Groove Music playlist location

I am also wanting to export groove playlist or even find the location of it in the C:\ drive.

So what I have done now:

1) Opened up feedback item in the Windows feedback app

2) Downloaded the 3rd party .wpl playlist app from Windows store

About an hour ago, I found the location of the playlist I downloaded from this non-groovy Groove thing.  Here's where I found them:

In your default music folder, you may notice a new folder there called "Music Cache," with a sub-folder called "Subscription Cache."  That's where my files went, and they're all .wma's.  So I tried playing a few, but this notice popped up: 

So, I clicked on Yes, and there it was - an X-box OOPS! page.  It turns out that the majority of the files are "protected," and therefore can't be playedon WMP; neither can they be opened in a sound editing program to convert to a different format, such as .mp3.  Unless, I'm guessing, you've paid for the service, and not just using a free pass.

Sorry it's such a long post, but maybe it will help someone.  I don't do iTunes, don't have a phone that plays music, and don't use One Drive, or synch anything.  I just have a desktop PC with W10, a large ext HD, and thousands of mp3's.  Good luck finding y'all's files.

I've deleted Groove Music off my hard drive.

The music on it comes from my own library, from years of collections. Music I've paid for, not pirated.  So to have to spend more to actually hear my own playlists, is a money making scam.

I'll stick to iTunes which I knows does work, along with Media Player 10.

They at least save playlists, and give the opportunity to sync to another device.

Which is what I want when I want to play something at gym or in my car.

I've wasted almost 4 hours of creating new playlists, to find it's not saved anywhere, nor can I can I sync it.

I thought I'd give the app a chance - live and learn, how annoying!

I just created a playlist in Groove that I want to play in WMP because I want to download the music to my Android phone and play the music in a standard music player.  I just totally wasted my time to find out that one can only play Groove playlists and Android in the Groove app.

Oh, and all of the music is stuff I own -- MP3s not DRM stuff.

What a waste.  Microsoft should just get out of the consumer business entirely and focus on corporate.  They are a joke compared to Apple and Google as far as consumer and mobile goes.

Just to add my experience, I put all my music (mp3s) into One Drive Music Folder, and told groove to look for music (on PCs) in the One Drive Music folder, synched to the PCs hard drive. The result was half my music appeared as 'Available Offline' and half as 'Online Only'; even though its all, obviously, already available offline... because it's synched to my drive!

Several attempts never got much better results, so I decided that I'd play the game, and stopped synching music to my hard drive, and just use "Make Available Offline' in Groove; wherein it copies music to the 'Music Cache' folder in the system music folder. Unfortunately, Groove does not have the ability to cast, like WMP12 does, so I use the 'Lumia Play to' app, to play to DNLA devices, such as the TV/Stereo.

This would have been acceptable, except that 'Play To' comes up with the message 'This file type cannot be played' if you try to play files from that offline cache. It seems Groove stores them as a file type that is unreadable, by anything other than Groove. Diabolical.

As for my phone, all the same issues. I had all my music on a micro SD, but much of it was only available online, and I had to stream some songs on my playlist, over mobile data. Many were unavailable, if I went offline; even though I could play them directly from the card, using file explorer! It was a mess. I resorted to setting up a central copy, for my PCs and moved the One Drive music to an unmonitored folder, just as a backup (and to save me uploading it all again, if the issues got sorted!).

My Pcs now sync music as an offline folder, using 'Offline Files' and a mapped drive, in W10 Pro (which I have on all machines, fortunately). Groove then looks at the offline folder.

I still have weird playlist issues. Most work and sync fine, on all machines and my phone. One, in particular, has four tracks on it. On one machine, it shows 8 (4 repeated twice). On another, it shows 8, 4 being unavailable ("stored where we can't find them"); on my phone it is 4 tracks, as it should be; on another machine it shows 8 (4x2) and ALL are unavailable! I have deleted it and re-set it up on each machine (and phone) and some variation of all these issues, occurs each time. The only thing that varies is which machines are messed up. I haven't had this with other playlists; and I can establish no reason for this weirdness, whatsoever.