XBox dashboard update
They did a lot of pretty cool things here. For those whiners out there saying this should have been done in the first place, they have to keep their mouths shut. Those whiners have never been in software development otherwise they would know that it is an evolutionary process. It is very hard to have all the specs ready day one of release. Also, a lot of the updates was based on user feedback.
There are cool updates, such as streaming music playing constantly between games, background downloads, etc. You can see full list on
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/press/2006/0605-springrelease-features.htm
However, it is not without it's bugs. For example, we've noticed that the shuffle feature, although it has hit snazzy new button, has been affected negatively by this update. Random play songs are not so random, playing multiple times within a short period of time. I have over 5000 songs to choose from, yet the same song popped up 2 times in 30 minutes.
Another issue is that if you go to skip to next song on random play, it goes to the next alphabetical song. Not so random and not so shuffling anymore.
All in all, a nice release, even with a couple bugs. Going to have to try the PDZ maps soon...
There are cool updates, such as streaming music playing constantly between games, background downloads, etc. You can see full list on
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/press/2006/0605-springrelease-features.htm
However, it is not without it's bugs. For example, we've noticed that the shuffle feature, although it has hit snazzy new button, has been affected negatively by this update. Random play songs are not so random, playing multiple times within a short period of time. I have over 5000 songs to choose from, yet the same song popped up 2 times in 30 minutes.
Another issue is that if you go to skip to next song on random play, it goes to the next alphabetical song. Not so random and not so shuffling anymore.
All in all, a nice release, even with a couple bugs. Going to have to try the PDZ maps soon...


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