Cloud Storage

Cloud Storage allows you to upload your music files to the cloud so you don't need to worry about losing them anymore. Cloud Storage is included in the Essential and Ultimate plans with a limit, and the optional add-on gives you unlimited (fair use policy applies) cloud storage.

You can find everything about your Cloud Storage in the top menu bar under Backup ➡ Cloud Storage: Usage opens the Cloud Storage page in the Lexicon settings, and Restore Files downloads missing tracks.

A report is created each time you up- or download files. You can find the report in your Documents/Lexicon folder. This report will contain a list of all up- or downloaded files and any errors should something have gone wrong.

Limits

There are limits to how many tracks you can upload unless you purchase the Cloud Storage Add-on.

Essential has a limit of 1,000 tracks and Ultimate has a limit of 10,000 tracks. This is both for the monthly subscription and lifetime options.

The limit counts a track per 25 MB. A normal MP3 counts as one track, but a larger file counts as one track for every 25 MB it started. For example, a 60 MB WAV file counts as 3 tracks. That means a library with many lossless files (WAV, AIFF, FLAC) reaches the limit sooner. The Cloud Storage page in the settings shows how much you have used.

With the add-on, you will have unlimited* tracks to upload (* fair use policy applies, see limitations below).

Uploading

To upload tracks, right click any track or playlist and select Upload to cloud. This will put these tracks into the upload queue and Lexicon will take care of the rest.

If your track has successfully uploaded, a green cloud icon will appear.

You can follow the upload in Notifications in the sidebar. There you can pause, resume or stop it. Tracks that are still in the queue continue uploading the next time you start Lexicon.

Downloading

There are two ways to download your music.

The first is simple, you can download your cloud music by right clicking any playlist and choosing Download from cloud. It will try to download them to the original location and if that is not possible, Lexicon will ask where to download them to.

The second way is to use the Cloud Storage page in the Lexicon settings.

Any track that is missing can be restored from there, if it has previously been uploaded. You can disable the Original location option to move the downloaded file to a new location. This is useful when you no longer have an external drive where you originally uploaded from, or if you are restoring tracks on a different operating system (from Windows to macOS or vice versa).

In the emergency situation where you no longer have your database or your music files, you can still restore your tracks from the cloud. To do this, go to the Cloud Storage page in the Lexicon settings and choose Manage Cloud-Only Tracks. From there, select all tracks and choose to restore them.

Deleting tracks from the cloud

Deleting a track from your library does not delete it from the cloud, so it keeps counting towards your limit.

To free up space, go to the Cloud Storage page in the Lexicon settings and choose Manage Cloud-Only Tracks. This lists the tracks that are in the cloud but no longer in your library. Select the tracks you no longer need and choose Delete Files.

To delete everything you have uploaded, use Empty Cloud Storage in the Danger Zone section of the same page. This cannot be undone.

Streaming

Any track that has previously been uploaded will be available for streaming. This means that even if you do not have the track on your computer, you can still play it. Lexicon will download it on-demand.

You can create a database backup (see Database Backup in the manual) and restore that backup on a different computer. That will allow you to stream tracks into the Lexicon with the restored database, even though you did not copy any of the music files.

Limitations

Your plan has a limited amount of cloud storage tracks included. With the optional addon, you can upload (nearly) unlimited files to the cloud.

There is only a "fair use policy" with the following limitations:

• Your files must be music files
• Your files must be less than 300 MB each. That means you can't upload long mixes.
• For users with the add-on, the maximum is 6 TB (about 600,000 MP3s).

To prevent file sharing (which is absolutely not allowed) there are also limits in place to prevent downloads from happening in too many different locations.