Mar 29
A day after we reported rumors about Apple’s plans to incorporate cloud-based music storage into its rumored revamp of MobileMe–and the week after rumors swirled around a Google music streaming service–Amazon swoops in and launches its own music locker, in the form of Cloud Drive.
Users can stream music downloaded from Amazon via the service via the Cloud Player and can upload their existing terrestrial music collection to Cloud Drive. The program is currently compatible with computers and Android handsets.
It’s US-only at present, and is free to every with an Amazon account up to 5GB. If you buy an Amazon MP3 album, you’ll get upgraded to 20GB (albums purchased through Amazon won’t work against your storage cap). For $20 a year, you can upgrade to a larger plan.
Says Amazon VP Bill Carr, “Our customers have told us they don’t want to download music to their work computers or phones because they find it hard to move music around to different devices. Now, whether at work, home, or on the go, customers can buy music from Amazon MP3, store it in the cloud and play it anywhere.”
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