How To Disable Groove Music Windows 10

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The groove is Microsoft new launched brand service to rise the music style and Microsoft released it for newly launched Windows operating system Windows 10. Now if you using Windows 10 then you can easily install Windows 10 Groove app on your computer machine to listen to music online.

The answer to your question is simple: you cannot uninstall Groove Music in a usual manner via Control Panel due to the fact that it’s a default media player inbuilt in Windows 10. Previously, Groove Music was known as Xbox Music and Windows 8 users praised it for many reasons. Later on, Microsoft started using Groove, which is a service and, therefore, decided to prevent Groove confusion with Xbox and replaced the name of Xbox Music to Groove Music. Go to Settings System Default Apps Music Player. Then select Windows Media Player. Next, scroll to the bottom of that page and click on 'Choose defaults by file type.' Select Windows Media Player to open the file type you want. I've selected my WMP to open mp3s and Wav files, the two main music files I play.

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Microsoft Groove AppIntroduction

In simple words, groove music is app manage by Groove it well knows music service for Xbox Music and Microsoft acquired the service and use it in Windows 10. For more information about the groove, music read WindowsCenteral article about Windows 10 Groove.

Now come to the point, In this article, we discuss how you can remove or delete playlists from groove music app in Windows 10 in few steps.

Follow the step by step guide to removing all playlists from groove music app on windows 10.

Step 1 :

How To Disable Groove Music Windows 10

Open Groove App on Windows 10 via Start Menu

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Step 2 :

After opening app Select the playlist

Step 3 :

Press and hold the playlist you want to remove

Step 4 :

Select Delete to remove all playlists from groove

If these above step will help you to remove all playlists from groove app on your computer machine running on Windows 10.

If the issue was not resolved until now then step down to the second method.

In this method, you can remove the playlists without following any steps you can easily delete the groove music app from Windows 10. To do so you delete the music folder from your computer but the question is how you can find the groove music app folder on Windows 10.

Find Groove Music App Folder

Follow the given below intrusions to delete the groove music app folder.

Step 1 :

Close the Groove Music App on computer, Make sure the app was close

Step 2 :

Go to the given below address

“C:UsersAppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.ZuneMusic_[random string/hash]LocalStateDatabase”

Note : Don’t delete the music folder from your computer just copy & paste music lists

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For more information to remove, edit playlists on groove music app visit Microsoft Official Support Page.

Conclusion of the Article :

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Groove Music is one of the built-in apps in Windows 10. It is a music streaming app created using the Universal Windows Apps platform. Microsoft is actively working on this app. It is possible to backup and restore its options. This is very useful, because you can restore them when required or transfer them to another PC or user account.

The app gradually received the Fluent Design makeover and has already got Music Visualizations, an Equalizer, Spotlighted Playlists, Playlist Personalization and Auto Playlist Generation.

Groove Music is preinstalled in the latest versions of Windows 10, but if you uninstalled it or want to try the update version, you can download it from the Windows Store.

If you use Groove Music daily, it is a good idea to backup your settings. Here is how it can be done.

To backup Groove Music settings in Windows 10, do the following.

  1. Close the Groove Music app. You can terminate it in Settings.
  2. Open the File Explorer app.
  3. Go to the folder %LocalAppData%PackagesMicrosoft.ZuneMusic_8wekyb3d8bbwe. You can paste this line to the address bar of File Explorer and hit the Enter key.
  4. Open the Settings subfolder. There, you will see a set of files. Select them.
  5. Right-click on the selected files and select 'Copy' in the context menu, or press the Ctrl + C key sequence to copy the files.
  6. Paste them to some safe location.

That's it. You just created a backup copy of your Groove Music app settings. To restore them or move to another PC or user account, you need to place them under the same folder.

Restore Groove Music options in Windows 10

  1. Close Groove Music. You can terminate it in Settings.
  2. Open the File Explorer app.
  3. Go to the folder %LocalAppData%PackagesMicrosoft.ZuneMusic_8wekyb3d8bbwe. You can paste this line to the address bar of File Explorer and hit the Enter key.
  4. Here, paste the files settings.dat and roaming.lock.

Now you can start the app. It should appear with all your previously saved settings.

Note: The same method can be used to backup and restore options for other Windows 10 apps. See the articles

That's it.

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