Amazon Cloud Player

Posted by Jeffery Brown in IT Solutions Just for Fun The Internet Thursday, April 14, 2011

With Googles announcement last week that it would be coming out with a music store that would rival Apples iTunes, Amazon.com has just announced its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player.

Amazon Cloud drive is a personal hard drive that sits in the cloud and Amazon Cloud Player is a web-based music player. With the Cloud Drive you can upload any file you like and access it anywhere. This can be music, movies, audio or e-books, etc. With the Cloud Player you access it from any browser and the music that you have uploaded is accessible to play.
Amazon is giving users 5 GB of free storage with a special in which you buy any mp3 album from Amazon.com and save it to your Cloud Player and they will automatically upgrade you to 20 GB of storage for 1 year. I bought a $3.49 4 song EP and they upgraded me so you dont have to buy full albums.
Any music purchase that you make from Amazon and save to your Cloud Player does not count against your storage quota. I thought this was a nice touch from Amazon. I uploaded most of my music collection, which is 17 GB, in a matter of about 20 hours total.
The thing that I am excited about is that Amazon has also implemented the Cloud Player in to its Android app. So, instead of having to buy a 32 GB microSD card, I can access my entire music collection on my phone from this free app. It even lets you download the songs directly to your phone. This is very useful if you are going to be in an area with no cell phone coverage (ex. On a flight) and want to listen to some funky grooves.
The pricing for additional storage is as follows:
Storage Plans
Get all the online storage space you need.
PlanPriceDetails
5 GBFREEFree of charge to you
20 GB$20.00 / Year
50 GB$50.00 / yearLess than $4.25 / month
100 GB$100.00 / yearLess than $8.50 / month
200 GB$200.00 / yearLess than $16.75 / month
500 GB$500.00 / yearLess than $41.75 / month
1000 GB$1,000.00 / yearLess than $83.50 / month
All storage plans are billed on an annual basis.
I am excited to see this idea mature and to see what the competitors (Google and Apple) come up with to fend off Amazon from becoming the king of the mp3 download realm.

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