How to Store MP3s Online

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Dave Casuto and I am the director of San Francisco Computer Tutors here in San Francisco, California. In this video, we are going to show you how to store and upload your MP3 files and any other files that you'd like, using a very cool free service called 4Shared. They do have a premium one that has a little more space but the free one has a whopping 5 GB of free space available for you. So, this is great for backing up your stuff and maybe even transferring from one computer to another, so many, so many different reasons. So, the first thing I do is actually create a sign-in for, with a username. So, I've already got one. So, let me go ahead and put that in there. Alright and now we're in here and then you should see kind of a familiar looking window here. But now what I want you to actually look at is down here where you can actually upload your files, because you're basically going to be taking them from your computer and then putting them up onto the server there. So, if you want to do one file, you can just come right to here for just one file at a time. But you can also do multi-upload. Alright. It says, "The multiple upload feature allows you to select and upload multiple files in the easiest and fastest way. Simply click 'browse' and by using standard ways, selecting files for uploading. Then click the 'upload' button to upload files from the list right into the current folder." So, let's go ahead and click on 'Browse' and I'm going to go into 'My Music'. I'm going to go into 'iTunes'. Let's find some of these 'iTunes Music' and let's just go ahead and get some. Let's see, "A Tribe Called Quest". I'm just going to go ahead and put these guys up there. Wait for it to pop up. And then, let's say I'm just going to take these 3-4 songs up here. And then I'm going to go ahead and click 'Open' and now immediately these are already for upload. You see that there. And I just only chose four. You can choose as many as you like as long as it doesn't exceed 5. And then once you're done, click on 'Upload'. And then here's the status bar right at the bottom and depending on your upload speed for your computer, this could take however long it takes. My transfer rate is not super fast but it tells me here, I've got about 7 minutes to go to upload these four. So, if you're planning on doing this, it could be like an overnight process in order to do that. Ok, so, when you're done, whenever you want to get them, just log back in and then you can find your files located in the same file structure that we found before, when we logged in where all your files were located. And then you can just go ahead and download whenever you need to. Alright, well I hope you had as much fun as I did. Feel free to contact me any time at Dave@deyec.com and you can check me out on the web also at deyec.com. Thanks and have a great day."