Interestingly, to obtain the rights to the name, the company reputedly bought a program called “Groove Smart Music Player”, though where the actual software went is a bit of a puzzle.
If you think listening to music on your Windows system is still all about WMP (Windows Media Player) you haven’t checked your music setup in rather a while! Turns out that a few years ago Microsoft pushed everyone into using “Xbox Music Player” but then rebranded that as “Groove Music”.