Does Groove Music Require a Payed Subscription to Use Music From My Personal Library

No you can use the free version of Groove by uploading your MP3's to OneDrive. That's what I am doing.

However, you do need to progress to a certain part in the game before the Groove option unlocks.

Hi Florian,

Thanks for coming to the forums with your questions. Have you checked Spotify to see if your music is there also? When all this occurred some music was moved to spotify. You can view the entire guide here for

Groove music and spotify.

All the music that had a match in Spotify’s catalog now appears in your Spotify library and playlists. All your purchased or uploaded non-Groove Music Pass music will remain untouched in the Windows 10 and Xbox Groove Music apps. Music you own and
that is stored locally on your hard drive or on OneDrive is untouched and will continue to be playable from your local hard drive through the Windows 10 and Xbox Groove Music apps.

Try the Spotify app and let us know.

Thanks,

Brad

For external devices with music you can use this app "Simple Background Music Player", with this app you can listen your songs direct from any external device without need to use groove music app.

On this app you only need to create a folder called "Xbox Music Library" on the usb drive and put all songs you want on that folder, then connect the usb drive to an xbox one usb and run this app.

Groove Music only works with OneDrive.

I use USB thumb drive to connect to Series console and capable to play music via Music Player app, this is another music app. Since I have Groove app already installed, still cannot navigate my local music from external thumb.

I assume that Groove is capable to play music without the need of external drive and still playing in background while doing multitask on console.

Unfortunately, although Music Player app has capable to play music, it requires that thumb drive must be connected to console and no way to transfer local music to internal drive at all. Plus the app must be active, doing multitask on console will result in stopping music.

The question, is there a way to use Groove to play music for Series console in my end? If not due to discontinued, what's the point of Groove's availability in my end that yet I still cannot play music?

For external devices with music you can use this app "Simple Background Music Player", with this app you can listen your songs direct from any external device without need to use groove music app.

On this app you only need to create a folder called "Xbox Music Library" on the usb drive and put all songs you want on that folder, then connect the usb drive to an xbox one usb and run this app.

Groove Music only works with OneDrive.