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Clouds: a shared box for your devices

A cloud account is the simplest way to share media between your devices when they are never on the same network: one device puts files in, another opens them. It works today, in every edition except Lite and FOSS - see Editions.

Which clouds

• Google Drive - signs in with your Google account.
• Dropbox - signs in through Dropbox.
• OneDrive - signs in with your Microsoft account.

Each cloud appears in FastMediaSorter as a resource next to the local folders and network folders, so copying, moving and sorting work the same way across all of them.

What else Google Drive carries

• Settings backup - one device backs up the app settings to Drive, and another device signed in to the same account restores them.
• App data - settings, favorites, pinned streams and resources travel between your devices as one file per kind in your Drive.
• The phone’s SFTP address - with Share access through Google Drive switched on, Drive keeps the current address of the phone’s SFTP server, so your other devices find it after a network change. See Exchange server.

When a cloud is the wrong choice

A cloud stores a copy of your files on someone else’s servers and costs upload time for large videos. To open media where it already lives - on a PC or a NAS at home - use the home network instead.

Step-by-step guides

• Google Drive integration
• Dropbox and OneDrive
• Adding network folders and cloud storage as sources

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