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Summary: 'Groove Music Pass', Microsoft's music streaming service, is being discontinued on 2017-12-31; subscribers get a prorated refund and an opportunity to
by niftich 9y ago
Summary: 'Groove Music Pass', Microsoft's music streaming service, is being discontinued on 2017-12-31; subscribers get a prorated refund and an opportunity to get a 60-day trial of Spotify Premium; Groove app will offer playlist migration for your personally-curated playlists into Spotify.
Key facts:
- Read their official FAQ [1]
- If you subscribed to 'Groove Music Pass', you will (probably) need to back up music you downloaded using that particular service
- Windows Store-bought music files, or any other 'hard-file-on-disk' music files are unaffected; this announcement concerns a streaming service
- Groove app will remain available as a music player and (local) playlist manager, and will retain the integration with OneDrive to play files that are in your OneDrive
- Your OneDrive storage tier may shrink if right now you are getting more storage because of Groove Music Pass
[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4046109/groove-music-and-spotify-faq https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4046109/groove-musi...
- WorldMaker 9y ago> Windows Store-bought music files, or any other 'hard-file-on-disk' music files are unaffected; this announcement concerns a streaming service Per the FAQ, the Windows Store is shutting down its music section entirely as well. You will have until December to download any purchased song files from the Store before it shuts down. The FAQ does state that all purchased songs that have been downloaded will continue to play, and suggests moving them to OneDrive (if you hadn't already) to continue to sync them and make them available on all your devices.