Which version of Android is 4shared Music for Android compatible with?.With every new thing I discover I find it more surprising that everyone is talking about Dropbox, SkyDrive and iCloud, but not 4shared, which just offers 10 times more features than all of the others combined.
I still regularly discover new cool stuff that I didn't know about, such as that a failed upload was actually kept in an Incomplete subfolder with the remark "incomplete (26%)", from which I could resume the upload. In contrast to comparable services, the people at 4shared seem to be continuously working on new features, and provide most of them for free. You can also get the 4shared Desktop application to facilitate parallel and resumable up- and downloads, the 4Sync application for Dropbox-like functionality (it sets up a special folder on all of your PCs, and everything you save there is automatically synced to your 4shared account and all other computers you install 4Sync to), as well as applications for mobile platforms. Guest downloaders can also watch and listen to these without going through the 20-second wait, and you are provided with embed-codes to use them on other websites. There are a lot of settings and features: you can enter descriptions for files, control their visibility and access, replace files without changing their links, zip and unzip files right from within the account, open up folders for guest uploads, and even register a subdomain *. for files and folders of your choosing, as long as the subdomain is still available! I think all these are extremely cool features, that you could search far and wide for at other services, even paid ones.įor audio and video files, 4shared automatically creates low-resolution copies that you can stream directly from the download page without downloading the original files. You can sort and move and drag and drop to your heart's content. It looks like a regular Explorer/file manager view. The interface is quite nice and advanced as well. Apart from a 20-second wait before downloading each file, there are no transfer limitations, the servers are fast (or as fast as I could want with my 5 MBps downstream) and reliable, and the file size limit is a generous 2 GB. They are generally very free-user-friendly, not only for your own account, but for downloading files from others as well. 15 GB for free blows most other services out of the water right there already.
Judging by the user reactions on their blogs and Facebook page, I assume this is because they are particularly popular in non-English-speaking regions.įirst of all, you get a lot of space. They're kind of an underdog, although I have read that by pure numbers, they're among the largest in the world. 4shared is my favourite cloud storage service by far.