PS4 System Software Preview USB Music Player, New Home Screen Colors, More
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MightyMonkeyMan
Neo Member
I only set mine up last week and it's working as I type. I use whatever the default settings with the direct link to my PC, web login also works.
Well for me, it's primarily DVD rips that I own, along with audio CD's that I also own. For content I don't own, I have the following subscriptions:
Netflix
Amazon Instant Video
NowTV
Wuaki (they're shutting down their subscription service this month though... which sucks because I got in on the £2.99 a month early adopter deal)
Cruncyroll
Xbox Music
If it turns out something I want to watch isn't available on any of these services, I tend to get rent them off Xbox Video.
Not that any of this should matter really, as we shouldn't have to justify why we'd like standard features on our devices.
its brand new OS, so probably no drivers.
As to list, keep in mind this is to the addition of other 2.0 features they announced - Share Play which sounds awesome, plus youtube app and uploading to youtube.
Share Play beats anything else on the list easily...
I consider "custom soundtracks" to mean muting the in-game music and overlaying your own music, but keeping the sound effects in tact.
Unless specified otherwise, "play [your] own music in the background while playing a game" could function in a number of ways. Maybe they mute just the game music. Maybe they mute the whole game. Maybe they don't bother muting anything.
I really do hope that it's the "custom soundtrack" feature I truly desire, but I can only hope for the best and expect the worst. It's my nature.
However it works, it will likely do the same thing that Music Unlimited does with its player seeing as it is mentioned as not being available when using the USB Music Player. So the question I have is how does Music Unlimited work, does it mute just game music or just play over the top of it?
Well yeah I do a heavy amount of traveling and A LOT of those files are stored on my Nas and every time some friends or family come over we have a "media party".
Older DVDs are my ripped ones qhich I have stored for random movie nights.
The music is straight from CDs and I want to listen to them via my home cinema system.
Like synth above me also said, for content I do not own I currently have a subscriotion for incl. Netflix, Music Unlimited, Viaplay(Scandinavian 'netflix' with a license for nhl gamecenter)
MrTroubleMaker
Gold Member
Looks like a good update.
BruiserBear
Banned
Glad to see some improvements, but no friends notifications? No release date for this update?
Until someone actually uses Music Unlimited, we won't have any way of knowing.
Uno Venova
Banned
I think we both know which category is the vast majority.
That doesn't mean Sony shouldn't have the functionality it's last generation console and current competition have.
hikarutilmitt
Member
Talk to better people? That's kind of a broad brush, the same kind that people use in the custom firmware threads.
I buy CDs so I can rip them to FLAC and then stream that to wherever in my house I'm listening. Or I put the file onto my Sansa. If I could use the background music feature on my PS4 using my streaming media, I'd not have to bother with a USB drive. As it is I'll have to use mp3s, anyway.
I usually don't rip my DVDs and Blu-rays though because it's not worth the storage required and I don't do it s frequently.
Of course I won't know til I find out more/actually try it, but on the surface using the library to find content sounds worse than what we have. It'll be full of uninstalled games I'm done with, old betas/demos, games that I don't own but grabbed limited-time free DLC for "just in case", and in some cases multiple different language versions of the same game, only one of which is actually installed (I'm looking at you Diablo).
I really hope there's a way to order and hide stuff arbitrarily within the library. But I'm fearful there might not be since Library is actually the console's download list.
I really hope there's a way to order and hide stuff arbitrarily within the library. But I'm fearful there might not be since Library is actually the console's download list.
Kazuma Kiryu
Member
Yeah, I remember Sony having some cool features to announce at the event as part of their OS plans, but what was so great compared to what Microsoft showed after that, apart from a few network related stuff, like streaming or game sharing?
As I said, if someone actually thought for a second that Sony (or Nintendo for that matter) could challenge Microsoft in the OS department, they must have not been thinking straight. They never did, they don't and they most likely never will.
NullPointer
Member
It does sound worse. Hopefully the library is improved to the point where its not a hassle.
For my uses (games) I still prefer the PS4 OS. Its quick and to the point - its just missing features. I prefer the scrolly bar of recent games and apps to the Xbox pins, and between the option of keeping the DLNA player snapped at all times like the Xbox or the PS4's coming USB background music, I prefer the USB method.
Right now I still think the PS4 has the best setup for me, but its rapidly losing ground to the Xbox's blistering pace of updates.
Goodacre0081
Member
- No DLNA
- No Suspend / Resume
- No Who Logged In notifications
- No PS1 / PS2 emulation
- No support for BD remote controllers (so can't control w/ harmony remote for blu ray playback)
I love the PS4 OS but Sony is dropping the ball. Fire the guys in Japan and create an OS dev group here in NA or EU. The guys in Japan are really bad at this.
- No Suspend / Resume
- No Who Logged In notifications
- No PS1 / PS2 emulation
- No support for BD remote controllers (so can't control w/ harmony remote for blu ray playback)
I love the PS4 OS but Sony is dropping the ball. Fire the guys in Japan and create an OS dev group here in NA or EU. The guys in Japan are really bad at this.
mr teaspoon
Member
It really bugs me that I can't just put a cool desktop image on a USB stick and use it as my PS4 background.
I don't want to pay for the privilege of purchasing what someone else thinks looks nice (themes), I want to put a picture I like on my console.
I don't want to pay for the privilege of purchasing what someone else thinks looks nice (themes), I want to put a picture I like on my console.
Apparently it's not all folks:
Why be so secretive about the feature set? It's not more exciting to be secretive. It's just frustrating.
JackLongRod
Banned
Sounds like a solid update
Sony has to develop those features from scratch whereas MS can count on windows kernel foundation to get them rapidly. Add to this that the Xbox OS team is probably way bigger than Playstation's with less platforms to support...
I assume still in QA, thus some features may get delayed due to bugs, then delaying the release.
MR ARCADE FOREVER
Member
So instead of being able to choose themes and add wallpapers they are letting us only choose the background color?? 😅😅😅
Please...
Please...
ShadowKingpin
Member
I want to know if there will be a 'follow' button added to Twitch so that people who are watching on their PS4 consoles can start following my channel.
Goodacre0081
Member
suspend/resume is starting to sound like a pipe dream now. won't all the games that precede it need updates to support that feature?
I might be less offended it they just came out and said that, then.
That's insane. I'm amazed that Sony still hasn't copied features of the original XBox like integrated soundtrack replacement.
Maybe Microsoft still has the patent on that or something. I have no idea what kind of deal Sony and MS do or don't have on patent licensing between the two of them for things like that.
I hope this is just a pretty basic first attempt at incorporating proper custom soundtracks. I shouldn't have to plug in a pen drive just to listen to music. ps3 didn't have custom sountracks (barring some exceptions like gt5 and bad company 2,for example) and yet, you could store music,images and videos on the hdd.
I have one port alteady assigned to my astros, the other is usually the recharge cable, since ds4 has such a short battery, so this solution isn't ideal. and how will it work? will it automatically mute in game music? will it mute everything or just overlay it?
will i be able to open up Nuclear on the iDroid while playing ground zeroes? can i add other songs to WD's playlist,in game?
cause that shit would be dope, but I'm keeping my expectations in check.
I have one port alteady assigned to my astros, the other is usually the recharge cable, since ds4 has such a short battery, so this solution isn't ideal. and how will it work? will it automatically mute in game music? will it mute everything or just overlay it?
will i be able to open up Nuclear on the iDroid while playing ground zeroes? can i add other songs to WD's playlist,in game?
cause that shit would be dope, but I'm keeping my expectations in check.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
For those asking, Music Unlimited works nicely, and allows you play music in the background (including games).
I'm sure MP3 playback will work the same way.
Sorry for the huge screen shot
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For those asking, Music Unlimited works nicely, and allows you play music in the background (including games).
I'm sure MP3 playback will work the same way.
Sorry for the huge screen shot
Yeah, it's a pretty good music player at this point. At PS4 launch it was rough.
I guess just to be flexible? Not including things they aren't 100% sure will make it might allow them to push back features that end up causing issues or take too long.
That'd be the only logical thing I can think of - doing it thinking it drums up interest to tease features over time doesn't make any sense to me.
MR ARCADE FOREVER
Member
Thanks didn't see that!
SUPERJEM94
Banned
No confirmation of when it will come out? I'm hoping tomorrow, but we'll see.
RedRooster
Member
For those asking, Music Unlimited works nicely, and allows you play music in the background (including games).
I'm sure MP3 playback will work the same way.
Sorry for the huge screen shot
Except if you have in game music still turned on it all plays at the same time as one big mess. At least it did in MLB, so I had to turn off the in game music(thank god!) and it wasn't half bad using MU.
MU plays on top of the game and it has it's own volume slider independent from the games music sliders.
For those asking, Music Unlimited works nicely, and allows you play music in the background (including games).
I'm sure MP3 playback will work the same way.
Sorry for the huge screen shot
Does it replace the game's music or play over the top and lower the games music like on Vita?
Driveclub actually mutes in game music when playing music in Unlimited, I think. I could be wrong.
Soccer4life
Banned
Share Play !
Now that's a next gen feature.
Now that's a next gen feature.
B_Boss
Member
I do wonder about a few things...I wonder who at Sony owns a 360 and has seen the beautiful way in which, if you're playing a game that has music, and you play your custom music, the 360 will fade out/in certain game music for your custom music...or do we have to worry about overlapping music lol...? (Pretty much what KalBalboa asked) Please Sony...it seems simple but I'm definitely no software engineer. This was such a beautiful feature of the 360 when it came to custom music.
Giant difference between today's version against the one I had on release - out of a 100 tries to login only 5 would go through. And if you got a Sony phone/tablet like me - z2 and z2 tablet - then the Walkman app is probably the best reason to buy a Xperia phone, such a joy to use that app.
It's not that what Sony showed before looked better than what MS showed after. It's that it looked like it'd be comparable. I liked that MS had the snap multitasking, but it didn't seem like other than that (and the TV stuff) there would be much of a difference.
Now I have the machine, and I can't even pause downloads or get notified of my friends coming online... let alone resume games from standby... and this is almost a year in. It's not quite what I was expecting.