Fusion gets Tubed!!!

800 million unique users.1 Trillion views in a year and is available on 350 million devices.
Undoubtedly YouTube is the most viewed channel in internet. And youtube hosts separate channel for Music too.
And today Fusion brings in YouTube viewing experience to your music.While you listen to the song tap the youtube icon. And Fusion takes you to the matching video in YouTube. Enter into visually enriching experience without shuffling between applications. Too bored to tap enable the "Shake For Video" feature. Now Fusion launches the video just on a gentle shake.
The entire integration has been kept simple to avoid turning Fusion into dedicated video player.
Let us know what mode you need. And we would love to tube Fusion further.
Have a nice weekend
@Team Fusion

Fusion gets little better this Friday

Thanks a ton to all of you. We crossed the 10K mark and received good number of feedbacks.
This keeps us going. We are back this Friday with more changes. And hope you will like them.
            Now you can move Fusion to SD card. This frees up your valuable space.
With this update notification bar will display cover art. And ICS users will also get now playing controls on notification bar as well.
Fusion widget is now bigger. You will get to choose 4*4 widget with transparent back ground.
Keep pouring in your suggestions and comments.
We are committed to make Fusion a better place to enjoy music.

Have a nice weekend
@Team Fusion 

Last.fm is under DDOS attack

Last.fm is either down or very slow for the users. Their status page shows that they are under some kind of DDOS attack. As Fusion depends on Last.fm for few of the features, you might see some delays or failures in them.

You can check Last.fm status page for updated information.
Really sorry for the inconvenience.

                              Gestures,Simplified settings & More Fixes


Oh! Its Friday and time to upgrade your favorite Fusion for more features.
This release is dedicated to users who listen to music all the time.
Fusion understands you much better now. When you want to skip the song ,shake the phone and Fusion moves you to the next song. Isn't it cool? You really don't have to search for the power button ,turn the screen on,unlock the screen and go to your playlist.
                     Now Fusion also supports " Wave Gestures" If your handset is kept on a flat surface you can play pause the song just by holding your hand near proximity sensor.If you want to skip the song just wave the hand and you are onto the next song.
Fusion had quite a lot of categories for online features in settings. Now settings is more unified and easy to use.

For the Geeks here is little detail about Implementation of Shake and Wave Gestures.
                                Now smartphones come with lot many sensors referred as MEMS. These sensors can be utilized to develop really simple but intuitive use cases.
A sensor called accelerometer detects the acceleration along given axis.Simply put, its a mass tied to 3 springs in each direction i.e x,y & z.Whenever there is a movement in any direction the acceleration along that direction changes.This change is used to detect direction of movement. Refer to below image for details

                                
"Shake" feature uses accelerometer to detect the movement and skip the song.
There is one more sensor which is mainly used to turn off the screen when you hold the mobile near your ear.This is called "Proximity Sensor".Proximity sensor emits infrared light and looks for the reflected signal. Whenever there is a object in vicinity light gets reflected back and it gets sensed by the proximity sensor. "Wave Gesture" uses the input from proximity sensor to detect hand movement.

Fig . 2 Proximity Sensor

Have a Nice Weekend
@Team Fusion

New Release (Lock Screen ,Retaining Album Art and Bug Fixes)
           
              After the week of our 1st release we are back with an upgrade. Thanks to all of you for sharing your feedback. This one week has been hectic. Adding lock screen, fixing bugs(part of software life) and trying to close other open issues in Fusion.
1. Seamless lock screen for both Online and Offline Music
             Most of you have commented and sent a mail saying Fusion is missing the lock screen.
We have added one now. Thanks to @ G4m3rH34d @ marisol @ Kyle @e 
2. Retaining pre existing Album Art
            Few of you felt that Fusion is removing embedded album art and adding a new one.
However what Fusion does is to copy the album art in separate folder. And show the downloaded album art in Albums pane . This ensured that we dont edit your embedded album art and all information remained intact.
Now Fusion does not fetch album art if your song already has one. However you can go ahead edit meta data if you need to change existing album art.
For users who have got the upgrade :
To make Fusion show your Album Art please go to
Settings -> Device -> Apps-> Downloaded->Fusion-> Clear Data
This clears all the temporary Album Art. And player starts showing album art embedded in the file. But please note that clearing data would also clear cached artist images, bio, ratings if any.
Please check @marisol @Amit Gupta
3. Few of you have been kind enough to report bugs. We have fixed most of them.
    Mainly intermittent crashes when using equalizer & Visualizer
 Next week we have got something more exciting. Will keep you posted in the blog. 
    Request you to share any issues, feedback or suggestions to us. And we will strive to make your Fusion better. 


Have a Nice Weekend
@Team Fusion

  

Related Music "No Results found"

Related music for albums and artists and online features like Artist Bio is either working intermittently or sometimes not functional.

Last.fm one of our online sources is down since 10th July 2012 and web services is still not consistently  operational.

http://status.last.fm/

Edit Metadata is an option to fetch better results if the embedded album/ artist info is not complete or proper. But, currently because of the downtime in our online source, even if the meta data is complete, there are high chances that you would see "No Results found".

Really sorry for the inconvenience and will keep you posted once the service is completely restored.

[Update] last.fm web services are operational now and you must be able to get your favourite online songs and related information as before. Thanks for your support.

Last.fm is down

Last.fm is currently experiencing some issues due to which the online suggestions and related music features would not be functional. Sorry for the incovenience. Will keep you updated when the service is back.

[Edit] Some Last.fm apis seem to be working intermittently, still very slow.

[Edit] All Last.fm apis seem to be down. Not working at all.

[Edit] Most of the Last.fm web services are still down. Charts sometimes works.

http://status.last.fm/