One of the best improvements that came with, I believe, build 10080, and is present in build 10136, is the Music app. I have used androids, iOS7/8, WP8.1 and now W10 build 10136, and never have I been satisfied with any of the stock, nor store music apps. They were a lot, and you probably can imagine all the varieties of players offered. They were unattractive, very simple, very complicated, or very useless and unpleasant to use, so to some extent, the joy of actually listening to tracks disappeared the moment you started the app.
However, the Windows 10 (Mobile) development team have outdone themselves with a beautiful, eye-catching, polished, easy-to-use, fast, and very useful Music app, that I crown the 2015 smartphone music player app of the year!!! Some of the features that make it brilliant are :
1-Dual mode background (black/white-grey) - dependent on the color profile of the phone; just as Store BETA etc
2-Menu for Recent plays, Albums, Artists...this makes it a fluid experience to use
3-You WILL BE ABLE to sign in with your e.g. GMAIL account - to this time, it doesn't do anything (build 10136)
4-Settings in the menu of the app shows only Downloads, but this might change and give more customizable features
5-When browsing through your tracks, a panel displaying the currently played track shows in your accent color - looks really nice
6-While playing tracks, you can slide up, or press an arrow, to see the rest of the songs while the currently played is shown atop in a good sized window 3/5 of screen. Also, the tracks names, artists and album names are written in cascaded white, grey, white...panels/lines with the currently played track being highlighted in accent color e.g. blue on white or blue on grey.
7-Clicking on the currently played tracks name will open a full description of the track with options to play all, add to, more...
Obviously it is very fluid, the menu helps a lot and just all the tiny details that make it more and at the same not not too much. It is a joy to use it.
What makes it better than any other app is that selecting a track by artist, album or playlist is easier, doesn't hide currently played tracks. And definitely no commercial adds!!!
EDIT 21.6.2015
1- Also, another good thing is when you press an alphabet letter in albums/artists/songs, you can chose from the whole set of initial letters, so you can search music really fast.
2-The bad sides to this app are that you can not preview any artist or album. You can only play it or add it to now playing/new playlist. This way you do not know which songs you will play/add and even if you know, you are unable to specifically select - e.g. you have album of 10songs, but you want to play just 2 of them - not possible.
However, the Windows 10 (Mobile) development team have outdone themselves with a beautiful, eye-catching, polished, easy-to-use, fast, and very useful Music app, that I crown the 2015 smartphone music player app of the year!!! Some of the features that make it brilliant are :
1-Dual mode background (black/white-grey) - dependent on the color profile of the phone; just as Store BETA etc
2-Menu for Recent plays, Albums, Artists...this makes it a fluid experience to use
3-You WILL BE ABLE to sign in with your e.g. GMAIL account - to this time, it doesn't do anything (build 10136)
4-Settings in the menu of the app shows only Downloads, but this might change and give more customizable features
5-When browsing through your tracks, a panel displaying the currently played track shows in your accent color - looks really nice
6-While playing tracks, you can slide up, or press an arrow, to see the rest of the songs while the currently played is shown atop in a good sized window 3/5 of screen. Also, the tracks names, artists and album names are written in cascaded white, grey, white...panels/lines with the currently played track being highlighted in accent color e.g. blue on white or blue on grey.
7-Clicking on the currently played tracks name will open a full description of the track with options to play all, add to, more...
Obviously it is very fluid, the menu helps a lot and just all the tiny details that make it more and at the same not not too much. It is a joy to use it.
What makes it better than any other app is that selecting a track by artist, album or playlist is easier, doesn't hide currently played tracks. And definitely no commercial adds!!!
EDIT 21.6.2015
1- Also, another good thing is when you press an alphabet letter in albums/artists/songs, you can chose from the whole set of initial letters, so you can search music really fast.
2-The bad sides to this app are that you can not preview any artist or album. You can only play it or add it to now playing/new playlist. This way you do not know which songs you will play/add and even if you know, you are unable to specifically select - e.g. you have album of 10songs, but you want to play just 2 of them - not possible.
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