There is a built-in audio player that supports playback of audio files of all popular formats.
If previously the Cloud could only play tracks one at a time, now it works great in playlists and creates a playlist from files in a folder. In addition, we have added to the player additional features, which will make listening to your favorite music more convenient! Let's talk about everything in order.
Freeing up space on your smartphone
Thanks to the built-in player, listening to music uploaded to the Mail.Ru Cloud has become much more convenient. You can not only transfer all your music, freeing up space on your smartphone, but also listen to it directly from the application, having access to the files from any device.
We create collective playlists
Set up general access to your friends folder and create shared playlists by uploading new music tracks. Read more about shared folders.
Quick access to your favorite playlists
In addition to all the above advantages, we have made one more additional option: any folder can be moved from the Cloud to the main screen of your smartphone and tablet. This way you can always get fast access to your favorite playlists! 🙂
What formats do we work with?
The player “reads” playlists in .m3u, .m3u8, .pls and .cue formats, and can even assemble a playlist on its own. To do this, you just need to click the desired song: the player will start playing it, and all audio recordings from the same folder will be automatically added to the playlist.
The application supports almost all common audio file extensions - from .mp3, .wav and .wma to .flac. m4a, .ogg, and .aac.
Now you can listen to audio recordings that were not previously played on your smartphone or tablet. If the device does not support the audio track format, the player in the Mail.Ru Cloud will automatically convert it into one suitable for playback. Conversion is performed instantly and on the fly, without changing the source file.
Over time, a full-fledged ability to work with audio files will appear in the iOS application and in the web version of the Mail.Ru Cloud. Follow our news! 🙂
As an avid music lover, I spend a lot of time building my personal music collection, culling from CDs, vinyl and digital files to build a library that suits me personally.
But once all the tedious work is done, it would be nice to listen to this music on any of the devices - even when I'm away from my main computer.
Here's a guide on how to organize your music and select cloud service Stream music wherever you are at any given moment.
Cleaning.
Before transferring your music collection to another service, it's important to make sure everything is nice and tidy before uploading everything to the cloud. Save yourself the hassle of making corrections before everything is uploaded to the new location by doing it offline.This means making sure all your digital files are properly labeled. There are several tools that will do this all for you, or you can take a manual approach if you don't trust automation.
Tagging. For Windows, try Magic MP3 Tagger, which helps clear ID3 tags and song matches to data in the MusicBrainz database. If your collection has file formats like FLAC or OGG, try Picard.
For Macs - Metadatics works with a number of various formats files and includes features such as batch editing, album art, and the ability to search metadata across Amazon and Music Brainz.
Removing duplicates. Check for duplicate files to remove them from your collection. Do this by using a tool like Duplicate Cleaner (Windows only) to weed out any duplicate files in your library.
If you use iTunes, it also has a way to remove duplicates. For iTunes 12, follow these steps:
- Open iTunes and select "My Music", right below the playback bar.
- On right side iTunes window, select “Songs” from the drop-down menu.
- This should list all your tracks. Click on the "Name" column.
- Click View and then Show Duplicate Items. On Windows, press Alt to open the File/Edit/View menu.
- Delete files individually. You can sort entries by bitrate column, so that the version of the track with high quality was higher among duplicates.
Album covers and folders. To make sure your file and folder structure is in good shape, you can run Bliss, which runs on Windows and Mac. It also eliminates any cover issues and unifies genres. Spending $46 if you're looking for a solution to fix all your music tracks in one go is a worthy investment.
In addition, iTunes users can take advantage of library cleaning.
Once your digital collection is looking good, it's time to upload it to the cloud. Here are some of available services, let's see what they offer.
Google Play Music.
For more flexibility in managing your music collection accessed through the cloud, Google's music box is one of the best. You can upload up to 20,000 of your own songs for free to Google's servers, and then these songs will be available to stream on the web or on your mobile phone (iOS and Android).To get started, you will need to create an account and download the Music Manager application for Mac or PC. This app will focus on folders that you have marked or are viewing in iTunes/Windows Media Player. It will then download the music you've added and match tracks from your collection in Google's audio library to avoid downloading files unnecessarily.
Tracks will be ripped to 320 kbit, most major file types are supported (MP3, FLAC, OGG, AAC, WMA and RKK).
At the top of your collection, you can register full access, which is a music streaming service from Google. So if you have gaps in your library, you can fill them with "full access," as long as the albums or songs you want to listen to are available on the service.
Supported platforms: Web iOS and Android.
Price: You can upload up to 20,000 of your own songs for free. $10 per month if you want to add a "full access" subscription.
Pros: maximum flexibility for various devices oh, and a nice web interface.
Amazon Music/Cloud Player.
Amazon's cloud offering is somewhat similar to Google's in that it's a music box and streaming service, but it's more limited than the search giant's version. Using Amazon's service, you can download up to 250 songs for free. A $25 per year subscription expands the limit to 250,000 songs.Amazon Music Importer can capture files from iTunes, Windows Media Player or selected folders and upload them to the cloud. Like Music Google Play it only downloads songs that it doesn't have a match in its database. Music is imported at 256 kbit and recognizes most major file formats (MP3, M4A, WMA, WAV, OGG, FLAC, AIFF).
Amazon Prime users can access Prime Music - this streaming service, which has a catalog of over a million tracks. It offers a smaller collection than other competitors.
Platforms: The Amazon Music player works on Mac, PC, web interface, Android, iOS, Fire Phone and a number of other platforms.
Price: Free for the first 250 songs, a $25 annual subscription expands storage space to 250,000 songs.
Pros: Suitable for users with huge music libraries.
iTunes Match.
While there's no free option, Apple's iTunes Match is a reliable way to integrate all of your music and is available for a variety of devices. It is ideal for those who are active user iTunes and has music that is obtained from different places.As the name suggests, iTunes Match automatically syncs songs from your library with the 43 million songs in the iTunes Store. If it can't find a match for a particular track, iTunes will upload it to iCloud. Users can play their collection remotely on up to 10 separate devices. The service allows you to store up to 25,000 tracks yourself, or more if some songs were purchased through the iTunes Store.
Main question is that if you have a music collection that spans Various types files that are not supported (eg FLAC, OGG, etc.) need to be converted to AAC, MP3 or WAV before they are downloaded.
Platforms: PC or Mac for iTunes, and iOS devices to play from iCloud.
Price:$25 per year.
Suitable for: iOS and iTunes users.
Style Jukebox.
For those who want to stay away from the big providers, Style Jukebox is a music locker for adding songs from your own collection to the cloud. It allows you to monitor folders, and as soon as something is added to them, it uploads it to the server automatically.
Style Jukebox's interface is clean and easy to use. Downloading up to 20,000 songs is offered for premium account subscribers, free account gives you storage space for only 250 songs. After downloading, your tracks can be listened to from your PC under Windows control, on Android, iOS and Windows Phone.
The free account supports major file formats (MP3, WMA, AAC and OGG), while the premium subscription allows FLAC and M4A.
Platforms: Windows PC, Android, iOS and Windows Phone.
Price: Free for the first 250 songs, a premium account ($3 per month or $25 per year) provides more storage.
Best for: Small music collections and users who want complete independence from the big three (Google, Apple and Amazon).
Your own cloud.
For large music collections, or those who prefer to implement their own solution, you may want to consider a DIY cloud media streamer.
Subsonic allows you to stream music (and other media) from your home computer. When you install the Subsonic server on the computer where your music library is located, you have access to all these files through remote access. If your router has a public IP address, Subsonic allows you to configure a username pointing to a unique address like //infomage.subsonic.org (if the username is infomage).
There are also apps available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone and the Chrome browser if you prefer to listen to music on the go.
Plex is a media server that can run on Windows, Mac or Linux devices and then allows you to stream music to a range of mobile phones, tablets and TVs. Plex offers monthly, annual, or lifetime subscriptions and offers extensive options for all types of media, and not just music.
For a long time now App Store there is a war with applications for downloading music from VKontakte to the iPhone, they consider it piracy. Fortunately, there are many ways to download music to your device, bypassing native iTunes. Developers from Limehat have picked up the trend of deep integration cloud storage into the lives of music content lovers. The guys thought, why not transfer the media library to cloud storage and stream music directly from there, without loading it into the device’s memory. Pros: free memory, minimum actions, which means maximum usability. As a result of such thoughts and painstaking work, the CloudPlayer Pro cloud music player appeared. 
CloudPlayer Pro allows you to play music files uploaded to Dropbox cloud storage, Google Drive, OneDrive, Yandex.Disk and box without loading them into the device memory, i.e. streams music directly from the clouds. Looking ahead, I’ll say that there are no problems with playback, but there are complaints about connecting cloud storage. 
The task was set as follows: upload several music files to Yandex.Disk, connect to CloudPlayer Pro account Yandex.Disk, access downloaded files and play them.
There were no problems uploading files to Yandex.Disk, but it was not possible to connect storage in the program after 5 attempts. After entering the username and password, the application crashed safely.
Oh well, I’m sure the situation will improve after a few angry reviews on the App Store. For the test I connected a Dropbox account, there were no problems with it.
In order for the contents of your storage to appear in CloudPlayer Pro, you must provide the program with the necessary access, allow full access to file storage. In my opinion, open third party application full access to cloud storage, which can be used to store strictly confidential information It’s a risky business, but there’s nowhere to go. If you want to stream music from the cloud, you have to sacrifice security. In any case, it is not necessary to connect the main account in cloud storage; you can always create a separate one for music. 
After connecting the storage, its contents are displayed on the main screen of the application, music files, in my case in mp3 format, are played successfully, this is with high-speed Wi-Fi connection It’s hard to say what will happen with 3G or GPRS; with the latter, I think there will be a problem.
CloudPlayer Pro can download files from cloud storage, and they will be available in the application window and offline,
But they can only be accessed from the program. 
The music player offers nothing new: shuffle, play in order, repeat. Equalizer or additional settings CloudPlayer Pro does not, but is it necessary?! In the application settings you can specify whether to play and download content when connected to the Internet via cellular network or not. You can save on mobile traffic. If you need to stream music directly from cloud storage to save free space on your iPhone or iPad, CloudPlayer Pro will do the job. There is one big “BUT” - the price tag of the application is 249 rubles. Quite a bold price for raw functionality and a simple music player. However, sometimes the program is sold at a discount, or even given away for free. The application is available in
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