Microsoft's updates for its Xbox Music and Video applications for Windows Phone 8.1 include:
- It’s faster to load your collection, particularly the collection lists and artist details
- Scrolling in your collection album and artist lists is smoother
- While your phone is charging, the app will opportunistically sync with your cloud collection
- Better messaging as your collection builds and syncs with the cloud
- We also fixed a number of bugs! A few notable issues we addressed:
- Quicker loading for personal video, movie and TV show collections
- Expired rental downloads are now automatically cleaned up to free up disk space
- Additional bug fixes
Here's our previous story on Xbox Music, just a couple of weeks ago - the dev team is on a very regular pace now. For a change, I ran up the Video application:
Still work to do, I think. Masses of wasted space on the first pane shown, though it's excellent to have such a quick way to resume the last video watched.... (right) many of my personal videos play perfectly under Windows Phone, yet the application fails to construct a thumbnail, which has to be a bug....