Windows Phone Mango Music + Video PreviewThe Music + Videos hub has seen some pretty significant changes. The hub design has been slightly altered and now there's a little "..." menu at the bottom like most other applications. The "play all" button has also been moved to the bottom. The History section is now a vertical scrolling list of square tiles rather than a horizontal panning list. The same is true with the "New" listing, and the "Marquee" of music/video apps that integrate with the Music + Videos hub is now called "Apps". You can tap and hold anything in the New or History section of the top-level hub in order to pin them to the start menu or (if supported) play a smart DJ mix. Unfortunately there are no "Add to Now Playing" menu commands here. It would be great if I could quickly make a playlist of the new music in my music hub, but instead you still have to navigate to the artist/album/song deep within the music library before you'll find that "Add to Now Playing" command in a tap & hold menu. The music, videos, and podcasts libraries are mostly the same as Windows Phone 7, however you'll notice a couple new additions when you find an artist page. First of all the "Smart DJ" button is there at the top, and if you have a Zune pass that will create a mix of music that includes the artist you're looking at along with streaming cloud music that really nicely goes along with that artist. You'll also notice a new pivot tab for "Related" artists. This is another excellent feature that was imported from the
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