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Do you have a Smartphone, tablet or netbook with limited hard drive space? How can you listen to all of your music without having to store it on the computer? Some solutions have been released like Google Music and Amazon Cloud Drive and their Cloud Player which is at this time only available in the United States, allowing you to listen to music streaming online. From the autumn, Apple’s iCloud solution will also join the range of available options. Besides these large providers, there is a range of other options available which will allow you to listen to you full music collection through a Wi-Fi or 3G+ connection from any mobile device (online listening service, online storage sites, NAS...) Let’s follow the guide!
Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player
Like Google Music and Apple’s iCloud from autumn, Amazon has also implemented their own online storage and streaming service in the United States. Amazon Cloud Drive is the data storage offer, with the 5GB of free storage being the equivalent of 1 000 songs (2 000 photos, 20 min of video). To listen to this music on the iPhone, IPod, iPad or Android you will need to install the Amazon Cloud Player app and of course upload your files to the webdrive – although no file can exceed 2GB in size. In addition to this free offering, there are also pay options to have 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1 000 GB of storage for between $20 and $1 000 per year.
Dropbox and Zumodrive 2 GB of storage space for free and streaming audio
Dropbox allows you to store all kinds of data files online, with this being a very well-known data storage and sharing service. The Dropbox Mobile application for iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry will allow you to access all of your files online with a music player allowing you to stream up to 2GB a month for free or 50GB ($9.99/month), 100 GB ($19.99/month) or 350 GB of shared space for teams. You will need to create your music folder and copy all of your songs to it so that you can listen to them via your Smartphone’s integrated multimedia player. Zumodrive is an equivalent and competing service which even provides the online storage space for free. You simply need to drag and drop your songs through your web browsers interface. To play these, you then need to download MyZumoDrive to your Smartphone (iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and WebOS) and go to the Music folder to start playing your songs!
Music in the cloud with MP3tunes.com, mSpot, asuswebstorage.com!
Other online storage services allow you to store and stream audio like MP3tunes.com which provides you with 2GB of storage space and access via the MP3tunes application for Android. This is also the case with mSpot which provides 5 GB of storage space (4 000 songs), which is very easy to access. This application will analyse your iTunes or Windows Media Player library and automatically send these tracks to their servers with the help of the Upload Editor which will sample your files on the fly (Good, better, best). There are also other excellent services of this kind like asuswebstorage which provides 2GB of storage space, although this unfortunately replaces YoStore which made 20GB of storage space available for the Asus Eee PC…
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