- Oct 8, 2013
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Two weeks ago I jacked in my subscription with Spotify and moved my money over to Xbox Music, primarily because I have the whole Lumia 1520, Surface Pro 3, Xbox one, Windows 7 laptop ecosystem going on and figured it would make more sense to keep my music within that ecosystem.
Damn, I really wish I hadn't bothered.
I'll start by saying that on the Xbox, Surface and Laptop it works pretty well....it's not OMG, where have you been all my life amazing, but it's pretty decent and does the job.
But on my phone.....holy hell, who designed this thing?? It's a complete mosh pit of songs that lack any coherency at all.
I'm really struggling to know where to begin with this, but I guess my biggest annoyance is that it's mashed up all of the songs I own and have downloaded from other sources with songs from it's own streaming media content and created (all by itself) duplicates of dozens of songs, which has totally wrecked my playlists.
The other thing I can't figure out is exactly what I've bought...it's really annoying when sometimes it'll play a full song then other times it'll just play a 30 second sample of the next song on the album....like WTF, Spotify didn't do that.
Every time I open the app it gives me a little nudge to say I should try the paid version....I'm already on the paid version you friggin retards!!! Go and check my account, you'll see the xbox music pass right there next to the xbox gold pass I'm seriously thinking about cancelling!!
And what's the deal with Radio?? How on God's green earth is Sigma and Rita Ora even on the same planet as Sigma, the flute playing trio from Indonesia?? And worse yet, the Goddam thing has downloaded that friggin stupid album and incorporated it into my already totally screwed playlists.
Then there's the error messages...."sorry, we can't play this file on your phone, error code 80070585"....Why can't I play a file that's streaming from a Microsoft server to a Windows phone?? What the hell am I paying ?8.99 a month for if all I get is 30 second song clips and error messages....
Solution time Microsoft.....get one of your tech "geniuses" to purchase a Spotify subscription, take a snoop around at how proper streaming services are doing it and copy them. Because Apple is round the corner with the new Beats service and they're gonna kick your *** if the very best you can come up with is this garbage.
Damn, I really wish I hadn't bothered.
I'll start by saying that on the Xbox, Surface and Laptop it works pretty well....it's not OMG, where have you been all my life amazing, but it's pretty decent and does the job.
But on my phone.....holy hell, who designed this thing?? It's a complete mosh pit of songs that lack any coherency at all.
I'm really struggling to know where to begin with this, but I guess my biggest annoyance is that it's mashed up all of the songs I own and have downloaded from other sources with songs from it's own streaming media content and created (all by itself) duplicates of dozens of songs, which has totally wrecked my playlists.
The other thing I can't figure out is exactly what I've bought...it's really annoying when sometimes it'll play a full song then other times it'll just play a 30 second sample of the next song on the album....like WTF, Spotify didn't do that.
Every time I open the app it gives me a little nudge to say I should try the paid version....I'm already on the paid version you friggin retards!!! Go and check my account, you'll see the xbox music pass right there next to the xbox gold pass I'm seriously thinking about cancelling!!
And what's the deal with Radio?? How on God's green earth is Sigma and Rita Ora even on the same planet as Sigma, the flute playing trio from Indonesia?? And worse yet, the Goddam thing has downloaded that friggin stupid album and incorporated it into my already totally screwed playlists.
Then there's the error messages...."sorry, we can't play this file on your phone, error code 80070585"....Why can't I play a file that's streaming from a Microsoft server to a Windows phone?? What the hell am I paying ?8.99 a month for if all I get is 30 second song clips and error messages....
Solution time Microsoft.....get one of your tech "geniuses" to purchase a Spotify subscription, take a snoop around at how proper streaming services are doing it and copy them. Because Apple is round the corner with the new Beats service and they're gonna kick your *** if the very best you can come up with is this garbage.