You may
have heard about Google Play, a
recently-released online store for music, movies, books, and games. You can buy
lots of cool stuff through Play, but for this tip we'll focus on something you
can do for free: access your music anywhere. Similar to the iCloud service on iOS platforms, Google Play lets you upload
your music (up to 20,000 songs) to the cloud to be enjoyed wherever, for free.
So you don't need to worry about syncing your phone with your laptop every time
you buy or rip a new album. Just be careful about network streaming if you're
on a metered data plan (to avoid overage charges, you can always set Google
Play to stream only over Wi-Fi).
If you
don't want to get too tied up in the Google ecosystem, there's another elegant
way to accomplish pretty much the same thing: DoubleTwist Airsync. The program has two parts:
the first is an iTunes-like
desktop client that functions as a multimedia player. The second is a mobile
client application that lets you stream to and from the computer. So if you
download an album on your computer, it'll automatically sync to your phone, and
vice versa.
