Xbox Music Book 0.7

A lot more content for Xbox Music on Xbox 360

This week’s update to Xbox Music Book almost (but not quite) finishes the section on Xbox Music for Xbox 360, and has a number of updates to the Windows 8/RT section as well.

I think the only major thing that needs to be written in the Xbox 360 section is the bit on “Now Playing,” so hopefully that will be done by the next update.

As noted previously, things are still a bit messy, and I’m going to have to work on ordering the tasks in the Xbox 360 section in particular, but probably everywhere, so that it flows correctly. This kind of ordering thing is always an issue.

The Windows 8/RT section is getting there, too, though there are several sections to complete. The Windows Phone section has barely been touched, but that will happen soon as well, as will an expansion of the tasks in that section as I write it.

I was hoping to “finish” this (in first draft form anyway) by the end of February and keep the book to under 50 pages, but it looks like neither is going to happen. I’m already north of 50 pages, largely because most of the Xbox 360 screenshots are full-screen and by nature large. But I’ll look at trimming after it’s complete.

As always, any feedback is appreciated.

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fobsquad
on Feb 27, 2013

Ever since reading your 0.3 draft, I was convinced that I would not need Xbox Music Pass nor would I ever make use of their free services.
That said, I finally upgraded my system to Windows 8 last night and am very frustrated with the Music app overall. The first thing I did was to add my main music directory(~100GB of ~50k songs) to my Music library to allow the collection to sync. Eventually, I notice that most of my songs are not even labeled correctly. A large majority of them simply contained the artist name where the song title should be, while not displaying anything for album or song title. The ID3v2 tags are read perfectly fine in Winamp or Foobar. And of course, Microsoft provides no way for me to view or edit the info.

So anyways, I look forward to skimming your next revision, especially the section called "View Music Properties". Hopefully, you know of an effective method to edit individual or group ID3v2 tags. In the meantime, I will probably continue to boot my Win7 partition.

mhc48
on Mar 6, 2013

I just downloaded this draft and haven't read it yet, perhaps it will be covered, but I just updated my Xbox with and upgraded my subscription to the annual Music Pass, but none of the music I've previously bought from Zune, or which is part of my non-bought collection on my Surface RT or Windows 8 Phone are showing up in Xbox. Do I have to transfer them over some (non apparent) way?

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