[freehunter]

I never understand when people say the iPhone is better for music. I'll grant you the Windows 8 Music app sucks on the desktop, but Zune was solid on Windows 7. The WP8 music app is great, the Zune Pass/Xbox Music Pass is basically the biggest reason I can't seriously consider switching platforms. $8/mo for 10 songs DRM-free and streaming/caching all other songs in their database is huge! Nokia Music playlists are huge, and free! The speakers on the Lumia 920 are much better than iPhone speakers in comparisons with my coworkers.

What music apps is WP missing in your experience?

[dpark]

> $8/mo for 10 songs DRM-free and streaming/caching all other songs in their database is huge

Just FYI, it's $10/mo now, and the "10 free songs per month" deal is gone. If you had a Zune pass, you were grandfathered in, but new signups get the new deal. Still a good deal given the catalog size, but perhaps not as good as it once was.

[freehunter]

Good point, I did not know the new deal. I personally never really used the DRM-free songs part of the bundle, I have software that watches my music folder on my hard drive and when a new song comes in it exploits the "analog hole" to strip the DRM from it and drop in a replacement MP3. It's pretty comparable to Spotify, and if you have mostly Windows devices there's not much incentive to look further than Xbox Music. iOS and Android support has been announced but not given a firm date for launch.

[outside1234]

Maybe I'm missing something - how do you sync music to your WP8? Or get the latest podcasts on your phone automatically?

[boundlessdreamz]

You can use windows phone software in Mac to sync your itunes playlists - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/windows-phone/id415571499?mt...