Windows Phone App Review: Cloud Music

Cloud Music for Windows Phone

Skydrive is a corking resource for your Windows Phone for off-device storage and Deject Music is a handy app to tap into whatsoever music files you lot may have stored in your Skydrive account. We outset mentioned Cloud Music some time agone when the developer was looking for beta testers. Well, Cloud Music is at present available over in the Windows Phone Marketplace and in giving the music app a try, it's non likewise shabby.

Cloud Music

Cloud Music is presented in pano fashion with pages displaying pages for what is Now Playing, Recent songs played, New music folders to your Skydrive business relationship, and a Drove page that will let you sort and brandish artist, albums, songs and playlists that are stored on your Skydrive account.

The Settings Folio (accessed from the gear button on the Collections Page) covers:

General Settings: Number of songs/albums saved to contempo listing, notifications on/off, backgrounds on/off and alive tile on/off.
Drove settings: These options embrace whether you want to stream the music or download the files to your Windows Phone, cache images locally for your anthology, and how Cloud Music functions under the lockscreen.
Profile settings: Here's where you sign in or out of your Skydrive account.
Help: We all demand help at times and Deject Music's help department walks you through the folder construction rather nicely. Virtually: Your typical about screen showing the version number and developer contact information.

I call up the most challenging role of Deject Music is getting your Skydrive folders arranged to exist compatible with Cloud Music. Cloud Music bases it'due south folder structure on the Zune music folder structure. It'southward not complicated construction but takes a little time to build from scratch.

The binder path goes Music > Artist > Album > then songs. For example for Metallica'southward Southward&M album the path would be Music > Metallica > Southward&Yard > and so the songs. Song files demand to be structured 01 "song title", 02 "song title", etc. to allow for proper playback social club. If you don't use the numbers, songs will be bundled in social club of upload to Skydrive.

The developer is working on a desktop application that should help with the file construction cosmos. Information technology's not a difficult process but the slightest deviation could prevent Deject Music from seeing your music files.

Cloud Music

You can also add .jpg images under the Artist and Anthology folders that will be displayed as wallpaper when the songs are playing. If y'all don't add a .jpg image then a default image from Cloud Music will exist used.

Once you lot get things set on Skydrive, Cloud Music functions like your typical music player. In that location is Zune Music Hub integration, shuffle playback, repeat playback, pin artists/playlists to your Start Screen, and playlist creation.

All in all, once you get the hang of the folder structure Cloud Music is a very nice music role player for your Windows Phone. It allows you to store your music files off-device and access them as you please. Playback was quick and smooth when streaming the music either on Wifi or wireless information. The just downside to Cloud Music is that the streaming will put a strain on your bombardment (as it would any other app the relies on streaming playback).

If y'all're a music addict and need to gratuitous up some storage infinite on your Windows Phone, Deject Music might be just what you're looking for. Cloud Music has a 14 mean solar day trial version and the total version volition run y'all $one.29. You tin can notice Cloud Music here at the Windows Phone Marketplace.

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