Background Music Not Coming To Xbox One Until After Windows 10

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Xbox One owners have been waiting to get a background music feature for some time now. One fan decided to tweet at Microsoft’s head of the Xbox division and get to the bottom of it.

Luckily for us, Phil Spencer answered the question of background music with a tweet of his own. “We have to land Win10 on XB1 before we’ll get background music, so a little later,” he said. So there you have it. Xbox One needs Windows 10, before it can have background music. There still hasn’t been an official release date for Windows 10, but it is rumored to be some time in the to early fall.

Microsoft will be having thier press conference at E3 next month. More details on this matter might be available then. We’ll have to wait and see.

Posted: Jun 01, 2015 10:44 am
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Comments

1989Posted: Mon. Jun 01, 2015

Cyimking
Tricks I am one of those people who want background music and I just don't get it. Obviously I'm not a developed, but how hard is it to let music play in the background? It speaks volumes that they're more concerned with putting Windows 10 on Xbox (which no one asked for) than they are listening to their buyers and what they want.

HAHA it's VERY difficult to implement this without **** up the whole system. Let's not forget that the xbox one stays on even when you turn it off. They have to engineer the feature so that the music will get very quiet during cutscenes, etc... So yes... it's not as simple

It doesn't really stay on it goes into a standby mode and this only happens when you have the Instant on mode. Energy saving turns it off completely.

1989Posted: Mon. Jun 01, 2015

I really want Background music and to be honest I don't mind waiting. Its not easy to implement something like this into the system and MS should take their time while doing so and make it perfect without problems.

MajPosted: Mon. Jun 01, 2015

Wow the xbox one cant even play bg music? The 360 could do that ahhahahha

CyimkingPosted: Mon. Jun 01, 2015

Tricks I am one of those people who want background music and I just don't get it. Obviously I'm not a developed, but how hard is it to let music play in the background? It speaks volumes that they're more concerned with putting Windows 10 on Xbox (which no one asked for) than they are listening to their buyers and what they want.

HAHA it's VERY difficult to implement this without **** up the whole system. Let's not forget that the xbox one stays on even when you turn it off. They have to engineer the feature so that the music will get very quiet during cutscenes, etc... So yes... it's not as simple

DankStorm-Posted: Mon. Jun 01, 2015

Meh not too long release date recently released

EternityPosted: Mon. Jun 01, 2015

Just an update for the article: Windows 10 is set to officially release on July 29th. Not sure when it will be out for Xbox One, but I'm sure we'll get an update on that at E3!

ArzuaPosted: Mon. Jun 01, 2015

This doesn't even bother me even if it was never implemented.

MickersSweatsTTGPosted: Mon. Jun 01, 2015

Don't see why people are annoyed this hasn't been implemented...youtube on a PC is much easier and faster.

GeekwadPosted: Mon. Jun 01, 2015

OXT Isnt this possible on an one?

Only with the crappy xbox music app