Posts Tagged ‘Cloud Music’

Amazon Cloud Drive Starting at $20/year

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Today, Amazon is announced a few nifty enhancements to its cloud-based music locker, including storage plans that offer unlimited space for music, free storage for MP3 purchases, and Cloud Player has finally come to the iPad. If you remember that Amazon before Apple, or Google or any other large cloud server player was the first to get into the cloud music space.

The Cloud Drive and Cloud Player will cost, at the very least, $20 a year, which should be a very reasonable price for unlimited cloud music storage space. This offer is available starting at the lowest price grade, $20/year, which includes 20 GB of file storage and unlimited space for MP3s and AAC music files only.  No other files will be allowed on the server for the $20/year cost.

For the iPad, Amazon says that the Cloud Player for the Web has been “optimized to offer customers streaming playback of their Cloud Drive music using Safari”. Those interested in checking it out, can go here to learn more.

 

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mSpot Cloud Music

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

mSpot allows customers to sync all your music collection across mobile phones and PCs/Macs to iPhones and I believe iPad’s with the launch of their new app. Since the service’s public launch in June, mSpot has seen over 1 million downloads of a similar app for Android phones.

The new mSpot application will allow users to upload their music to the mSpot Cloud and then listen to the music from both
desktop browsers and iPhones for free.  Free 2GB of hard drive space (aprox 1600 songs) and $3.99/month for the 40GB cloud hosting plan (36000 songs).

No doubt that cloud music will be huge in the near future.  Cloud musica!

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Google Cloud Music Service

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

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Monday afternoon in a post by the New York Post, Google is in New York trying to rush a licensing deal through with the Harry Fox Ageny.  Why would Google be striking a deal with one of the largest digital music agencies that licenses mechanical and digital rights for thousands of publishers?  Is Google Cloud Music service going to be available in the near future?

Last month, CNET reported that Google could launch a music service this fall. Google declined to comment for this story. Both Apple and Google have both discussed building cloud services for both film and music.  This has been confirmed by

numerous sources at the major movie studios and record labels. Each company has discussed hosting their users’ media on their own cloud servers. Think about it? Users could access their movies, music, and e-books from all different types of devices.  Wouldn’t it be nice if you could access everything from your iPhone or Blackberry?  Google cloud servers would stream this to your mobile device at a small monthly cost.

At this point, Google appears further along in launching a cloud service than Apple, sources said.

To reach an agreement on cloud music will not be easy. The labels have yet to license music rights for the kind of offerings that Google and Apple are said to be working on. “There’s no template,” said one music source. “They’re going to be starting from scratch and that’s not easy.” What that means is that if negotiations go poorly, they could conceivably delay the launch offering until next year.

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