Groove Music killing OneDrive track streaming on March 31

Groove Music has been on its way out since information technology ended its Groove Music Pass streaming service at the stop of 2022, but it however retained the ability to stream your ain tracks from OneDrive, making information technology at to the lowest degree somewhat useful for those who even so preferred the app. However, that's all coming to an end soon, equally Microsoft has announced OneDrive streaming will go the ax on March 31.

In a new FAQ page posted to its support site, Microsoft says that "OneDrive music streaming in Groove Music will exist retired" at the end of March. And while the tracks you accept stored in OneDrive will however exist able to exist played using OneDrive'southward web player, you'll no longer be able to stream them from the deject in Groove Music.

Then what will happen to your music? Microsoft explains:

Music stored in your OneDrive will stop syncing with Groove Music on March 31, 2022. Information stored in the Groove Music service will be deleted up to 30 days later on that. Your music will notwithstanding be available in OneDrive and your downloaded music and playlists will yet exist available in the Groove Music app.

Your only solution to go along playing your files in Groove will be to download your complete collection and store it locally on whatever device you're using to listen to music through Groove.

According to the FAQ, this ends the ability to stream your OneDrive-stored music for Forza Horizon three starting on March 31 as well.

If yous'd rather proceed streaming, there are plenty of other options out there. Microsoft itself has been recommending people brand the switch to Spotify, and it has prepare a process for making the movement from Groove Music. If y'all've got a big OneDrive music collection and want the option to proceed streaming from at that place, a Windows 10 app called Sonca is a groovy alternative that works with music you lot have stored in a variety of cloud services.

See Sonca at Microsoft
Run into Spotify at Microsoft

Cheers, Richard H., for the tip!

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