ProsThere is a reason that all things tech seem to revolve around "the cloud" these days, and music is no exception. Here are some of the reasons to love cloud music streaming:

• Stream Anywhere - With your music library stored out there on the Internet somewhere, you can access your tunes from virtually anywhere and from any device. I can't tell you how many times I have wished that I could just have access to my entire music collection from anywhere. With a 16GB iPhone, a 32GB iPad, and more than 60GB of music, I inevitably don't have the song I want synced on my mobile devices when I actually want to listen to it.

• Cost - This one only applies to those who still purchase actual CDs. I haven't done that for a long, long time, but I still see CDs being sold, so somebody must be buying them. It costs more for the record label to mass produce, package, and ship those physical CDs, so they cost you--the consumer--more as well. Using the that is being released Tuesday as an example, the CD costs $12.99 on Amazon, while the MP3 version of the same album is only $6.99--almost half off.

• Back Ups - You have a lot invested in your music collection, and you want to so that you don't lose it all in a fire, or flood, or from a simple hard drive crash. Cloud music providers like Apple, Amazon, and Google have massive data centers with redundant servers and data synced to multiple locations so you're data should be safe

ConsThe Pros notwithstanding, cloud music is not all wine and roses. Here are a few reasons to think twice about trusting your music investment to the cloud.