Xbox Music and Video updated for Windows Phone with fixes and speed improvements

True to their word, Microsoft has pushed out two new updates for their Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps for Windows Telephone 8.1. Microsoft is on a tight schedule, delivering updates to those apps every ii weeks in an effort to bring them to par.

Heading to the Store and version 2.half-dozen.155.0 for Xbox Music and two.6.154.0 for Xbox Video are at present alive for downloading and updating.

Currently, both changelogs filed "bug fixes and improvements" equally being in this update. However, the teams behind the app has updated their User Voice pages with specifics, which are listed below:

Xbox Music 2.6.155.0

It's faster to load your collection, particularly the collection lists and artist details
Scrolling in your collection album and creative person lists is smoother
While your telephone is charging, the app will opportunistically sync with your cloud collection
Better messaging as your collection builds and syncs with the cloud

We besides stock-still a number of bugs! A few notable bug we addressed:

Album art not appearing (or incorrectly using the Xbox Music catalog version) when present in local MP3s
Scrolling through a playlist being jerky and seeming to scroll infinitely
Shuffling your collection having likewise few songs, and including duplicates
'New music' items showing either twice or not at all

Xbox Video 2.half-dozen.154.0

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

Head to the Store to download both updates and allow us know what yous recall in comments! (Users may want to re-pin the Xbox Music app to their Start screen after the update)

Download Xbox Music for Windows Phone viii.one
Download Xbox Video for Windows Phone 8.one

Source: Xbox Music User Voice, Xbox Video User Voice; Thank you, Jesse C., for the tip!

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