Playing music from an External Harddrive/in the cloud

So I have a question for anyone who feels liek answering it. I have set up my icloud and everything works great on my iPhone. All my music is stored on my external harddrive at home. I bring my mbp to work with me and would like to play music. Only thing is that I can't unless I want to download them onto my iPhone. I dont particularly like doing this. I'd much rather play my music straight from my computer. My only problem is that it tells me that the music could not be found. I know where it is, sitting on my desk at home in a harddrive. But I know my music is stored in the cloud, why can't I redownload it to my mbp? Why can I only download it on iOS devices such as an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Is lion not essential an iOS device? If anyone knows away to do this I would be greatly appreciative. Thanks.

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