Is it just me or the WP8 music app is sluggish? For example when you switch to the next song the music changes but it takes at least two seconds for the app to change the song title and album artwork.
Haven't noticed this on my 8X , maybe it's been fixed with portico
It's horribly slow; there's the lag in switching songs, then there's also a brief delay when you hit play an album or artist, and when you try to play all music it brings the phone to its knees, it won't do anything for ten seconds, then the music starts, but it takes another ten seconds for everything else to unfreeze and switch to the now playing screen. This may be related to the fact that I have about 2500 songs on it, but still, my old Zune could handle almost 2000 without a problem.
With it off, is it smooth to swipe between songs? I get a bit of delay on my Omnia 7, interested how much it has improved on WP8 devices.I switched off "Connect to Xbox Music" in the settings and I no longer get the lag that I sometimes get when selecting songs, albums, etc. But I also no longer get bio's etc. Xbox Music needs so much work it is not even funny.
I noticed that some albums become sluggish when skipping from track to track and some are not. So I thought this could be a tag reading issue.
I tried removing all the tags of my select songs using mp3tag and then update the tags again thru windows media player.
The player became snappy again.