Hi - as a new Windows phone convert, one of the things I miss most about Android is the music support. I was a heavy user of both Spotify Premium and Google Play Music (many hours a day) on Android, and have not found the Windows alternatives particularly pleasing.
Firstly, I have to say that my 1020 sounds fabulous now that I have tweaked the equaliser a little bit and switched off the Dolby headphone rubbish. Unfortunately the apps...
Spotify has been ditched. It sounds awful - streaming at 160kbps, and a woeful interface. I know an updated version is on its way, I'll check it out again when it drops. In the meantime Deezer is an OK substitute. The interface still sucks a bit, but much of the catalogue now streams at 320kbps, and sounds great. Even the stuff still at a lower bitrate is better than the current Spotify, and better than Xbox music. Xbox music sounds compressed and nasty to my ears. Also Deezer currently costs just ?4.99 per month.
The real problem is a replacement for Google play music. I have a collection of around 15,000 tracks which I sometimes like to put on shuffle for several hours at a time. Cloudmuzik worked sort of OK, but Google have changed their API without warning and now no third party apps work. I can play tracks via the phone's browser (and it sounds great actually), and whilst the track continues playing whilst the screen sleeps, it will not progress on to the next track until the browser window is open.
Has anyone got any suggestions, either by adjusting the setting to allow IE to run fully in the background, an app that actually works with Google music, or an alternative (preferably free) service.
Many thanks.
K
Firstly, I have to say that my 1020 sounds fabulous now that I have tweaked the equaliser a little bit and switched off the Dolby headphone rubbish. Unfortunately the apps...
Spotify has been ditched. It sounds awful - streaming at 160kbps, and a woeful interface. I know an updated version is on its way, I'll check it out again when it drops. In the meantime Deezer is an OK substitute. The interface still sucks a bit, but much of the catalogue now streams at 320kbps, and sounds great. Even the stuff still at a lower bitrate is better than the current Spotify, and better than Xbox music. Xbox music sounds compressed and nasty to my ears. Also Deezer currently costs just ?4.99 per month.
The real problem is a replacement for Google play music. I have a collection of around 15,000 tracks which I sometimes like to put on shuffle for several hours at a time. Cloudmuzik worked sort of OK, but Google have changed their API without warning and now no third party apps work. I can play tracks via the phone's browser (and it sounds great actually), and whilst the track continues playing whilst the screen sleeps, it will not progress on to the next track until the browser window is open.
Has anyone got any suggestions, either by adjusting the setting to allow IE to run fully in the background, an app that actually works with Google music, or an alternative (preferably free) service.
Many thanks.
K
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