brotkasten
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Xbox Music doesn't support radio. No, I'm talking about real radio. FM Radio. What the hell, guys. This is useless to me.
And where the hell are the podcasts?
And where the hell are the podcasts?
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Anton Sugar
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Yeah, same--it would be weird if they completely dropped podcast support, though I suppose I could solely use Podcast Lounge.
WP Central's article said the app can utilize your local collection. Haven't played with it enough myself to check.
Yes but does it not break the store linkage?
e.g. if I use bing music search to id a song, then get taken to the market place does the new app add that song to my cloud collection?
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Xbox music is good for my wife. She only streams and sometimes downloads, but she doesn't listen to podcasts cause she is not a weird nerd. I need podcasts and radio, so I'll stick to the regular app. I already create and edit my playlists on one of three windows 8 devices, so I don't manage them on my phone.
Think its safe to say that whatever weird kinks this brings will not matter much in the long run as this will replace the standard application come 8.1.
It is important for them to be able to quickly update this like they have on Windows 8.
So. Where did all my album covers go? Looks like it needs to find the album in the cloud for it to sync the cover... Sigh. I just don't understand what Microsoft wants from my music? Everything I have is meticulously organized and should be easily found by any music software. Now 60% of my music is without a album cover.
Steelyuhas
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How so? Built-in works just as I'd want it to and anytime I don't need another app to do something is better in my opinion.
I remember back when I used it did a terrible job of detecting and downloading new podcasts. It is also limited to podcasts in the store where any of the apps have more up to date databases and let you subscribe using an RSS feed.
If you live in the US. ;-)
Those of us who live in "Tier 2" countries need to rely on other apps... thankfully Podcast Lounge is fantastic.
I am but then there is this issue
That is with zero podcasts being stored offline. As to why it happens according to the Podcast Lounge devs
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Why don't you just move to the US, then?
I'm hoping for a separate podcasts app from MS. But only if they are going to be updating it regularly. The third party apps I tried were all flaky and crappy.
killer rin
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Awesome! Now it looks like all thats needed for them to remove the OS version is to add a "Music Hub" and a "Video Hub" to their respective apps, throw a live tile in, allow local videos from the Video app and FM Radio in the Music App... Also piggy back off of the Phones Logged in account to automatically log you into the apps.
One miracle at a time
Are you using automatic downloads in the app to store podcasts offline? That's where it comes from.
Ah ok. No, I almost exclusively stream. Have to get rid of my data allowance some way.
Well, I am a US citizen but I don't see myself moving back any time soon.
I have auto downloads enabled for PcL (but only for one podcast, three episodes at a time) and mine is listed at about 90MB
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I have to clean out the ol' fridge. I have just 2gb left out of 32gb. I shot a graduation video this past weekend and that swallowed up like 4 gigs.
Yeah, it's fucking great.
But at the same time I'm getting a Dreamcast ad vibe from it. Which is probably apt.
Edit: Haha, the comments.
killer rin
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...uuuuumm
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
It's meant for subscribers to the service. The same with the IOS and android app.
edit: that ad is awful
Anton Sugar
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Hahaha wonderful. Not sure I would call it effective but I love it.
Wouldn't be surprised if layer versions of the Xbox Music app dont require a Pass. The app is still very beta feeling to me, lots of crashes and what not.
Performance also kinda sucks, seeing way too many items listed as "Loading..." when going through the list of artists, even for local content.
Performance also kinda sucks, seeing way too many items listed as "Loading..." when going through the list of artists, even for local content.
Okay, just thought I'd bite the bullet and pay 18 bucks for Fast & Furious 6.
Well, I only have the 20 gig HDD on my 360, which of course is pretty much full. Which wouldn't be a problem if I could simply stream that shit. But yay, even though you're paying way too much money to buy that shit, you can't stream (or download) the movie after April 2014. So not only would I pay more than for a disc, it's also little more than an extended rent of the movie.
Fucking thing sucks.
Fake edit: Trying to buy it on the phone, the app first failed when it tried to convert my MS points into money. After I did that on my 360, it now wants me to add a credit card. Are you telling me this thing is too crappy to access the data from my account where I've had a card forever?
I'm out.
Well, I only have the 20 gig HDD on my 360, which of course is pretty much full. Which wouldn't be a problem if I could simply stream that shit. But yay, even though you're paying way too much money to buy that shit, you can't stream (or download) the movie after April 2014. So not only would I pay more than for a disc, it's also little more than an extended rent of the movie.
Fucking thing sucks.
Fake edit: Trying to buy it on the phone, the app first failed when it tried to convert my MS points into money. After I did that on my 360, it now wants me to add a credit card. Are you telling me this thing is too crappy to access the data from my account where I've had a card forever?
I'm out.
juliushandle
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amazing how much things have regressed from Zune
juliushandle
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Ultraviolet using the Flixster app works good but far from perfect. Let's you download for offline play but only in SD. Also, streaming in HD seams to only work for more recent movies. If the movie has been out for a while, HD streaming is removed.
WTF, I legally own my movies but the lack of HD download and stream options make me wanna pirate shit instead.
WTF, I legally own my movies but the lack of HD download and stream options make me wanna pirate shit instead.
Hows that?
And to the dude a couple of posts up, why does your movie purchase expire after April 2014? I purchased The Fugitive(my one and only video purchase,lol) like 5 years ago and it still shows up in my library. I can stream it too.
I think Major Nelson really wanted an iPhone... (his is the 1020)
I commented on his start screen, :lol
Also made me think of an iPhone.
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I think because you enter you account info again, unlike Xbox Music in the Hub which is tied to you live account on the phone setup.
Ah, that's cool. But probably wont be the case once it is integrated.
Says so when you wanna buy it in Xbox Video on the 360.
Well, your tweet actually alerted me to this crime ;-)
Steelyuhas
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So with Xbox Music the first time you play an album it will not show the album art if you are not connected to WiFi/Cell Data. Once you play an album with data the next time play it with WiFi data off the album cover/artist image should be there.
edit: how does it work when buying movies from iTunes?? I think some movies differ as well. I got Iron Man 3 with extras.
edit: how does it work when buying movies from iTunes?? I think some movies differ as well. I got Iron Man 3 with extras.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
And now that we have plex.....
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I don't get it, why would you use this app for local music over the built in app?
Well that's not made immediately apparent or I missed something.
I thought this was a replacement to the older music+videos app with the benefit of receiving regular updates not associated with the OS.
I think it is, just like Xbox Music on Windows 8 is supposed to serve both roles. Perhaps the fact that it is a preview means they want to limit the number of people using it?
José Mourinho
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So who has experience developing WP8 apps that can possibly help me with a little formatting issue?
lastflowers
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what do you need help with?
LifeLogger
Beta, and there's some design/animation fixes coming soon. Plus there's a concurrency issue that needs solving that can crash the app near its launch, but that should be a fairly simple fix....just need to make sure I squash it
LifeLogger
Beta, and there's some design/animation fixes coming soon. Plus there's a concurrency issue that needs solving that can crash the app near its launch, but that should be a fairly simple fix....just need to make sure I squash it
José Mourinho
cocknose
Hopefully this makes sense... In the calculator for example, if you keep typing numbers once the the characters reach the width of the screen they scale down in size to fit the next character in. I want to do something similar and I'm guessing there's a means to do so. The only way I could think of doing it was to make the font manually smaller as my text got longer, but that resulted -- as you'd well imagine -- in the text also moving upward in the text box so as to allow more test to fit underneath.
Nice, I'll take a look!LifeLogger
Beta, and there's some design/animation fixes coming soon. Plus there's a concurrency issue that needs solving that can crash the app near its launch, but that should be a fairly simple fix....just need to make sure I squash it
I'm an SE student looking for a placement, so I'm trying to make something over my time off. Something for the CV.
lastflowers
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A quick guess:
<TextBox x:Name="CalculatorInputBox"
TextInput="CalculatorInputBox_TextInput"
Height="80"
TextWrapping="NoWrap"
Width="450"
AcceptsReturn="False"
VerticalContentAlignment="Bottom"
HorizontalContentAlignment="Right"
MaxWidth="450"
MaxHeight="80"
InputScope="Number"
AllowDrop="True"
>
</TextBox>
You'd replace TextInput with whatever Event is triggered on text change. I'm not sure which one it is off-hand without some more investigation
TextWrapping is what prevents the text from wrapping around. You'll also want to specify a max Width to ensure the box just doesn't grow larger as you input more text. Using the Horizontal/VertialContentAlignments places the text in the lower portion of the textbox, so that when you resize the text it won't jump vertically around.
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