Kevin Rush
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Bump. This string is a great read about the music Experience on our Windows devices. Please read the comments, learn, think, and VOTE for improvements.
I have two phones. A Lumia 520 and a Lumia 920. On my 920, it's usable, but barely. It takes a long time to load, gives me black screens, is sluggish, and so forth..Maybe I am not using the xbox music correctly or something because I have no issues with it. I click play random and shuffle and it plays music. I skip ones I don't want to listen to at the moment. Am I missing something? Where is the unusable part.
I am running WP8.1 DP
I seriously doubt that anyone that worked on the Zune has anything to do with this mess, or they would know exactly what we are talking about. Its like we are speaking Chinese to them. For the last time, CONCENTRATE ON HOW IT HANDLES OUR OWN PERSONAL LIBRARY!!! This isn't really that hard.Just look at the latest Xbox Music update. It took them two ducking weeks to add a swipe feature for songs. It's very laggy, and that's the only thing they added. How can it be so hard for them?
I vote for Johnny Westlake.They gave the Xbox Music project to their remote location in France for reasons I'm not entirely sure off.
Just give Rudy Huyn $50,000, Microsoft. He'll have the app done in 3 days, released in 4, and then 60 updates over the course of 90 days.
Yep . This and the video app need to jump bounds in each update. Not baby steps. Three latest update came out.... No live tile still (is our considered "still" when we originally had out but taken away?)They've released updates every 2 weeks (as they said they would), but it's far from being a marketable app. If 8.1 gets a proper release with media playing in this state, my handsets are going back - they can't advertise a feature that simply doesn't work as a reasonable consumer might expect.
Don't know why the updates aren't showing for a Z1 though.
It was available outside the US, it was also baked into WP7. Anybody can still download the Zune desktop app I believe.
Music seems to have become a complete afterthought in the MS ecosystem. No standalone music device or service would ever survive on its own in the current state of XBM. They only have customers because it's pushed as the default via the current platforms.
Can you imagine anybody buying an mp3 player that had such quirky functionality!? No recent played list, dodgy playlist support, DRM bugs, making it a PITA to manage your own music collection forcing you to cloud match songs to a limited online repository and be subjected to stream first ideology (requiring a 3rd party dataplan!?). It just wouldn't happen anywhere else - it's an absolute crazy mess now!
Use Zune every day; it's available here: Download Zune Software 4.8 from Official Microsoft Download Center
and here: Download and Install the Zune Music + Video Software
and elsewhere...
For past users, the installation package may still be in your Download folder.
Use Zune every day; it's available here: Download Zune Software 4.8 from Official Microsoft Download Center
and here: Download and Install the Zune Music + Video Software
and elsewhere...
For past users, the installation package may still be in your Download folder.
I do like the Apple iTunes Match, it's easily to use. When you play a song on the cloud, it automatically download it. You can also download a bunch of them. Syncing is nice, play counts, favorites are all synced with cloud - smart playlists included.I love Microsoft's new direction but I won't be buying another Windows Phone until they bring back the Zune Desktop Software and Sync capabilities or something similar.
"The Cloud" and "Streaming-Services" are over-rated.