Compatibility with HTC Music app

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Hi! I have been testing some Unofficial HTC Roms for the Android G1. As I 
understand, the HTC Music app is not really related to the default android 
application for playing music. I was just curious, do you have any plans at 
all to develop a version that's compatible with the HTC Music application?

Well, thanks for all the time and effort you have put in the application till 
now, and I really hope you've got some spare time ;)

Thanx :D

Original issue reported on code.google.com by DJF...@gmail.com on 2 Jul 2009 at 4:15

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I'll have a look and see if it's possible. Thanks for the idea.

Original comment by jjc1...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2009 at 6:15

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hi,
i came here to ask this very question. I'm using a custom rom and it's so good 
i wont
be going back, problem is the very nice htc audio app doesn't work with
scrobbledroid. Hope you can work your magic and keep us scrobbling ;)

Original comment by zombie...@gmail.com on 4 Jul 2009 at 5:33

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I'm using an actual HTC hero and I would also love to see scrobble droid work 
with
its music player.

Original comment by priestof...@gmail.com on 27 Jul 2009 at 4:41

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I'm also using a real HTC Hero (rebranded by T-Mobile as the G2 Touch), and I'm 
dying 
to see scrobbledroid work with the HTC music application.

Original comment by rebelbrethren@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2009 at 3:11

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me again :) ... i've now upgraded to a hero, missing scrobbledroid so much! any 
news? 

Original comment by zombie...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2009 at 8:49

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Sorry to keep you all waiting. I've been very busy but I'm planning to look 
into this
in a few days time.

Original comment by jjc1...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2009 at 9:39

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Thanks so much for looking into this - I didn't realise I could see this before 
e-
mailing.

Original comment by tompage...@gmail.com on 3 Aug 2009 at 1:13

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I also have a Hero.
Does anyone know how to run (or download) the 'old' Android music app that 
Scrobble 
Droid current does work with?

Original comment by dave.licence on 3 Aug 2009 at 2:35

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@dave
I was thinking about doing just that yesterday. I previously had a G1 which i 
could
push the new htc music at, which then gave me 2 music players, old & new. I 
could
then remove the old one and be left with the new htc version. 
I'm pretty sure grabbing the music.apk from a standard android build and 
pushing it
at the hero will result in the 2 music players side by side.

I might have a go this evening (after asking on xda devs first ;)

Original comment by zombie...@gmail.com on 3 Aug 2009 at 3:59

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@zombiefly
Thanks - let me know how it goes. If it works, where do I get the music.apk and 
how do 
I push it at the Hero - would the Application Installer in HTC Sync do it, or 
just 
copy it to the SD Card and click it to launch?

Original comment by dave.licence on 3 Aug 2009 at 4:10

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+1 for this - got myself an HTC Hero literally the other day, and was 
disappointed to
find that Scrobbledroid wasn't able to recognize the HTC media player. Good to 
know
you're looking into it!

Original comment by rooki...@gmail.com on 3 Aug 2009 at 6:14

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@dave I was using adb from the android SDK for the G1, i'm not trying that at 
the
moment until i get an answer from xda, don't want to brick the new hero :)

Original comment by zombie...@gmail.com on 3 Aug 2009 at 6:54

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I also flashed my HTC Magic to an unofficial Hero ROM and I really love the new 
music
app and I don't want to "fall back". But I would really love support for 
Scrobble
Droid (sent you a mail about it). Fix it and also release a donate version ;)

Cheers!

Original comment by d.hol...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2009 at 7:55

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ive decided that pushing the old music app onto hero is a no go, mainly as the 
new
htc app is so much better. It is technically possible though.

Original comment by zombie...@gmail.com on 5 Aug 2009 at 10:06

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nice work ^^
I also vote for integration with the HTC Hero music app ;D

Original comment by dv81...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2009 at 4:32

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Issue 25 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by jjc1...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2009 at 2:06

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Can't wait to hear if you get this compatibility issue sorted out. I live in 
Germany
and the official Last.fm app isn't available on our Android market place. I 
still
want to scrobble though, so definitely need this app on my HTC Hero.

Original comment by shaun.be...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2009 at 1:51

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In the meantime I have found that TuneWiki can Scrobble the tracks you play.
I would rather use the HTC Music app due to it having the lock-screen player 
controls, 
but this is a good intermediate solution

Original comment by dave.licence on 14 Aug 2009 at 2:24

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Hello all.

I finally got around to looking into this and the news is good: is looks like 
the HTC
Music app is based on the standard Android Music app, and so Scrobble Droid 
should be
able to talk to it in the same way. I'll hopefully have a beta ready soon.

Original comment by jjc1...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2009 at 9:08

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...annnnnnd done.

Would anyone mind giving a test before I upload it to the Market?

http://static.jjcgames.com/sd104rc1.apk
(Put that address into your phone's browser to install it.)

Thanks.

Original comment by jjc1...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2009 at 6:10

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It looks ok. It caught the songs played with HTC music player, and the upload 
to last.fm is also working.
Thank you.

Original comment by pbek...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2009 at 6:35

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testing now

Original comment by zombie...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2009 at 7:03

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working so far!
Excellent work! :D

Original comment by zombie...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2009 at 7:15

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Works great. Made sure it wasn't listed as a running process in task manager, 
p/question a track, 
opened scrobble droid and it showed a waiting track 

Original comment by dave.licence on 16 Aug 2009 at 7:57

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Will try it later on today. Thank you!

Original comment by d.hol...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2009 at 9:38

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+1, just tried the new package on my HTC Hero (Orange UK) and it seemed to 
scrobble
songs played using the HTC Music Player without a problem. Thanks!

Original comment by chpaton on 16 Aug 2009 at 11:52

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Is scrobbling my music great now. Thank you very much, this is very 
appreciated. Thanks for hard work!

Original comment by vulcan.flame@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2009 at 12:18

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Thx! Works on my HTC Hero :)

Original comment by ronah...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2009 at 6:03

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Thanks a lot for testing, everybody. The new version is up on the Market now.

Original comment by jjc1...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2009 at 10:45

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Hello. On my HTC Hero I was using the basic android music widget (not the HTC 
music
widget, see pictures attached) and the scrobbing was not working (the 
scrobbledroid
queue was still empty and my last.fm account was not updated). Then i changed 
to the
(bigger) HTC music widget and now the scrobbling works.
I am not connected to 3G network, only WiFi.

Is scrobbledroid using the widgets to work ? or Are the widgets leading to two
differents applications (native android music app VS HTC music app)?

Original comment by albangru...@gmail.com on 19 Aug 2009 at 1:42

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Thanks for the info about the different widgets. I'll check it out soon.

Original comment by jjc1...@gmail.com on 20 Aug 2009 at 11:59