I mentioned in a thread last weekend I would try out the Xbox Music PC setting ?Automatically add matched songs on this PC to your cloud collection? so this morning I got my wife?s devices ready to test what would be happen. I decided to test on my wife?s setup as she has a lot less music than me.
Firstly a bit of background.
My wife has the following devices, a 520 a Surface 2 and a laptop and an account on my Xbox.
Two weekends ago I set her up with an Xbox music pass, and to make life easy for her I deleted all her old local music so she had a clean start, in the last two weeks she had added about 20 albums to her collection, so already downloaded to each device and available to play on the Xbox, all is working well
The first thing I did was copy two artists each of which had 9 albums one was David Bowie and the other Led Zeppelin to her SD card on her phone and then her Surface 2, I made sure each device had each artist and all albums set up correctly.
I then turned on ?Automatically match? from the Surface 2.
I then checked her Xbox account and all was OK with the Bowie stuff, 9 albums with all songs available, but as expected the Led Zeppelin were reduced to one track on Led Zeppelin IV that was by a tribute band (Because of copyright issues).
So on to her laptop, I opened Xbox music and it signed in, it added the 9 albums of Bowie and the one album by Zeppelin with just the one song, much to my surprise they were actually downloaded so available offline on the laptop (Another XBM setting).
So to complete the experiment I then copied the 18 albums to her music folder on the laptop and in the case of the Bowie ones they changed to local music so local music does have precedence, with the Zeppelin albums the only issue was with IV and this ended up with the one song being a double track as it kept the tribute band song from IV (I will delete this).
So it seems the Auto match to the cloud isn?t the complete ogre that I thought it was, but I can still see how it can cause a lot of confusion if you turn it on without thinking about it first.
For now I will leave it on the wife?s machines but I won?t turn it on, on my devices as it?s not the hardest thing in the world to copy music across devices and with the rumoured music locker on the way the issue should become redundant anyway.
My recommendation would be to not turn on ?Automatically add matched songs on this PC to your cloud collection? unless you have thought through the consequences.
Also I would recommend you clean up your music folders (See other posts) before letting Xbox Music on your local collection especially if it is a large collection, however I have to conclude by saying we now have Xbox Music on three accounts in our house, mine of 3000 plus songs, the wife's and since my lad got his 930 and joined the modern age, he took out a music pass as well and all of the accounts and music works well.
Bob
Firstly a bit of background.
My wife has the following devices, a 520 a Surface 2 and a laptop and an account on my Xbox.
Two weekends ago I set her up with an Xbox music pass, and to make life easy for her I deleted all her old local music so she had a clean start, in the last two weeks she had added about 20 albums to her collection, so already downloaded to each device and available to play on the Xbox, all is working well
The first thing I did was copy two artists each of which had 9 albums one was David Bowie and the other Led Zeppelin to her SD card on her phone and then her Surface 2, I made sure each device had each artist and all albums set up correctly.
I then turned on ?Automatically match? from the Surface 2.
I then checked her Xbox account and all was OK with the Bowie stuff, 9 albums with all songs available, but as expected the Led Zeppelin were reduced to one track on Led Zeppelin IV that was by a tribute band (Because of copyright issues).
So on to her laptop, I opened Xbox music and it signed in, it added the 9 albums of Bowie and the one album by Zeppelin with just the one song, much to my surprise they were actually downloaded so available offline on the laptop (Another XBM setting).
So to complete the experiment I then copied the 18 albums to her music folder on the laptop and in the case of the Bowie ones they changed to local music so local music does have precedence, with the Zeppelin albums the only issue was with IV and this ended up with the one song being a double track as it kept the tribute band song from IV (I will delete this).
So it seems the Auto match to the cloud isn?t the complete ogre that I thought it was, but I can still see how it can cause a lot of confusion if you turn it on without thinking about it first.
For now I will leave it on the wife?s machines but I won?t turn it on, on my devices as it?s not the hardest thing in the world to copy music across devices and with the rumoured music locker on the way the issue should become redundant anyway.
My recommendation would be to not turn on ?Automatically add matched songs on this PC to your cloud collection? unless you have thought through the consequences.
Also I would recommend you clean up your music folders (See other posts) before letting Xbox Music on your local collection especially if it is a large collection, however I have to conclude by saying we now have Xbox Music on three accounts in our house, mine of 3000 plus songs, the wife's and since my lad got his 930 and joined the modern age, he took out a music pass as well and all of the accounts and music works well.
Bob
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