Intermittent Lock Screen Media Controls - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Running Codename Android, and as the title says, sometimes the media playback controls show up on my lock screen and sometimes they don't. I haven't been able to figure out what causes them to show up.
Apps: Google Play Music, BeyondPod
BeyondPod uses the stock controls of google play, or appears to. When playing podcasts, the lock screen controls are there about 80% of the time (so far). Is this a common issue? Is there any fix? Or alternatively, is there any free solution which puts universal media controls on the lock screen?
I have looked around and found widget locker, etc but I prefer not to use that.

Mods, close or delete this, sorry. It is for the Samsung Galaxy S3

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I have a very similar issue, but it occurs most often when I automatically connect to Bluetooth in my car. I use Spotify so it clashes with Google Music too and causes this scramble of both players playing music on top of each other.
But I am very curious about this too, although it pops up primarily on my bluetooth. Google Music will just begin playing songs and further more I don't ever use it or initiate it. After a while I will get an error saying "Music has unexpectedly stopped working".
I've also closed the app as much as possible in Settings>Apps so I don't understand why it keeps playing and showing up repeatedly.
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I'm having a problem with music controls not displaying on the lock screen. As I play a song on either pandora or google play music, I'll hit the power button to turn the screen off then back on with no music controls or album art work. It works flawlessly on my galaxy s5. Any suggestions on how to get this functionality back? Thanks
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I randomly started to get this issue where, when I play music, lock and unlock my phone, it'll start to repeatedly crash until I stop playing music. So the cause has to do with the little music display that shows up on the lockscreen when you play music. It'll load into a different looking screen with the same lockscreen background, and not the Album background, and then it'll crash, and it'll just repeat this until I stop the music. Is there a way to disable the music display? I use Doubletwist as my music player. I haven't rooted or tampered with any of the firmware on this device (yet). I have fully updated its firmware, however.
Please let me know if anyone needs extra information to help solve this problem. Thanks in advance!
Edit: This only seems to happen when the track doesn't have any album artwork.

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