How big is your digital music collection? If you’re like any average person, your computer’s music library most likely contains folders of songs and folders of album files.
Similar to photos and videos, special songs and albums evoke specific feelings and memories – our very own personal life soundtrack, if you like. For most of us, protecting our music collection is as important as securing our personal files.
Look, with all the music streaming services available right now, there’s nothing quite like owning a copy of a song or album that helped shape who you are right now. Offline or online, it’s comforting to know that you can listen to your favorite iconic rock song whenever your heart desires.
But what if a dreaded computer disaster strikes? It could be anything – a nasty virus or malware, a hard drive crash, a natural disaster. The thing is, your computer and its hardware won’t last forever.
Are you sure you’re taking the right precautions to protect your data, including your music collection that took you years to build?
Back up them all in the cloud!
Let’s say you’re the careful type and like any prudent computer owner, you already have a copy of your entire music collection saved to an external hard drive. That’s great! However, external drives eventually fail as well. Even worse, if you keep the drive connected to your computer, that offers no protection against malware or natural disasters.
For more secure backup solutions, tech-savvy people are increasingly relying on cloud backup services to protect their priceless files from unexpected digital disasters.
However, with changes to some major music storage services, for example, Amazon Music’s retirement of storage subscription plans this year, many backup services are moving away from personal accounts.
So who has your back when it comes to securing your music library? Well, our sponsor IDrive, of course.
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Why is IDrive such a great backup solution for your huge music library?
Well, if you have hundreds of gigabytes of music files, imagine how long it would take to upload them all to the cloud! It can take days, even months, to cover them all.
Luckily, IDrive has a service called IDrive Express. Other backup services clog your bandwidth when you upload your files, IDrive Express Jump starts your initial backup, using a shipped USB physical drive method!
This means you can save all your important files, including your entire music collection, locally to an IDrive Express drive, then just back them up! File upload weeks have been reduced to just hours. Now, this is really convenient!
IDrive will, by default, pre-select your computer’s default Music folder as well as your Documents and Videos folders for automatic backup. And, of course, you can select any folder or file location you want to include in your backup.
And here’s the best part about backing up your music files with IDrive. You can play your songs directly in IDrive’s iOS, Android, and desktop apps without downloading them. Yes, you can play your music directly from the cloud. It’s like your own personal music streaming service!
And in case you didn’t know, unlike other backup services that charge per device, IDrive lets you backup data on every internet enabled gadget in one account.
This means you only need one account to back up your family computers, laptops, tablets and phones. And you can even share your entire music library with them!
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