Am I correct to say that this is essentially a web based version of iTunes?
Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player
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#42Can anyone see AmazonMP3 tracks in their library? I've purchased tons of music from AmazonMP3, and Cloud Player shows an empty library & 0 purchased songs. It seems like a big miss to launch this way. Hopefully it's just a bug.
It says on the landing page that purchases pre cloud drive are not synced. You'll have to go back and sync them with your pc.
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#43Can anyone see AmazonMP3 tracks in their library? I've purchased tons of music from AmazonMP3, and Cloud Player shows an empty library & 0 purchased songs. It seems like a big miss to launch this way. Hopefully it's just a bug.
It says on the landing page that purchases pre cloud drive are not synced. You'll have to go back and sync them with your pc.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn't Audiogalaxy used to be a P2P service in the early 00s?
It did. We are some of the same folks, but a totally different service now.
It was magnificent back then. I know it's not the same thing, but seeing the logo and installing the new 'helper' gave me a good feeling.
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#45There's an "upload your own mp3's" feature. I think this means I can stop waiting for google music.
Except:
> You have 5.0 GB of Cloud Drive storage. Upload your entire music collection.
I don't think this is going to work...
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#46I wonder if they're doing anything clever to reduce storage size. For example - an MP3/AAC song purchased from the same service has a small unique header (e.g. where your iTunes account name is stored) and then identical music data.
I imagine the music companies would have a hissy fit and demand streaming payments if that was the case though.
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#47Is an iPhone app against the iOS T's&C's?
Surely Amazon didn't want Apple to have any advance notice.
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#48Can anyone see AmazonMP3 tracks in their library? I've purchased tons of music from AmazonMP3, and Cloud Player shows an empty library & 0 purchased songs. It seems like a big miss to launch this way. Hopefully it's just a bug.
I don't think it's a bug; the site is pretty carefully worded. For whatever reason, sideloading from the MP3 store is not retroactive.
If that's the case, I'd bet it's for license reasons. An AmazonMP3 purchase made after Cloud Drive is launched could be described as having been copied for personal use, at the time of purchase, to your Cloud Drive.
Allowing previously purchased tracks to be streamed without first uploading them looks more like what Lala was doing, and they had to negotiate streaming licenses. Though I'd wonder if there is any real implementation difference in Amazon's case.
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#49Storage cost is $1/yr/GB which is similar to Amazon's S3 reduced redundancy storage. It is unclear which level of reliability Amazon is promising for the cloud drive. If it is the higher level, it is a good deal.
If you use enough bandwidth it's a good deal even for the reduced redundancy storage. Only having a web interface makes it a lot less simple than Dropbox, though.
I'm uploading a ton of photos to test it out, then I'll delete them all. For free!
PS: Sorry for hogging your upstream Alan.
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#50Can anyone see AmazonMP3 tracks in their library? I've purchased tons of music from AmazonMP3, and Cloud Player shows an empty library & 0 purchased songs. It seems like a big miss to launch this way. Hopefully it's just a bug.
It says on the landing page that purchases pre cloud drive are not synced. You'll have to go back and sync them with your pc.
Thanks. I missed that.