Aria: add cool features to the Music app (Cydia)

Yesterday we talked to you about how Spotify could surprise with its application in future updates to the App Store and about all the advantages and disadvantages that would exist if the tool makes applications compatible on iDevices; Today, we will not talk about Spotify but about the Native Music app and a new tweak from Cydia called Aria. This tweak adds Very interesting functions such as the possibility of adding songs to be played when the one we are listening to ends. If you want to know all the new features that Aria implements in the official iOS 7 "Music" app, just keep reading.

Many new features in the Music app with the Aria tweak

Once again, we went to Cydia and searched for the tweak we are talking about today: «Aria«, Found in the official repo of BigBoss for a price of $ 1.99. A respring is required for Cydia to properly configure Aria's initial settings.

In the settings of our device we find several interesting options that we can configure:

• Tint Colour: By default, the «Music» application has the magenta color as the base color but with Aria we can modify this color for any color we want. In my case, I have chosen the black color.
• Zoom Animation: Within the "Grid Views" option we can see this option, which makes when we click on an album cover, it performs a zoom animation.
• Dark view & blur: If we want that when we enter "Now playing" there is a blur effect, it is necessary to activate this option.
• Shuffle / repeat button image: in the same way, if we want to have the "repeat" and "random" buttons on the "now playing" screen, we will have to activate this option on this occasion.
• Improve lyrics view: By default, whenever we are on the "Now Playing" screen, we will see the lyrics of the song that is being played if we have them in iTunes settings.

But, leaving aside all the aesthetic settings of the «Music» application that allows us to configure Aria, let's see the main function that the tweak performs within the application. We access the songs and if we hold down a song for a few seconds, three different options will appear:

• Play now
• Play last position
• Play later

Depending on what options you have configured for Arias in the tweak's "Settings", More or less design reforms of the «Music» application will appear.