Simple Background Music Player app for Xbox One adds more languages and file formats

The Simple Background Music Player app for the Xbox One, which allows owners of the console to play music in the background from a USB key or external drive, has been updated with support for more languages and file formats.

The updated was revealed by Microsoft's Mike Ybarra on Twitter. He stated that 11 more languages are now supported by the Background Music Player app. More importantly, it can now play audio files in both M4A and MP4 formats, in addition to MP3, WMA, and FLAC. Finally, the app can now be accessed in nearly all of the Xbox One's markets around the world, with the exception of China.

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John Callaham