In a brand new replace for Home windows 10 customers, Groove Music shall be changed by the brand new Home windows Media Participant, retaining your entire music and playlists intact.

Based on Home windows Newest (opens in new tab), when you go to the Microsoft Retailer in Home windows 10, you will see Groove Music within the ‘Updates’ part. When you press ‘Replace’, the app shall be robotically overwritten with the newer Home windows Media Participant.

Whereas the ‘Groove’ identify has been round since 2015, it is truly been round since 2006 when Home windows Vista debuted, as Zune Music to assist handle content material in your Zune gadget that was meant to rival Apple’s iPod and iPhone gadgets.

Nonetheless, the app hasn’t had any main updates lately, and the identify finally turned meaningless to anybody who discovered the app on their PC, which is why it is solely a great factor that Home windows Media Participant is changing it.

What makes Media Participant higher than Groove?

Home windows Media Participant does not simply play your music – it will probably additionally play video recordsdata, from ones taken in your iPhone to any DRM-free recordsdata of flicks and TV exhibits you’ve got saved in your PC. On this sense, it is now extra much like the wonderful VLC Media Participant.

You may as well rip your CDs prefer it’s 2001 once more if you wish to lastly digitize your previous music assortment.

There are additionally some good accessibility choices (opens in new tab) in Media Participant, resembling keyboard shortcuts so you may play, skip and pause your content material that fits your wants higher.

General, it is nice to see Home windows Media Participant virtually return to its former glory. It is nonetheless baffling as to why Groove Music lasted so long as it did, particularly with iTunes being changed with Apple Music for instance.

But Home windows 10 and 11 lastly have a devoted media app that is sensible, each in its options and in its identify. Now let’s begin to see some visualizers (opens in new tab) make a return subsequent Microsoft.