Amazon announces unlimited MP3 storage with any Cloud Drive plan

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Post by phinze » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 10:39 PM UTC

Amazon announces unlimited MP3 storage with any Cloud Drive plan
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Post by esrauch » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 10:52 PM UTC

Amazon seems to use images of text an awful lot. Anyone know why that is?

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Post by dlsspy » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 10:59 PM UTC

esrauch wrote: post #2

Amazon seems to use images of text an awful lot. Anyone know why that is?

I keep trying to copy the text to share with someone, but failing. Maybe they don't want people to know.

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Post by drivebyacct2 » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 11:00 PM UTC

esrauch wrote: post #2

Amazon seems to use images of text an awful lot. Anyone know why that is?

Very frustrating for anyone who is on mobile or happens to like how their text renders. These images are flat out difficult to read in places.

But since I bought an MP3 album a while back, I effectively have a free cloud to store my 40GB of music in. I'll take text-ful-images for that.

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Post by tptacek » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 11:02 PM UTC

esrauch wrote: post #2

Amazon seems to use images of text an awful lot. Anyone know why that is?

Maybe they have an internal tool that generates text/image composites like this from something like Markdown. We did that for one of our product sites; it was pretty handy.

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Post by Joakal » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 11:07 PM UTC

esrauch wrote: post #2

Amazon seems to use images of text an awful lot. Anyone know why that is?

Images lookup service may show this, increasing barriers to being paraphrased (meaning official looking and link on it) and solid metric with SEO juice if hot linked.

It's akin to infographic SEO (You can look it up).

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Post by kylec » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 11:13 PM UTC

Are there any indications on what "for a limited time" means? Is there a term for which Amazon has promised to provide this service for free? Once the unlimited storage is no longer offered, will the existing files in the cloud be 'grandfathered' in and continue to be free to store, or will people be expected to pay or face loss of access to the files in the Cloud Drive?

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Post by esrauch » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 11:14 PM UTC

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #4

esrauch wrote: post #2

Amazon seems to use images of text an awful lot. Anyone know why that is?

Very frustrating for anyone who is on mobile or happens to like how their text renders. These images are flat out difficult to read in places. But since I bought an MP3 album a while back, I effectively have a free cloud to store my 40GB of music in. I'll take text-ful-images for that.

Are you planning on actually using it? I uploaded some music to Amazon's mp3 when it first launched and more to Google's MP3 and I have found very little need to use either one. I obviously can't fit all my music on my phone (an android) but I generally am ok with the music I have at any particular time and swapping.

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Post by reaganing » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 11:15 PM UTC

Clarification, obvious: You only get unlimited MP3 (and AAC) storage with any paid Cloud Drive plan. You won't get it with the free 5GB plan.

Of course, I think most people are probably on the 20GB plan since Amazon was giving those away with the purchase of an MP3 album for quite some time.

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