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From today onwards, those of you who own select Ford vehicles and are also Amazon customers who happen to make use of iPod touch, iPhone and iPad devices will have one added advantage – you can now wirelessly hook up to the Amazon MP3 app and tune in to your favorite Amazon Cloud Player music in Ford SYNC AppLink-equipped vehicles. All three kinds of devices – the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad are able to access your whole Cloud Player music library through the use of simple voice commands or audio controls. Folks rocking on the Android platform would have enjoyed such benefits since February.

Among the features of Amazon Cloud Player for iOS and Ford SYNC AppLink-equipped vehicles are voice recognition or dashboard controls, brought to you in high-quality 256kbps audio, the ability to play music that is stashed away in Cloud Player or to play back music stored on iPod touch or iPhone, not to mention free up local storage space on their devices as it stashes and accesses music in the cloud. One is able to obtain access in the Ford SYNC vehicles – the 2013 Ford Fiesta, Mustang, Focus, E-Series, C-MAX Hybrid, Expedition, Fusion, F-150 and Super Duty models. [Product Page]

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Brits who’ve been straining for a reason to care about Amazon’s budding Cloud Player service can probably relax. It’s live in the UK as of now, offering 5GB of online storage and the ability to stream 250 of your tracks (or 256Kbps matched versions) to a range of devices free of charge. Adding extra storage will cost from £6 per year for 20GB, rising to £320 p/a for a full terabyte. If you’re a heavy user, though, you may also need to fork out £22 p/a for the right to stream up to 250,000 of your tracks. Paying to play music you already purchased? Indeed, further exertion may be necessary to figure out if it’s all worth it, along with a glance at the detailed press release after the break.

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Amazon brings Cloud Player music service to the UK: choice of free or premium tiers from £22 per year originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Good news to all audiophiles out there. Amazon has just announced that its Amazon Cloud Player is now available on any Sonos Wireless HiFi System. So if you’ve got a pretty neat collection of songs from your favorite artists on Amazon’s Cloud, then you can now play that funky music on any Sonos Wireless HiFi System. Amazon Cloud Player for Sonos allows users to play, search, and control your music using the Sonos app for iOS and Android.

To begin, you’ll need to register your Sonos system first to begin using Cloud Player and install the Sonos controller on your device. But if you haven’t tried any of Sonos’s awesome speakers, you can always do your shopping via Amazon. “Our goal is to enable customers to enjoy all their music, wherever they are, and on any device. Launching on Sonos today is an important part of that strategy, as our customers have been asking us to add Sonos to the list of compatible Cloud Player devices ever since we first launched Cloud Player,” said Steve Boom, vice president of Digital Music for Amazon.

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Amazon’s Cloud Player service just scored some major upgrades, including quality and import enhancements. Perhaps most notable is a new 256 Kbps option for matched files, including songs you imported before today. That bitrate, in MP3 format, is available for new tracks and albums added to the cloud — a process that’s been streamlined as well, with Cloud Player scanning your library and automatically offering up matched tracks, rather than requiring manual imports. In addition, music you buy in the Amazon MP3 Store will show up in your Player automatically, including past purchases (in cases where the site has the necessary rights). There’s also an option to edit metadata directly, such as artist and album info, along with album art, or you can use the label information already in Amazon’s catalog. Cloud Drive will also be less integrated with Player — previous uploads will be moved to an “Archived Music” folder and won’t count against storage caps, but will still be accessible and downloadable, while new imports will be stored in Player directly. You can upload up to 250 songs to Cloud Player for free, or pay a $25 annual fee to bump that cap to 250,000. Full details are at the source link below.

Update: Amazon also mentioned that it has secured new licensing agreements with Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, adding that Cloud Player will be available on Roku and Sonos devices soon as well.

Continue reading Amazon updates Cloud Player with 256 Kbps matched files, faster import, direct delivery (update: Roku, Sonos coming soon)

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Amazon updates Cloud Player with 256 Kbps matched files, faster import, direct delivery (update: Roku, Sonos coming soon) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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