{"id":2111,"date":"2011-03-29T12:24:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2011-03-29T12:24:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:24:35","slug":"why-should-anyone-care-about-amazon-cloud-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/03\/29\/why-should-anyone-care-about-amazon-cloud-player\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Why should anyone care about Amazon Cloud Player?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/03\/28\/amazon-cloud-drive-player\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/clouddrive\/learnmore\">Cloud Drive<\/a> is the name Amazon is giving to its media storage space on their servers. They give you 5 GB of storage for free and allow you to access the media from any computer. Cloud Player is the name of yes, the actual player. And it comes in two flavors: a player for the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html\/ref=amb_link_355702102_2?location=https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/dmusic\/mp3\/player&amp;token=661ABEA050EC7ED103349320C53489637F654274&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-3&amp;pf_rd_r=1PFKDQWGBTRZK80JMDHH&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1292120922&amp;pf_rd_i=2658409011\">web<\/a>, and one for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/feature.html\/ref=amb_link_355702102_4?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1000454841&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-3&amp;pf_rd_r=1PFKDQWGBTRZK80JMDHH&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1292120922&amp;pf_rd_i=2658409011\">Android<\/a> devices. You\u2019ll note an absence of an iOS player\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A bit more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any album bought through Amazon MP3 is stored for free in your Cloud Drive \u2014 a very nice perk.<\/li>\n<li>If you buy one album from Amazon MP3, they\u2019ll upgrade your Cloud Drive storage to 20 GB for free for a year \u2014 another nice perk.<\/li>\n<li>Normally, 20 GB of Drive storage will cost $20 for a year. 50 GB is $50. 100 GB is $100. And so on. All the way up to 1 TB for $1,000.<\/li>\n<li>The Cloud Drive storage isn\u2019t just for music \u2014 Amazon notes that 1 TB will hold 70 hours of HD video.<\/li>\n<li>Other files\u00a0can be uploaded \u2014 this includes music, movies, photos, and even documents.<\/li>\n<li>The MP3 uploader accepts MP3 or AAC files, but they must be DRM-free (.wma, .wav, .ogg and others are not supported)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Am I missing something here? Doesn&#8217;t everyone in the world have an iPod \/ iPhone now? Don&#8217;t we all own a pair of headphones? Don&#8217;t we all have portable thumb drives that fit in our pockets to carry around this music?<\/p>\n<p>Why would I pay an annual &#8220;tax&#8221; for music that&#8217;s accessible &#8220;anywhere&#8221; when I have 64 gigabytes of music in my pocket and another terabyte of music in a hard drive that I can throw in a suitcase? Man, those checked bag fees are getting pricey! I can&#8217;t even bring my iPod on trips anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Tons of guys have tried to sell me on Lala but what&#8217;s the point? I use Pandora when I&#8217;m looking for diversity while at work or at home but I have an iPhone with me at all times and usually just plug into that. Don&#8217;t argue that you can&#8217;t keep everything on your iPod and need Amazon because for me to keep &#8220;everything&#8221; on Amazon Cloud Player, I&#8217;d need the $1,000 a year package and spend about 6 weeks uploading to it to get going.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>This is exciting to early adopters and people who want to get rid of personal storage that they own. Us &#8220;old men&#8221; who still love an array of hard drives at home and using Cloud services to backup the important stuff don&#8217;t see this as moving forward at all. My 1TB hard drive cost $150 (one time fee) and I can carry it anywhere I want even when there is no Internet connection like an airport or bus ride. It&#8217;s always on and very reliable and, if it crashes, I have a backup of that data at home.<\/p>\n<p>I guess consumers like this stuff? I have no idea. Who is this for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"from TechCrunch: Cloud Drive is the name Amazon is giving to its media storage space on their servers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-technology","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-y3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5824,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/05\/18\/on-the-death-of-itunes-local-media\/","url_meta":{"origin":2111,"position":0},"title":"&#8230;on the death of iTunes &amp; Local Media","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"May 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I keep hearing these rumors that the end is nigh for music stored locally at least from a huge goliath like Apple. 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