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Cloud music lockers: A place to stream your own music

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Image credit: Heidi Fin / Unsplash      When Google Play Music was shutting down back last year (that business decision still makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever), I and many others who were loyal to it scrambled to preserve our precious music collections and find other ways to play them. For me, that meant running my terrible HP laptop 24/7 for several days to download music on our terrible DSL connection , and to later offload them to an external storage device for temporary storage until I worked out another solution. (For the concerned, I've since upgraded to better speeds on gigabit fiber. I'll probably be writing a blog post about the rural internet crisis too at some point, so please look forward to it, or don't, I won't force you to.) I have a rather large music library (thousands of songs, in fact!) and I really didn't want to lose it because of a multi-billion-dollar corporation's awful business decisions.     For most, the solution is rather o