Won a 950 - My Thoughts and Questions

Kai Schrimpf

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I won a 950 through some online sweepstakes.
Received it yesterday.
In a whole I am plugged into the Microsoft Infrastructure, but have been using Android Phones for ages.
I have a Surface Pro 3, use OneDrive and MS Office.
As an existing ATT customer all I needed was a Nano Sim and I was underway.

First impressions :
Really nice looking phone, awesome screen, I don?t see any issue with the build quality as others noted.
Once all the updates where installed I was off the the races.
There are a few core things I use my phone for :

Music Player
That to me is the first and foremost requirement, I use MediaMonkey on my desktop and sync my music to a micro SD. I was not impressed with Groove, installed a few others VLC, MixRadio etc.
All I want is an app that discovers my Music on the SD card and discovers my M3U playlists on the SD card. So far none have worked properly. Any suggestions?
I would also like to ensure my played tracks are scrobbled to Last.Fm, which works seamlessly on Android, are there solutions?

Browsing / Ease of Use
May of the operations are clunky, mainly centered around edge, when entering user credentials I need to ?disable? the keyboard at times to get to the next field. There is no easy tab option. Edge in general seems to crash on occasion and is slow / unresponsive even here on the Windows Central site.

Messaging
Great. Love the Skype integration into the messaging app. Both WhatsApp and Threema are available and working nicely

Apps
I don?t use many, but there are a few that I really would love to see, general smaller local operations so not holding my breath.
FlyCleaners ? Dry Cleaning and Laundy Pickup and Delivery (doesn?t have a website alternative so really hamstrung there)
DOTT Dog Tag ? Bluetooth Virtual Leash for pets.
Seamless ? I have no problem using the website, but an app would be nice

If I cant resolve the Music problem, I may switch back, the rest is minor to me.

Any pointers?
 

Kai Schrimpf

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Thank you kindly.

This app looks great indeed. Havent figured out the scrobbling yet, i entered the credentials but it doesnt seem to scrobble.
 

RumoredNow

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It's in the settings. You have to check a box to enable it. I don't scrobble to Last.FM, but I enjoyed the heck out of locally stored scrobble with JukeFox on Android so I understand the want.
 

KaiserKai

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Did that, i set everything in settings, and it seemed to log in, but when I play mic it doesn't propagate to the Last.fm site.
Will have to play around with it some more, maybe contact the author.
 

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The Windows Central site is honestly one of the worst out there for bogging down, especially the desktop version. I have to mod my HOSTS file to even use the site on my Surface 3, or any desktop Windows device really.
 

KaiserKai

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Modern Music was a dead end, couldnt get it to work. But i found Music Locker which works perfectly with last.fm and also lets me import m3u playlists.
 

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