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This book enables you to unleash the entertainment potential of your Windows 10 PC, tablet, or phone--or any combination of the three! Learn how to stream movies and TV shows, manage your media collection, purchase new media, and upload your music collection to the cloud. Ian Dixon and Garry Whittaker take the hassle out of managing and enjoying music, TV, and movies from your own collection and beyond. Whether you already have an extensive music and video collection, or are just getting started, this book will help you get the best entertainment from Windows. In this book, you will learn how to: Get started building your personal media cloud so you can access your music and videos from anywhere in the world and on any device Stream from thousands of radio stations to your Windows 10 phone, tablet, or laptop Find out what type of media files work with Windows 10--and how to convert the ones that dont Stream movies and TV shows from Netflix, and stream music from Xbox Music and Google Play Music Use Windows 10 to wirelessly access media stored on Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 PCs around the home ... and more! This book is for home users who are either new to Windows or upgrading from previous versions of the operating system and want to enjoy music, movies and TV shows on any Windows device.;Chapter 1: Music Services On the Go -- Chapter 2: Storing Your Music in the Cloud -- Chapter 3: Watching Videos, Movies, and TV Shows -- Chapter 4: Streaming Your Media Collection from Windows Devices -- Chapter 5: Streaming Media Around the Home -- Chapter 6: Setting Up Media Servers to Stream Your Content.

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Ian Dixon and Garry Whittaker 2015

Ian Dixon and Garry Whittaker Entertainment Apps on the Go with Windows 10 10.1007/978-1-4842-1473-2_1

1. Music Services on the Go

Ian Dixon 1 and Garry Whittaker 1

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Lancashire, UK

If music be the food of love, play on, so said Duke Orsino in Shakespeares Twelfth Night . Our love of music is still as strong today as it was back then. However, we often can struggle to play our music where we want. Windows 10, coupled with the ability to use Microsofts music apps on Android and Apple devices, looks to solve that quandary. You can now take your music anywhere.

With Windows 10, you can enjoy music on your PC, laptop, tablet, or phone with a range of services.

In this chapter, you will look at how to download, stream, and purchase music on your Android, iOS, or Windows phone, tablet, or laptop with Microsoft Groove and third-party services. You will also find out how you can listen to radio stations and podcasts on the move.

Listening to Your Music with Groove

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Microsoft changed the name of its music app in Windows 10 from Xbox Music, as it was known in Windows 8, to Groove. You may find that on some platforms with older versions it is still referred to as Xbox Music.

Groove is Microsofts music service that combines a number of features into one service that works with Windows 10, Xbox One, iPad, and Android devices.

With the services you can listen to your own music stored on a PC or phone, stream music from the cloud, and purchase music directly from your device.

Groove breaks down into four areas: listening to music stored on the device, streaming music from your personal collection on Microsofts servers, purchasing albums and songs from Microsoft, and using Microsofts music subscription service.

Groove on a PC or Laptop

When you think of taking music on the move, you might be tempted to limit your thoughts to just phones or portable media players such as the iPod Touch. That would be wrong. Feedback from listeners to our weekly The Digital Lifestyle show reveals that a surprising amount of music playback on the go still occurs on Windows devices, such as the Surface line, and laptops. These will be running the desktop or PC version of Windows 10, and in this section you will look at what this offers for you to play your music.

Once you open the app, you are presented with a view of your collection of music stored on your PC (Figure ).

Figure 1-1.

Groove on a Windows 10 PC. Highlighted at the top left is the menu button

By default the app looks for music in the This PC\music folder of your PC, but you can change that if you like. You can change the location by going to Settings and selecting Choose where we look for music. When you click the link, a window pops up showing where the app currently looks for music (Figure ), and it gives you the option to add a new location to the app. Just select the Add (shown as a plus sign in a circle) button, and a dialog box will pop up where you can select a folder for the app to look in. Once you have done this, the music app will automatically add all the music stored in the selection folder and subfolders. Click Done to close the dialog box.

Figure 1-2.

Choosing, in Groove, where to select music from

Dont worry if you dont have any music in your collection. Later in the chapter you will learn how to add music from iTunes and other sources. You can also add music from the Windows Store, as shown in Figure .

Figure 1-3.

You can also obtain music from the Windows Store

In this section, you saw how to select what music you would like to add to your collection in Groove. In the next section, you will look at how to play that music.

Playing Music

The music app can display your collection in different views including by album , artist, song, or playlist. You can pick your preferred view by selecting the relevant icon on the left side of the app. If the menu is not visible, you can use the menu button at the top left of the window to toggle it open.

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The menu button looks like three horizontal lines on top of each other. Some people think this looks like a hamburger, and thus this type of menu is often referred to as a hamburger menu (shown earlier in Figure ).

In the Artists view, the artists are sorted alphabetically, and selecting a letter brings up the alphabet where you can then jump to another letter, making it easy to quickly find your artists if you have a large collection. When you select an artist, the app shows the albums and song in your collection from those artists. You can either select Play, which is a rightward-pointing triangle, to play the songs from the artist or select the plus sign to add the songs to a playlist (more on that in a minute).

In the Albums view (Figures ), each album is represented by a thumbnail of the album cover. Clicking the cover shows the album details and track listing. Pressing the Play icon, a rightward-pointing triangle, will play whole album, or you can select an individual track by clicking it and pressing the Play button.

Figure 1-4.

Artists Albums view, desktop

Figure 1-5.

Albums view looks different on a phone or small tablet

You can also add a song or the whole album to a playlist by clicking/tapping the plus icon.

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A playlist is a collection of songs that you can play back later. For example, you could create a list of songs for working out to or songs you like driving to. They can be any combination of music you like. To create a new playlist, you click/tap the plus icon in the icon list on the right side.

You can then enter a name for the playlist and click on Save. This creates a new playlist and then takes you back to your music collection.

When you click/tap a song, you will see a plus sign, which presents you with a list of your playlists; you can select the playlist you want to add the song to.

If you want to add a selection of songs, albums, or artists to a playlist or download a group of songs, there is an easy way to do it. Switch to the desired section by selecting either the Albums, Artists, or Songs view from the left menu. Then you can click/tap the Select button at the top.

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The Select button in Windows 10 is often shown as four horizontal lines on top of each other with two check marks beside them. You can see this at the top right of Figure .

Then click/tap the songs/albums you want to select (a check mark shows a selected file). When you select content, a menu bar will appear at the bottom of the screen. You can also select multiple tracks by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking the desired items (on a PC Only).

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