NEW RELEASES: Deezer on Xbox One

We know music is a big part of your life, so we’ve teamed up with Deezer to bring your music to your games on Xbox One. Put together your own playlists, play the Halo soundtrack while you tear up Forza Motorsport, or put on your perfect kill-per-beat soundtrack because you’re now in control of over 53 million tracks in-game!

Download it here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/deezer-music/9nblggh6j7vv and use code XBOX9269 at http://dzr.fm/major  to get 90 days free

Add the Deezer app to your Xbox One and you’ll get lifetimes of music to play, search and add to playlists while you play. You’ll get thousands of hand-curated playlists and Flow, the personal soundtrack made just for you. You’ll be able to pause your game to bump up your BPM, or throw on Edwin Starr’s “War” to play alongside your epic boss-level battle scene. And, if you’re taking a break from your game to have friends over, you can play your music through your Xbox One even when you’re not gaming, so you can turn it up whatever you’re doing.

NEWS: Music Pass support in Groove and music purchase be discontinued

Music Pass support in Groove and music purchase in the Windows Store to be discontinued; the Groove Music app will continue to support playback and music management of owned content.

With the continued advancement of music streaming today, all the world’s music has become easily accessible across a variety of devices, unlocking new ways to discover and experience music. As we continue to listen to what our customers want in their music experience we know that access to the best streaming service, the largest catalog of music, and a variety of subscriptions is top of the list.

Which is why we’re excited to announce that we’re expanding our partnership with Spotify to bring the world’s largest music streaming service to our Groove Music Pass customers. Beginning this week*, Groove Music Pass customers can easily move all their curated playlists and collections directly into Spotify. Plus, you may be eligible for a 60-day free trial of Spotify Premium.**

We will continue to invest in and update the Groove Music app on all Windows devices to support playback and management of owned music, but after December 31, 2017, the Groove Music app will no longer offer the option to stream, purchase, and download music.

We will continue to invest in and update the Groove Music app on all Windows devices to support playback and management of owned music, but after December 31, 2017, the Groove Music app will no longer offer the option to stream, purchase, and download music.

*An update to the Groove Music app including the ability to move music to Spotify, will be available for Windows Insiders beginning this week. The Groove Music app update for Windows 10 and Xbox One devices will roll out broadly the week of October 9, 2017 and will enable Groove Music Pass customers to move existing music collections and playlists to Spotify. Groove Music Pass content will be available to move to Spotify until at least January 31, 2018.

 **To find out whether you may be eligible for a 60-day free trial of Spotify Premium, check out the FAQ.

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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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