Spotify is to get more customers from Microsoft Groove

[dublinbluray108]

I found an email today from Microsoft notifying Groove Music Pass customers that they are to partner up with Spotify after the 31st of December 2017. As of the 2nd of October 2017, which was 6 days ago, the option to purchase a Groove Music Pass for new customers has been discontinued from that date.

The option to stream, purchase, download music or music videos on Groove Music will be discontinued after the 31st of December 2017.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...nd-spotify-faq

I currently don't have a music pass for Groove anymore as I cancelled my pass since last April in my Microsoft account. It says in the FAQs that Groove Music who had a Music pass will be able to have a free 60 day account on Spotify Premium or to a Spotify Free account with adverts. What I am asking here is that am I going to have my collection moved from Groove Music to Spotify if my Toshiba Satellite laptop passes all the requirements to allow the transition?

There is another thing I did over the summer with my music collection on Groove. I did back-up most of my MP3 singles & albums from Groove to blank CD-R's by burning them on Windows Media Player. I am missing stuff from Groove Music like soundtracks from Batman Under the Red Hood Score, Batman Arkham City Score, Take That III due to recording companies taking the albums off me due to albums being sold with newer editions or from a limit of album downloads from Groove.

Will I able to use the missing albums that I used to have on Groove to be played on Spotify?

[Max Solo]

Originally Posted by dublinbluray108

I found an email today from Microsoft notifying Groove Music Pass customers that they are to partner up with Spotify after the 31st of December 2017. As of the 2nd of October 2017, which was 6 days ago, the option to purchase a Groove Music Pass for new customers has been discontinued from that date.

The option to stream, purchase, download music or music videos on Groove Music will be discontinued after the 31st of December 2017.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...nd-spotify-faq

I currently don't have a music pass for Groove anymore as I cancelled my pass since last April in my Microsoft account. It says in the FAQs that Groove Music who had a Music pass will be able to have a free 60 day account on Spotify Premium or to a Spotify Free account with adverts. What I am asking here is that am I going to have my collection moved from Groove Music to Spotify if my Toshiba Satellite laptop passes all the requirements to allow the transition?

There is another thing I did over the summer with my music collection on Groove. I did back-up most of my MP3 singles & albums from Groove to blank CD-R's by burning them on Windows Media Player. I am missing stuff from Groove Music like soundtracks from Batman Under the Red Hood Score, Batman Arkham City Score, Take That III due to recording companies taking the albums off me due to albums being sold with newer editions or from a limit of album downloads from Groove.

Will I able to use the missing albums that I used to have on Groove to be played on Spotify?

I have Spotify premium. I did a quick search for “Batman Soundtrack “ and a bunch came up. Batman: Under the red hood is one of them.

I still buy CDs. I pay $10 a month for Spotify. Listen mostly using the service. But I love buying a cd. Looking at the pictures. Seeing who played on the album, who produced it .etc. and no matter what happens with a company ( losing rights to songs, going under, selling to someone else ) I still have the music I bought.

[dublinbluray108]

Originally Posted by Max Solo

I have Spotify premium. I did a quick search for “Batman Soundtrack “ and a bunch came up. Batman: Under the red hood is one of them.

I still buy CDs. I pay $10 a month for Spotify. Listen mostly using the service. But I love buying a cd. Looking at the pictures. Seeing who played on the album, who produced it .etc. and no matter what happens with a company ( losing rights to songs, going under, selling to someone else ) I still have the music I bought.

Yeah I do understand what you're saying. But I prefer to purchase things once rather than multiple times over. I did try Groove, or Xbox Music before that, to try and buy songs. They did appear to look very cheap in terms of price. But when I looked at the TOS of Groove when it covered limit in the number of downloaded tracks to the hard drive.

I just had to give up about having the pass in the 1st place. These music streaming services were just a pure waste of money to me in the long run. There was no benefit to keeping the pass as I'm not a widespread music lover & I listen to only a small strand of music from different genres.

What I said about that I had missed some stuff regarding the Batman Soundtracks on Groove Music. I had previously purchased these mp3 albums supposedly for a once off fee. But now I have to repurchase them again on a CD because if I buy them again as a download; I could be fleeced once more if I had multiple hard drive failures on my laptop.

The audio CD is good for me to keep for long term usage. Which just means I physical over digital.