The setup is the same on each computer you use. Any files added to or removed from that folder get synchronised with any other machine you’ve set it up on. The wizard will guide you through setting it all up, but basically Dropbox is a little program that runs on your Windows/Mac/Linux computer and monitors a specific folder. If you’ve not got Dropbox, it’s a quick signup, and if you use this link you get an extra 250MB (or, about 75 songs/6 albums) completely free. And if you need more than the 25-ish albums that that equates to, you can always upgrade your space for mere money. If you’ve not heard of Dropbox, it’s a file synchronizing service that gives you 2GB of space for free.
And it’s not just music – podcasts, audiobooks, whatever you want! While everyone gets their head round iTunes Cloud, Spotify users can get their own MP3s in the cloud, automatically, using a combination of Spotify’s ‘Local Files’ and Dropbox. Wouldn’t it be nice to have these tracks sitting in your library wherever you are? While that’s great for the 17 million or so songs that are in the Spotify catalog, there are a few notable omissions which you might be missing. If you’re anything like me you listen to Spotify in a number of different locations on a number of different devices.
He quickly realized that Spotify could now be combined with Dropbox to create a killer streamable archive of your local music one that auto-syncs and is accessible anywhere Spotify is installed – including mobile!
CAUTION – THIS PAGE IS PROBABLY NOW OUT-OF-DATEĪ recent change in how Spotify handles local music passed most people by, but not Spotibot and Echofi creator Andy Smith ( ).
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