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I know what onedrive is, i have stuff in it already and they just lowered the amount of free storage from 15 to 5 so i already have to delete stuff as im at about 7gb. My dissapointment comes from the fact that this system is a way to technically stream music in the background. Knowing how things play out this will be available because of the xbox one update and if the only ways to stream music in the background for this game are to either use onedrive or have a subscription to their music service, they didnt say anything about usb drives, i can come to a reasonable conclusion that this is how background music will be implemented on the xbox one in general. As I said ps4 did the same with only allowing spotify to stream in the background. So yes i am disappointed if this is the case, id rather be able to stream from my phone,pc,pandora, or anything for that matter. Its not a big deal ill just do what i have been doing anyway without the feature, but it wouldve been nice.

Edited by user Tuesday, June 21, 2016 8:35:21 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

The Groove Music station in Forza Horizon 3 is not "background" music as you describe. The music will obey all the same rules the other radio stations do in the game (volume ducking during voice overs, for example, or cutting out in tunnels, blaring over loudspeakers in the festival sites, etc.) and can be controlled with the game audio options.

Background music, on the other hand, is just that - background. It has no idea about the game being played, and is not integrated with game audio experience in any way.

Back in the days the Xbox 360 media player 'adapted' as well though. Not as much as Groove Music Station will do in Forza Horizon 3, ofcourse, but it blended the music with sound effects from within the game, only muting the soundtracks I believe. I hope they've done it the same way this time around.
im2fast4u711: I think you actually will be able to use an USB stick. That's already possible, so why would they cut it?

JONK1969, on Groove Music radio, will the name of the song and the artist appear under the name of the radio station? Like Outasight's "The Wild Life" under Horizon Block Party and The Knocks' "Tied To You" under Horizon Pulse?

Jonk: That sounds cool, but Im probably not going to be able to use it. I liked the music from the other horizons so im sure those will be fine for me. I usually shut music off when im racing, only listening when im messing around.

Steve: yea the old way did its job fine for me, hopefully we get something similiar as well as pandora being available in the background as well. I like to use my receiver for sound and although i can make it so i can have 2 inputs work at the same time its not ideal.

I think I'm right in saying one drive is the place I should be putting my music I want to play using the custom playlist feature in FH3 right? I'm sure I read it will be done via one drive.

Well that's my problem and question, I've never used one drive (except to upload a game clip to it from my Xbox and even that I had to find instructions for!

So can anyone help? How can I use one drive to set up music for Horizon 3?

[Mod Edit - thread merged. See Microsoft's Groove and OneDrive FAQ for how to add and manage music in OneDrive - MM]

Edited by user Tuesday, June 21, 2016 1:50:10 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Yep - just tested it today at work with my personal collection of AC/DC tunes from albums I bought too many years ago to mention here ;)

While you're at it: does it copy the name of the songs 1 on 1 from what they're called like when you upload them on OneDrive?
And as you stated, I take Groove Music Station will feature voice overs as well? I'd like to know how this is implemented. Will we hear voice overs randomly, or only in between songs, or both? Will they announce what song is coming up next? (if that's even possible).
Last question: if I upload, say, an original mix of a track that's 6 minutes long, will it play the entire song or just part of it? and if so, how will it determine which part it's going to play?

Let's see here...
Yes, song and artist names appear in the game as uploaded on OneDrive as long as you're not using strange characters (which will show up as a box). Long titles are ok, because they wrap.
Yes and NO: Yes there is VO for the main characters and your onboard assistant letting you know about important stuff like new events, barn finds, friends online, etc. - but there is no DJ voice for the Groove music station, it's just your music.
There's no limit to length of song, which is good if, like me, you want to listen to epic tracks like this 6 minutes of awesomesauce by Radiohead, or even the 20 minute masterpiece that is Pink Floyd's "Echoes" while you drive.

Well they should add an "Shuffle" Option then! GTA IV and GTA V have one.

UTF-8 character encoding supported?

That's great, but, what kind of strange characters are you talking about, JONK1969?

@JONK1969:

Why you answering every question, but ignoring mine? (post #47)
Too harsh? Too negative? Then sorry for that.

I just want to completely shut off the voice-acting per options, will that be possible?
Just racing and my music, thats what I want.

Thanks for answering! Shame there's no voice-over on the Groove Music Station, I think it would've been a nice touch if a DJ would even say something along the lines of "what a class track was that don't you think? Now straight on to our next one." (just an example, there are alot of possibilities ofcourse)
I like how there's no limit, but since I can't properly mix songs myself that means the song will play from start to finish, including all intro's and outro's. Usually I don't mind, but that will be getting a little bit boring when you're only streaming original mixes of electronic music.

To be clear - it's not my job or responsibility to answer questions or respond to complaints here. I am happy to occasionally if I can and if I have time to do so. With that out of the way...

I want to help people understand how Groove Music is expected to work in game, because it's a new feature we've been talking about, and I've been answering questions related to that in this thread.

Your post #47 was not a question about Groove Music or how it works, which is the topic of this thread. It was a question about whether there will be in-game advertising for Groove Music subscriptions and a warning that you won't buy the game if there is, followed by a complaint about the voice acting in Horizon 2, and a feature request to turn off all voice because it annoys you. Does that sound like a fair summary?

If you're making a feature request to turn off all voice in the game, there's a thread for that sort of thing: feature wish list thread.

Any text character not supported by your Xbox language/region settings.

Nope, don't believe so.

Oh, ok.
I saw your "Turn 10 Staff"-Rank and thought, thats your job here, because you already answered many questions.
My fault, sorry for that.



Sounds pretty rude, but yeah.
I already saw that in my last post and said sorry, no need to repeat it.



Hm, see your point here and your right, I'm in the wrong thread for my questions.
But will it hurt you to say yes or no to my question?

The thread you linked has no organisation and is 8 pages full of wishes, I can't see that someone from Turn 10/Playground Games reads all of that.
And I have 2 questions, not 2 wishes, I don't get an answer there.
And the game must be pretty done by now I think, so decisions like that are already made, I think.
So...I will give up to get an answer and wait for a demo or video tests after release, so hopefully then I get my points sorted out.

Sorry, when I **** ed you and stealed your time.
I just don't want spend 100€ on a game and then don't want to play it.

This is going to bee sooo goood "Hardcore Radio Australia" !!! :'D

I, for one, am looking forward to this new feature! I just need to (if I can) learn how to upload songs from iTunes to Onedrive, I've got a perfect list for Horizon.

Edited by user Sunday, June 26, 2016 9:34:45 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

One question did get missed, (not mine) and going to help explain this son more. OneDrive.com is a cloud storage service made by Microsoft. You get 5GB of storage with your Microsoft account. (you can get a subscription via office 365, school or work, and or Bing rewards) now the folders you get are music, public and I think camera roll. You can add your documents, pictures, videos and MUSIC to OneDrive and have free online office via office online. Now this is like dropbox and/or google drive, (I say better but oh well) now with your Xbox live account you also have a outlook.com account, OneDrive, Skype, and man page. So you can use your Xbox account as an actual email address on outlook.com. Now when you add music (mp3. WAV, acc, mp4) to OneDrive , Groove music (Zune, Xbox music) has it where you can access it anywhere via Windows 10, (mobile also) windows 8.1 (mobile also via branded Xbox music) android (via Groove music app) iOS (via same app) Xbox one and 360 (via groove music) and on the web at music.Microsoft.com
Now what forza is doing is allowing your music on groove (via OneDrive and/or groove pass or bought music) to stream through the game.

ITunes/Apple music, google play music, tidal, spotafi, beats audio, PlayStation music, soundcloud and others are different music streaming services on different platforms and devices that are not made by Microsoft. Groove music (Xbox music or Zune on some ) is made by Microsoft and is free to use by adding your own music to OneDrive. You can get a music pass and/or buy your music in the Microsoft store. You can also download your songs up to 4 devices including music pass songs. (DRM requires songs moved to non internet accessible devices like MP3 players needs to be re connected to another computer.)
I use groove on my phones Xbox and PC's ... Even my G moms MAC computer so it's really not only Windows 10 exclusive... Infact they changed the name to groove because they thought it was to Xbox exclusive only.
So be happy this works better than snapping the app on Xbox one!

Jonk did a very good job on telling what happens in the game but people were still confused about the difference between OneDrive and Groove. (sorry grammar bad due to phone not wanting to move cursor correctly) bye the way 5GB free with MSA, you can get more GB with doing those ways to get a. Subscription.

One last thing the OneDrive app is also available for these devices:
Windows 10, mobile (UWP app)
Windows 8.1, mobile
Windows 7 via file explorer (Windows phone 7.X I think has SkyDrive or OneDrive)
iOS (via app)
OSX (via app from app store--MAC book)
Android (via google play)
Chrome OS (via chrome store-OneDrive)
Firefox mobile OS (via Mozilla marketplace)
Xbox 360 (preinstalled... Meh kinda sad version)
Xbox One (preinstalled, actually works)
And otherwise on the web at OneDrive.com
All of these ways are ways to add your music to OneDrive.

Edited by user Monday, June 27, 2016 8:13:28 AM(UTC)  | Reason: ...

is there a limit number of tracks or time limit on the playlist? I've begun compiling songs for the station and very curious now what the limit is. Thanks!

Any word on whether this will work with OneDrive Business? I have around 5TB available if this is the case!