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Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by MichaelEGR » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 5:52 AM UTC

_ouxp wrote: post #30

joseakle wrote: post #22

How long until someone posts their username(s) and password(s) to their whole music collection(s) ....

You agree not to do that, and Amazon has your real name if you've ever made a purchase &| uploaded >5gigs of music. Most people I know use their Amazon account for other purchases and won't risk their account being closed for violating the terms. [edited for clarity]

Yeah account sharing is watched and when detected the suspect account will get flagged for a TOS violation. I can't tell you how quickly the ban hammer may come down as things go, but 2 devices is likely not going to trigger it.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by oskee80 » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 5:56 AM UTC

What happens if your phone is in a poor reception area, or without internet connection? Then you can't listen to music? Can the app manage which songs you'd also like to have stored locally on the phone?

Is this meant to supplement your old ways of syncing music to the phone or replace it?

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by bvi » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 5:58 AM UTC

slackerIII wrote: post #33

jonursenbach wrote: post #29

Earlier 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.

Wow. Nostalgia. I'll have to try this out again, after a decade.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by MichaelEGR » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 6:00 AM UTC

Glad to see the comments flood in for this and see it hit #1 on HN so quickly as I was beginning to wonder when it would ship. I was contracted to work on the Amazon MP3 v2.0 app rearchitecting the download architecture and adding cloud drive download support. It was "very interesting" being the only outside contractor / software architect level dev to be hired by A2Z / Amazon to work on core architecture for Amazon MP3. I finished my involvement mid-Feb. I guess I'm just posting to get an account started here on HN as I'm launching some very compelling Android platform / middleware soon called TyphonRT. I've been bootstrapping for years and this recent Amazon MP3 contract has opened up enough runway for me to launch my tech in the coming months. Hopefully I'll have some more time to post in the future too.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by CrazedGeek » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 6:02 AM 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.

I have around 60GB of FLACs on my hard drive. At LAME's V0 encoding, that's around 20GB of MP3s. And it's ever increasing. Considering that SDHC has a max of 32GB and SDXC doesn't have much support (much less microSDXC), there's definitely a market for something like this. (Probably very niche, but eh... Amazon seems to be positioning this as kind of a Box.net thing with an emphasis on music storage and playback)

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by jmatt » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 6:09 AM UTC

jkincaid wrote: post #12

I think Amazon is trying to become the backbone for the 'alternative' set of Android core apps that will inevitably be developed. These apps will appeal to any carrier/OEM that wants to stop licensing from Google, or from companies like Amazon and Facebook who may launch their own devices with splintered versions of Android. My guess is that Amazon will own content delivery for these devices (books, movies, TV, music…

I think it's bold of Amazon to launch essentially a minimum viable product and beat Apple to the punch. Now they have customers and are getting meaningful feedback to make future improvements. You rarely see this outside of Apple and startups. I'm glad to see Apple running into some real competition.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by malnourish » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 6:09 AM UTC

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.

Your site appears to be down for me. Unexpected spike in traffic? :)

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by baddox » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 6:11 AM UTC

jonursenbach wrote: post #29

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.

Didn't Audiogalaxy used to be a P2P service in the early 00s?

The one where you searched from your browser and then opened some small hash file into the client which did the sharing, right? Not unlike the later BitTorrent.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by slackerIII » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 6:12 AM UTC

malnourish wrote: post #57

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.

Your site appears to be down for me. Unexpected spike in traffic? :)

Everything looks fine on my end. Shoot me an email (see my profile) and we'll figure it out. YC doesn't hit quite as hard as LifeHacker did last year. :)

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by baddox » Tue, Mar 29, 2011, 6:13 AM UTC

Free persistent storage of Amazon digital downloads is the big feature here (to me). I've always thought it was insane how Steam lets you download dozens of gigabytes of video games ad infinitum, yet Apple's and Amazon's music stores require you to backup your digital purchases.