Amazing stuff, it's a wonderful feeling to have a decent music app on my phone once again!

It's strange to think it's been about two years since I last played music regularly on my current phone (kept a WP7 around until I finally ditched Zune desktop in late 2014 and had to go cloud), the experience on WP8.1 was just too much hassle.

I'd still really like a local sync, just how Windows Update will let PCs on the same network share a download so they don't all grab the same update and waste your data allowance it would be good if I could right click on a song/album/artist/playlist in Groove on my PC and share it to my Phone over WiFi (or even good ol' fashioned USB if easier, but less futuristic feeling). Great for syncing songs that aren't in my cloud collection or OneDrive yet.

Other features on my wish list:

- lock screen controls (permanent ones, not the blink-and-you'll-miss-em current implementation)

- Sort by release year

- Ask Cortana to play a song/artist/album/playlist

- A cool Zune-esque lock-screen and live tile animation - the current live tile is serviceable but far too sober.

- Option to buy a playlist. Rather than having to mess around with finding all the individual songs in the store.

- Spotify will share to Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr/Web and let you share a song/album/playlist and your friends can actually listen to it, not just a 30sec snippet. This needs to work for Groove too.

And to see this universal app finally go to the desktop! The PC app seems to be struggling more and more, especially since I added my local collection...

Anyway, before you go do all that, enjoy a well deserved holiday break, you've made music on Windows 10 mobile not only useable but enjoyable again, and that's plenty for this year. :)

Next year though, oh my do we expect great things! ;)

P.S. Random music aside: Windows 10 is the first version of Windows since Vista that hasn't royally frakked up my music collection. First Windows 7 with lopping 3 seconds off the start of a sizable portion of my MP3s (never fixed that!) and then Windows 8 trying to cloud match everything and messing up meta-data and deleting a bunch of files.

P.P.S. Another bit of a bug: Date added - Zune, Xbox Music, and now Groove should know when I first added a song to my collection (or the Zune desktop app kept track of that at least) the first time, so it's a shame these apps now just use when they were added to this particular device/app instead. Any chance this could get fixed later down the line. It's annoying seeing songs I first added back in 2009 showing up as added to my collection last month.

P.P.P.S. Probably not high on the list but ability to rip and burn CDs too. I don't use CDs but my parents do and since you ditched Zune and they got WP8 they've struggled to get music on their phone from their CDs (and by them, I mean me, since I have to deal with their support calls! Make it easier and parent/grandparent proof please!!!) so this also ties in with the "buy playlist" and "local" syncing features I mentioned earlier. :)