PS4 System Software Preview – USB Music Player, New Home Screen Colors, More

Finally after all these years we will have a download list with sorting and filtering options \o/

Shame about suspend/resume though.

These posts on EU/US blogs means a release candidate has emerged from Japan and is now available to devs etc. We'll probably get it fairly soon.
 
That's cool, I guess.

Wish they would listen to the users who are asking for OS sorting, folders, and suspend/resume. But I'll definitely change my background color when this update hits and try to muster some enthusiasm.
 
Back Up Data: Data on PS4 can be backed up and resorted using USB storage. This will back up all data for the console, including settings, save data, screenshots, video clips, download data, and more.

White PS4 here I come.
 
Music on a USB?

I will never do that. Most of us will never do that.

Call me when DLNA...
 
really liking what 2.0 promises to bring

USB Player - so we can't access the music stored on the PS4 drive itself?

Back Up Data - can we finally restore screenshots now?

and YAY for Library filters FINALLY

Probably has something to do with multiple programs accessing the HDD at the same time. This bypasses that by making the music app only read from a usb port. Might be something they can fix in the future but getting it working somehow is what they are concerned with right now.

Edit:Trying to look it up does the new XBO update let you play music from the internal HDD? All I can find is from a USB source or streaming online or DLNA. This really just might be a HDD access thing.
 
Legal issues when it comes to not being able to copy mp3s, probably? That and it would completely defeat the existence of its own on-console music service which is a much bigger deal to them now than PS3 era. So they're being a little dickish but I can also see their reasoning. They're neither accountable nor responsible for stuff you plug in to the box, so it's an easy escape clause against a ton of things.
 
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Very nice changes except for the content area/library one. Just let us create our own folders and pin titles/apps where we want.
 
So their way of solving the problem of all Games and Apps are in one f**cking large row is

=> Just show 15 items combined of games and apps and move the others ones in a Folder called "my library"

.... well done !

lol
 
Oh, turning off controller notifications would be awesome too. Really kills the video streaming experience (please somebody tell me you can already do this)
 
So glad backups are in, was concerned that was gone for good. In the event of PSN going down/cancelling PS4 support I'll make like 5 copies
 
Probably has something to do with multiple programs accessing the HDD at the same time. This bypasses that by making the music app only read from a usb port. Might be something they can fix in the future but getting it working somehow is what they are concerned with right now.

oh well. I hope there's an option to restore usb-saved screenshots to the PS4
 
They need to update twitch to a higher resolution. The shit resolution for streams they have been using is terrible, my chromecast displays better image quality for streams.
 
Probably has something to do with multiple programs accessing the HDD at the same time. This bypasses that by making the music app only read from a usb port. Might be something they can fix in the future but getting it working somehow is what they are concerned with right now.
DLNA would solve that problem.
 
The lack of custom icons on this makes me hopeful that you can just use whatever backgrounds you want now because that image certainly doesn't look like the 'themes' they've announced where Icons/Titles were customized.

I think it will be just one of the stock themes. If you look at the colour selection picture it is titled 'Flow', I'd imagine this is one called 'Blocks' or something.
 
Hopefully 'Fixed Friends List' and 'User Online/Offline Notifications' are in 2.0 because these are things that should have been in since 0.0
 
All their users don't want background music playback? They don't want to backup stuff? They don't want to improve that long list of icons?


Library revamp is good because it means they are open to listening. So even if this isn't perfect they can tweak again later. I'd actually like fewer 'recent' icons, and then have music/TV/library 'folders' easier to get to

I'll admit my post was mostly a knee-jerk reaction, but still, the slow progress in adding the most-requested features which still are missing (e.g. suspend/resume, DLNA) is seriously bumming me out. This is definitely a step in the right direction, but at the same time, I cannot applaud them for adding the more basic stuff that has been part of the PS3 OS for ages.
 
USB music streaming is surprising. I don't have a problem with this and this could even better fit my own use of the feature but I really wasn't expecting that. Maybe Sony don't want music streaming to mess with game data streaming from the hard drive so music streaming has to come from another source? Also I wonder if the possibility to store music on PS4's hard disk wouldn't expose it to some taxes in some countries, hence the choice of streaming music from an external device only. There has to be a reason...
 
They need to update twitch to a higher resolution. The shit resolution for streams they have been using is terrible, my chromecast displays better image quality for streams.

Crunchyroll on the ps3 streams on higher quality than crunchyroll on the ps4. That's annoying.

These new updates are pretty cool though. I'm also tired of the light blue.
 
Sorry but the Content area improvements still don't cut it. How hard is it to just have folders? At the least put the Library at the beginning of the list instead of all the way at the end.
 
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