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Google Music Alternative

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  • Started 4 months ago by danbywinby
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danbywinby
Posts: 46

Hi

I am looking for an alternative to google music for streaming my music from my computer to the cloud and then from the cloud to my android phone. I can't use Google Music because i don't want to use my credit card.

I have had a look at spotify and subsonic but soptify cost's for the phone app and subsonic costs after 30 days. I have also had a look at amazon cloud player but that just doesnt give you enough space.

Any other programs i should try????

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afuhnk
afuhnk
Posts: 309

I believe you can stream from your computer using Winamp + SHOUTcast and then listen to the stream using Winamp for Android.

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hArLtRoN
hArLtRoN
Posts: 766

What phone do you have? You may be able to just buy a large micro SD card (ex: 32 GB) and use that and just skip the streaming step, it depends on if you phone supports an SD card that large.

Is there a specific reason you want to stream it?

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danbywinby
Posts: 46

Hi

I want to stream my music from my computer so that i can listen to all of my music on my phone but the storage space on my phone is not very big. And i dont want to have to leave my computer on so that i can listen to my music on my phone.

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afuhnk
afuhnk
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Well, there's no way to stream music stored on your computer when the computer is off.

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danbywinby
Posts: 46

But isnt that exactly what google music would do??

You upload your music to google and then you can access on your android anytime

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vistamike
vistamike
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What you ask is impossible. Your computer must be on (connected to the internet).
You can only stream what you have stored on the google music server, or any other cloud storage.

How do you cost this out BTW

Mike

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danbywinby
Posts: 46

NO its not impossible google music already does it i just want to use a different service instead of google to do it.

And cost FREE

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danbywinby
Posts: 46

Please does anybody of any service other than google music which will do what I want for free????

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