Album art and the latest Xbox Music update

[herbertsnow]

Wow. That simple? I guess ill call in sick to work for the next three weeks so I can complete redo my library (that has worked with every device - including Zune - to date). Not giving you crap, but they have made a luxury a second job... And that is not why we got into this. The product was fine and they slowly have made it a chore to use.

People are trying to help you guys and you still complain. Typical, just typical.

 

[anon(9022242)]

Thought I would make a comment about a topic that was a big deal to me!

I experienced all the pain with xbox music since I jumped on board with Windows phone. I have found a solution that works! I not only wanted the album artwork. But, I also craved for all of the artist information that xbox music provides. I started the same way as everyone else. Album artwork occasionally showed up when I synced with my PC. I noticed that I had one band that would show the artwork & band bio (etc) every time I tried to sync?

The solution to get every album, and all of the xbox music band information to show up.

1. Media Monkey (I know, pain in the ***) Note: This can be a last resort if it doesn't read the meta data on the first attempt.
2. Sync with the Windows phone app (metro). Only syncing 1 band at a time. It seems to screw up when you try syncing multiple bands.
3. Now for the kicker... I'm not an xbox music subscriber. I added all of these bands to my "streaming collection" in the browser based xbox music. This will add their top 10 songs to your collection. I set xbox music to show all music (streaming included).
4. After the music is synced and showing up on the phone. I go back to settings and set to just show music on my sd card. Now when I click on a band, it still shows all of the album covers, artist bios, and bands that are suggested.

It's still best to use Media Monkey. Some people seem to make some crazy tags on music.

Hopefully this helps. It makes xbox music appear just as it does on my Windows 8.1 PC.

 

[missionsparta]

People are trying to help you guys and you still complain. Typical, just typical.

You make excuse after excuse. Typical, typical. Me redoing my entire 3,000 song collection is not a solution. Whatever they had working in Zune, look at that and reimplement it...that would work 98% of the time. What division of Microsoft, does your excuse making *** work for?

 

[hagjohn]

I understand why they took the player out of the OS but I have to say, it still needs so much work. I listen to music every day on my phone. It is bothersome but I'm not going to pitch a fit about it but it's a pretty sad that a player can't load album art properly.

 

[herbertsnow]

You make excuse after excuse. Typical, typical. Me redoing my entire 3,000 song collection is not a solution. Whatever they had working in Zune, look at that and reimplement it...that would work 98% of the time. What division of Microsoft, does your excuse making *** work for?

I only own 100 songs, you need to get out more.

 

[missionsparta]

I only own 100 songs, you need to get out more.

Owning songs means someone needs to get out more? LMAO...get real, Alice.

 

[fiveaces01]

these are all things that have been suggested on this and other forums for over a year now and they are necessary and they do work. You can't load a bunch of garbled files into your phone and expect them to magically get sorted correctly. If you are waiting till now to do all that...well maybe you should adjust your expectations. I admit I have been pretty vocal about putting back the functions they took out when they removed the old Music Hub...but the working Live Tile has been the last piece I was waiting for and the app now works flawlessly for me...but my collection is all local files and stored on my computer and then synced to the phone.

 

[BataBole]

One question!

Why is XBM live tile only available for 8.1.1 devices? We had it working perfect on Windows Phone 8 and now its not available even for 8.1?

What does the 8.1.1 and 8.0 have that 8.1 has not to enable live tile?

 

[colinkiama]

One question!

Why is XBM live tile only available for 8.1.1 devices? We had it working perfect on Windows Phone 8 and now its not available even for 8.1?

What does the 8.1.1 and 8.0 have that 8.1 has not to enable live tile?

The API to enable the live tile in the first place. In my opinion they should have just got the zune app and reworked the code for 8.1 and make it updatable. Everyone would have been happier but why does their music app have to suck.

 

[JamesPTao]

I only own 100 songs, you need to get out more.

I own over 7500 songs does that make me a hermit? Lol. Some of us prefer quality music (ie lossless rips) and don't feel like paying another service for music in lower quality and to eat up data.

 

[Brandon McLean]

I have to say I'm one of the people who has not had any problems with Xbox music since the update before last, whether it's music from Xbox music or music synced with music bee/wmp/Windows phone app. I mean it's not perfect, but album art has been fine for me, artist pictures mostly work.



It started behaving after I cleared out my music folder and added my own music after downloading from Xbox music. There's a ton of 'fixes' out there. But in reality what needs to be fixed is the Xbox music team...

 

[herbertsnow]

Owning songs means someone needs to get out more? LMAO...get real, Alice.

Owning 3,000 of anything isn't good son.

 

[anon(7937399)]

I've had problems with any Microsoft metadata-handling service with the exception of Zune 4.8. Usually, Microsoft just messes it up enough so that I have to rebuild it to get it right. iTunes 11.1 or above with the Windows Phone app for desktop works just fine to sync my 928 in Windows 7.

I found out the hard way that with Xbox Music it's imperative that you embed your album art in your music. I loaded my collection without embedded album art into my 928 and I didn't see any art in Xbox Music. (I had converted it with the newest copy of Freemake Audio Converter, and it deleted all my album art). I fixed it by using MP3Tag to check every album and get everything perfect. I now have a Pictures folder with every album art I have albums for. I'm not touching it again. Backed up everything to my NAS just in case.

Use the Files app on the phone to delete music on your phone. It works better. Don't delete using Windows Explorer. Over time, it's more trouble than it's worth.

 

[herbertsnow]

I've had problems with any Microsoft metadata-handling service with the exception of Zune 4.8. Usually, Microsoft just messes it up enough so that I have to rebuild it to get it right. iTunes 11.1 or above with the Windows Phone app for desktop works just fine to sync my 928 in Windows 7.

I found out the hard way that with Xbox Music it's imperative that you embed your album art in your music. I loaded my collection without embedded album art into my 928 and I didn't see any art in Xbox Music. (I had converted it with the newest copy of Freemake Audio Converter, and it deleted all my album art). I fixed it by using MP3Tag to check every album and get everything perfect. I now have a Pictures folder with every album art I have albums for. I'm not touching it again. Backed up everything to my NAS just in case.

The nice thing about the Xbox Music app for the PC is that it doesn't edit your MP3 tags. Not like WMP, I always hated WMP.

 

[JamesPTao]

Unfortunately for those running windows 7 on our desktops/laptops wmp is the only player we can use. There is an app for the phone but it is basically just a manual sync app with no player or autoplaylist ability.

 

[rowlie]

In WP 8 all my album art showed correctly and the live tile worked flawlessly, so I can understand peoples frustration when MS with great fanfare bring back a live tile that does not function as expected. If my tagged music was good enough for WP8 then they should at least work on 8.1

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[locokip]

Am I the only one who can't even install the newest update. I've been trying different tricks for 3 days now and it still hangs up on install and gives me an error code 80073cf9. Anyone have any suggestions? I have no problems with the last update and the app still works great, I just can't get the latest update.

 

[missionsparta]

Owning 3,000 of anything isn't good son.

Really? How about $3000? Just one more false statement you have made.

 

[herbertsnow]

Really? How about $3000? Just one more false statement you have made.

You can't own money. You only rent it.

 

[missionsparta]

You can't own money. You only rent it.

I rent nothing. Pay no monthly dues, pay no interest. This whole argument is because you cant handle that your view is of the very very small minority, little boy.