
And playing music to a mobile device via OneDrive is a ridiculous option.īy comparison, Google Play Music is fully supported, has a great mobile app, and is free for libraries up to 50,000 songs.
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The cost is too high: You only get 5 GB of storage for free and the most common storage upgrade comes via Office 365 at a cost of $70 to $100 per year. No one should be storing music in OneDrive and streaming/downloading it from there to their devices here in 2018. If all you want to do is stream your own music and not pay for a subscription, Google lets you upload an astonishing 50,000 songs from your PC to the cloud for free. It’s a better app and a better service.īest of all, you don’t need to pay for it. But here’s some advice for everyone, and not just those who wish to use both personal music and subscription music: Just use Google Play Music. I coincidentally wrote about this situation earlier this week in Fewer Options For Those with Their Own Music (Premium).

But with Amazon exiting this business in Microsoft’s wake, our choices have dwindled to two: Google Play Music and Apple iTunes Match. Until recently, users who wished to mix and match their personal music with music from a subscription service (as I do) had three major choices: Google Play Music, Apple iTunes Match, and Amazon Prime Music. But it’s not very easy to use with your own personal music collection, which you perhaps ripped from CD years ago. At the time, it provided a way for subscribers to easily move their Groove playlists and content to Spotify, the leading subscription music service. This should not have been a surprise to anyone: Microsoft killed its Groove Music Pass service and stopped selling digital music back in late 2017.
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The issue: As part of an ongoing scaling back of its online music endeavors, Microsoft announced today that it will kill the Groove app for Android and iOS at the end of 2018. You have much better-and much cheaper-ways to stream your own music from the cloud. In the wake of Microsoft’s most recent step back from online music, I’m struck by how many people feel burned by this coming change.
