Update: The update for Groove Music is live now.
Groove Music will get a massive update today. The update adds many new features as well as support for Continuum but it is not rolling out yet. We will update the article when it is rolling out.
Here is the changelog of version 3.6.1573.0:
Songs and albums in your collection now sort by the date you’ve added them by default. You can still switch to sorting alphabetically (or by artist in the case of albums).
- You can now swipe from the left to bring up the hamburger menu. It makes it easier to use the app with a single hand!
- Press-hold to re-order tracks within a playlist.
- Previously only plays from your collection would appear in Recent Plays – now it also includes things you’ve played directly from Explore.[Groove Music Pass Required]
- We now show download progress in the title bar, and also provide an entry point to the download manager from within the left nav menu. This aligns with what the Movies & TV app includes.
- Tell Cortana to ‘Play Electronic’ and she will shuffle all your electronic music for you. [where Cortana is supported]
- In the event that, during an upgrade, we need to rebuild the database (this should be very infrequent), we’ll show a little explanatory dialog explaining what’s happening.
- If we detected songs which are duplicated between OneDrive and Music Pass we pop a notification asking if you’d like us to automatically remove them.
- We reverted the recent change to the font size of the song title in Now Playing. It’s smaller now.
Furthermore Continuum support was updated as well with these changes:
We’ve updated the layout of the artist gallery to have proper spacing, alignment and remove the color-matched square backgrounds.
- We’ve added the Explore modules to the Artist Details page at larger resolutions. [Groove Music Pass Required]
- We’ve updated the layout of Explore at higher resolutions to look correct, and also respond better to scroll wheel. The modules also have a flipper control to allow scrolling within the page. [Groove Music Pass Required]
- Updates to the Search results page layouts to look good at higher resolutions.
- Updates to the layout of the Add to menu at higher resolutions.
- Updates to the layout of the Recent Plays gallery at higher resolutions.
Many of these features sound very exciting, personally I cannot wait to try out the new function which allows the user to swipe from the left to bring up the hamburger menu. That’s definitely a big improvement for the one-handed usage of the app.
Many ideas for new features, not only in this update come from the consumer feedback. It is definitely good for Microsoft to listen to the feedback but it is also great for us because we get the features we want to have. So if you are a Groove Music user, give Microsoft feedback via the Feedback app, in-store reviews, and even on Twitter!
Source: Microsoft
