Side B: Cassette Music Widget

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About this app

Your music on a real cassette deck, right on your home screen.

Side B is a Now Playing widget shaped like a pocket cassette player. It works with the music and podcast apps you already use, so your streaming library plays on tape: no MP3 files to copy, nothing to import.

WORKS WITH YOUR APPS
Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Pocket Casts, Bandcamp, Audible, SoundCloud, VLC and pretty much any other music, podcast or audiobook app. Local MP3 player apps work too.

ALWAYS ON YOUR HOME SCREEN
Side B is a widget, not an app you have to open. The deck sits on your home screen all day, shows what is playing and lets you play, pause and skip on keys that sink when pressed, with a click you can hear and feel. Need a break from everything else on your phone? Tap the full screen icon and the deck takes over the whole screen: just you, the tape and the music.

MADE TO LOOK REAL
- 13 decks to choose from, each with its own keys, metal, plastic and light.
- 25 different tapes. A new one slides in with every album, beautifully animated.
- The tape winds for real: it moves from reel to reel as the song plays, and the reels whizz when you skip.
- Your song on the label, hand-written in marker or printed like a store-bought tape.

YOUR QUEUE AS A J-CARD
Tap the middle of the tape and its case slides over the deck with the queue written on the card.
- Retail shows a printed cover.
- Bootleg shows a hand-written queue, like an old mixtape.
Tap any song on the card to jump to it.

THE DECK BENCH
Build your own look: paint the deck any colour, change the room light, stick stickers on it, and choose how much dust, smudges and scratches the glass gets.

FULL SCREEN SCENES
Take the deck full screen on a wooden desk, a sunny beach, a street or plain black. On phones that support it, the deck can also float over a soft blur of your home screen. Swipe to change the scene. Turn your phone and it works in landscape too.

THE HIDDEN COMPARTMENT
Tap the strip under the cassette window and a small compartment slides open: time played, the title scrolling by, a progress bar you can tap to seek, the battery level and a quick launcher for your music apps.

GOOD TO KNOW
- Side B reads only what is playing, never your messages or other notifications. Your music info never leaves your phone. No ads, no accounts, no tracking.
- Allow notification access once so Android lets the widget see the player. Side B walks you through it.
- In podcast and audiobook apps the track keys jump 15 seconds.