Best Cloud drive option for iTunes

**Leia77** · 13 Jan 19, 05:12 PM

As above, can anyone recommend best cloud storage option for ITunes - I don’t want to use iCloud. Have been trying to research it, but not much further forward I’m afraid. Many thanks 😊

Nimbus · 13 Jan 19, 08:35 PM

Not sure I can answer your question, sorry, but do you mean iTunes or iOS?

iTunes is the music/video purchasing app and is in itself a cloud storage system. You can buy things on there and only download them when you need them and then remove them when you don’t need them. Although this only works for things purchased on iTunes.

I’m not sure there is another cloud storage system for iOS that replaces the whole of iCloud - I.e. stores backups, app data, etc. There are other apps that can storage things like photos such as Google Photos app. Or then there’s Google Drive that stores documents as well as photos.

**Leia77** · 13 Jan 19, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by Nimbus

Not sure I can answer your question, sorry, but do you mean iTunes or iOS?

iTunes is the music/video purchasing app and is in itself a cloud storage system. You can buy things on there and only download them when you need them and then remove them when you don’t need them. Although this only works for things purchased on iTunes.

I’m not sure there is another cloud storage system for iOS that replaces the whole of iCloud - I.e. stores backups, app data, etc. There are other apps that can storage things like photos such as Google Photos app. Or then there’s Google Drive that stores documents as well as photos.

Hi! I did mean iTunes, not
iOS. We have a huge library of songs that we have mostly loaded from CDs, not purchased from iTunes. But looking at the various storage options, I don’t think there are many that allow you to store music, maybe Box? But not 100% sure about that. Having trouble with our iMac recognising our iPhone 8s, hence why we are looking for other options.

Nimbus · 14 Jan 19, 11:29 PM

Originally Posted by Leia77

Hi! I did mean iTunes, not
iOS. We have a huge library of songs that we have mostly loaded from CDs, not purchased from iTunes. But looking at the various storage options, I don’t think there are many that allow you to store music, maybe Box? But not 100% sure about that. Having trouble with our iMac recognising our iPhone 8s, hence why we are looking for other options.

Do you mean iTunes on your PC/laptop? It’s just that any music files you’ve copied from CDs gets stored in the Music app when transferring to an iPad or iPhone, not the iTunes app. The iTunes app on an iDevice is just an online music/video shop.

Anyway, you can store music files on Google Drive, DropBox, Microsoft OneDrive, pCloud, Google Play Music (which I assume uses Google Drive), MEGA, Amazon Cloud Drive/Music, MediaFire, and Box (as you said). Lots more.

Basically, any cloud storage that allows a variety of different file types to be stored can store music files. Some may not play music directly from the app and you may have to download first and play them using a different app (perhaps the Music app?).