Discovered how to make Xbox Music (WP8.1) show artist images/bio/album arts!

[colinkiama]

This is insane! Isnt the app itself supposed to search for the artist infos automatically? And there should be an option to turn that on/off. Who has the time to search for 100 artists out there manually only for a background!!!

Deal with it! Or tell Microsoft here: Xboxmusic.UserVoice.com

 

[colinkiama]

I don't have Cortana so I'm using the app.i still don't see any option for a store

Swipe to get music then search for an artist

 

[Bashar Awwad]

Swipe to get music then search for an artist

That's exactly my problem. I cant swipe in the app, I only have one menu which us my artists albums etc. I cant swipe left or right from there

 

[Sudipta ManUtd]

This is insane! Isnt the app itself supposed to search for the artist infos automatically? And there should be an option to turn that on/off. Who has the time to search for 100 artists out there manually only for a background!!!

try MPAtool

 

[Makm]

try MPAtool

I thot mpatool doesn't work in wp8.1

 

[4ny0n3]

Does this fix the tile, or is it still not showing artist images?

 

[Bashar Awwad]

I thot mpatool doesn't work in wp8.1

It doesn't

 

[colinkiama]

That's exactly my problem. I cant swipe in the app, I only have one menu which us my artists albums etc. I cant swipe left or right from there

Are you on Windows phone 8.1?

 

[Makm]

Does this fix the tile, or is it still not showing artist images?

Nope, no live tiles.

 

[alinauman97]

This is insane! Isnt the app itself supposed to search for the artist infos automatically? And there should be an option to turn that on/off. Who has the time to search for 100 artists out there manually only for a background!!!

It does that but worked only for like 3 artists on my phone.

 

[alinauman97]

no worries. At least you tried

Your account/phone region is set to a place where Xbox Music isn't available. Set it to US, will probably help.

 

[alinauman97]

Does this fix the tile, or is it still not showing artist images?

That is another issue in the app and will be addressed in a future update. Nothing we can do about it.

 

[anon(5383410)]

...I didn't have to do this with Zune.

 

[pmhgeneral]

You can get artist background in the music so in Windows phone 8.1. Search for an artist in the store, hold your finger on one of their songs, select add to then select collection. Check the artist in your local collection and you will realize that they have backgrounds now. Repeat that for every artist you have on your phone then almost every artist has a background in your phone!

Thank you, this is a great work around as long as you can find the same artist or songs but what else can we do till this gets fixed.

 

[yogesh d]

Dint work for me

 

[Desynthesis]

I think they took away this function. Holding down on a song only gets you 'buy' 'creation radio station' and 'pin to start'.

 

[alinauman97]

I think they took away this function. Holding down on a song only gets you 'buy' 'creation radio station' and 'pin to start'.

Yeah, they did. However, there is a workaround. If you have a Windows 8.1 device, open up and login to the Xbox Music app. Add the same music on your PC that you have on your Phone. Then match your music with the Xbox Music catalogue. Then enable these two settings; they will add the music to your streaming collection and it will show up on your phone as well.

 

[Desynthesis]

Yeah, they did. However, there is a workaround. If you have a Windows 8.1 device, open up and login to the Xbox Music app. Add the same music on your PC that you have on your Phone. Then match your music with the Xbox Music catalogue. Then enable these two settings; they will add the music to your streaming collection and it will show up on your phone as well.View attachment 81509

Ah, okay--that's a complicated task for me, since I sync my music from a PC with Windows 7 (by way of WMP--I'm not sure if that's a liability or a blessing). Do you mind if I ask a few questions before I attempt this?

Namely, I don't want to have useless "streamed music" duplicates in my music list just to add artist data to a few songs. Wouldn't doing this mean I'll have duplicates of all of my music? Or would the artist data only be available for the songs streamed?

(Yeah, these never gets less complicated.)

 

[aryan srivastava]

I tried colinkiama's suggestion...but that doesn't gave me live tile and artist lock screen support. How to have that??

 

[Yaw Agyei]

Yeah, they did. However, there is a workaround. If you have a Windows 8.1 device, open up and login to the Xbox Music app. Add the same music on your PC that you have on your Phone. Then match your music with the Xbox Music catalogue. Then enable these two settings; they will add the music to your streaming collection and it will show up on your phone as well.View attachment 81509

Your method worked for the only problem is background images of most artists in my local collection don't display... Only album art does