Originally Posted by
Joseph Young4 But is the app at least slightly on par with the music app I currently have with 8.0? I just don't want to upgrade to windows 8.1 to find that the music app is so bad I'm crying that I upgraded.
The music app in 8.1 is very similar to the "preview" Xbox Music app that got released for 8.0 last December (
Music | Windows Phone Apps+Games Store (United States))
So if you want the 8.1 Music experience without upgrading your phone, install that app, and then imagine it crashing more often and being a lot slower. (But on the plus side, in 8.1 it can save to SD cards, which it couldn't do in 8.0 - so there's that.)