The entire music community pretty much agrees the zune software is far better than groove. They should have just changed the branding on teh zune software and moved it to windows 10.
Zune > Groove Music Desktop player
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I hate to say this but the Groove Music Desktop player *****, it's pretty much dumbed down Zune player.
I wish you guys would just scrap the grove player, resume from the zune player and build up from it because
from a desktop app perspective, the Groove player fails badly.
I want groove music the be the ultimate Windows Phone platform for syncing my music and other media instead of having to rely on Windows media player for syncing.
-Add a Play to/Cast to Device function to grove music and the windows phone app
-Have groove music act as a server so my music library can also pull up on the Groove app on xbox so I won't have to rely on one drive for that. (Shout out to Plex)
-Basically Zune + Windows Media Player
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2015-09-16T01:30:25+00:00 Completely agree. I will be cancelling my zune pass. Glad just got an android phone will use my Amazon prime for music moving forward.
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Anonymous
2015-09-17T03:39:04+00:00 Rhapsody seems like the best choice, web player, android player, iPhone player, windows desktop software, offline downloads. Offline downloads playable in the rhapsody software or even windows media player. For fun try to play a Groove downloaded subscription file in windows media player, it will try to download usage rights, then the page will come up with an error and you can't even play it, thus forcing you back into the awful Groove software.
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Anonymous
2015-09-17T03:25:46+00:00 Totally agreed. I wonder how much of Microsoft's music revenue was coming from us Zune subscribers vs Xbox Music vs Groove subscribers. I know that Microsoft's overall income, the Zune subscribers are a drop in the bucket. But for the "music subscription" group at Microsoft, I suspect the team had a steady but declining income from the Zune subscribers over the years, and this move will take a giant ax to that number.
Sad to see my Zune go. I guess I will give Groove one shot, and then its off to iTunes (iPhone user).
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Anonymous
2015-09-16T13:23:25+00:00 I just bought a Windows Phone before they came out with the Zune news. This is the last time I buy Windows anything. They can't stand behind their products. Amazon Prime will be the way to go. I have been a Zune owner since the beginning. They should have at least provide us a way to use it with Groove even if we have to use Explorer. But no, they just show us the door.