What is Xbox Music Pass?

Understanding Xbox Music

Xbox Music Pass is a subscription service that lets you stream almost all of the music in Microsofts voluminous online music catalog with your PCs and devices. And on Windows, Windows Phone, Android and iOS, you can also download music from the service to your devices for offline use.

Is Groove Music Necessary?

Overall, Groove Music is incredibly simple to use. It doesnt really have any extra features. Its a music player that lets you manage your collection and does its job well. For a free app, its a good choice.

Do you have to Pay for Groove Music?

Groove Music Pass costs $9.99 per month or $99 per year, and it allows customers to download or stream millions of songs and upload their own music collections to the OneDrive cloud. Users could get 10 free songs per month with a Zune Music Pass subscription before Microsoft switched to the Xbox Music service.

Does Xbox Music Still Exist?

Microsoft announced the relaunch of the service as Xbox Music. On October 2, 2017, Microsoft announced that after December 31, 2017, it would discontinue its subscription service, Groove Music Pass, and music purchases on Windows Store, leaving support for playing music stored locally and on OneDrive.

Is Groove Music Still a Thing?

What happened to the Groove Music Pass? The Groove Music Pass streaming service was discontinued on January 1, 2018. The Windows 10 Groove Music apps for PC and Windows Phone will continue to play all the music you've purchased and downloaded but will no longer stream or play any Groove Music Pass content.

Microsoft Discontinuing Groove Music Pass Streaming Service ...

Microsoft rebranded its Xbox Music service as Groove with the release of Windows 10 in 2015. Groove Music Pass costs $9.99 per month or $99 per year, and it allows customers to download or stream millions of songs and upload their own music collections to the OneDrive cloud.

Is Groove Music Free?

Microsoft Groove Music is brand new for Windows 10. Add your MP3s to OneDrive and you can use the Groove Music app to play your songs on other devices, too—PCs, Windows Phone, and Xbox— for free.

Is Spotify Free on Xbox One?

Partnering with Spotify, Xbox is now giving everybody who subscribes to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate access to Spotify Premium for free. Starting May 4, Game Pass Ultimate subscribers got access to the additional perk, which gives them free access to Spotify Premium for four months.