What Groove users need to do now that Microsoft is killing Groove Music Pass
from PC world 02 October indexed on 03 October 2017 4:01Acknowledging that more customers prefer Spotify, Microsoft said it would discontinue its four-year-old Groove Music Pass service by the end of the year and shift its customers over to Spotify. Microsoft won't discontinue the related Groove Music app within Windows 10, which will still stream purchased and uploaded music stored on a user's PC and on the OneDrive cloud service. But Groove Music Pass—priced at $9.99 per month, the same as Spotify Premium—will go away as of December 31. At that time, Groove Music will no longer stream from its Music Pass service. Instead, Microsoft will ask users to connect its Groove Music service to a Spotify Premium account, which consumers will have to sign up for. When they do so, Microsoft will move any music that the Groove user has purchased over to Spotify. If you've purchased music from Groove that you don't want to move to Spotify, though, make sure you download it—otherwise, you'll lose it forever! To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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