The Nokia Lumia 800 is well equipped for the music lovers among us, but one feature you might be itching for is the ability to store and play your music from the cloud. Well itch no longer - a full cloud-based music service can be yours if you follow our simple guide.

How to stop music on your Nokia Lumia 800

As we just said, Nokia Lumia 800 owners really do have an excellent device for listening to music on the go. For a start the device has ample storage and a fine music player that ensures your favourite tracks are always to hand. There there's Nokia Music, which compiles all the tracks you've uploaded onto the device and adds a generous helping of free music mix radio stations. Zune lets you purchase and download tracks directly from and to your phone, too.

But if you've been casting your eyes around the smartphone scene recently, you'll have noticed a fairly new smartphone music concept - cloud-based music. Certain services promise to let you store your music tracks on an online server and access them whenever your like, saving you storage space and ensuring access to your tracks even if you change your phone.

Now you can do the same on your Nokia Lumia 800 (or Nokia Lumia 710, for that matter), offering you an extra 25GB of free storage for your music and the ability to either stream or download tracks at will. Here's how.

All you need is your Nokia Lumia 800 and a copy of Cloud Music - a new app on the Windows Phone Marketplace that can be had for 99p. This app essentially adds music to the list of things the default SkyDrive service (a cloud-based service you automatically sign up for when you set up your Windows Live ID on your Lumia) can handle.

First up you need to upload some music tracks to your SkyDrive account. Log in and create a new folder titled 'Music'. Then, create a folder within Music with the artist's name, then another within this with the album name. Drag and drop the music tracks (either MP3 or AAC) into this folder, ensuring that the track names are always preceded by the right track numbers (01, 02 etc.).

If you want a background artist image to show up in the Cloud Music app (just like in Zune and Nokia Music), add a relevant jpeg file to the artist folder. Likewise, if you want an album image, add the jpeg to the album folder.

Now open up the Cloud Music app and you'll be asked to sign in to your Windows Live account. Do so and select Yes to allow access to your SkyDrive account. Select Continue to start searching your SkyDrive account for the tracks you've uploaded. There you have it - all your tracks pulled from the cloud!

Play any of these tracks now and they will, by default, stream over your network connection. You can also opt to download tracks as standard from the options menu, or you can download albums and tracks to your Lumia 800's internal storage individually. It's a great way to have access to a lot of music without eating up valuable internal storage.

Have you tried this cloud-based music method? Do you prefer it to storing the files locally, or do you prefer the immediacy of the default approach? Let us know in the comments section.