8.1 Developer Preview Everything Music Thread

[nexialbinding]

Xbox Music is still a long way from where the old hub was, and now the dev that made the shortcut to the old hub decided to charge money for all tiles. So I've been looking at the NFC trick, and trying to find a way to launch the old hub without a tag. The only information I got from reading the NFC tag was the Music+Videos app ID, but I don't know what I can do with that. As far as I can tell, the only way to launch an app without an NFC tag is with URI, and if the old hub has a URI identifier, I can't find it anywhere.

Any ideas anyone? I can post the app ID if that's useful, but so far it has done nothing for me.

 

[agd87]

Can anyone confirm if the playlist issue has been sorted out? (keeps making duplicate playlists). I don't want to use the app until this has been sorted out because it messes up my playlists on the hidden music app too.

 

[Guzzler3]

There is an option in the settings menu on Xbox music to remove streaming music from the music collection lol

It doesn't always work!!! Which is why posted this.

Also, if you select songs to delete from the cloud in XBM for TabletPC (W8.x), it will delete your local copies as well. And again, it doesn't always work. Above was the only way I could find to clear out the list.

 

[Guzzler3]

Can anyone confirm if the playlist issue has been sorted out? (keeps making duplicate playlists). I don't want to use the app until this has been sorted out because it messes up my playlists on the hidden music app too.

Again, go to Xbox Music and clear out your playlists from there.

 

[garfieldm89]

i updated to Windows phone 8.1 preview, and after this i have not been able to sync music or playlist with mediamonkey / windows media player / windows phone app for desktop.

normal copy paste is also not working.

Any solution or any experience with this kind of issue?

Using Lumia 920

 

[Jack Janik]

Guys please? Everytime I pause an album and resume it it comes out through only one channel. :-(

 

[tapehead]

Well actually Xbox Music is pretty much only available to people on the dev preview at the moment (besides Lumia 630 owners) so until they release the whole OS officially technically it's all a beta. And in regard to the negative image thing, people forget that this is still an OS build UNDER DEVELOPMENT and the fact that it is a non-final version with some bugs. The Music app is such an example. So it's silly to complain as if it were the full version because there are still bugs and kinks which will most likely be worked out by the final release. You have to accept some bugs for a developing OS, and MS did say this themselves

They may have taken an apparent step backward in regards to the music app, but heck, for a developer preview I'd say we're all lucky there aren't any major bugs in it (I had the iOS 7 beta 1 preview on my iPhone and all the wireless radios would not work)

Not to be rude, but this is some serious misinformation. Xbox Music Beta has been freely and openly available in the market for months before 8.1 was even on the horizon.

 

[Zulfigar]

Not to be rude, but this is some serious misinformation. Xbox Music Beta has been freely and openly available in the market for months before 8.1 was even on the horizon.

I think it was January or February that it came out? I don't fully remember.

 

[kansal]

I am running WP8.1 developer preview on L720.
I have been unable to update the Xbox Music as it is showing an error with error code "80070127".

any info regrading it??

 

[dlalonde]

Not to be rude, but this is some serious misinformation. Xbox Music Beta has been freely and openly available in the market for months before 8.1 was even on the horizon.

Exactly! Not only that but the store doesn't even say it's in beta which is why I'm a little tired of getting told that I should not complain or be worried for Microsoft's image because "it's under development". Windows Phone 8.1 "dev preview" is actually RTM and the Xbox Music app is being given as a completed app unless you follow WP news which not everyone does.

 

[agd87]

Again, go to Xbox Music and clear out your playlists from there.

I have already done this and every time I re-sync my phone with the 'windows phone app for desktop' it keeps making a duplicate.

 

[emptyfish]

I am fed up of rebooting again and again but the problem doesn't go away until I reboot the phone.

I'm having an issue with my Lumia 920 earphone/headset..

After 8.1 updation, whenever I plug my headphones, there's no sound coming from the right earphone. When I pull the jack, the sound comes from both sides.

Any ideas ?

It happens to me if I get a notification while a headset is connected (or Bluetooth).
A workaround I have used is to disable alerts when you have your headset connected. When you connect your headset, click volume up or down to open audio settings. In the lower right, tap the bell icon that says "ringer on" to toggle off ringer and notifications. It's not ideal, but its been working for me.



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[Guzzler3]

I have already done this and every time I re-sync my phone with the 'windows phone app for desktop' it keeps making a duplicate.

Duplicate playlists, and/or duplicate songs?

I ran into duplicate songs when I was sync'ing with the WP Desktop Program. What I ended up doing to correct it was to delete the songs on the phone that were in the playlists. Then sync'ing. When you sync with the WP Desktop Program it recopies the music files over to the phone with the playlist(s) (dumb, really dumb since playlists are really just pointers to files).

But, with the new XBM app I quit sync'ing playlists and just create the playlists on the phone. They did finally make it rather easy in the latest builds. Just go to the Playlist section, create a new playlist name, then it brings up the all music list with check boxes. Check off which songs you want in the playlist and save. Done. Or you can do it in reverse, select songs, then add to a playlist.

 

[agd87]

Duplicate playlists, and/or duplicate songs?

I ran into duplicate songs when I was sync'ing with the WP Desktop Program. What I ended up doing to correct it was to delete the songs on the phone that were in the playlists. Then sync'ing. When you sync with the WP Desktop Program it recopies the music files over to the phone with the playlist(s) (dumb, really dumb since playlists are really just pointers to files).

But, with the new XBM app I quit sync'ing playlists and just create the playlists on the phone. They did finally make it rather easy in the latest builds. Just go to the Playlist section, create a new playlist name, then it brings up the all music list with check boxes. Check off which songs you want in the playlist and save. Done. Or you can do it in reverse, select songs, then add to a playlist.

Thank you for the advice. Unfortunately I need to sync my playlists from my iTunes using the ' windows phone app for desktop' so I can't put the songs I want manually. My playlists change quite regularly.

 

[fiveaces01]

glad to hear someone is working towards a solution that will satisfy the audiophiles on WP...me included!!

 

[fiveaces01]

the easiest way to do playlists is make them in the zune desktop app and they show up in playlists in the wp metro app when you go to sync music from the pc to the phone. Have had no problems with metadata or duplicate entries when doing it this way.

 

[Sergio Zamorano Ulloa]

Duplicate playlists, and/or duplicate songs?

I ran into duplicate songs when I was sync'ing with the WP Desktop Program. What I ended up doing to correct it was to delete the songs on the phone that were in the playlists. Then sync'ing. When you sync with the WP Desktop Program it recopies the music files over to the phone with the playlist(s) (dumb, really dumb since playlists are really just pointers to files).

But, with the new XBM app I quit sync'ing playlists and just create the playlists on the phone. They did finally make it rather easy in the latest builds. Just go to the Playlist section, create a new playlist name, then it brings up the all music list with check boxes. Check off which songs you want in the playlist and save. Done. Or you can do it in reverse, select songs, then add to a playlist.

You don't get your songs wiped off the playlist? I create playlists directly on phone, but it just keep deleting songs from the playlist. Funny is that this happen to any "second" playlist i create. The first one works ok.

 

[kranthi prasad]

All The Xbox apps are worst apps from the Microsoft.......please replace them with Nokia music &video.......Xbox games is too slower than old version in Lumia black.........in Xbox music radio shows the action is only for the signed in subscribers after the login also.......and there is no manual options to logging into Xbox music,video& games

 

[Ebuka Allison]

All The Xbox apps are worst apps from the Microsoft.......please replace them with Nokia music &video.......Xbox games is too slower than old version in Lumia black.........in Xbox music radio shows the action is only for the signed in subscribers after the login also.......and there is no manual options to logging into Xbox music,video& games

They (along with one drive) share the status of being both built in and store updatable, that means that they integrate into the Microsoft account by necessity, just like facetime and google apps integrate with the gmail account. Xbox video is great, Xbox music is getting there and Xbox games are meh. Didn't really use it much

 

[omgitsnick]

I'm starting to hate Xbox Music app now, I used to be subtle about it, stuck with all its imperfections since 8. And now that it's the main music player in 8.1, I'm starting to hate it even more everytime I use it.

First was the skipping lag, whenever I press next or previous there's an awful delay or 2 seconds to skip a track. I've put up with it until the latest update which somehow fixed it.

And then a week ago I noticed I was getting the familiar song duplication. I don't know how I got it but somehow there are two tracks of the same song, and if I delete one it would indicate the track as missing and can be downloaded, but if I download it, then it will be 2 tracks again like wtf.

Now the worst one I had was just tonight (3AM), the app suddenly can't read meta! Like for example, if I play a song not on shuffle, about 15 or 20 tracks later, the rest of the songs would all be blank, as in nothing, and it will only display commas with nothing in between, so nothing comes in the volume bar. This really had me so frustrated that I actually couldn't take it anymore, like somehow it's the reason I wanted to throw my phone so bad (so instead I threw a TV remote just to vent frustration). So I thought I'd delete all my songs and re-download them again to fix it, but when I plugged it in the computer, the Xbox Music folder is empty! Nothings in there!!! LIKE WTF!!! Where are all the songs?!! Where were they?!! They were not streaming as I could play them offline, so I thought that the songs are somewhere in the Xbox Music app folder itself, and there's no way that I could delete them from there, so now I'm back to reset!!!!!! FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU

I really really really really want to get zune back if possible. I think it was one of the best ever, it had everything in it - additional settings, a beautiful live tile, functional artist lock screen, support for music pass, and best of all - it just works!

What Microsoft could do now is totally scrap the Xbox Music app for Windows Phone and just bring back Zune from WP7, and rename it to Xbox Music! How hard could that be! I don't care if it should be a separate app for "constant updates" when every update they bring it just breaks it even more, besides playing music should be a basic thing a smartphone could easily do, even does java phones could easily read metas and play just fine, why is it such a horror with windows phone now... what the f happened.