And if you are storing music in OneDrive as part of a step into what you felt was an inevitable future, you can at least sync that part of OneDrive to your PC to access from it Groove now. If you are firmly in the old-school camp, you can simply copy your music collection to whatever PCs or devices you’re using and play that music using Groove or whatever other app you prefer. Spotify will likely never offer the ability to stream music from OneDrive or offer any other way to integrate a OneDrive-based music collection with its own.
I can’t help too much with the OneDrive issue. That is, unlike my kids, who are perfectly happy with Spotify as it is, I grew up with music that’s not available there, I’ve ripped tons of my own music from CDs, and I’d like to still be able to access that alongside whatever is available online from Spotify. And this is particularly problematic for the Microsoft community, in particular, which I believe skews a bit older than, say, the typical Spotify audience. So it’s nice to be able to access all of the music you wish to listen to, create playlists that use music from both locations, and make it all available offline on mobile devices.īoth of these shortcomings speak to what I believe is a major part of the potential user base for any music service. This is useful because Groove’s Music Pass collection (which is no longer available), like Spotify’s today, doesn’t necessarily include all of your music. Second, it doesn’t easily allow you to mix and match your own music collection with the tens of millions of songs that are available in the service’s cloud library (which requires a subscription). (You can still use Groove to play back music stored on your PC or home network, of course.) This capability was recently removed from Groove, sadly, leading many to wonder whether the Groove app would be retired completely since it’s now next-to-useless. And the leading music subscription service, Spotify has a lot to offer: An enormous cloud-based music catalog, compatibility across PCs and mobile devices, and even family-friendly pricing.īut Spotify comes up short in two areas that are/were key to Groove users.įirst, it doesn’t support OneDrive: With Groove, we’ve been able to store our own music collections-ripped from CD or purchased digitally and then downloaded-in OneDrive and then stream that music via the Groove app in Windows 10. With Microsoft scaling back its Groove efforts over time, many in the Microsoft community are looking to Spotify as a replacement.
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