![]() The streaming is occasionally interrupted by advertisement but not really that often, at least not during the time I had it play in the background while doing other activities on the operating system. It is interesting to note in this regard that Microsoft seems to give customers of Windows 8 six months of unlimited music streaming with their purchase of the operating system which will be limited to 10 hours per month after the six month period. The first time I clicked on the advertisement it opened the subscription options right on the Xbox Music dashboard, after that, it would open the Xbox Music web page in Internet Explorer instead. A 30 day free trial is available which will automatically continue to a paid monthly subscription unless canceled before the trial period expires. The video and music app feature advertisements for Microsoft's Xbox Music Pass, a new music streaming service that makes available a vast music archive of 30 million songs for about $10 per month or $100 per year. This works pretty much in the same way that Pandora Radio makes available custom radio stations based on an artist or band that you enter on the site. This includes the new Smart DJ feature which can create custom playlists for you based on artists or bands that you enter into the search form here. The collaboration of Bing and Windows will provide the user with tons of search result about their favorite artist and selection of any track in the Bing search result will play the music instantly in Xbox without having to switch in between apps.The Xbox Music application displays a number of additional items on the start screen after the update. Also the Bing Smart Search app is said to be integrated in the app. This tool will scan for artist’s mentions on a given web page and will create a custom playlist of their music. In addition to this, Microsoft also introduced an update to Xbox Music for Windows 8.1 which includes a new Web Playlist feature. Thus Xbox Music brings all the music with free streaming on the web and on Windows 8 PCs, tablets and phones with ability to sync and now this also extend to iOS and Android devices. The purpose of designing this app to solve the common problem where people use different devices like phones, tablets, PCs to access different music services that do not connect with each other. However the unlimited version of web streaming will last for six months and after that Microsoft will restrict the hours of free streaming and can get unlimited access after a paid subscription only. Another feature of the web version of the app is free web streaming on Xbox Music and it promised to bring the offline mode in iOS and Android platforms in the coming months so that users can download tracks for offline listening. In the web version, Microsoft plans to add a radio feature later this year. ![]() The features include personalization of playlists which can sync to other devices on Xbox 360, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. However it will require users to have Xbox Music Pass which is priced at $9.99 per month and $99.99 per year. Xbox Music will allow its users to get access to its 30 million tracks available. This app will soon be available at their respective marketplaces. Now it has been made available for both the iOS as well as for the Android users. Microsoft now extends the boundaries for the Xbox Music app after it debuted a year ago. ![]()
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