Artwork on Google Music and Lockscreen is blurry

Chad_Petree · Nov 7, 2013

I dont get it, when I use Google Music the albums artwork looks a little blurry , which is annoying since the album art takes over 70% of the music app, now with Kit Kat we have the album cover taking over the lockscreen, actually it becomes the wallpaper when we're listening something , still looks blurry.

What size does Google uses for these images? I make sure my albums have HQ album covers, at least 900x900 and they still look blurry, maybe it's an android issue?

Hell even the kit kat promo showing off the new lockscreen looks blurry

Tomatot- · Nov 7, 2013

Chad_Petree said:
I dont get it, when I use Google Music the albums artwork looks a little blurry , which is annoying since the album art takes over 70% of the music app, now with Kit Kat we have the album cover taking over the lockscreen, actually it becomes the wallpaper when we're listening something , still looks blurry, what size does Google uses for these images? I make sure my albums have HQ album covers, at least 900x900 and they still look blurry, maybe it's an android issue? hell even the kit kat promos showing off the new lockscreen looks blurry

With my N4 most of ths covers seem clean. Maybe because of Full HD

adiliyo · Nov 7, 2013

music i got from play music all access covers are sharp and clear, maybe 900x900 being stretched over 1920x1080 is causing them to become blurry? since the system is also cropping and zooming the image to fit as well...

maybe try 1024x1024? or 1200x1200?

Chad_Petree · Nov 12, 2013

adiliyo said:
music i got from play music all access covers are sharp and clear, maybe 900x900 being stretched over 1920x1080 is causing them to become blurry? since the system is also cropping and zooming the image to fit as well...

maybe try 1024x1024? or 1200x1200?

Lately I've been using 1200x1200 and they still look blurry, also album covers can't be 1920x1080 because the aspect ratio is totally different , I made a couple of caps, check out the text where it says CHVRCHES on caps (yellow), it looks blurry. it doesn't look that bad on the phone but still it's quite noticeable

adiliyo · Nov 12, 2013

that looks more like compression artifacts than blurryness or a cropping issue. do you have the original image to compare against? but it looks like google is compressing the image and that's the cause for the poor quality.

is that file stored on your phone locally or are you streaming it?

Chad_Petree · Nov 12, 2013

adiliyo said:
that looks more like compression artifacts than blurryness or a cropping issue. do you have the original image to compare against? but it looks like google is compressing the image and that's the cause for the poor quality.

is that file stored on your phone locally or are you streaming it?

This is the original image, which looks perfect on my mac

, the files are stored on my phone, no streaming whatsoever :crying:

andluk · Nov 28, 2013

Chad_Petree said:
This is the original image, which looks perfect on my mac , the files are stored on my phone, no streaming whatsoever :crying:

i'm also not fine with the quality of the lock screen album art. i hope it will be able to chose the zoom. I personally don't like to see just this small area of the album art. i prefer black bars top and bottom and seeing the full album art than this crappy quality half of the album art

any chances to change the album art size?

Badd_blood · Nov 29, 2013

For perfect album art quality on the lockscreen you need it to be 1920x1920 or larger.

Is there any way to stop the full screen album art in kitkat?

Dragn4rce · Nov 29, 2013

Just Google the most high res version of all your covera like I do. I stream them and they usually look perfect.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

dj96 · Dec 6, 2013

I have a S3 on kitkat, but I get the same problem

Some of the album art pics are larger than the screen resolution, but it still appears blurry...

I still haven't found a fix for it.

*sigh* I guess I'll just have to get used to it.

Chad_Petree · Dec 7, 2013

Badd_blood said:
For perfect album art quality on the lockscreen you need it to be 1920x1920 or larger.

Is there any way to stop the full screen album art in kitkat?

are you sure 1920x1920 I think album covers have a different aspect ratio, I don't know which one is it but i downloaded a 1920x1920 file and compared to an album cover over 1900 and they have different aspect ratios

Badd_blood · Dec 7, 2013

Chad_Petree said:
are you sure 1920x1920 I think album covers have a different aspect ratio, I don't know which one is it but i downloaded a 1920x1920 file and compared to an album cover over 1900 and they have different aspect ratios

Yes, album arts have an aspect ratio of 1:1, they are a square. In Kitkat it zooms in the album art fullscreen though.

Tip: I found that going into my Play Music library on the computer I can edit album info and google gives suggested artwork that is very high quality.

El Daddy · Dec 7, 2013

Badd_blood said:
Yes, album arts have an aspect ratio of 1:1, they are a square. In Kitkat it zooms in the album art fullscreen though.

Tip: I found that going into my Play Music library on the computer I can edit album info and google gives suggested artwork that is very high quality.

I didn't know they added that feature. Last time I tried to organize my library it wasn't there. Thanks!

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