Media Utilities APK
App information
Version 0.0.152 (#152)
Updated 2013-12-19
APK Size 1.5 MB
Requires Android Android 4.0+ (Ice Cream Sandwich)
Offered by MYCOLORSCREEN
Category Free Music & Audio App
App id com.batescorp.notificationmediacontrols.alpha
Developer's notes Widgets, notifications & tasker plugins that work with your media players.
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Latest updates
What's new in Media Utilities 0.0.152
- 4.4 KitKat support
>> Version (126)
- Crashfix for Google Music
>> Version (116)
- Added Android 4.3 support
- Performance/Stability fixes
- Icons from Black Bear Blanc
>> Version (104)
- Native Support for Zooper, UCCW and minimalistic text.
- Rewrote direct mode from scratch.
- New launch if dead option
>> Version (97)
- Stability fixes
- Added hidden widget support
- Added Vertical alignment to widgets
Editor's review
Download the latest Media Utilities application, version 0.0.152, compatible with Windows 10/11 (using emulators such as Bluestacks), Android devices. This free Music & Audio app is developed by MYCOLORSCREEN and is easy to download and install.
Previous versions, including 0.0.152, are also available. If you need help or have any problems, please let us know.
Description
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 music application if Android killed it or it is not currently running. Will launch when user attempt to control a dead music application.
- Added Pebble watch support.
Check out the reviews:
- http://droidhorizon.com/media-utilities-beta-review/
- http://galaxy-note2.wonderhowto.com/how-to/control-all-your-music-apps-from-single-widget-your-samsung-galaxy-note-2-0146583/
- http://www.xda-developers.com/android/take-control-of-multiple-players-with-generic-music-controls/
Other links
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/107139153057065253112
www.blackbearblanc.dk
Description:
Media Utilities NOT a music player but a collection of widgets, notifications and tasker plugins that works 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 looks and feel and most of them configurable to your specific tastes. Widgets show track, artist, album and coverart for the current music application no 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
Tasker:
Media Utilities provides both state and action plugins to allow you dream up your own applications without having to deal with figuring out how to control each individual music application.
Plugins:
- State – Is playing whenever music is currently playing
- 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 current music application is changed
- Action – Play/Pause – Simulates play/pause for current music application
- Action – Play – Simulates play for current music application
- Action – Play (Smart) – Simulates the action of a play command without doing a play command for current music application
- Action – Pause– Simulates pause for current music application
- Action – Pause (Smart) – Simulates the action of a pause command without doing a play command for current music application
- Action – Next – Simulates next for current music application
- Action – Previous – Simulates previous for current music application
- Action – Current Media – opens the current music application
Notification:
Media Utilities provides notification controls that automatically control your current media application.
Features:
- Configurable buttons and look and feel
- Automatically shows when a music application starts playing
- Optionally only shown for music applications that don’t already have notification controls for example Pandora.
- Behavior is configurable to match your specific needs
Google Play Music is a trademark of Google Inc.
App permissions
Media Utilities 0.0.152 APK requires following permissions:
This constant was deprecated in API level 21. No longer enforced.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to expand or collapse the status bar.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to call killBackgroundProcesses(String].
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to know what content is playing and control its playback.
Ratings and Reviews
Rating: 3.2/5 based on 3K+ reviews
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5 ★ I have been using this beta since it came out. It is amazing. I recently emailed support about a month ago, and they responded and even tried to help with the 4.4 KitKat issue. I love customizing almost every part of my phone, so I didn't wanna revert back to 4.3 just yet. Glad, I waited. This is perfect for making your own music widgets, and works seamlessly with Zooper. Thanks so much for your hard work and this awesome free app.
3 ★ I use this app for media controls on a Zooper widget and the controls work fine, the only issue I'm having so far is with the cover art. This only seems to work on 4 or 5 albums even though cover art is present for all albums and display fine in the media player. Would be a 5* app if this was fixed, hoping it will be as it makes its way out of beta
1 ★ developers email address is invalid and no updates on this app since 2013. It is working a little bit better but still doesn't work well on the cover art... Simply put, it doesn't work. I go through all the steps of adding the widget, then configure the widget, then press done and it still says it needs to be configured.
4 ★ Worked amazing. So glad I can use it as a ZooperWidget. 12/20/13 EDIT Doesn't seem to work with Zooper Widget anymore. I'm sad. EDIT EDIT: Does not work with 4.4.2, sadly. C'mon guys. Okay, 3rd edit: it works fine with Zooper Widget (which is what I wanted it for) but still crashes anytime I try to load an album cover in the MU widget. But the album art works great in ZW
3 ★ 이번 업데이트후 앨범아트 표시속도가 너무 느림 빨리 계선요망. Poweramp 사용시 앨범아트가 곡마다 변경 가능했는데 이번 업데이트 후 앨범 아트가 표시안됨. After this update album art display speed is too fast moorings neureum desired. Poweramp music album art will be changed for each use, but after this update Not the album art is displayed.
5 ★ Would be cool if it didn't show up in the running applications tray though. I have a tendency to swipe away lots of apps and it adds a little unnecessary clutter to the tray. Besides that, I totally love this, made creating my own music widget extremely easy!
3 ★ Has the best media player utility been abandoned for greener pastures? Can somebody explain on if this will be fixed? In my opinion Zooper becomes almost non usable if media utilities can not be the focus.
4 ★ It's lovely to be able to control any media player with one widget, and to be able to design that widget as I please (I'm rather picky, so the Zooper support is very important). Only 4 stars because it's slow, both to update info in the widget and to issue commands through it.
4 ★ Overall an amazing app. If you use multiple music/media apps like Spotify, YouTube, Netflix, etc... then this is a great app. you can have a single widget control any of them. Tasker integration gives you unparalleled control as well. The only downside is that this app will not work if you're running 4.4.2
4 ★ Awsome app to control and keep track of what i am watching. I use a rooted galaxy tab 2 (7 inches) as a tv remote for my chrome cast and this app is awesome at putting all my media controls in one place, I can use tasker and zooper to create my own widget and controls for my media. Also the cover art is a nice touch. But i do find the cover art to sometimes be of very low quality. Also on my phone Samsung note 3 running 4.4 the media controls don't work only the cover art does. Good app tho, thx guys.
1 ★ I want to use it along with Zooper Widget, but the integration won't work properly. For 2 seconds, it detect the media I'm playing, then it just go back to 'n/a' where it can't detect what I'm playing anymore. Please fix this, I'm literally begging you :'( btw, I'm using poweramp as my default music player.
4 ★ This awesome app allows one to build custom widgets for tons of media players and services. For customising one's home screen and making media widgets that fit in, this app is invaluable. 4 star rating is only because the widget no longer updates properly at startup (ie: displaying last completed track instead of current track) using Zooper pro. The only workaround so far is to uncheck the compatibility options, then reselect them. Please fix this and rating will go up to where it should be, at 5 stars.
3 ★ I'd love to give you 5 stars for this, but it keeps crashing, even after removing widgets from screens I still get a message. Google Play Music keeps crashing it too. It'd be great to get 4.4.2 support and bump this up to 5 stars, you have an amazing app for those of us who like customizing our Home screens.
3 ★ The customizable options along with the different app integrations make this a must have! I was surprised to see this even works with Plex. However, it seemed to be buggy and would crash or sometimes just stop working. As a result, I switched to a different widget.
3 ★ Sometimes it gets stuck on a certain app like music even though I have closed music and opened Pandora or Google play music or spotify. The album art will be correct, but the artist and track won't update until I switch back to music. Or it just won't update anything until several phone resets.
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