As a music lover, I’ve collected GIGABYTES upon gigabytes of music over the years. I have that music on lots of drives and different computers, but it’s really a frustrating mess. I know that eventually, I’m going to start losing track of where things are.
And the worst part is, I can’t enjoy that music because it’s scattered. The files are not all in one place where I can play them through iTunes.
Well, let me tell you, I’ve figured out a solution that’s going to rock my music files’ world.
Storing Music in the Cloud!
It’s cloud storage. Yep, I know this isn’t breaking news, but bear with me.
I love new tech and cloud storage providers like Dropbox and Amazon Cloud are a great way to load all your music files into one place. Then, once they’re in that cloud account, you can access them anywhere.
Here’s where it gets fun. If you use a service like Google Play, you upload your music files to their cloud servers and now, you can literally play your songs on your phone or anywhere. Suddenly, your songs are in the cloud and truly location-independent.
You could be on a boat, in a bank, or walking down the street and your music is there, ready to play. It’s incredible.
I used to have to spend an hour or two just to make a new playlist to upload to my ipod. It was such a hassle whenever I wanted to change my music. Syncing the devices was always scary because you’re not sure what’s going to happen. Is it going to wipe out everything I have? Is it going to sync my ipod to my itunes account? That’s not what I’m trying to do! I hated it. Those days are definitely over. Syncing in the cloud storage account is a LOT more intuitive.
So, because I believe in having multiple copies of my files (redundancy is the best policy!) I have uploaded my music to both Google Play and Dropbox. I also have backups on DVD files and external hard drives. Yes, it might be overkill, but it’s not that expensive and gives me some peace of mind.
So if you have a ton of music files like me, let me give you a piece of MY mind… get Dropbox or Sugarsync, or any of the other great cloud storage companies out there, and get a free Google account so you can use Google Drive and Google Play. Then you’re going to experience the power of the cloud.
