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?
I don't think there is on any platform that Xbox Music is on, which begs the question about what their plans are going forward for podcasts.
I downloaded the two apps, does the music app allow you to play from a local collection or just your could synced collection?
Faster updates independent of firmware upgrades. This is a MUCH better solution and needs to be used for all first party apps.
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?
The built in podcast stuff has been a joke for the longest time, you guys should be using an app by now.
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.
If you live in the US. ;-)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.
The built in podcast stuff has been a joke for the longest time, you guys should be using an app by now.
This area is still under some investigation, however preliminary tests suggest this is caused by the way the Windows Phone operating system caches downloaded files. We use standard Microsoft Windows Phone APIs to perform downloads within Podcast Lounge. In order to minimise data usage/bandwidth, the operating system will cache files it downloads and saves them in case the app requests the same file again. This works great for a website JPG which is unlikely to change; Request the JPG a second time and the phone very efficiently serves up the cached copy.
When Podcast Lounge downloads a podcast, it gets downloaded into Isolated Storage. This is a special area that we have full access to. When you play your downloaded podcast, we point the phones media player to the downloaded file and everything works as expected. However the downloaded podcast appears also to be saved to another storage area, linked to the app, but one that is inaccessible programmatically using the standard phone API available to 3rd party developers.
What we think happens is that the phone is caching a ghost copy of every podcast downloaded and is not doing a particularly good job of removing the cached files after a period of time. The result is storage check in Podcast Lounges settings (which only reports whats in Isolated Storage) says one figure and a system-wide storage check app reports a much bigger figure.
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.
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.Xbox Video is out!!
http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/12/18/xbox-video-watch-tv-shows-movies-windows-phone-8/
Xbox Music has it's own app now as well!!
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/xbox-music/d2b6a184-da39-4c9a-9e0a-8b589b03dec0
One miracle at a timeIs there no way to manage/view podcasts in Xbox Music?
How odd. PC takes up 40MB for me.
Strange bug.
Are you using automatic downloads in the app to store podcasts offline? That's where it comes from.
Well, I am a US citizen but I don't see myself moving back any time soon.Why don't you just move to the US, then?
I have auto downloads enabled for PcL (but only for one podcast, three episodes at a time) and mine is listed at about 90MBAre 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.
I have auto downloads enabled for PcL (but only for one podcast, three episodes at a time) and mine is listed at about 90MB
Disappointed that Xbox music requires a subscription just to access my local music. Looks like I'm not retiring the music+videos app just yet.
amazing how much things have regressed from ZuneOkay, 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.
Definitely needs work. Awesome that my wife could use my pass offline if she were to get a WP though
I think Major Nelson really wanted an iPhone... (his is the 1020)
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 because you enter you account info again, unlike Xbox Music in the Hub which is tied to you live account on the phone setup.
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 commented on his start screen, :lol
Also made me think of an iPhone.
US is the only thing.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.
Shame :/Disappointed that Xbox music requires a subscription just to access my local music. Looks like I'm not retiring the music+videos app just yet.
MS' incompetence just made me buy a DVD for the first time in years.
And it was cheaper and comes with extras.
WHY DON'T YOU WANT MY MONEY, JOE?????
Shame :/
It's meant for subscribers to the service. The same with the IOS and android app.
edit: that ad is awful
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.
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.what do you need help with?
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.Is everyone in here developing apps?
I need to get on this train.
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!