Everything you need to know about Groove Music for Windows 10

Groove Music

Equally of December 31, 2022, Microsoft will be killing off the Groove Music Pass and eliminating music purchases from the Store. That means that the pre-installed Groove Music app that comes with Windows 10 is going to lose a whole agglomeration of its features.

But while the streaming subscription will dice, Groove is still a cracking music player for your own local and cloud stored music.

Here's everything y'all need to know.

How to motility your music out of Groove

Groove and Spotify

Microsoft has partnered with one of the biggest players in streaming music, Spotify, to make it simple for its customers to movement their music somewhere new. Inside the Groove app in that location's a simple one-click method to move everything beyond to Spotify for y'all, assuming y'all set up an account up first.

If yous're going elsewhere for your streaming, there are ways and means to move your playlists. The guide below tells you lot what you lot need to know.

How to move your Groove playlists to any other streaming service

Local music

Groove Music

Whether you've got a drove of personal music from your own sources or amassed through online stores like iTunes and Google Play, the Groove app on Windows 10 will catalog it and play it for y'all. In nigh cases, all you need to know is where on your PC the music is stored and tell the app where to find it.

The links below are specific to two of the bigger online services, iTunes and Google Play, just several of the basic steps apply to whatever form of local music yous have on your figurer.

How to import your iTunes playlists into the Groove music app on Windows x
How to import your entire iTunes library into the Groove music app on Windows 10
How to go your Google Play Music into Groove on Windows 10

Key settings

Groove Music

The Groove music app is actually pretty simplistic. There's no huge listing of confusing menus and settings, and information technology's very like shooting fish in a barrel to get going with. Simply, should you go looking, here are what some of the key settings are and what they practise for you.

Music on this PC

See the above department on "Local music" for more than on these settings.

Media info

Automatically retrieve and update missing anthology artwork and metadata: If you're a stickler for keeping your music collection in line, make sure you lot go along this turned on to supercede any album fine art that went missing somewhere.

Background

Are you a light theme or a dark theme kind of person?

Streaming your own music from OneDrive

Groove doesn't simply allow you to stream music from its online itemize; yous can besides create your ain personal cloud locker with OneDrive.

Past calculation your music to OneDrive, y'all tin point the Groove apps to play it on all your devices. If this sounds like something you're interested in, check out the video above or the link below for everything you lot demand to know.

How to apply OneDrive to stream your ain music

Selecting and playing music

Groove Music

We've just nearly covered everything y'all need to know most getting your music into Groove, simply what about actually finding something to play? The iii main tabs are "Albums," "Artists" and "Songs."

Albums are shown as squares, artists every bit circles and songs equally one giant list.

Groove Music

There are a couple of ways to deal with your music once it's playing. The bar along the bottom of the window keeps your timeline scrubber and play controls at mitt. But, if you hover your mouse over the Groove icon in the taskbar you lot get mini controls for play and pause, skip back and skip forward.

Oh, and if you fancy going full screen, at that place's that option, also. You'll get a background of creative person-related images, some text and non a lot else. To access this, tap on the "now playing" segment on the lesser left-hand side of the media control bar, then hit the total-screen icon on the artist championship bar.

Playlists

Add to playlist

We've already covered how to bring over existing iTunes playlists, but what most creating your ain within Groove? It's super simple, and they tin can sync across your different devices, too. The choice for "New playlist" is right there in the sidebar, merely hit it and requite your new cosmos a name.

Supported file formats

Groove Music supports more file formats than yous may think. It won't play everything, but it covers the most popular bases.

Listing of file formats that Microsoft's Groove Music app supports

Updated December 15, 2022: We removed all data on Groove Music Pass and introduced information on how to movement your music away earlier it shuts down.