![]() ![]() That's less space than you'd get on the smallest iPod Touch, but it's a move that's likely to woo plenty of users who might later decide to pay for more storage space. While Amazon will charge for the Cloud Drive service, it's offering anyone with an Amazon account 5 gigabytes of free storage. and Apple Inc., which are believed to be working on similar services that would allow consumers to access their content when away from their home computer. The "cloud" in the services' names refers to the practice of storing content online and streaming it to a computer over the Internet.Īmazon's move is beating Google Inc. The second lets you play songs you've uploaded on your computer or on a smartphone that runs Google's Android operating software. The first lets you upload and store files like music, videos and photos on Amazon's servers, which you can get to from a Web browser on a Mac or PC. The online retailer launched two new offerings late Monday: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. Give this app a try and lets us know what you think in the comments.SAN FRANCISCO - wants to be more than a destination for shopping online - it also dreams of being a place where you can store your music, photos and videos and access them any time, from any computer. We're not too sure about using the streaming service with 3G smart phones yet, but Amazon has got lead time ahead of Apple's iTunes cloud solution and whatever Google comes up with. This service works well, offers direct functionality with the AmazonMP3 store for an almost unlimited supply of legit music downloads, and includes a good chunk of storage space for free. ![]() We should also mention that after our downloaded album was moved to Cloud Drive, our storage space jumped to 20 free gigabytes thanks to a special promotion from Amazon.Īmazon continues its recent trend of edging in on Apple and Google's turf (first the Amazon App Store, now this), and, with Cloud Play, the online retailer seems to be on to something. Before Cloud Drive, if you wished to store MP3 files from Amazon's service on several computers or mobile devices, you needed to move them from the original system via burned CD, USB, or another means like DropBox. Purchased tracks can also be downloaded from the Cloud Drive library to several other devices. We just clicked the tracks we wanted to store on the PC and hit the Download button in the top navigation bar. Plus it was very easy to download the song files to our PC. Lupe Fiasco's latest album appeared instantly in our Cloud Drive account after we purchased it at on Amazon's service. Over 4G and Wi-Fi, load times and buffering pauses were much less frequent.īoth Android Cloud Player for Web and Android work directly with. We received network error messages several times before Queens of the Stone Age began playing. ![]() It took a little over a minute for tracks to begin streaming over the HTC Evo 4G's 3G wireless connection. The interface wasn't complicated to use and offered the same functionality of the standard Android app (minus the ability to search by music genre), so we think it's a satisfactory alternative app for music playback on Android devices. ![]()
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