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Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by trotsky » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 12:17 PM UTC

unfletch wrote: post #82

YooLi wrote: post #6

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Lack of an iOS player is interesting. I don't see a technical reason why Amazon couldn't make one. Ditto with an iOS video player for Amazon Video-on-Demand. Not making either of those (plus the Amazon Appstore & Kindle) makes me think Amazon is working on an Android platform of their own. They have the capabilities for a pretty solid media-ecosystem (music, video, apps, books, etc).

It actually looks like they could make the web-based UI work in Mobile Safari without too much work. (Easy for me to say.) The UI renders perfectly already. As far as I can tell, playback is the only thing that doesn't work. (But if you "download" a track it'll open in the built-in quicktime player and start playing.) Despite the Flash requirement for uploading, they're already doing non-Flash playback. I don't have…

In a recent article about html5 audio there was a lot of talk about how safari intentionally didn't support automatic audio playback (vs. say chrome and chrome lite). I'm guessing that this would mean you'd have to click a button each time the song changed in your playlist - this would probably suck enough that it explains why they didn't launch with mobile safari support.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by davidedicillo » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 12:36 PM UTC

pkulak wrote: post #36

Streaming seems a bit silly when I've got 16 gigs sitting empty on my phone. I just want synching. I'll use Pandora if I want to stream. And then I'm not restricted to just my library.

Exactly, or Rdio.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by JabavuAdams » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 12:49 PM UTC

Is using the term "cloud" a branding / marketing mistake?

The cloud is generic and multi-vendor. It's a utility. This angle makes sense when talking to developers.

OTOH, I could see a lot of users being confused because they put stuff "in the cloud", but they can't get it back (from another vendor i.e. different cloud).

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by twodayslate » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 12:54 PM UTC

They fact that they are going to start backing up the Amazon MP3s is great news. Previously it was impossible to redownload a track once you have already downloaded it. Luckily I did not lose to much music when I got a new computer since I had a personal backup.

I would love Amazon Cloud Drive to have desktop integration like Dropbox.

Doesn't google have a cloud service now? It just doesn't have a pretty GUI or desktop integration?

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by jorgeleo » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 1:09 PM UTC

I like this... But I would like ti more if there is a webdav address to access the storage from my iPad. I know that there are other solutions, but 5GB free...

Does anybody knows how to access Amazon Cloud Drive using Webdab?

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by frsandstone » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 1:23 PM UTC

Do we know the bitrate of the stream?

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by forgotAgain » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 1:24 PM UTC

It's becoming clear that the main competitor for iPad will come from Amazon. Apple will not be beat by a competitor on look and feel. Anyone who wants to compete with them will need to find their own area of strength. Amazon's strength is its years of experience with Amazon Web Services.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by slackerIII » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 1:32 PM UTC

ripdog wrote: post #110

slackerIII wrote: post #27

If you want a free service to stream your music from your home computer to your work computer/android/iOS device, check out my service: http://www.audiogalaxy.com Since we don't store the music in the cloud, we don't have any size limits (the current winner has about 530,000 files). Obviously this only works if you leave your home computer on, but we've found that isn't a problem for most folks.

I'm currently using subsonic on my home server to stream my music, subsonic is guaranteed to be free forever, is open source, runs anywhere java does, transcodes formats, does video, allows downloads/uploads, has multiple full-featured mobile apps for almost every mobile platform, pretty much everything you could want. Setup is easy as pie, and it will even give you a subdomain in subsonic.org if you donate to the de…

IMHO, our setup is easier for normal people and our UI is simpler. And, it is totally free -- no "suggested donation" to get your license key.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by slackerIII » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 1:34 PM UTC

yellowbkpk wrote: post #114

slackerIII wrote: post #67

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Yeah, everything was browser based, except for the small app that ran on the desktop. We handled all the queues and the download scheduling on the server though -- no need for the client to open anything.

That was brilliant. I left the client up at home and could queue stuff up while at school. When I got home I had a bunch of new music to listen to. Great idea!

Thanks! That was my first lesson in how inspiring constraints can be -- we didn't have the resources to make a good client UI, so we put it on the website instead.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by highwind81 » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 1:37 PM UTC

slackerIII wrote: post #34

aphexairlines wrote: post #31

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No linux?

Not yet -- I am bummed we haven't been able to make it happen yet but it is definitely on the list.

Yeah... no linux is a killer for me. Can I get a notification or something when there is a support for linux?