[HOW TO] enhance your music experience on wp 8.1

[720_rampage]

we all know the pathetic xbox music we get with 8.1
why ? because it's slowwww and buggy and missing album art and missing artist background

so how to enhance or music experience ?

1 download music hub tile app
Music Hub Tile | Windows Phone Apps+Games Store (India)

this app will bring back the old music hub we all know
it pins tile on the start screen which opens the music hub and the tile is not free
if you dont want to spend money you can open the app itself and then open music hub from there

2 download MPA tool
MPAtool | Windows Phone Apps+Games Store (United States)

with this app you can all artist backgrounds and arlbum arts of your choice
it even shows artist in lock screen yay
the app will say this does not works with 8.1 but actually it does
this app works with old music hub and guess what ? we got it back in step 1

3 profit ????

4 enjoy your superfast music hub and nifty looking artist background in player and lock screen

old music hub loads my music library of 400 songs in no time

i will upload all the photos in some photo sharing hub ok

notes - give the MPA tool some days at first it will show artist in lock screen sometimes only but use it regularly and it will be all fine
MPA tool may say not works for 8.1 just ignore it
RATE MPA tool please it's great

let me know in the comments what you think
thanks :evil:

photos
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[Laura Knotek]

Thanks for your suggestions! That should be helpful to a lot of members.

 

[720_rampage]

yay . thanks

 

[lordsnow]

I would never pay for a "tile". I rather buy a Windows Phone 7.5 because Zune

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[720_rampage]

you dont need to pay for the tile you can open the music hub from inside the app the shortcut is paid
it's FREE

 

[Daakkon]

Mpatool does not work for me.

 

[hs k]

I personally don't get why all the hate for Xbox music. Sure the loading process is nuts, but once done I'm able to browse through the app pretty fast. ~1000 songs in a second on my 720. Don't care much about album art, as mostly I listen to songs on my laptop or while traveling I simultaneously browse the net on the phone.

Edit: it sucks balls after yesterdays/todays update