My Xbox Music Now Playing Screen is now fine..thanks to MPAtool

Stan Faustino

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Xbox Music has been not showing my Album / Artist Lockscreen since it was released. But now Running on my 1020 with Cyan and PD Update 1, its now working. God how i missed the Lockscreen Now Playing. Just download the MPAtool, and redownload your Album Art / Artist. It said it is not compatible with 8.1 but try it it now work fine again with 8.1 PFD Update 1.. Enjoy

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So, MPATool is now able to apply artist artwork?

That's fantastic news! We actually have a way to fill in the gaps for those of us who listen to non-English artists!

Album artwork also works?
 
Thread resurrection:

It wasn't directly stated--but in case anyone was wondering, MPATool does apply artist artwork to the lock screen.

Though, noticeably, not to the album artwork in the actual Xbox Music app--that seems to require Xbox Music data. It'd be nice if the creators of MPATool took a crack at it, but that's not their responsibility I guess.
 
Why it is no live tile on Windows phone 8.1 cyan.

Could be two reasons:

1) the region your device is set to isn't supported by XBox Music, which is required to gather the data shown in the background of the app/on the live tile/on the lockscreen

2) the artist you're listening to isn't in the Xbox Music catalog.

Many people confuse this, so let me try and clear it up for you. :) What is shown on the Live tile and/or lockscreen is NOT the album art. It's information gathered from the Xbox Music catalog about the artist currently playing.
 
It still doesn't work for me. I utilized the mpa tool and it only works when I go into the lock screen settings and turn the artist background setting off and on again. Happens on both my 920 and 1520. Wish there were a simpler way for this to work. Its one of my favorite features, especially to show off, and never works properly