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Groove Music playlist location

Anonymous
2015-10-20T21:39:47+00:00

I have been struggling with playlist management in Groove for some time. I have a few playlists listed with the same name. All are the same (291 songs) except one (464 songs) and all called "Workout". I am not sure why I have so many duplicates of the smaller playlist. Anyway, in order to differentiate the larger playlist I renamed it ( using the rename function in Groove) to "Workout Large". I want to sync this to my Windows Phone. I can see the smaller "Workout" playlists in the Windows Phone App for Desktop but the renamed "Workout Large" is not listed.

I find it very, very frustrating that the change from Zune basically destroyed the utility of syncing to Windows Phone. Yes, I have uploaded all of my music to OneDrive (178GB) but I want the  "Workout Large" playlist loaded on my phone to play 'offline'. When I fly, I do not want to have to pay for crappy in-flight wifi just to listen to music. I have a different playlist on my phone that I loaded in the past via the WP Desktop App, but now want to change to the "Workout Large" playlist.

Does anyone know where I should look for my renamed playlist (it is not in the playlist folder where my music is stored on my home server)?

I really wish MS would update Groove to add the sync of Playlists to WP directly just as we could through Zune. (BTW the renamed playlist is not showing up in the old Zune software either, I looked)

For reference I am using Windows 10 on everything (Desktop, SP3, Server, Phone [preview build 10549])

11/28/15 Update: I will admit that I was ignorant of the new process for transferring music to my phone. It appears that the playlist I was looking for was in "the cloud" somewhere (not physically located on my PC). To transfer the playlist onto my phone I simply selected the option to make the playlist available offline (a selection in grove music when viewing the playlist) which then downloaded the entire playlist onto my phone storage.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-06-05T12:12:09+00:00

    I've deleted Groove Music off my hard drive.

    The music on it comes from my own library, from years of collections. Music I've paid for, not pirated.  So to have to spend more to actually hear my own playlists, is a money making scam.

    I'll stick to iTunes which I knows does work, along with Media Player 10.

    They at least save playlists, and give the opportunity to sync to another device.

    Which is what I want when I want to play something at gym or in my car.

    I've wasted almost 4 hours of creating new playlists, to find it's not saved anywhere, nor can I can I sync it.

    I thought I'd give the app a chance - live and learn, how annoying!

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-10-22T19:46:23+00:00

    I am also wanting to export groove playlist or even find the location of it in the C:\ drive.

    So what I have done now:

    1. Opened up feedback item in the Windows feedback app
    2. Downloaded the 3rd party .wpl playlist app from Windows store

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-01T19:55:31+00:00

    I just created a playlist in Groove that I want to play in WMP because I want to download the music to my Android phone and play the music in a standard music player.  I just totally wasted my time to find out that one can only play Groove playlists and Android in the Groove app.

    Oh, and all of the music is stuff I own -- MP3s not DRM stuff.

    What a waste.  Microsoft should just get out of the consumer business entirely and focus on corporate.  They are a joke compared to Apple and Google as far as consumer and mobile goes.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-30T18:15:22+00:00

    Where are the playlists created in the windows 10 groove music app stored at?  they aren't in the playlist folder.  I tried all the suggestions mentioned in this thread, but none of them worked for me.  I don't even have a "music cache" or "subscription cache" folder in my music folder.  any suggestions where to look for my created playlists?  thanks.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-01-23T18:05:55+00:00

    To this day I still have not found the playlist listed in any folder anywhere (home server music files, two redundant backups, OneDrive music folder) . Although I can simulate having the songs on my phone by choosing to make available offline, I would prefer to manually load them onto the SD card on my phone just as I could transfer a premade playlist via Zune to my Windows Phone. This song security is draconian IMO and when I have sufficient time I will check all my music purchase emails (and I have them all going back to when I first switched to digital music) to see just how much music I have lost due to the artist or label removing them from the Store ( kind of like having best buy come and confiscate a CD you bought because they no longer sell that artists music at their store). Sorry for the rant.

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