Stream, Share, and Manage Your Music with CloudTune
Written by Alan Tuesday, 17 January 2012 07:00
The average person’s music collection has moved from album to CD to MP3′s on a hard drive and finally into the cloud. iCloud from Apple, Amazon Cloud Player, and Google Music provide plenty of space to store music you own, but with streaming services like Pandora, Last.fm, and Spotify it seems many users don’t even need to own a music collection. However most of us are looking for a blend of a cloud stored collection and streaming of songs we don’t own.
A new service called CloudTune, which just recently entered Beta, is looking to provide that blend, along with a healthy dose of social thrown in. It doesn’t quite work like the true cloud storage services the I previously mentioned, so don’t rely on it as backup for your music collection. It does, however, provide some nice touches that you won’t find in any other service that I know of.
Once you have downloaded and installed CloudTune you will need to log in to your account or create a new one.
Next you will have the opportunity to import your songs from Last.fm and VK.AUDIO. If you choose no, but change your mind later you will still able to do this, so don’t fret over your decision.
Now the app will search your computer for music and populate your library. It’s quick, but if you have a large collection then this step could take some time. Once it’s done your local music will be displayed in the main panel of the screen.
Whenever you play a track it’s automatically added to your library and will then be available even if you’re offline. The search is a bit less obvious if you are using the app for the first time. Click the large blue cloud and music note at the top left of the player.
The left column of the player provides options for your library, favorites, and to get recommendations. You can also share songs via Twitter and Facebook, find the music video on YouTube, search for the lyrics, buy from iTunes and change your settings. The bottom provides the album art for your currently playing track.
CloudTune is free to install and use. To get it, just head over to the CloudTune download page. It’s a fast download and it’s easy to set up and start using, You can be streaming and sharing your music in 5 minutes.
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