Amazon's new cloud service

**DJ Ms. White** · 03-29-11, 04:22 PM

Anyone heard about this yet? It's a cloud service that lets you store mp3's and AAC format music and access it from most any device (no app for apple at the moment). The first 5GB are free, any music bought from Amazon is stored for free, you get an additional 20GB of storage space for buying one mp3 album from Amazon, and additional storage costs $1 a GB per year.

It seems pretty cool. Amazon says it doesn't allow for podcasts to be uploaded, but NPR was able to upload a podcast as an mp3 and play it.

**SmokenScion** · 03-29-11, 04:26 PM

just wait till it rains. Its only really useful if you have access to the Webs 24/7 from anywhere you might be.

**DJ Ms. White** · 03-29-11, 04:29 PM

I have access to 3G and wifi anywhere I am.

**ninja|oaklandr** · 03-29-11, 04:45 PM

I use drop box right now for my data and I have more than enough room. All my photos are stored with google. All the music I need daily is on my phone or iPod with a lot of room to spare. With the carriers slowly moving away from the unlimited data I don't care to stream music that I own.

Don't forget that the 20GB that you get for buying an album is good for a year. After that you have to pay for the same space.

Plus I don't like this:

5.2 Our Right to Access Your Files. You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files: to provide you with technical support and address technical issues; to investigate compliance with the terms of this Agreement, enforce the terms of this Agreement and protect the Service and its users from fraud or security threats; or as we determine is necessary to provide the Service or comply with applicable law.

**DJ Ms. White** · 03-29-11, 04:59 PM

That shouldn't be a problem if you acquired all of your music legally, right?

**SmokenScion** · 03-29-11, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

That shouldn't be a problem if you acquired all of your music legally, right?

You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files:

What about Items which have no copyrights associated with them yet, Photos, Artwork, Ideas, Unpublished books/ articles, All of these have nothing to do with Illegal music. but I guess if it were THAT important then you'd just want a hardcopy. So where's that leave the cloud?

**ninja|oaklandr** · 03-29-11, 06:01 PM

Exactly, the service is for more than music.

**SmokenScion** · 04-21-11, 02:31 PM

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