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Updated build of Windows Phone “Mango” now supports music streaming from SkyDrive

Jul 28, 2011 4:48 am by damaster | 6 comments

Microsoft just released Build 7712 of Windows Phone “Mango” to developers earlier today, and quite a few changes were noticed in this build since the “Beta 2” build released just over a month ago. Manan Kakkar from BeingManan.com (via WMPU) noticed that one of the new features in Build 7712 is the ability to playback music files from SkyDrive. Check out his video below:

We previously speculated that music streaming from SkyDrive would be supported in Windows Phone “Mango”. However, not long afterwards, Mike Torres outright denied this claim, saying that “the Office hub won’t stream your MP3s.” The rumor about the ability to stream music from SkyDrive was further denied when Microsoft released the “Beta 2” build last month, with music playback from SkyDrive being unsupported in that build (as seen in Manan’s video above). However, now it seems like our speculation was correct, but Mike Torres technically wasn’t wrong either. As seen in the video, clicking on a MP3 file stored on SkyDrive within the Office hub will bring you to the mobile web version of SkyDrive within Internet Explorer Mobile. When you tap on the MP3 file on there, the Zune music player will then playback the file.

This obviously isn’t the optimal way of actually streaming music from SkyDrive, but at least playback is now supported. We certainly hope Microsoft further refines this feature, and possibly integrate this within the Music+Video hub. What do you think? Would you like to have this feature? Let us know in the comments below.

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Anonymous
Integration needs to happen. This will become another one of those “You can do this with windows for years” but nobody does because it is to complicated or not user friendly to do so.
Providing a little bit more stuff like Playlists and Music hub integration would make this a real Google Music competitor. Clearly the technical stuff is available!
jnt
It looks like a clunky workaround to the skydrive on the web. I mean, it’s good it works, but still…�
Terry Thompson
it will be integrated there is just to much pressure from competitors who are begining to do this
- Damaster – LiveSide.net
  Yup I just wish they were a bit more proactive rather than reactive this time around. Timing is everything.
J A
It certainly needs to be cleaned up so that by default all everyone’s SkyDrive has a Music folder that one’s Zune is linked to as to go into Zune and stream from there. This will essentially make the SkyDrive music folder backend a seamless experience to end users. Of course this may take away from Microsoft’s Zune streaming subscription but they should then add sales of additional storage so that as users max out their 25GB free SkyDrive storage, they can purchase additional storage for a monthly subscription.
I think this will be brilliant and much better than any competitor’s offering.
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Shoudn’t SkyDrive get it’s own tile or something? Seems odd that it’s bured inside the Office tile. Plus it’d be nice if WP had it’s own accessible file system for quick access…