Witness
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Really, the only thing I really want is my music apps to be launchable in one place, access to music and podcasts in the same spot, access to the FM radio in the same spot as well. In other words, the old Music Hub.
The big problem is that MS phased out the Zune hardware in favor of Windows Phone, and then they took their beautiful piece of software which had loads of features and completely scrapped it and gave us a barely working basic app that looks and functions as if it was coded by a 3rd grader. Winamp could do everything you describe back in its early days well over a decade ago. Zune was way ahead of its time and was probably one of the best if not the best music player option out there, period.
From my understanding,
The reason why XBOX MUSIC has become slow because NOW IT'S AN APP NOT A OS FEATURE.
The big problem is that MS phased out the Zune hardware in favor of Windows Phone, and then they took their beautiful piece of software which had loads of features and completely scrapped it and gave us a barely working basic app that looks and functions as if it was coded by a 3rd grader. Winamp could do everything you describe back in its early days well over a decade ago. Zune was way ahead of its time and was probably one of the best if not the best music player option out there, period.
Suggestions like this are a waste of time.
I don't understand why people think MS is going to reintegrate the music hub into WP8.1. They would need to create a entirely new OS update to enable it again. The whole point of stripping it out of the OS was so they could update it without changing the OS.
Question: Anyone actually still having problems with Xbox Music? I use it on the transit to work everyday and even on my outdated 820, I don't really get issues out of it.
I agree with you in principle - votes for "bring back Zune!" or "bring back Hubs" are as useful as "Bring back Windows XP!" - they're Not Going To Happen.
But I also understand that when people mean when they say, "Bring back Zune!" isn't necessarily, "Take the code that ran on my old Zune 30 and load it onto my Lumia 820" - because even non-coders probably get that that's impossible. What they mean (what I *hope* they mean, anyway - and certainly what *I* mean) is, "Bring back AT LEAST the functionality that my old Zune 30 had - its smooth, fast & lovely display, its intuitive UI, its (dare I even say it?) ability to play albums gaplessly." And that's NOT impossible. Of course the code isn't directly portable - but the functional spec certainly is.
Throwing away good code happens all the time - platforms change, and trying to fit old code onto new platforms can be WAY more trouble than it's worth, especially if you weren't particularly clever about anticipating changing platforms when you wrote the old code. But throwing away good DESIGN is stupid, unless you're replacing it with better design, and that is CLEARLY not the case here.
I hope somebody at Microsoft is listening to the underlying message of the "Bring Back $X!" votes, rather than just dismissing them.
Buuutttt....there are other Music Apps such as OneMusic. Also the Calendar is an app but is really fastFrom my understanding,
The reason why XBOX MUSIC has become slow because NOW IT'S AN APP NOT A OS FEATURE.