Amazon Service Lets You Store Your Music In The Clouds
Via — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY
“The outlook for music retailers not named Apple has been cloudy at best. Amazon.com hopes to brighten the forecast today with the introduction of new digital services the online retail giant hopes will bolster market share it concedes is “insignificant” compared with Apple.
Amazon launches Amazon Cloud Drive, an external hard drive in the sky you can use to store music — or for that matter, pictures, videos and documents — that you can access from any Web browser on a computer. Amazon claims it is secure.
At the same time, Amazon is unveiling companion services, Cloud Player for Web and the mobile Cloud Player for Android, to stream the songs you are storing in Cloud Drive to a computer or to a Google Android smartphone or tablet. As with any standard media player, Cloud Player lets you play, pause, skip, shuffle, repeat and adjust the volume. You can also create new playlists and display music by song, album or genre.
Cloud Drive works with all popular Web browsers on a PC or Mac but cannot be accessed on the iPad. And there are no versions of the companion Cloud Player on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
Songs land on Cloud Drive in one of two ways. You can arrange it so that all the music purchased through Amazon’s existing MP3 store is saved directly to the Cloud Drive. Amazon has about 15 million tracks for sale.” Continue Reading
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