![]() There is an option to show “downloaded only” music, but when you do that, you get an omnipresent banner throughout the app pestering you to disable it and buttons everywhere trying to get you to buy things through the Google Play store The Google Play Music app is mostly a front-end for purchasing music.The “matching” system that Google Music uses means that even though you own the albums and are syncing your personal MP3s, you can only actually listen to music that Google has licensed via the Google Play store.This approach has a couple dealbreaker aspects for me: To sync my media collection up to the Google cloud, and then use the Google Play Music app to play the However I found it to be pretty buggy and unstable when attempting to sync my large-ish collection.Īnother option is to use Google Play Music Manager I actually paid for the “pro” version of CloudPlayer, There are a couple third party music apps available that can read your music out of OneDrive. That I’d rather not run if I don’t absolutely have to. If you have an iOS device, Iīelieve you actually have to run iTunes to do this too, which is a huge bloated beast of software You have to remember to also hook your phone up to your computer (after finding the appropriate cable),Īnd drag the music across into the right folder in File Explorer. This is time consuming and annoying, any time you rip a new album into your media library, I tried a couple alternatives: Manually Sync Media On my phone without being able to rely on the OneDrive/Groove solution. So now the problem is coming up with a convenient way to keep my media library up-to-date However, OneDrive is still the cheapest per-gigabyte of the majorīackup providers, and comes included with an Office365 subscription, so I think it’s stillĪ good deal even with the frustrating discontinuation of the Groove music app. It kind of removes a big piece of the value proposition for using OneDrive for my cloudīackup solution. That they were also discontinuing the Android and iOS Groove Music apps. Sadly, Microsoft announced in May of this year Pulling in all the music I have in OneDrive and letting me keep things offline if I wish. They released an effectively identical Groove app for Android which worked the same, Recommend running a device in the Pixel family if you’re going to do this, since nothingĮlse receives security updates in a sane way). AndroidĪfter Microsoft killed Windows 10 Mobile, I moved over to the Android ecosystem (I highly You could do that by song, album, or artist. Play it while your device was offline or not in Wi-Fi (to avoid cellular data usage), If you wanted to download some music so that you could To get your music library onto your mobile device, just log into the GrooveĪpp with the same Microsoft account you use to backup your music into OneDriveĪnd you’re good to go. The nice thing about this setup is that you didn’t really have to do any work Music app automagically populates your library. Music into OneDrive (specifically in the “Music” folder), and then the Groove Well with how I wanted to manage my media library. ![]() There, the ecosystem was pretty thoughtful and comported I was a Windows Phone 8 / Windows 10 Mobile guy until Microsoft effectively This presents the problem of how to get your music library onto your mobileĭevice so you can, you know, actually listen to it. I stillīuy all my music on compact disc, and rip them into my MP3 library myself I’m a little bit of a luddite when it comes to my media library.
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