One of the most-requested fan features on the Xbox Feedback site has been the addition of background music. Whether its listening to music while you play games or browse the internet, background music can provide the soundtrack to your Xbox experience.

With currently participating music app partners, all you need to do is open the app, start playing the tunes you want to hear, and then hit the Home button to navigate to the game or activity you want. Once you’ve got background music running, just double-tap the Home button to open the guide which will allow you to make adjustments or switch songs on the fly.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the apps that support background music now, as well as some that are on their way.

Groove – Premium

With Groove Music Pass, stream and download new hits and familiar favorites from millions and millions of songs. Listen ad-free, just about anywhere (Xbox, web, PC, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone)*. The perfect playlist for every game genre: shooters, sports, racing, & RPGs – choose from Groove curated or make your own. Add your MP3s or iTunes tracks to OneDrive, and they’ll always be at your fingertips with the Groove Music app on Xbox One and on the go.

Pandora – Free

Pandora is one of the biggest names in the streaming music world, offering music fans millions of songs from thousands of artists. While the Pandora app is already available on Xbox One, today’s update adds support for background music. It’s free to enjoy, and with the new background music feature, we’re sure this release will take your gaming experience to the next level.  Available in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Simple Background Music Player – Free

Allows for playback from a USB-connected external device, the Simple Background Music Player lives up to its name by offering an easy-to-use experience that lets you listen to any music that you can drop onto a USB stick. All you need to do is put the tunes on the stick, plug it in to your Xbox One, fire up the app, and you’re ready to go!

VLC – Free

Long used by Windows PC owners, VLC was created as part of the VideoLAN academic project back in the 1990s. VLC supports a wide range of audio and video file formats and allows for streaming from other devices. VLC will be launching on Xbox One in the next couple of months, so we’ll be bringing you more on this one soon.

We’re excited to be able to share background music with our fans. We’ll be bringing you more on the feature and the apps that support it in the coming weeks and months, so stay tuned

Read more at http://news.xbox.com/2016/08/30/getting-started-background-music-xbox-one/#U3ARFFBO08EvSDKc.99

I do not understand why they have not put Spotify on the XBOX ONE. Love the idea of music and I do own a lot of CD's, so I can use the simple player but it would be much nicer to access Spotify from Xbox One.

Tried Pandora last night and it worked like a charm.

Glad they finally added this to XBO. I really like seeing VLC coming to consoles, hope that we see it on PS4 in the near future as well.

Groove is an awesome service, anyone using XBO should switch to Groove if they are currently a Spotify user, you will get a lot more for your money going that route.

Slowly but surly, consoles are starting to make PC obsolete, and that is great cor consumers. Custom chip sets, scalable hardware, and optimized software is a beautiful future.

Groove is my favorite. Been using it for years.

I think Spotify has an exclusive deal with Sony.

They took a money bag from the competition.

Pandora doesn't do it for me.

Nvm I had to download the new app

I had no idea this wasn't a thing. Weren't we all doing this on the original Xbox back in 2001? 

I loved being able to pull up your own music as a radio station in GTA trilogy.