HOW TO: Add your MP3s to OneDrive so you can play them on your Xbox

So now it looks like we can upload mp3s to our OneDrive and stream them from there to our consoles.

Here is how:

1. Open your OneDrive Music folder from the web or via the OneDrive app.

2. Upload your favorite MP3s from your hard drive to the OneDrive Music folder.

3.  Sign into the Xbox Music application on your PC, Windows Phone, Xbox or the web with the same Microsoft Account you used in OneDrive. Your OneDrive music files will now be listed as songs in your collection, free to play wherever you go!

 Note: if you are still not seeing your files, please make sure you have accepted the Xbox Terms of Use here.


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NEWS: Store Mp3s on OneDrive for Xbox Music Playback

OneDrive and Xbox Music have teamed up to give you something Microsoft should have offered long ago: The ability to store your music in the cloud and play it back, too.

Although streaming services like Spotify are now in vogue, most of us still have a stash of MP3 music files on a hard drive. Beginning today, you can now upload them to Microsoft’s OneDrive, and play them back via Xbox Music.

You could always upload MP3 files to OneDrive—or pretty much any other file, for that matter. But OneDrive wouldn’t play them back, and there was no easy workaround. Microsoft is finally catching up, years after Google allowed you to upload your own MP3 files to Google Play, Apple to its iCloud, or Amazon to its own music service.

Why this matters: By now, most music lovers subscribe to a streaming service, or ad-supported apps like Pandora stream in the background. With large SD cards and external hard drives, stashing your music in a folder and trucking it around with you isn’t that big of a deal. Still, storing your music in the cloud is a convenience, and one that Microsoft should have offered long ago.

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