Posts Tagged ‘Cloud Drive’

iPad users can now stream music stored in Amazon’s CloudDrive. And, they don’t even need to download and install an app to do it. When Engadget noted that “Amazon Cloud Player hits iPad”, it means that and iPad user has to do is point the Safari mobile browser at:

amazon.com/cloudplayer

Amazon Cloud Player hits iPad, adds unlimited storage, scoffs at constrained competition

Access requires a login. Then, music stored in the account’s Amazon Cloud Drive can be streamed through the Cloud Player web interface.

Note: The mobile web interface for the iPad does not work with an iPhone.

As reported earlier, Amazon now allows uploading an unlimited amount of music to the Cloud Drive for paid accounts. This includes accounts upgraded by buying an MP3 album from Amazon.

Amazon Cloud Drive Now Allows Unlimited Music File Uploads for Paid Accounts

If you’ve been streaming music from Amazon’s Cloud Drive to your Android phone or tablet, you may have been watching your bytes because the plan you are on (most likely 5GB for a free account or 20GB for $20 per year or if you bought an Amazon MP3 album). MP3 music purchased from Amazon is not counted against the storage limit. But, songs you upload from your own drive is… until now. Amazon is changing their rules for a “limited time.” Paid storage accounts now provide unlimited space for uploaded music too. This includes accounts that were previously upgraded through either the purchase of an MP3 album or outright storage purchase.

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/

This means that you can upload as much MP3 or AAC music files as you want from your desktop or notebook computer and stream the music to your Android phone or tablet. And, oh yes, read the next blog item to learn how Apple’s iPad benefits from this too now.

In a recent article on the status of the could music battle between Amazon, Google and Apple, I tendered my opinion that victory wouldn’t be based on chronological order, but on a litany of factors. I also touched on the fact that Apple has a storied history of entering the market later than competitors with a superior product and almost immediately leaving said competitors to fight for a very distant second place. Well I’m not one who revels in saying ‘I told you so’ (that’s an absolute lie, I love it) but a recently unearthed patent application strongly suggests that Apple’s cloud-based music service could be a game changer.

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I don’t care if you’re a war buff or what sport you’re into, you’re going to be hard pressed to find a more back and forth battle than that for supremacy of the cloud music market right now. Increasing definitive headlines all proved to be premature: “Amazon wins cloud war”, “Google and Apple will acquire licensing before releasing music lockers” and “Apple to beat Google on cloud music.” Now that the dust is somewhat beginning to settle, the only thing that can be said with complete surety is that the enormous number of variables involved promises a very interesting future for the business of cloud computing.

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