Amazon's made a big leap into the cloud storage space, giving anyone with an Amazon account access to 5 GB of free online space for their files, along with a "Cloud Player" for the web and Android that streams your uploaded music right back to you. Also, buy just one Amazon MP3 album, and you upgrade to 20 GB.
You can buy additional storage from Amazon cheaply, at $20 for a year's worth of 20 GB access, $50 for 50 GB, and up to $1,000 per terabyte. Amazon lacks the universal desktop and mobile access of its (new) competitor Dropbox, and right now their web-based Cloud Storage client is a bit rough around the edges—you can't download more than one file at a time, for example. But 20 GB for the price of one album you were going to buy anyways is quite a nice price, and your music purchases are now stored online automatically. If you're rocking an Android phone, you can stream your music from Amazon's updated MP3 app, too, along with through a standard desktop/laptop browser. Apple device support is conspicuously absent, and it's not a Flash-required issue—we'll presumably see some an iOS offering soon.
Amazon's Cloud Drive is free to sign up for, and requires an Amazon account. The updated Amazon MP3 app for Amazon is only available through the Amazon Appstore, which you'll have to sign up for and download.
You can buy additional storage from Amazon cheaply, at $20 for a year's worth of 20 GB access, $50 for 50 GB, and up to $1,000 per terabyte. Amazon lacks the universal desktop and mobile access of its (new) competitor Dropbox, and right now their web-based Cloud Storage client is a bit rough around the edges—you can't download more than one file at a time, for example. But 20 GB for the price of one album you were going to buy anyways is quite a nice price, and your music purchases are now stored online automatically. If you're rocking an Android phone, you can stream your music from Amazon's updated MP3 app, too, along with through a standard desktop/laptop browser. Apple device support is conspicuously absent, and it's not a Flash-required issue—we'll presumably see some an iOS offering soon.
Amazon's Cloud Drive is free to sign up for, and requires an Amazon account. The updated Amazon MP3 app for Amazon is only available through the Amazon Appstore, which you'll have to sign up for and download.
Sounds cool.
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