The new collections/library layout

These games were delisted in favor of the new collection. You can find them in your library

+For the messaging the new layout could be like the Windows 8 Messaging layout or something simular

Sorry to bump an old thread, but this has been plaguing me forever and I think I figured it out. My collection is on a server and is added via my libraries. I too had the same duplicated structure which was causing duplicates in media library and making
it impossible to manage music to my win 8 phone. So today I broke the link to my server in the library and instead pointed it to a local hard drive that was empty. In that hard drive, I dropped one artist with 4 albums. I then removed xbox music and re-installed
it.

After about 5 minutes, I looked at the nearly empty hard drive and all of my music was downloading. It is literally creating a local copy of my entire cloud collection. This would be awesome if I bought a new computer and wanted to move things over. However,
if it's the computer I'm housing my collection on then it will always create a duplication.

The setting that does stop it turning off "When I add or buy songs from Xbox Music on other devices, automatically download them here".

I think the flaw in this is that I expect one machine to hold my collection and that single machine needs to download my new music added to my collection via phone or surface. However I do not want that machine to download all of my existing collection that
is already there. Only the NEW music.

Long story short: To fix your problem, either turn off that setting or synchronize your collection from an external hard drive and then remove that hard drive and point your music library to a new hard drive.

Sorry to bump an old thread, but this has been plaguing me forever and I think I figured it out. My collection is on a server and is added via my libraries. I too had the same duplicated structure which was causing duplicates in media library and making
it impossible to manage music to my win 8 phone. So today I broke the link to my server in the library and instead pointed it to a local hard drive that was empty. In that hard drive, I dropped one artist with 4 albums. I then removed xbox music and re-installed
it.

After about 5 minutes, I looked at the nearly empty hard drive and all of my music was downloading. It is literally creating a local copy of my entire cloud collection. This would be awesome if I bought a new computer and wanted to move things over. However,
if it's the computer I'm housing my collection on then it will always create a duplication.

The setting that does stop it turning off "When I add or buy songs from Xbox Music on other devices, automatically download them here".

I think the flaw in this is that I expect one machine to hold my collection and that single machine needs to download my new music added to my collection via phone or surface. However I do not want that machine to download all of my existing collection that
is already there. Only the NEW music.

Long story short: To fix your problem, either turn off that setting or synchronize your collection from an external hard drive and then remove that hard drive and point your music library to a new hard drive.

Hi

It is not possible to return to the older layout of the dashboard once you get used to new layout it works much better and is a better layout than the old dashboard.