Do you love music and crave to listen to your favourite tracks whenever and wherever you are?? But sometimes it might prove cumbrous for you to carry large number of heavy music files on your smartphone, tablet or laptop. A solution to this simple problem is-Cloud Based Music Services!
Cloud based music services have brought about a revolution in the way we listen to music.These services allow you to stream the music of your choice to your laptop,smartphone or tablet, anytime, anywhere! Plus some of them even offer the functionality to upload your own music library.
So, lets have a glimpse of the best 5 in the market:-
1) SoundCloud-
Features:-
1) You can record and upload audio and music of your choice.
2) The waveform player makes the sounds come to life.
3) You can share your sounds to sites and social networks like Facebook, Twitter etc.
4) You can find, follow your friends and even share sounds with them.
5) SoundCloud is available for various platforms-Android,iOS,Windows Phone, Windows 7,Blackberry.
You can try out the free version but you can switch to the premium version anytime. The premium versions range from 29 euros/year to 500 euros/year with increasing features and functionality.
2) Spotify-
Spotify is considered as a pretty clever cloud based music streaming service, that is sure to buzz up your music world with its huge music library!
Features:-1) A massive music library to rev up your existing taste.
2) Create your own playlist that you can access from anywhere.
3) Share your music and tracks with your friends and also connect with them via Facebook
4) Spotify is available for mobile phones and even supports offline mode incase you don’t have an internet connection.
5) You can even buy music from Spotify and sync to your devices anytime, anywhere!
6) Spotify is available as a desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux. You can also download its app for Android,iOS, Windows Phone,Palm and Symbian.
Drawback- You cannot upload you own tracks to the service.
You can stream a limited amount of music for free after which you’ll need to pay 5 Euros/month for desktop streaming and 10Euros/month for mobile streaming.
3) Rdio-
Another close companion of Spotify is Rdio which offers an organized,vast library of songs for streaming to various devices.
Features:-
1) Stream music from not just your own library but Rdio’s large library of music.
2) Listen to music even when you don’t have an internet connection.
3) No advertisements to interrupt your listening experience.
4) You can share music by posting links to Facebook and Twitter.
5) It streams to any browser plus Android and iOS devices.
Drawback-You only get the tracks in their library.If you have something that Rdio doesn’t you won’t be able to stream it.
Rdio costs $5/month for streaming to desktop and $10/month for streaming to mobile.You can even try it for free.
4) mSpot-
If you want to enjoy the traditional upload and stream functionality, then mSpot is apt for you!
Features:-1) You get 5GB storage free.
2) Online Radio stations
3) Play music in the offline mode when you don’t have an internet connection.
4) A cool lyrics searching feature.
5) mSpot streams to any desktop web browser, Android and iOS.
In case you want to go for the paid version you’ll have to shell out $4/month for 40GB.
5) Subsonic-
Subsonic differs from all cloud services mentioned above as you don’t need to upload music onto the cloud to stream it!
Yes! With Subsonic you can stream music onto your devices directly from your desktop.
Features:-1) No uploading of music required, Subsonic streams music to your devices directly from your home PC( which is turned on).
2) It allows you to share music with your family and friends.
3) You can manage more 100,00 files in your music collection, without any trouble.
4) You can download music for offline play.
5) It allows you to stream videos as well!
6) Subsonic can stream to its web based player on your desktop plus you can also stream music to iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7. Subsonic apps are available for Blackberry.
Subsonic is free for desktop-desktop streaming, but $20 donation is required for streaming to mobile.
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