You can upload up to 50,000 songs to Google Music for free. It is unclear whether that will last much longer though as they are trying to transition to YouTube Music.

You could also try buying a USB Bluetooth adapter for your laptop. They would be far cheaper than a new laptop. Or look into a WiFi based streamer like a Chromecast Audio - I'm not sure how well they work for local files from a laptop though. Apple no longer supports such a thing for audio only unfortunately.

I need help. My Android phone has both my Gmail accounts on it, my personal and work. Well, the work one has been deactivated, and I can't figure out how to get it off my phone. Gmail keeps trying to sign it in, Play won't let me download anything until I sign in, and the fact that my personal account is signed in doesn't matter. What do I do here?

Settings->Accounts->Click account name->Remove account

If that's not right tell me the make and model. Not all Android's are identical in the details.

Yes! Thank you!

Accounts being a system level setting rather than an app level setting definitely takes some getting used to.

Never mind! I fixed it myself!

Don't need advice, just want to complain.

Last week my office computer died; the tech support people determined that the hard drive was fried and they couldn't recover any data from it. Inconvenient, since I lost some files that were on the hard drive, but most of my work is on either our network or an external hard drive. I had my old computer, which is slow and clunky, but functional enough, if annoying to work with. The tech support people are going to install a new hard drive and the basic software and give the computer back ... sometime. Today I got a message from them - the guy set up a new password so he could work on installing it and making it work with our network. He gave me the password and I logged back into email ... and about three hours later discovered that NONE of the messages I'd sent - some of them important - had gone out. So I had to restart the entire computer, log back in with the password tech support had created, log back into my Outlook with that password and the messages went out. But there were an additional 20+ messages waiting for me, some of which had to be handled ASAP. I'm about fed up with these guys. But they seem to be the only ones who will provide any service at a price the office is willing to pay. * end of rant *

Well, they finally returned the laptop with the new hard drive. No one came to help with the set-up - sent it over by courier who dropped it at the front desk and left. I got everything connected ... carefully coiling the multiple cables and cords to reduce the Laocoon effect I was having. But, of course, they'd only installed the basics - I couldn't connect to the network, couldn't set up printers, email wasn't working, couldn't get to the internet. I had to call (this is what phones were used for before they became smart, kids) and get someone to call me back. Managed to get my email sort of working and got the internet connection. Nice person called, took over the computer and got me set up. Had to wait half an hour for him to call and then another half hour to get it cleared up. Still have to install some of my software ... it only took them 12 days (eight working days?) to get this done. But I didn't yell, didn't get really angry ... managed to not even cry. yay?

You're an Amazon woman, Toddson. I'm glad it's finally done!