Zooper Music Widget Tutorial

Written by ZooperDooper !k5XZ5Kd13s and edited by !cfkaiwenfk for /wg/

ZOOPER MUSIC PLAYER WIDGET TUTORIAL:

Things you will need -
Zooper Widget
Apex/Nova/Themer/Go Launcher
Media Utilities

So you've got yourself a nice theme but you feel it's lacking something...something to give you a little bit more control. Freedom. Aesthetic. You know what I'm talking about, your own custom music player. It's easy to do if you just follow these steps.

1. Open up Zooper and pick the widget sized you want (I run an 5x8 grid so I usually go for 3x2 for my music player)

2. Go into the Media Utilities app, find the settings tab in the menu, and under "Application Integration" check the box for Zooper. Also, under "Experimental features", check "Send Song Progress" and "Use alternative data collection".

3. Now this part, you can either use your phones default music icons, or install or create your own and import them using the Bitmap option rather than the scalable bitmap icon option.

4. Once you've placed a play, next, and previous button in the layout in zooper, open each individually and go to "On Module Tap". Here, you should be able to swipe right to "Shortcuts", look for Media Utilities Shortcuts. Here you will find a list of options for your music player. Make each icon match its respectable function.

It's really as easy as that for the controls. Next, the song name, artist, and album cover.

Make a text layer, go to "edit text manually" and type in: #TMU_ARTIST#

Make another text layer, go to edit text manually and type in: #TMU_TRACK#

Make a progress bar layer and go to edit min/max values, and change the "Value" to: #TMU_TRACK_PERC#
(https://d.maxfile.ro/ttkhrustzo.png)

Now arrange all of these items as you please and you should now have a working music player! Oh, for album art, I usually make a separate widget. Make an image layer, go to Advanced Paramaters at the bottom, and change it to [b]#TMU_COVERART[/b].

This tells your phone to locate the path to the music file being played's art, and subsequently displays it on the homescreen.

LIST OF VARIABLES:
Album - #TMU_ALBUM#
Artist - #TMU_ARTIST#
Track - #TMU_TRACK#
select your own position to truncate the text for tr=xx in above examples

#TMU_TRACK_NUM#
is track number

#TMU_TRACK_PERC#
is % position that be used in battery bar to show progress

#TMU_PLAYTIME#
is current play position mm:ss format

#TMU_TRACK_LENGTH#
is how long the track is in mm:ss format

#TMU_YEAR#
is year from tag

#TMU_CURR_APP#
is pretty name of current media app