Cant Cast music to xbone

Bearded_Beast · Sep 24, 2016

Awhile back there was an update for groove music, and ever since then I have not been able to cast music from Windows media player to my xbox one. I used to be able to go in to my library, or playlists and click cast to xbox one and it would open groove
and start playing the music. All of a sudden though I am not able to do this anymore. Every time I try to cast to xbone it takes me to the store and wants me to download groove. I must have downloaded and uninstalled it about 40 times trying to get this to
work again. Anybody have any idea's. I have checked all my sharing settings and streaming settings and they are all correct, and shouldn't be the issue.

:)

jstringer1 · Sep 24, 2016

Cant cast to grove music

This totally sucks, how on earth can you just take features away from a product we already paid for???? I don't game much any more, I mainly use my xbox for Netflix and playing music which I rely upon the DLNA PlayTo feature for because I pay for Google
Play Music. My xbox no longer provides me the feature set I require, I feel pretty cheated

JT Kimbell [MSFT] · Sep 24, 2016

Cant cast to grove music

It's not my place to give timeframes, sorry. I can say that the features are actively being worked on, but there are so many things outside of the control of individual engineers that it would be a fools errand for me to promise a date. I leave that for
PR/marketing folks.

Totally understand the frustration and confusion. It wasn't lost on us and was definitely discussed.

CarstenE · Sep 24, 2016

Hey Feather River,

Unfortunally they removed this function with the update for Background Music. I personally miss this Feature aswell.

You can go to:

xbox.uservoice.com/.../363186--new-ideas

and vote for that or submit the request for that Feature by yourself. They may bring it back at some Point.

-lg 2Bad4You

CarstenE

Hey Feather River,

Unfortunally they removed this function with the update for Background Music. I personally miss this Feature aswell.

You can go to:

xbox.uservoice.com/.../363186--new-ideas

and vote for that or submit the request for that Feature by yourself. They may bring it back at some Point.

-lg 2Bad4You

Armageddon97

I am having this same problem with casting. I will try contacting Xbox Support and will post any steps to solve the issue (if they can solve it).

JT Kimbell [MSFT]

Hey Armageddon97 - unfortunately, that switch has been flipped and the old app isn't coming back. From this point, it's all about making the universal app great.

Hey jstringer1 - I'm sorry about that. I promise that DLNA PlayTo is coming back soon.

Armageddon97

@Studbucket33 Thank you for your response. It's good to know that it's still being diligently worked on. Would it be possible to make the old version of blue groove available in the meantime (the one without background capabilities)? The update just converts
it to the green groove, so the blue one goes completely unused. Does the new OS and implementation of background music make this impossible? Since the blue and green Groove apps have always been separate, it would be nice having the old, snappable version
of blue groove back until its problems with enabling background music get sorted out.

Armageddon97

It's been 5 days since your reply, so I would just like to ask if we could get a timetable on when DLNA streaming will be coming back. That's basically the only thing I use Groove for. At the very least could you make the old version of blue groove usable
(i.e. don't automatically force an update for the blue version of groove). I'd rather have DLNA and no background music then background music and no DLNA.

Cant Cast music to xbone