Store your complete MP3 library for FREE

As you may have notice I keep looking for useful web 2.0 services.

I'm mainly interested by easy-to-use, nice and last but not least, FREE services.



I think that this one will interest some of you.

You may have experienced the total loss of your 10+GB of Music during one your HD formatting. (BTW needless to say how Windows sucks!)

Or maybe you want to listen to your music at work (headphones in your ears all the time may not look very appealing to your boss though)



In both cases, let me introduce MP3Tunes.

Their service is quite simple to understand: "Store all your music library and listen to it from everywhere"

So, what are the features of the service and how does it work?



First you sign-up (damn easy) and you download their software (they call it "The Locker")

Then you run the software, tell it where to look for your music and just click on the "Sync" button.

It started to upload your music on theirs servers. That's it.



Now you can log in your account from everywhere (with a Web access obviously) and then listen to your music within the browser with the embedded player.


There are some additional features that are compelling.

If, while browsing, you come across a music you like, you can pass the url (you do need to have a file which has is specific URL) to your locker and it would load the song in your library.
Once done you can listen to it anytime you want.

They actually give you a list of websites where you can easily find Music ;-)

For example, they team up with Sideload where you can get a lot of free music and loaded it to your "Locker" but also embed the track in your blog (just like RadioBlogClub).


They second thing which is really cool is that the Sync orks both ways.

That measn that all the music you've find on the web is Sync down to your PC music library.
Ok, there is nothing revolutionary since thanks to the Donkey you can download everything you need. But I like the simplicity of the process.

You find a nice song, add it to your locker and you dont have to think about it. Everything is done automatically.


There are some limitations of course.
First, you cant load files bigger than 10MB (actually you can but you need to upgrade to the Premium account which is not free).

It's not a constraining limitation for most of your library except of course if you have some Classical (that's 1.5GB I wont synchronised :-( ).



Another limitation is that, to access to your library from a mobile device you will need a Premium account.

But seriously, who will want to do that. I mean I have a 20GB mp3 player (Archos GMini 402) and a 2GB SD Card in my phone.

Why on earth will use a GPRS/3G connection for which I would be charged to listen to music?


When you sign in, you may wait 2 or 3 days to get the unlimited storage, but once it set up, everything just go nice and smooth.


So if you decide to give it a try, let me know about your impressions