.2

• Added option to choose default artwork (via settings)
• Added support for Pandora (requires Android 4.4 & notification access)
• Any music player with lockscreen controls is now supported on Android 4.4, but requires notification access

1.0.1

• Add support for many more music players, including:
• Spotify (requires Android 4.3 & notification access)
• Rdio
• PowerAMP
• PlayerPro
• Rocket Player
• Doubletwist
• Android Music Player
• Untested but hopefully now working:
• MIUI
• Rhapsody
• Samsung Music Player
• HTC Music Player
• Clicking track info now opens music player chooser
• Some potential performance & bug fixes

1.0.0

• Initial release

Developed By

• Tim Malseed - t.malseed@gmail.com

Credits

• Roman Nurik - Author of Muzei
• Ian Lake - Author of Muzei

License

Copyright 2019 Tim Malseed

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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