two hubs were previously combined until standalone apps were released in late 2013, shortly before Windows Phone 8.1 debuted The hubs
allow users to access music, videos, and podcasts stored on the device, and links directly to the "Xbox Music Store" to buy or rent music and the "Xbox Video Store" to purchase movies and TV episodes. Xbox Music also allows the user to stream music with an Xbox Music Pass. When browsing the
music by a particular artist, users are able to view artist biographies and photos The Xbox Music hub also integrates with many other apps that provide video and music services,
including, but not limited to,
iHeartRadio, YouTube, and Vevo. This hub also includes Smart DJ which compiles a playlist of songs stored on the phone similar to the song or artist selected. The
Pictures hub displays the user's Facebook and OneDrive photo albums, as well as photos taken with the phone's builtin camera. Users can also upload
photos to social networks, comment on photos uploaded by other people, and tag photos posted to social networks Multi-touch gestures permit zooming in and out of photos. An official
file manager app called Files, which is available for download from the Windows Phone Store, enables users to
move and rearrange documents, videos, music and other files within their device's hard drive or to an external SD card.
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Media support Windows Phone supports WAV, MP, WMA,
AMR, AAC/MP4/M4A/M4B and 3GP/3G2 standards. The video file formats
supported on WP include WMV, AVI, MP4/M4V, 3GP/3G2 and MOV (QuickTime) standards These supported audio and video formats would be dependent on the codecs contained inside them. It has also been previously reported that the DivX and Xvid codecs within the AVI file format are also playable on WP devices.
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Note that Windows Phone does not support DRM protected media files that are obtained from services other than Xbox Music Pass.
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The image file formats that are supported include JPG/JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIF and Bitmap (BMP). Users can also add custom ringtones which are less than MB in size and less than 40 seconds long. DLNA streaming and steroscopic Dare also supported.
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