“Thanks for being with us from the start. “As a Zune customer, you’ve been a big part of our music community,” the email message notes. And it will be discontinuing support for Zune subscriptions on Zune devices and the Zune PC software.
In an email sent to Zune Music Pass subscribers, Microsoft revealed that it will be converting everyone over to the Groove Music Pass. So anyone who kept their original subscription has continued receiving 10 free songs each month for the past several years. That said, Microsoft has to-date grandfathered in remaining Zune Music Pass subscribers. So Xbox Music Pass and now Groove Music Pass both do not offer this benefit. Since this was a costly service, and didn’t really help Zune Music Pass take off in any appreciable way in the market, Microsoft eventually discontinued this offering. It is the end of an era.Īs you may know, Microsoft offered a unique subscription service to Zune users: in addition to the “all you can eat” music subscription, Zune Music Pass subscribers would also get 10 free songs each month. I thought I had already written by final Zune obituary, but this week Microsoft told the remaining few Zune users and Zune Pass subscribers that the ride is finally over.
