Microsoft details music & video hub changes in Mango

The Windows Phone Weblog has a nice writeup on the new features we will see in the Mango Music + Video Hub. Nosotros've known about some of the features for awhile at present (see our "Big Mango consumer listing" for what nosotros know so far), but it's swell to have official confirmation and more details. There are as well quite a few smaller updates that don't merit their own bullet signal, but volition help smooth out the experience.

The on-device podcast support is a welcome characteristic, and many users have been asking for it since mean solar day one. The iPhone supports information technology out of the box, and there are a few apps in the Market (e.m. Bring Cast and Podcasts!) that offer some podcast functionality, simply and then far, only Windows Phone has announced on-device podcast subscriptions, broiled into the Bone. The standard download-for-subsequently, and stream-it-now options are supported, and users will be able to download or stream over WiFi or GSM/CDMA. New podcasts will simply download automatically while your phone is charging, though, and for at present, it looks like this is a United states simply feature.

Ane of the Zune'south greatest features is the Smart DJ (see earlier leak). Smart DJ mixes have always been playable on your Windows Phone, but y'all've had to create them on your calculator, and transfer them over. Mango volition requite us the power to generate them on the device, by only long-tapping the "seed" creative person, song, or album, and selecting "smart dj." The Music +Video hub will and so store your mixes in the History pin.

To round out the experience, the team has modified the UI/UX a chip. They have moved effectually a few items, like the repeat and shuffle buttons, to make them easier to find, added bigger playback control buttons, added lock-screen music controls, improve images, lockscreen album fine art, a streaming icon, and on-device playlist creation.

Spring on past the break for the total changelog from Microsoft themselves...information technology's quite the read.

More than discoverable playback options: Inquiry showed we provided a great choice—"shuffle all music"— that virtually nobody knew we had! So we've moved the push and updated the icon to make it stand out. Ditto for the onetime Rate, Shuffle, and Repeat playback options, which were hidden backside anthology art. In Mango, they're front and center.
Improved History and New: These areas are designed to make it easier to find and play content. But usability studies taught the states the horizontal layout and 8-item limit slowed people downwards. So in Mango, nosotros've gone vertical— and added room for 25 items.
Meliorate mini-playback control: We noticed people were having trouble tapping the small buttons of our handy mini-playback control. Now when y'all tap the book button on your telephone yous'll see bigger, easier-to-tap music controls equally well equally the artist name and what'southward playing. Tap on that info to launch the total music player and turn on options like shuffle or repeat.
New lock-screen options: Nosotros thought it would be handy if you could easily control your music player while your phone is locked, and so in Mango you'll notice playback controls there.
New artist wallpapers: We also figured music lovers would like to see those neat artist images in the Music + Videos Hub show upward every bit wallpaper on the lock screen. In Mango, that's now a settings selection. (Nosotros keep this one off by default, since it does have a small impact on your battery life).
Amend playback controls: The playback controls are bigger and are now aligned with the mini-playback control—then your thumbs e'er know where to go.
Improve artist images: We found that the background creative person images were sometimes too bright, which made some controls hard to run across. Our design team worked difficult to find the right opacity for the images. The terminate outcome you'll see in Mango has a not bad layered wait and never interferes with the controls.
More playback info: We've added the artist proper name to the music player queue then that when y'all're jamming to your new Smart DJ mix, you know exactly what'south upwardly next.
More than playback options: Tap the Repeat button a couple of times and you'll meet the addition of a Repeat One time mode for those songs you just can't get enough of.
New playlist selection: Yep, that'due south right—y'all tin finally create playlists on your device. Add together a mix of whatever y'all desire to your queue or first a Smart DJ mix and save it every bit a playlist.
Better data direction: In Mango, Zune Pass subscribers now see an icon on the phone when they're listening to streamed music—and so you ever know when you're consuming information.
More video options: Last but not least, for videos, we've added a full-screen toggle and video scrubbing (where supported) and so you have quick access to the parts of your videos yous beloved most—features we heard yous inquire for!

Source: Windows Telephone Blog

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