For just $24.99 per year, you can store and stream up to 250,000 non-Amazon songs, plus all Amazon purchases. The free version lets you store up to 250 songs that you did not purchase through Amazon, plus an unlimited number of Amazon purchases. There are free and paid versions of Cloud Player. For matched files, you get 256 Kbps sound (geekspeak for high quality audio) even if your source files were of lower quality. If you've got music files on your hard drive (even tracks ripped from CDs) chances are good that it will find them. And in case you were wondering, Cloud Player will scan your iTunes and Windows Media Player libraries for matches. You can listen to any of your tunes on any device you own, and you don’t have to worry about keeping them all in sync or running out of storage space. You can still upload a music file that is not in Amazon’s library.Ĭloud Player supports up to ten devices per user account.
This also spares Amazon the cost of storing duplicate files one licensed copy can serve many users.
Matches are automatically added to your Cloud Player account without any uploading. But now, Cloud Player’s “cloud match” will scan your devices for music files and match them against Amazon’s licensed inventory of 20 million tunes. When Cloud Player debuted in March, 2011, users had to upload their music files to Amazon’s Cloud Drive service. Soon, the Roku streaming player and the Sonos wireless home entertainment system will support Cloud Player, too.
Users of the Amazon Cloud Player service can enjoy their music on many mobile devices, including Kindle Fire, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android devices and any web browser. Forget about the nuisance of keeping your music collection in sync will all your desktop computers, laptop and mobile devices. On the one side Amazon states that you’ll never need to worry about losing your digital music library due to a disc crash but, being mostly northern, I can’t help but think that this sounds like I’ll be paying to play music that I’ve already bought….Forget about loading up your iPod or smartphone with your favorite tunes before you head off to the gym. If you’re a heavy user, or planning on using the Cloud Player as your main music manager the you may also need to fork out £22 p/a for the right to stream up to 250,000 of your tracks.
All Amazon MP3 purchases – including music that customers purchased previously – are automatically saved to Cloud Player for free, which means that customers have a secure backup copy of the MP3s they buy from Amazon, free of charge.Īdding extra storage will cost from £6 per year for 20GB, rising to £320 p/a for a full terabyte. All matched songs are automatically stored in high-quality 256 Kbps audio. Your iTunes and Windows Media Player music libraries are scanned and tracks are matched to more than 20 million music tracks in Amazon’s catalogue. To get started, just hop over to where you can easily import your music using Cloud Player’s new scan and match technology. More than a year later than the states, Amazon has finally gone live with the UK version of their Cloud Drive which offers 5GB of online storage and the ability to stream 250 of your tracks to a range of devices free of charge.
The Amazon Cloud Drive is now live in the UK as of right now.