What does the Heart button do in Xbox Music + Video?

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Xbox Music is the phoenix that rose from the ashes of Zune. As you know, Zune wasn't just digital media hardware from Microsoft. It was an unabridged ecosystem of music and videos that went with yous from your smartphone, to your desktop and to the browser. The unabridged Zune brand and marketplace was more or less killed off in late 2022 so that Microsoft could instead focus on edifice Xbox Music and Xbox Video.

Microsoft learned a lot from doing Zune. They made a few mistakes hither and in that location, but overall there weren't as well many complaints from users about the service itself. It definitely laid the foundation for Xbox Music. Y'all'll even notwithstanding run across relics from Zune in Xbox Music, similar that little heart push button.

What does that affair do, anyway?

This little heart was pretty of import dorsum in the Zune days. Songs could be hearted or un-hearted, which was the equivalent of liking or disliking a track. A vocal would so exist marked as a favorite. Songs you liked would play more frequently in mixes, while those you lot didn't like would play less. You lot could even create playlists for liked songs. Music could also be removed automatically from your Zune device if information technology wasn't liked. Pretty cool feature, right?

If y'all head into the Music + Video hub on Windows Phone 8 you'll withal run into the eye when playing music from Xbox Music. You can center a vocal or pause that heart, but what'due south going on with it? Good luck finding out. There's no documentation online anywhere from Microsoft on what the heck those hearts exercise in Windows Phone eight. We've long suspected that they helped shape and inform Xbox Music how to better make Smart DJ playlists for yous on Windows Phone. However, Smart DJ isn't exactly front and centre in Xbox Music anymore.

Head into the dedicated Xbox Music app on Windows viii, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, or the web and you won't find Smart DJ. Instead, yous'll find Radio. This section is where y'all create streaming radio stations based around an artist. Notwithstanding, you lot won't find the eye button in whatsoever of these modern Xbox Music experiences. And so we don't run across any manner for you to help cultivate and refine a detail radio station. Instead, you're at the mercy of whatever the Xbox Music algorithm thinks goes with Miles Davis, Zedd or The Weeknd.

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And that kind of sucks. Hearting a song in the Zune days was a great way for the organization to larn your music tastes. With Xbox Music, in that location'southward no direct way to give feedback for these radio stations. There's no directly way for Xbox Music to acquire what you like outside of it just observing what you lot listen to.

Songza, Beats Music, Spotify and about other modern streaming platforms take means for users to give directly feedback about a song. Whether it'due south a thumbs upwards or thumbs down, giving a heart or breaking a heart, they all have feedback.

Xbox Music does not.

Going forward we won't be seeing those hearts. They're already going abroad in the recently released Xbox Music app on Windows Telephone. Yous don't see them on Windows viii, iOS, Android or the spider web. In fact the only play yous can detect them today is in the Music + Video hub on Windows Phone 8. The screenshots nosotros've seen of the music app in Windows Telephone viii.1 don't have the hearts either.

The hearts are, for all intents and purposes, dead. A vestigial button from Zune. So on this Valentine's Day, while someone else may you give you a heart, it won't be from Microsoft.

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