Help - Making the Transition to Cloud / Streaming Media

[dtnoble1974]

Do you have any recommendations for how to avoid the use of expandable memory and rely on cloud-based services to store and stream media?

My main use case is that I like to use my phone as a media / music player for my iTunes library. I also use it for ebooks, audio books and photographs.

In past I've stored this on a micro-sd card, but would like to get away from this as there is a shift away from expandable memory by the hardware manufacturers.

Thanks!

Darryn

 

[Algus]

Get a Chromebook!

Seriously though, you have to find services that work for you. I buy a lot of my content through Amazon. It's where I have all my mp3s and ebooks. I'm rather fond of Amazon as autorip is a big thing for me since I still like owning CDs but don't own a laptop with an optical drive. Surprisingly though I don't own a Kindle Fire, so video is about all I don't do with Amazon.

By the way, I do use a Chromebook so most of my data is on Google Drive. This is fine but I still have a stack of SD cards and an external drive. Having backups is super important imo and just good computing. Most online storage services (Google Drive, etc.) offer a few gigs of space for free and generally don't purge your data if you stop paying for a sub and have more content than your limit on your account. In Google's case, they let you keep and download the data but you can't upload anything new.

If I didn't have my 100 gbs free from buying a chromebook, I'd probably be cheap and have several different accounts at different sites to take advantage of the free storage.

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[dtnoble1974]

Thanks! I'll check out Amazon as a possible solution.