Groove Music (formerly Xbox Music or Zune Music Pass) is a discontinued audio player software application included with Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.. The app is also associated with a now-discontinued music streaming service, Groove Music Pass, which was supported across Windows, Xbox video game consoles, Windows Phone, as well as Android and iOS.

In music, groove is the sense of an effect ("feel") of changing pattern in a propulsive rhythm or sense of "swing".In jazz, it can be felt as a quality of persistently repeated rhythmic units, created by the interaction of the music played by a band's rhythm section (e.g. drums, electric bass or double bass, guitar, and keyboards).Groove is a significant feature of popular music, and can …

La parola inglese groove indica una serie ritmica che si ripete ciclicamente, generalmente ogni battuta. È un termine popolare, in uso già dagli anni sessanta.La sua traduzione letterale è solco, scanalatura e in ambito musicale indica il solco dei dischi in vinile; esiste tuttavia anche il verbo inglese to groove, in uso dagli anni sessanta con il significato di divertirsi intensamente.