Music Info on Windows 8 updated

We looked at this app a while back and even interviewed the creator Johnny Westlake. Essentially it'due south a music player with some neat discovery abilities, which makes it a welcome modify from the supplied Xbox Music app.

The fast and fluid music app picks upwards a number of improvements as information technology reaches version ane.0 including metadata editing and a live tile if you're a paying client.

Quite simply, if you love music and have a Microsoft Surface tablet you need to buy this app right away. Unlike Xbox Music, its fast and fun to use and has some corking means to find more than music. If you want to know more than I did a full review of the last version which you lot should read.

Updates for paid users:

• Added: Live Tile for Now Playing Music
• Added: (BETA) Bones Metadata editor for individual tracks in Album view. Volition be expanded in time to come builds.

Updates for all users:

• Added: Ability to perform non-indexed collection update, useful if non all your tracks testify up
• Added: Search for artists in collection using the search amuse
• Added: Switchable Album view blazon (via app bar)
• Added: Change Tracks grouping in collection view (via app bar)
• Added: Popular-in context dialog when adding / removing files from the queue
• Added: Additional shuffle all buttons to now playing habitation screen
• Fixed: Pinned tiles wouldn't load correctly if database refresh period expired
• Fixed: Search results can now be navigated with keyboard
• Stock-still: Rare occurrences where clicking on semantic zoom header wouldn't get to the correct item
• Improved: Rewritten track playing lawmaking – faster rails changes
• Improved: Higher quality pinned tiles for high DPI devices
• Improved: Search & At present Playing Dwelling screen snap views
• Improved: Collection loading moved to groundwork thread - better responsiveness on first upward for low powered machines
• Improved: Improved "Type to search"
• Improved: General improved responsiveness, notably on depression powered tablets
• Improved: Added some additional fault resilience for when music files neglect to open properly

The developer has been busy and I'm certainly looking frontwards to the increased capabilities of the app to handle music arrangement. Lots of my music consists of AAC'southward m4a files which the app doesn't seem to recognise only this isn't proving a huge problem right now.

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Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/music-info-windows-8-updated

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