topic Re: Album cover as background in Android

Album cover as background

danwl — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:31:35 GMT

Hello!

When I listen to music and see the lockscreen, so there is the album cover of the track that Im listen to. Is it possible to set the album covers as background? so that it changes automatically with each song.

Re: Album cover as background

Joe — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:38:26 GMT

What version of android are you using? I have a feeling that full screen cover art is a feature of android 4.3.

Re: Album cover as background

danwl — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:13:14 GMT

Android 4.4.2. In the lockscreen the covers are displayed in fullscreen, thats Ok. But I dont want to see the covers only at the lockscreen, I want to see the covers in fullscreen also when the phone is unlocked.

Re: Album cover as background

Joe — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:19:59 GMT

Ah sorry, I misunderstood. No there's no way to do this although it would be pretty cool, especially if we can have higher resolution covers.

Re: Album cover as background

bryanizmir — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:33:02 GMT

Do you know were Spotify stores album art in the Android system? If so, you can use Tasker to get the picture and set as wallpaper. I am looking into this myself for the same reason

Re: Album cover as background

Joe — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:54:43 GMT

They'll be in the encrypted cache and inaccessible to third party apps.

Re: Album cover as background

fmaylinch — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 11:22:03 GMT

Now I was searching for this feature. Would be really cool.

Re: Album cover as background

jueueuergen — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 22:51:17 GMT

Yes, please!

Re: Album cover as background

N3RO — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 12:44:37 GMT

Sorry, I know this thread is years old already. I just want to reply, because somebody might see this and is still looking for a solution.

There is a workaround which requires an app called "Muzei Live wallpaper" (link 1). Since this app is open source, people can create extentions for it. One of them is called "Muzei Music Extension" (link 2) and does exactly what you want.

You will need to set it up and give the app notification access, in order to let it see what song you are currently playing. Keep in mind that is might use your mobile data in order to download the cover from last.fm if is can not find it on your phone for whatever reason (song not fully downloaded by spotify etc.).

Link 1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.muzei

Link 2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplecity.muzei.music&hl=de