Thats because the team that wrote Groove Music (and Movies & TV) originated from the Zune desktop player and Windows Media Center. In fact it still used a lot of core code from the Zune days for things like library management and DRM.
The Zune desktop app has to be the best music player I've ever used, it was awesome. I continued to use it long after I moved on from my Zune HD. Sad to see something so awesome abandoned.
eysquared|7 years ago
Source: former dev on the team.
joenathanone|7 years ago
dpark|7 years ago
Disclosure: Microsoft employee, but not on Groove (or anything related to appx packages for that matter)
vitorgrs|7 years ago