Rest assured that if you’re still using an old-school Zune player, it will work and any MP3 content you own will remain on your device. Well, it was a line of MP3 players that Microsoft sold from 2006 to 2011, trying to compete with the iPod, along with an accompanying service to stream and download music to the devices.
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People currently on Zune’s three-month subscription plan will be switched to Grooves monthly plan that goes for $9.99.
Zune Music Pass subscribers are going to be transferred to Microsoft Groove, which works on the Xbox One, Windows 10, Android, and iOS. If anything, it’s surprising and somewhat impressive that Microsoft has kept those services alive all this time.
And yet, the company has announced today that it’s retiring Zune services on November 15 and you would no longer be able to stream music or download content to your device.
The Microsoft Zune brand has been rather quiet in the recent years, especially in face of competition from a variety of services and hardware from manufacturers all around the world.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has confirmed the demise of Zune music service. Oh, you mean you’ve never even heard of the Zune?
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Microsoft’s Zune isn’t quite the most successful player on the planet, but the music services that Redmond launched with the device lived longer, despite the many changes that the company has made in the last few years. Rather than just opening Groove and playing tunes to a Bluetooth speaker, music lovers first need to fire up the Sonos app and then sign into a service and to access their library. “Existing Zune Music Pass subscriptions will be converted to Groove Music Pass subscriptions”.
