Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Post by ctdonath » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 3:07 AM UTC

naithemilkman wrote: post #180

ctdonath wrote: post #179

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You cite one use of Amazon Cloud Drive, which I compared to. Yes, the point was to illustrate you're looking at it too narrowly. To elaborate: Yes, Amazon Cloud Drive can act like iTunes, insofar as you buy tracks from Amazon and can play them thru a browser via the MP3 player. No question Amazon will, like Apple & iTunes, expand this ability by using this "cloud drive" as the focal point for an assortment of applica…

I guess I was looking at it from a point of view of 'what it is now'. A kind of dropbox+iTunes mashup. You're coming from a 'what it could be' which is at best guess in your own words, unclear. Right now they are using music as a beach head into the market. In future it could be something video or word processing related. Is that what you're trying to say?

Post by podperson » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 5:59 PM UTC

tzury wrote: post #159

podperson wrote: post #142

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Surely there is in fact a way, at least much of the time. In general, I assume encoding a digitized song with a given codec and quality settings is deterministic, so the files have some chance of being identical. Next, if the track were identified using a common process (e.g. CDDB) it might easily be possible to identify them as being identical in origin and then perform some tests to see if they are in fact identica…

hash is the right (and only) way to do this.