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Posted June 07, 2011
I've recently been enjoying the heck out of all the awesome game music I got from here as background music at work thanks to the Amazon cloud player. :) I filled that free 5GB and just set it to play randomly from my list. I can play it on my phone too, but I hate the thought of data charges so I don't very often. :)

So for anyone else that has the option I highly recommend abusing the heck out of this service before they lock it down and charge for it. ;)
Posted June 07, 2011
Dude, Google Music all the way. 20,000 songs? So much better than Amazon. And I've uploaded like 6,700 FLAC files, so it would appear they don't have a size limit... plenty of songs left to find out, though.
Posted June 07, 2011
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PhoenixWright: Dude, Google Music all the way. 20,000 songs? So much better than Amazon. And I've uploaded like 6,700 FLAC files, so it would appear they don't have a size limit... plenty of songs left to find out, though.
The one big benefit of Amazon's storage solution is that any music purchased from them will be stored for free, no matter the size.
Posted June 07, 2011
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PhoenixWright: Dude, Google Music all the way. 20,000 songs? So much better than Amazon. And I've uploaded like 6,700 FLAC files, so it would appear they don't have a size limit... plenty of songs left to find out, though.
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TheCheese33: The one big benefit of Amazon's storage solution is that any music purchased from them will be stored for free, no matter the size.
That is definitely a benefit. I can't claim to ever be affected by it, but I'm sure it's appealing to those who use Amazon to get music.
Posted June 08, 2011
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PCGameGuy: So for anyone else that has the option I highly recommend abusing the heck out of this service before they lock it down and charge for it. ;)
Every piece stored locally in WAV format and Ableton-ready, so, to answer your question... meh! :p
Posted June 08, 2011
the benefit of amazon over google is this notice I get from music.google.com:

"We're sorry. Music Beta is currently only available in the United States"

:(
Posted June 08, 2011
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Ubivis: the benefit of amazon over google is this notice I get from music.google.com:

"We're sorry. Music Beta is currently only available in the United States"

:(
My company uses amazon's cloud servers for a bunch of our stuff and they go down constantly. What is the uptime for amazons music? Does it go down often? That is one of the reasons i've been staying away from it.
Posted June 08, 2011
No idea,

just stopped using it. The Free Music on amazon.com I can't buy, as it always says that I can only get it from the USA and Music bought on amazon.de is not added to the cloud.

Stupid Service.

I will wait for google music to go out of the US ONlY Beta
Posted June 08, 2011
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Ubivis: I will wait for google music to go out of the US ONlY Beta
Don't hold your breath, though. I've taken the same approach with Google Books and so far - nothing :[.
Posted June 08, 2011
@lukipela - I have been streaming pretty solid at 6-8 hours a day at work and have not noticed any interruptions, so it seems the cloud player is stable if not their actual server service.

I'm not shilling, I just found it to be a neat service and useful for me, so I thought I'd share. Sorry if I sounded like an advertisement. :)

I'm going to look into the Google Music thing since I prefer FLAC to mp3 if I can get it, thanks for the heads up PhoenixWright.

Another thing I liked was the app available on both iPhone and androids that connects via mobile to the same music pool. Let's me share stuff on the road.
Posted June 08, 2011
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PCGameGuy: @lukipela - I have been streaming pretty solid at 6-8 hours a day at work and have not noticed any interruptions, so it seems the cloud player is stable if not their actual server service.

I'm not shilling, I just found it to be a neat service and useful for me, so I thought I'd share. Sorry if I sounded like an advertisement. :)

I'm going to look into the Google Music thing since I prefer FLAC to mp3 if I can get it, thanks for the heads up PhoenixWright.

Another thing I liked was the app available on both iPhone and androids that connects via mobile to the same music pool. Let's me share stuff on the road.
I haven't used it much but it's been solid when I have. As far as the question of why anyone would buy stuff from Amazon, they have cheap prices for mainstream music. I know FLAC is better and it'd be great if they offered a loss-less option, but I'm not paying 10 bucks a CD just so I can rip it to FLAC. So as long as I can pick up DRM free music for 2.99 an album or so (on sale), I'll be sticking with Amazon.
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