Just as promised, Microsoft is delivering regular updates to its Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps on Windows Phone 8.1 to make them better. Xbox Music is supposed to get bi-weekly updates and the latest one is here. First, here’s the changelog for version 2.5.3884.0:
- General performance improvements
- Bug Fixes
- Background initial sync of local and cloud content
- Slider to scrub now playing track
These are the general changes posted on the Store. However, here’s a more detailed changelog from a post on the Xbox Music User Voice Site:
- Audio scrubbing is now supported! Slide the track progress indicator in the Now Playing screen to advance to the spot you like.
- Smoother FFW and REW animations.
- UI fixes to improve visibility of content.
- Bug fixed where songs are incorrectly removed from playlists.
- Fixes for unexpected app exits.
Those are some neat features added to the app. With promised changes every two weeks, we should see the app getting even better in the coming days. Here’s what Microsoft has promised for the next update:
- Continued focus on stability and performance improvements.
- Initial sync of local and cloud content happens in the background.
- Usability improvements in Now Playing screen.
- Support for greater than 100 songs in Now Playing queue.
- Faster loading of long lists.
- Swipe gesture to advance songs on Now Playing screen.
- Transparent Tile support.
- Live Tile support.
- Design and layout changes to get you to your content faster.
- Kid’s Corner support.
- General UX improvements
You can pick the app on the Windows Phone Store here.
