[Q] Artist info on lock screen?

[Abhinavad3r]

Hi,
Ive been checking out reviews and other pages about lumia 800 where its said/shown that when the screen is locked while playing music,the artist is displayed as wallpaper and album art appears on the screen too.
This doesnt happen on my device even when i turn the show artist on the lock screen setting. I get the audio controls and track and artist name on screen and my wallpaper changes to something red/pink when i lock while playing music.

Please let me know if its the same with others too or do i have to do anything else for the artist info on lock screen.

 

[anseio]

The artist needs to be recognized in Zune. So... if you play the artist in Zune and you don't see them in the background of their song now playing, then their image will not appear on your lockscreen but for the generic image you're getting.

 

[Wiggy Fuzz]

try getting zune to find the album info. that should let it show in the phone when you re-sync the music.

 

[ChrisKringel]

Have you enabled this under Settings->Lockscreen?

 

[anseio]

Have you enabled this under Settings->Lockscreen?

Yes, that's why the red/pink image is appearing on the lock screen.

 

[DutchmanIII]

i think this only works in countries where a zune music pass / zune music store is available. if you happen to have an unlocked phone, develper or student you can get ne0cr0n's MPAtool to add the art.

check it out here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377210

I use it myself, works perfectly, plus it allows you to choose your own pictures.
The lumia seems quite capable of handling highest picture quality settings btw.

 

[michelis1]

i think this only works in countries where a zune music pass / zune music store is available. if you happen to have an unlocked phone, develper or student you can get ne0cr0n's MPAtool to add the art.

check it out here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377210

I use it myself, works perfectly, plus it allows you to choose your own pictures.
The lumia seems quite capable of handling highest picture quality settings btw.

how do you choose your own pictures?

 

[amrut.m]

as far as i know you cant choose your own pictures for artists...
it changes when zune recognizes your artist while you play the song..
its in their data base...
but,u should have data plan or WiFi connected...

so far i have artists image for,
Justin Bieber
Justin Timberlake
Enrique Iglesias
Katty Perry
Kesha
etc

but have problem with
Eminem
Chemical Brothers

as Image comes in Zune,
but Some How Live Tile does'nt get tat Image....

 

[DutchmanIII]

how do you choose your own pictures?

what I meant with choosing your own pictures is: zune just uses the images from it's database, but this app lets you download and use the one you like from last.fm, your own photoalbum or even from a URL.

I'm not sure how good an idea it is to mix a working zune music store with this app. since no music store or music pass is available to me in my country, it can't interfere with zune's database. you might just be causing problems otherwise.

 

[alfieblues]

i too have this pink/red image. i'm from portugal btw. and i don't believe Zune doesn't recognise Iggy Pop or Arctic Monkeys in his database. -.-

 

[amrut.m]

yes...
it does not recognize many of well known artists....

its a drawback,but still most of them are recognized....