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Google Music Alternative DropTunes: Stream Play MP3 Songs in Dropbox

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 11:28 AM PDT

Google Music Alternative DropTunes: Stream Play MP3 Songs in Dropbox Google’s new Music Beta service is cool, but it’s now available for US only. If you are looking for an almost similar alternative, I recommend you check out DropTunes. It an online service that lets you play mp3 songs in your Dropbox account directly in your browser online.

Play Songs in Your Dropbox Account Online

♪ Go to Droptunes : https://droptun.es/

Log in with your Dropbox email and password. You’ll see all the folders you have. Navigate to the one with your songs in it and you will see all the music files listed.

Click the Play button beside a song to start playing it. Once the song has finished playing, the next song in the list starts playing automatically… although there is no shuffle option to play randomized songs in the list.

Google Music Alternative DropTunes: Stream Play MP3 Songs in Dropbox

There is a seek-bar and volume control and its supports both Flash and HTML5 mode. Which means if your browser supports HTML5 like Chrome and Firefox then you can play music with Droptunes on devices which doesn’t support flash.

The good thing about playing music from your Dropbox you can sync it with various other services like iTunes etc. And if you are using DropTunes from a mobile device then your songs are with you all the time. Quite good enough if you’re looking for a cloud based music player.

For iOS users, MusicDrop, SongBox and BoxyTunes are useful apps for iphone, ipod touch or ipad which does an awesome job of turning your DropBox into a cloud music jukebox service. They let you stream music from your DropBox account, also fetches album artwork and other info.

We recently also wrote about a chrome extension that lets you add online files directly to your Dropbox, which means you can save any mp3 URL you come across the web to your Dropbox immediately.

Tip: If you are a song lover I recommend you try YouTube Music Discovery which is an awesome tool that lets you create personalized playlists with music from popular artists and songs related to your name entered, or get list of the top 50 songs on YouTube.

Install Google Music Beta: Manage Songs in the Cloud, Sync Playlists

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 08:28 AM PDT

Install Google Music Beta: Manage Songs in the Cloud, Sync Playlists If you live in the United States, you could really be taking full advantage of the new cloud music player from Google, called Google Music Beta. It’s just now started to make the rounds of the internet these past few months; people are getting invites and finally able to use it.

I received my invite a couple weeks ago and thought I would set up a quick look at the process for those who are still interested in it. After playing around with the program, I’ve been really happy with how easy it is to access all of my music, whether at work, at home, or on my Android phone.

Sign in to request an invite at http://music.google.com

What I love most about Google Music Beta is this: it hardly took me any time to install the Music Manager, though it did take me a little longer to upload all of my music.

Google’s Promotional Video about Google Music Beta

When you finally receive an invitation to Google Music Beta, you should click the enter the series of installation steps: it’s really a standard process of accepting some terms and conditions, downloading a manager, and uploading your songs.

Once you have agreed to the terms and to some other privacy agreement, you’ll be prompted to select want kind of free songs you’d like like hip hop, pop etc. I presume Google had an agreement with a number of artists to promote their songs. If you’re interested in discovering new music, make some selections.

Install Google Music Beta: Manage Songs in the Cloud, Sync Playlists

Next you’ll be asked to download the Music Manager installer, which will then run on your computer to set up the manager. It’s very simple.

Install Google Music Beta: Manage Songs in the Cloud, Sync Playlists

Next you should sign in with your Google username and password; you’ll be asked to upload songs from your computer. You can choose where to pull your music from if you’d like to keep it all organized. I just dumped everything from iTunes.

Install Google Music Beta: Manage Songs in the Cloud, Sync Playlists

Okay, so the one hiccup is that the upload took me three days; I have over 7,000 songs. I wasn’t too upset about it though, because as songs are uploaded, you can play them off of the system regardless of that fact that an upload is still ongoing.

So, as you can see, it’s well worth the wait; just look at the Google Music Beta dashboard. It is incredibly well-designed and extremely great to use.

Install Google Music Beta: Manage Songs in the Cloud, Sync Playlists

Google Music Beta allows you to access your music from a maximum of eight devices, including phones and computers. Everywhere you go you’ll be listening to great music!

Guest Post contributed by Lauren Bailey, who regularly writes for best online colleges. She welcomes your comments at her email: blauren99@gmail.com.

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