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It would be nice to have access to the currently playing track/lyrics for users that already have the android app installed and pay for your service -- Similar to how the Spotify Android SDK includes an app-remote.aar library file that communicates/authenticates with the locally installed Spotify app/account through IPC and controls playback.

Was this library designed to do something similar or is there some other way to do this?

In Android 5.0 Lollipop, Service Intents must now be explicit. Calling 'musixmatchLyricsConnector.doBindService()' throws an 'IllegalArgumentException':.

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Service Intent must be explicit: Intent {     act=com.musixmatch.android.services.RemoteScrobblingService }
        at android.app.ContextImpl.validateServiceIntent(ContextImpl.java:1674)
        at android.app.ContextImpl.bindServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:1773)
        at android.app.ContextImpl.bindService(ContextImpl.java:1751)
        at android.content.ContextWrapper.bindService(ContextWrapper.java:538)
        at com.musixmatch.lyrics.musiXmatchLyricsConnector.doBindService(musiXmatchLyricsConnector.java:334)

Info from the Google developer docs: (http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-5.0.html)

"If your app binds to a Service...

The Context.bindService() method now requires an explicit Intent, and throws an exception if given an implicit intent. To ensure your app is secure, use an explicit intent when starting or binding your Service, and do not declare intent filters for the service."