XBox Music + OneDrive comes together for FREE storage of your music.

[GoodBytes]

Microsoft announces that XBox Music has now OneDrive integrated allowing you to upload any of your music on your OneDrive, and it will be accessible via XBox Music app on your phone and PCs. No subscription required! All free!

 

 

Apple charges $24.99 U.S for this service, so this is a big move for Microsoft.

 

If you have XBox Music subscription, Microsoft gives you an addition 100GB of storage to your OneDrive

 

Users can now simply open their OneDrive web folder or app, upload the music file from their hard drive and listen to it through the Xbox Music app whenever they want. An Xbox music pass subscription is not required, the process is completely free. People who already have the pass will get 100 GB free of OneDrive storage.

 

Currently the following music format are supported:

• MP3
• M4A (AAC)
• WMA

While Microsoft provided no information on this yet, we know that Windows 10 XBox Music App (and Windows Media Player) supports FLAC files, it is most likely that FLAC support will come as well. You can currently add up to 50,000 songs to your collection.

 

For more information and source: https://music.xbox.com/Onedrive

Source 2: http://www.neowin.net/news/xbox-music-integrates-with-onedrive-to-allow-free-storage-of-music

[werto165]

Can't you upload 20k songs onto google play music for free? Does one drive have a limit? ( i guess it's as large as the amount of one drive space you've got). EDIT: I'm blind...

[Infernal Burrito]

*cough* Google Play Music *cough*

[DildorTheDecent]

100GB not enough for the unnecessary high quality tracks. 

[werto165]

Google Play Music allows 50k songs now. I use it as my primary source for music on my phone and tablet, but the problem with GPM is it corrupts some of the stuff that's uploaded. I've tried deleting my entire music library three times and uploaded it in one setting and still get loads of "Unknown Album" and mixed albums if two albums have the same name, despite being by two different artists / bands.

 

If Microsoft can fix that and still keep all of my music backed up there, with its entire structure in order (important), I'm dumping GPM for good.

I've been getting a lot of Unknown Artists + albums + track name on just streaming music through their service. Quite annoying..

[Thorium19]

*cough* Google Play Music *cough*

*Cough* Windows phone *cough*

For those of us currently using WP8.1 this is a nice and handy bit of news, although the fact I should be getting a new android this week kind of means there's no need for me to sort it out.

[Infernal Burrito]

*Cough* Windows phone *cough*

For those of us currently using WP8.1 this is a nice and handy bit of news, although the fact I should be getting a new android this week kind of means there's no need for me to sort it out.

There is no play music on Windows Phone? I did not know that, in that case, this would be really useful.

[dalekphalm]

@GoodBytes Woah that is an excellent feature! Well done Microsoft! They're catching up to Google in a lot of ways, and have surpassed Apple in this regard.

 

I will start doing this tonight. I have 27.4 GB available in my OneDrive account at the moment. Enough for pretty much everything I have at the moment. I wouldn't be listening to FLAC or any other lossless content on my phone anyway.

 

Now if only I had more than 1GB of Mobile Data...

[Thorium19]

There is no play music on Windows Phone? I did not know that, in that case, this would be really useful.

nope. Google basically got pissed off with microsoft all over the youtube app (google wanted it in HTML5 so that adverts would be shown, MS said they couldn't do it due to "incompatabilities" I believe. There's articles on it somewhere on the web if you want to check up on it.) and since then have failed to develop anything meaningful for WP. Pretty petty if you ask me, but I'm hoping WP10 will sort things like that all out.

[Blade of Grass]

nope. Google basically got pissed off with microsoft all over the youtube app (google wanted it in HTML5 so that adverts would be shown, MS said they couldn't do it due to "incompatabilities" I believe. There's articles on it somewhere on the web if you want to check up on it.) and since then have failed to develop anything meaningful for WP. Pretty petty if you ask me, but I'm hoping WP10 will sort things like that all out.

AFAIK the reason behind it is that Microsoft's app actually broke the rules around YouTube apps. It wouldn't play ads and it offered a download button, both of which have are against the terms of agreement. Google revoked MS's access, and haven't built anything since.

Honestly, I don't blame Google. If Microsoft doesn't want to play by your rules to use your service, then they pay the price.

[Vaub]

Finally... this was wanted for a long time.

 

AFAIK the reason behind it is that Microsoft's app actually broke the rules around YouTube apps. It wouldn't play ads and it offered a download button, both of which have are against the terms of agreement. Google revoked MS's access, and haven't built anything since.
Honestly, I don't blame Google. If Microsoft doesn't want to play by your rules to use your service, then they pay the price.

 

This was right the first time. They fixed everything and Google went back with "not html5" (aka we really do not want to see your platform alive) which was in itself a really bad reason.

Although it is kinda ironic since WP8.1 has a better YouTube experience than my Nexus 5 with 3rd parties app like myTube.