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Microsoft on background music on XB1: "Taking our time, we want to do it right"
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azertydu91
Hard to Kill
Wait Wait Wait Wait Are you guys telling me that on Xbox One you can't play music while playing without sacrificing A Third Of Your Screen?
One of my friend told me it was great as a media box and I was interested to get it along my Ps4 mostly for its media support but if that's not implemented I'm starting to wonder if it is that better than ps4 as a media device.I mean I can already play music in background on my ps4 or music on my wireless hard drive.
So can any of you guys tell me what the xbox do (besides TV because I'm in europe with barely any support from Ms plus I never watch TV) That may be a media visionning changer for me.
Because if not I'll probably end up with just my ps4.
One of my friend told me it was great as a media box and I was interested to get it along my Ps4 mostly for its media support but if that's not implemented I'm starting to wonder if it is that better than ps4 as a media device.I mean I can already play music in background on my ps4 or music on my wireless hard drive.
So can any of you guys tell me what the xbox do (besides TV because I'm in europe with barely any support from Ms plus I never watch TV) That may be a media visionning changer for me.
Because if not I'll probably end up with just my ps4.
agree 100%.
Cheeseman Battitude
Member
Indeed. Why they have to change things is beyond me. PS4 is different and still reasonably good, but I prefer the XMB. And I'll never know why the Vita didn't have the XMB instead of those bubble things. Stuff like this should be not only the system's identity, but the brand's identity.
Jasper Avenue
Member
This is what keeps me on the PS4. The Spotify integration is really nice.
A spruced up blades with the newer features integrated would be met very well I would think. Too bad it cramped the ability to spam with ads, which I assume is the only reason we have ended up where we are today.
It just bothers me that a software company could have done almost impossibly good right out of the gate with the X360...only to slowly devolve into what we have today.
In game music...just another thing to add to the pile of things worse now.
rakkadakka
Member
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Banjo-Kazooie
Member
My thoughts exactly.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I can do it on the Vita then MSFT needs to get this done. It's a fine console but the 360 could do this.
you expected any less?
Diprosalic
Banned
i never understand the approach of waiting until it's right. apple does it too, just give me the shitty version that makes me 90% happy and then improve it later.
Munki
Member
Do we know when that is happening?
digoutyoursoul
Member
Maybe people have left and it's a new team? For me the best Xbox dash was the first NXE after the blades. That was was superb.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Groove music I would assume. I don't know how it compares to Spotify in terms of available music but being able to stream directly from your Onedrive will be a nice feature.
digoutyoursoul
Member
On 360 you could rip your cd to the hard drive and create playlists
Uno Venova
Banned
Lol I assumed it was already implemented, can't believe it's taking so long.
MaulerX
Member
Groove Music has like 35 million songs. It also pulls in all your personal songs you have stored in OneDrive which is pretty awesome.
It has a pretty good selection I think.
I guess not many people use Groove or MS Films & TV but both do have a pretty good selection.
FranXico
Member
Depends on the deal. If Sony Music lets them stream their music completely for free now, the deal could last for as long as Spotify itself.
MaulerX
Member
Honestly that would suck by today's standards. The 360 could only play background music stored on the HDD or streamed from a PC. You can't play background music from any app on 360.
They're obviously making it so that you can play background music from any app. And by "surprise" I think they'll take it a step further and just make it background "audio" and not just music. For example you'll be able to play your games while listening to the audio of the TV etc...
I feel like this should be in the OP rather than giving only Gamespot hits for someone else's work.
This exclusivity is so irritating. I already pay for spotify music and I cannot afford to pay for Groove. It is just not worth it so now I have to resort to creating a playlist on Youtube and snapping it with the game. I cant wait for this stupid exclusivity to end.
Also snapping to play music and taking up screen space is the stupidest thing I have seen.
Because when I'm grinding in Destiny, driving around in GTA, or waiting 15 minutes for an online game to start in Halo MCC, it would be nice to have my own music. It's embarrassing that the 360 did it so well and the Xbox One does it so poorly. It's even more embarrassing for them that Sony partnered with Spotify and did it even better than the 360.
900p is already medium quality ¯_(ツ_/¯
This goes in the list of dumbest posts I've ever seen.
Image compression/quality has absolutely NOTHING to do with resolution.
If MS adds support for streaming Groove in the background, I'll gladly switch from Spotify. Groove has essentially the same exact library of music, but they have much better sales on their service than Spotify. I got a year of Groove earlier this year for 30 dollars. Every Christmas they put it on sale for 50 percent off.
CambriaRising
Member
In case anyone forgot, the Xbox 360 LAUNCHED with this feature.
Angelus Errare
Banned
The whole thing amazing really each iteration of Xbox's background music got progressively worse.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Hmm, interesting. Could mean that they're planning on tying it into various services like Pandora or Spotify (is Spotify on X1?) in addition to letting you use your own music. Something like that could be very cool.
EDIT: Oh, I see Spotify is PS4 exclusive, well that sucks.
The suggestion somebody else had of letting any app, not just music, serve as audio is cool, though. TV, Netflix, podcasts, whatever.
EDIT: Oh, I see Spotify is PS4 exclusive, well that sucks.
The suggestion somebody else had of letting any app, not just music, serve as audio is cool, though. TV, Netflix, podcasts, whatever.
How long did it take the Xbox One to get a battery energy indicator? lmao.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
"Doing in right"...
Translation for how can MSFT somehow leverage some licensing or fee control from content provders ala Apple?
You can just have it via USB or a Spotify like service? Come on man.
Regardless, I almost never use this feature, but for those that do, I can understand the frustration.
Translation for how can MSFT somehow leverage some licensing or fee control from content provders ala Apple?
You can just have it via USB or a Spotify like service? Come on man.
Regardless, I almost never use this feature, but for those that do, I can understand the frustration.
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
thanks, will listen to it.
AwakenedCloud
Member
It was best on the original Xbox where the game could implement it's own custom solution. Phantom Dust let you choose what song you wanted to play on a stage-by-stage basic and it was epic. IIRC Burnout Revenge would override the in-game soundtrack and track details would show up in the UI. You even had a button to jump between tracks!
The problem is my telecom provider is throwing in spotify free. Need to confirm if they can include Groove instead in that case. But that would lock me of PS4 since I use spotify a lot. I would just prefer this stupid exclusivity to end and just have spotify on both platforms. Really disappointed that stuff like this is being money hatted and kept exclusive. Urghhh
Spotify is exclusive to PS4 on consoles for the time being.
Ricerocket
Member
Sony didn't dump Music Unlimited to pay for Spotify Exclusivity for PS4...
http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/19/8621581/sony-music-spotify-contract
SEGAvangelist
Member
I believe him. He has a commitment to not halfassing things since he accepted his current position just over a year ago, and the UI is far improved now. I'm expecting a lot of good stuff in the future too.
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FranXico
Member
Thank you for the article.
That's pretty cool. Honestly I can't see why they wouldn't add that in this time around also. But if not at least we still have Onedrive.
The nice thing about Spotify on PS4 is that even the free version works there. As long as you don't mind an ad or two. As it stands now, any game that I find more enjoyable with background music gets purchased on my PS4. MS really dropped the ball this gen in many different areas that they once dominated.