Ok, so the day many of us have been waiting for has arrived- we can stream music off of OneDrive with Xbox Music Player. I am very excited, and it just so happened that it came a few days after I bought three years worth of Xbox Music Pass as well, which committed me to using the music player. But I have had some issues and I wanted to run them by the community to see if others have experienced any of these, if people have any thoughts, or if I should just expect this to remain as buggy as the old Xbox Cloud Player setup was. I don't know if this forum is the best place for this in terms of getting real help, but this is a great and knowledgable community and I don't really know where else to go. So here are the issues I have had so far:
1. I have added my collection, about 31 gb, to the music folder and it is all uploaded. I always stored it on OneDrive anyway, but now it is moved to the right folder. If I go to music.xbox.com, all of my music is there that matches exactly to my what my zune software shows (same numbers of songs, artists, albums, etc.). But on my phone and my two separate Xbox Music Player apps between desktop and Surface Pro, I have different music.
2. On my phone, I can't tell how much is there or missing, but there are a number of double songs (one of the doubles always fails to play, so I can remove them), and there are also albums missing songs. There are virtually no settings to mess with inside Windows Phone 8.1 Music app. I figured I'd give it a few days to sort out, but it has been several days and it hasn't sorted out. Since the inital upload and the songs were added to the phone, nothing has changed at all on the phone. So it isn't adding anything that has been left off and it isn't cleaning up duplicate songs.
3. On my Xbox Music Player app on my desktop pc (where the OneDrive files are actually stored locally), I have had some issues. For example, everything showed up in OneDrive music, but some of it showed that it had to stream some of the songs even though those songs are stored locally on the computer. When I switch to "all music", anything that showed that it needed to stream under the OneDrive music tab ends up showing up as double listed. If I remove the double version, it says that it will delete from both my collection and OneDrive. I decided to take one album that was double listed and physically remove it from OneDrive, wait for that to pass through the servers down to the music app. It then shows the album single listed, available for streaming only. I deleted the streaming only version, then re-uploaded the album in OneDrive. The album shows up under "all music" and shows up in my OneDrive collection at music.xbox.com, but I can't make it show up under OneDrive music on the local player that I had deleted and re-uploaded from. So I have the two-fold problem of how to remove the duplicate songs (I do have remove duplicates checked under settings) and how to get it to list albums that I removed to delete the duplicates but then re-uploaded.
4. When I went to work and checked my Surface Pro on Sunday, again, from music.xbox.com all the music is listed. However, when I bring up the Xbox Music Player app on my Surface, it is short five albums and over 100 songs. I can't do anything to make it scan again and add the missing songs, but the online collection shows all the songs/albums that the app is missing. I gave it several hours to update and add everything and it ended and stayed at those numbers, short of what it should have.
5. I can't get a consistent number of files showing up in the OneDrive folder in the file explorer (on the same device or across devices). I was listed as having 5403 files in my Music folder on OneDrive. I know that isn't all music, I only have about 3900 songs, so the rest is either album art or hidden files. But yesterday when I turned on my computer, OneDrive started uploading 3gb of data, all music, even though there was nothing new to add. It did add double copies of some of my songs and I had to go through all 452 folders in my music folder and manually remove the duplicates that it randomly decided to re-upload. I don't know why it did this and it will be very annoying if it keeps doing it. But beyond that problem, after it was done uploading and I was done manually removing the duplicates from the folders, I still end up with the OneDrive folder showing more than the 5403 files I am supposed to have. I can't find any other duplicates, so I don't know if these are hidden files or what.
5A. Continuing from that last point, when I went to my Surface Pro on Sunday (at my office), it only showed about 4300 files in the Music folder, and no matter how many times I made OneDrive resync, that number never changed. So it is showing over 1000 less files on OneDrive from my second computer. From my Surface, I leave the music as stored on-line only, so I don't know if there are some files that just wouldn't show up (hidden system files or something). When I came back to my home pc where the files are stored locally, it still has the higher number of files, over 5400, in the same folder.
6. There are also some minor issues that I can live with, but that are worth throwing out there just because they are there. Xbox Music Player changed metadata (even though I have it turned off to update metadata), including changing genres of some of my stuff. It didn't only change genres, but changed things to genres that don't exist. For example, some lecture series that I have are classified as "books & spoken." Some were changed to "boo." Also, many of my albums now show up as having been released a year earlier than they were. Not a huge deal, but annoying since I always sort my album list (which is my default preferred view) by release year.
So, that is a whole lot of stuff. I tried to be thorough. I am not trying to be a complainer or whiner. I am a Microsoft fan and own a lot of Microsoft products. I guess I am looking for advice, help, direction, or, at least, hearing that others are seeing the same kinds of things. I had hoped that it would sort itself out over a few days because I am sure that the servers and whatnot are swamped. But at this point, these issues are beyond "it just needs time to populate through the servers." Should I expect to see these issues sorted out more in coming updates to the music player apps? Am I foolish to think they will ever be addressed? Or am I the only one having issues in the first place?
Thanks everyone. :smile:
1. I have added my collection, about 31 gb, to the music folder and it is all uploaded. I always stored it on OneDrive anyway, but now it is moved to the right folder. If I go to music.xbox.com, all of my music is there that matches exactly to my what my zune software shows (same numbers of songs, artists, albums, etc.). But on my phone and my two separate Xbox Music Player apps between desktop and Surface Pro, I have different music.
2. On my phone, I can't tell how much is there or missing, but there are a number of double songs (one of the doubles always fails to play, so I can remove them), and there are also albums missing songs. There are virtually no settings to mess with inside Windows Phone 8.1 Music app. I figured I'd give it a few days to sort out, but it has been several days and it hasn't sorted out. Since the inital upload and the songs were added to the phone, nothing has changed at all on the phone. So it isn't adding anything that has been left off and it isn't cleaning up duplicate songs.
3. On my Xbox Music Player app on my desktop pc (where the OneDrive files are actually stored locally), I have had some issues. For example, everything showed up in OneDrive music, but some of it showed that it had to stream some of the songs even though those songs are stored locally on the computer. When I switch to "all music", anything that showed that it needed to stream under the OneDrive music tab ends up showing up as double listed. If I remove the double version, it says that it will delete from both my collection and OneDrive. I decided to take one album that was double listed and physically remove it from OneDrive, wait for that to pass through the servers down to the music app. It then shows the album single listed, available for streaming only. I deleted the streaming only version, then re-uploaded the album in OneDrive. The album shows up under "all music" and shows up in my OneDrive collection at music.xbox.com, but I can't make it show up under OneDrive music on the local player that I had deleted and re-uploaded from. So I have the two-fold problem of how to remove the duplicate songs (I do have remove duplicates checked under settings) and how to get it to list albums that I removed to delete the duplicates but then re-uploaded.
4. When I went to work and checked my Surface Pro on Sunday, again, from music.xbox.com all the music is listed. However, when I bring up the Xbox Music Player app on my Surface, it is short five albums and over 100 songs. I can't do anything to make it scan again and add the missing songs, but the online collection shows all the songs/albums that the app is missing. I gave it several hours to update and add everything and it ended and stayed at those numbers, short of what it should have.
5. I can't get a consistent number of files showing up in the OneDrive folder in the file explorer (on the same device or across devices). I was listed as having 5403 files in my Music folder on OneDrive. I know that isn't all music, I only have about 3900 songs, so the rest is either album art or hidden files. But yesterday when I turned on my computer, OneDrive started uploading 3gb of data, all music, even though there was nothing new to add. It did add double copies of some of my songs and I had to go through all 452 folders in my music folder and manually remove the duplicates that it randomly decided to re-upload. I don't know why it did this and it will be very annoying if it keeps doing it. But beyond that problem, after it was done uploading and I was done manually removing the duplicates from the folders, I still end up with the OneDrive folder showing more than the 5403 files I am supposed to have. I can't find any other duplicates, so I don't know if these are hidden files or what.
5A. Continuing from that last point, when I went to my Surface Pro on Sunday (at my office), it only showed about 4300 files in the Music folder, and no matter how many times I made OneDrive resync, that number never changed. So it is showing over 1000 less files on OneDrive from my second computer. From my Surface, I leave the music as stored on-line only, so I don't know if there are some files that just wouldn't show up (hidden system files or something). When I came back to my home pc where the files are stored locally, it still has the higher number of files, over 5400, in the same folder.
6. There are also some minor issues that I can live with, but that are worth throwing out there just because they are there. Xbox Music Player changed metadata (even though I have it turned off to update metadata), including changing genres of some of my stuff. It didn't only change genres, but changed things to genres that don't exist. For example, some lecture series that I have are classified as "books & spoken." Some were changed to "boo." Also, many of my albums now show up as having been released a year earlier than they were. Not a huge deal, but annoying since I always sort my album list (which is my default preferred view) by release year.
So, that is a whole lot of stuff. I tried to be thorough. I am not trying to be a complainer or whiner. I am a Microsoft fan and own a lot of Microsoft products. I guess I am looking for advice, help, direction, or, at least, hearing that others are seeing the same kinds of things. I had hoped that it would sort itself out over a few days because I am sure that the servers and whatnot are swamped. But at this point, these issues are beyond "it just needs time to populate through the servers." Should I expect to see these issues sorted out more in coming updates to the music player apps? Am I foolish to think they will ever be addressed? Or am I the only one having issues in the first place?
Thanks everyone. :smile:
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