Seriously, this is the second time they are missing their biweekly schedule, and still no one bats an eyelid. They didn't even bother to explain why, especially now that the WP 8.1 AND 8.1.1 are out in the wild and being sold commercially
I'm cancelling my XBM subscription, the app refuses to stream music for me. MSFT need a swift kick in the wallet...
I would do the same, but scrolling down to the J's has to be done with caution lest I risk a black screen or an app crashI just batted an eyelid, but that's all I have time for this week. Listening and watching XBM Pass content, without problems, leaves me little time for software trivialities. Enjoying Jimmy Smith this hour. Cheers and best wishes to the departing; it's bleak out there: see you back soon.
Acceptable is a D grade app. Its at best a C. Loading times when opening the app from a fresh boot vary and basically, it would've been better if MS just allowed every app to be coded like system appsIt stopped being an issue for me once they got performance up to an acceptable level (aka the last update).
If you go bi-weekly from when they first started on this schedule, the update would come out this week rather than last week. The update scheduled for Aug 1st was a week late and released on the 8th instead. Presumably they rolled the bi-weekly release for the 15th into that update since it contained a feature that was scheduled for the next update (kids corner or recent plays).
This all started when those of us in the preview for devs got the 8.1 os. I knew we were going to lose most of the functionality of the old music hub...especially the LIVE tile (isn't that name and function supposed to be synonymous with the whole concept of the Windows Phone?), but I was willing to trade that for gaining the rest of the improvements in the 8.1 os. I would prefer not having to make a choice between the lesser of 2 evils but that is what it came down to. I still do not believe that the whole reason for eliminating the hub in favor of a music app was so they could update it more frequently. They have had all this time to send out updates and still have not gotten back to level when you compare it to the music hub. Is it really that hard to do? And if they read all the comments here and other forums in regards to the customers concerns why is it so difficult to realize how important a good music app is to most people that carry a phone???
Development takes time. Good development takes longer. They clearly recognize the app was terrible and are working on making it better as stated in the WPCentral interview.