Need help with my music in the Cloud

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dunlopj

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I'm in need of a new cell phone. My current Galaxy S9 has a slot for a micro SD card so I can have all my purchased music available.

Phones with that feature are now rare and phones with that much internal storage are expensive.

Question....is there a reliable cloud or offsite system that would store my music and be available to stream on an Android cell phone?
 
I'm sure something like Microsoft OneDrive would be able to provide cloud storage, but for the cost and reliability, I think you'd be better off getting two small solid state drives, keeping the same information on both of them (one is a backup), and just plug those in whenever you need music. That way you're eliminating a single point of failure. If your cellular or wireless internet drops, the cloud music is gone.

Just a thought...
 
Microsoft, Google, Apple or any other reputable one could do it but you already have the phone ready transfer the cell service to the new one keep the old one as a music phone
 
I'm sure something like Microsoft OneDrive would be able to provide cloud storage, but for the cost and reliability, I think you'd be better off getting two small solid state drives, keeping the same information on both of them (one is a backup), and just plug those in whenever you need music. That way you're eliminating a single point of failure. If your cellular or wireless internet drops, the cloud music is gone. Just a thought...

I think you're missing my point. I already have 3 backups to my music. They won't help if I get a new phone and need access to my music via a cloud based system.
 
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Microsoft, Google, Apple or any other reputable one could do it but you already have the phone ready transfer the cell service to the new one keep the old one as a music phone.

Jeff, I really don't want to carry a cell phone just to play my owned music. Does MS One Drive or Google Cloud have a app to allow me to access my owned music on a new cell phone?
 
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Jeff, I really don't want to carry a cell phone just to play my owned music. Does MS One Drive or Google Cloud have a app to allow me to access my owned music on a new cell phone?

onedrive has app and Google. You can access anything you have store there. For Onedrive the interface for play music & video isn’t the best. But integration with everything else works great. Pretty much everything I have on my laptops is only onedrive, my iPad & IPhone send all my photo there. Onedrive is my bridge between my iPads/iPhones and my PCs
 
MS One Drive has an app and Google. You can access anything you have store there. For Onedrive the interface for play music & video isn’t the best.

So if I use a cloud based system to "hold" my music, I can't use the Samsung music app to play the music? I'd be stuck with using whatever cloud system I use playing using their app?
 
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Correct, a cloud is for storage, not for streaming to a music app. With that in mind, there are apps that are built to play music from personal internet based storage locations - but it seems they all have a fee. They would also require permissions to your storage locations. From a security point, be aware of what access / permissions your apps have on your devices. Also, cloud access is based on your device's connection to the internet, which is not a given everywhere. Some cloud players download the music to your device, so it can still play songs while you're offline - which kind of brings you back to block 1, why not have them on the device?
 
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I don’t think you can play them that way, Using a different app. But you can play them using the onedrive app. Anything I want to play using a DJ app, I place the music on the iPhone & iPad. Like they said I don’t think you can stream music like the way you want to using onedrive or Google drive.
 
Thanks for all the sage advice. Gives me pause for thought. I may need to suck it up and buy a new phone with enough internal memory.
 
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