{"id":2057,"date":"2011-04-02T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2011-04-02T14:08:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T19:08:46","slug":"2057","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2011\/04\/02\/2057\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Takes Their Music to the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MP3Uploader.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Amazon MP3 Uploader\" width=\"82\" height=\"70\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2059\" \/>Amazon updated their MP3 download offerings this week with the introduction of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/clouddrive\/learnmore\">Amazon Cloud Drive<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/?ie=UTF8&#038;node=2658409011&#038;tag=googhydr-20&#038;hvadid=9775857569&#038;ref=pd_sl_2eukn9zclu_e\">Cloud Player<\/a> service. The service provides 5GB of free online storage through their existing S3 cloud storage, but if you purchase an MP3 album from Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s digital download store, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get 20GB of space for 12 months free.  Any music you purchase and have automatically saved to your Cloud Drive won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t count towards your space limit.  <\/p>\n<p>You aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t limited to Amazon music, however, as you can upload your existing library with the downloadable import tool.  Your complete collection can then be played through the Cloud Player website or the Android app that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now available.  No word on when or if there will be an Apple iOS app in the future.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an interesting play in a world of digital downloads, and certainly one that will help draw users of iTunes and other online music stores to Amazon.  On the other hand, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not quite the death of streaming services like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napster.com\/\">Napster<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rdio.com\">Rdi<\/a>o.  <\/p>\n<p>If you find yourself buying more than one album per month, the pure streaming option these services provide may end up being cheaper, at least if you always have access to the Internet.  Even in situations where your access may be limited or intermittent, such as with your smartphone, these services are now offering offline caches that allow you to store and play music while your device loses its signal.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there will always be though who value owning their music outright versus streaming, even if that ownership consists of what is essentially a license to play a file downloaded from an online store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon updated their MP3 download offerings this week with the introduction of their Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player service. The service provides 5GB of free online storage through their existing S3 cloud storage, but if you purchase an MP3 album from Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s digital download store, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get 20GB of space for 12 months free. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2011\/04\/02\/2057\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon Takes Their Music to the Cloud&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,4],"tags":[296,141,32,23,449,86],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general","category-technology","tag-cloud","tag-internet","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-technology","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}