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• HawkeEye commented  ·  May 18, 2013 7:37 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  One other question for MSFT. How difficult would it be to focus on one media interface like Zune? We now have Media Center, Media Player, X-Box Music, X-Box Video, and thankfully partial use of Zune. The whole mess could have been solved by adding TV access to Zune. What a mess. Only the IRS is less organized or efficient.

• HawkeEye commented  ·  May 18, 2013 7:32 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Unfortunately if you are over 30, have a job, and don't play games all day then X-Box music and Video are useless. Zune was a far superior product that needs to return for adults. The X-Box Music apps is disorganized, difficult to navigate, and the marketplace side of it is so inferior to Zune that it is laughable. PLEASE BRING BACK ZUNE!!!!!!!!

• Arya commented  ·  May 18, 2013 7:21 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Guys, I am a Microsoft fan. Seriously, I am. I have supported their every move. But I really don't understand why zune software was taken away from us on WP8? The cloud sync isn't working. The songs sync and get saved to the phone but they don't link themselves to the playlists. That is, you have to always be online and stream the songs even though they're on your phone already. More over, why can't we even subscribe to podcasts even manually anymore?

• Anonymous commented  ·  May 18, 2013 7:20 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please make WP8 work with Zune! The new PC sync is just a step back several years. I love my Nokia 920, but Zune is far superior and so much easier. So. Much. Easier.

• Natalie commented  ·  May 18, 2013 12:08 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please make Lumia 920 work again with Zune!!! Can't be that every 2nd nokia you buy, you have to have some new software!!! I have all my musiklist on Zune.... I'm not using my 920. Thinking about selling it because that.

• Anonymous commented  ·  May 18, 2013 11:32 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  My girlfriend had a 900, so i said hey, why not buy the 928 instead of buying a new 32gb Zune. Little did i know, they weren't going to let me use Zune on the new ones like they did the old ones. I have 28gbs of music on Zune, all formatted through the software. Either we need a fix on the new software and a way to merge from Zune, or they need to allow us to use Zune. This is no upgrade as of current.

• Chris Snazell commented  ·  May 18, 2013 6:13 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  The desktop sync app's deleted of all the media on my 8X for the 3rd time this month. I've had enough so I'm off, I've ordered a Nexus 4 from Google.

  When Microsoft can be bothered to taked Music & Podcasts seriously on their devices, I'll be back.

• Gaideah commented  ·  May 17, 2013 7:46 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  And Xbox music is not a feature!!!!!!

• Gaideah commented  ·  May 17, 2013 7:43 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please make it where we can sync our windows 8 phones with Zune. I like Zune. The Windows Phone App software is terrible. You cannot manage your music. You cannot sync a playlist that has DRM from Zune and get it to work. It takes a long time to sync with the phone. It can also turn Coke to Pepsi.
  I have had a Windows phone from day 1. I have had a Samsung BlackJack II, Samsung Focus and now the Lumia 521. If I knew what I knew now, I would have just stuck with my Samsung Focus or got an Android based phone. This is inexcusable for software to be this bad. I had been telling people about Windows phones but until this issue is fixed (using the Zune player to sync) I will not be recommending a Windows phone for anything.

• ramon sosa commented  ·  May 16, 2013 3:45 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  if xbox music had the same ui and features i would be happy about using it w my wp8

• JD commented  ·  May 16, 2013 7:22 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Microsoft - I was poised to move to WP8 until I discovered Zune was gone and only Xbox Music is available. Based on my terrifying less than 24 hour trial of Xbox Music, AND, the fact that even the new Lumia 928 has no option for SDcard storage, AND the fact that Xbox music cannot address network drives... you're keeping a potential customer away from your "ecosystem." Get it together. Rebrand Zune and put it back. It at least works.

• Big-N commented  ·  May 15, 2013 5:33 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  You MS jokers better get your stuff together!. One of the main reasons I decided to stay with a Windows Phone when upgrading is the ZUNE feature. Without it I may as well gone to Android or something. You guys are going to really mess it up with the Windows Phone customers. Thinking of returning mine!!!

• Kory Bennett commented  ·  May 15, 2013 1:20 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I have had it. See ya MS I have ditched the WP8 for an IPhone 5. At least it works well with iTunes and is reliable. For shame MS. Hang you head in shame for not listening to you customers.

• Garth H commented  ·  May 15, 2013 1:13 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I used my WP7 (HTC Trophy) for music all the time. Now I have a Nokia Lumia 822 and opt to use my ZuneHD 64GB instead. Xbox Music is a train wreak. I loved the fact that with the Zune Client I could rip my music as WMA Lossless and have the client re-encode it to WMA-Pro for use on mobile devices. That is now MIA. Just update and rebrand the Zune Client and be done with it.

• Tom commented  ·  May 15, 2013 9:33 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I was going to go get the Lumia 928 tomorrow. After reading this I have decided to not do so. The main reason I went with the WP7 last year was because I had Zune and the HD. In the last year I have found myself always playing off my phone and leaving the HD at home. Now I see this **** and I am starting to regret ever going with Zune and WP in the first place. I thought when I first went with Zune (dumped Rhapsody because of many syncing issues) that this would be a platform that will be around and will work. Microsoft is behind this! LMFAO......fooled like a sucka. Should have done iTunes and their phone.

• Marcus Sanders commented  ·  May 14, 2013 9:23 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I agree with Josh...just own up to it and give us some sign of a fix. Something that gives us a sense of hope for an update. It sucks just waiting and thinking that no one cares.

• dallas commented  ·  May 14, 2013 9:15 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  quick question. would this just be included in an update or do you think we would have to buy new phones?

• Dano commented  ·  May 14, 2013 6:19 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please, for the love of all that's good and holy, make the Zune app compatible with WP8. Heck, rebadge it as the Xbox Music Desktop app if needs be.

  I just switched from an HD7 running WP7.5 to a Lumia 521 running WP8 and I was floored by how abysmal the music management model is in WP8. It worked great with WP7.x and Zune and it's now an un-intuitive, inconvenient, buggy disaster.

  Do the right thing MS and allow us to use the application that actually worked great when you first rolled WP out.

• Murt commented  ·  May 14, 2013 4:10 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Syncing my playlist has been a huge nightmare on my lumia 920... I am forced to stream with music services like Pandora and Nokia music, but both of those don't satisfy my music needs. Zune worked perfect... and I find myself going back to my Samsung focus a playlist, this doesn't work :/

• Thomas commented  ·  May 14, 2013 8:50 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Changing Zune to Xbox Music is like Apple saying 'actually it turns out we don't want iTunes anymore".