Windows Phone 8 : The Multimedia Experience - Xbox Music Pass (part 1) - Connecting Your Phone to Xbox Music Pass

It’s Not All Good

For Xbox Music Pass to work, you must configure your phone to use the same Microsoft account that you used when you signed up for Xbox Music Pass.

The phone can be a little misleading because the configuration screen that you used when you enabled Xbox Music Pass support contains a link called Xbox Music Account Settings. However, this link does not seem to do anything to actually authorize the phone to play Xbox music. While writing this book, I struggled for several hours trying to figure out how to authorize my phone. I didn’t realize that Windows Phone 8 devices are authorized automatically.