Posts Tagged ‘Amazon Cloud Player’

Free Cloud Music

Monday, April 4th, 2011

The Amazon Cloud Music platform allows you to get 5gb free cloud music for your existing music collection for streaming cloud music.  The cloud music allows you to add an additional $1 (or more) per year, you get an incremental 1GB (or more) of storage.

As far as I know, Amazon has not negotiated a direct licenses with content owners for Cloud Drive. Amazon’s new Cloud Drive service lets you store your music, movies, videos, photos, and documents on Amazon’s servers in a sort of virtual locker so that you can get to your entire digital library any time and anywhere. When you want to listen to, watch, or otherwise use what’s in your locker, you open it up in a browser or on your phone if you have an Android phone (and you have to think an iPhone app is forthcoming).

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Amazon Cloud Player Review

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Amazon the cloud hosting and storage giant beat Apple, Sony, Microsoft and all the other music sites to the punch when they released a fully working cloud storage and playback system. Seems like it’s working well on the majority of desktop web browsers. The Amazon cloud players is also working on Android devices but it’s still not working on my iPhone or my iPad.  It really sucks that they didn’t optimize it for that kind of traffic because I think those are the majority of the people that are well off enough to pay for this service.  Most Android users complain about paying a $1 for an app where Apple users pay tons of money for their apps and devices.

It’s not a Flash issue, it’s pretty sad and STUPID but it appears that Amazon may have simply blocked the mobile version of Safari from playing back songs through Cloud Player. When you load the player on any of your iOS devices like the iPhone, you get a warning that the browser isn’t supported. You just left out MILLIONS of potential customers.

If you are an Android I think this is a good platform to run on but if you are running anything Apple such as the iPhone, iPad, or iTouch you will want to think twice before downloading this or purchasing anything that has to do with this.

Amazon Cloud Player Review Bandwagon : How is it going to work with all the carriers throttling my bandwidth?  Amazon is great at selling a service but can the large bandwidth cell phone carriers give us the bandwidth we need to stream this all the time?  Can I even access my movies that I’m paying to be on a remote cloud players servers? If 50 million people are streaming a movie at the same time at work is AT&T going to crap out on me like it does even without people doing this?

I give the Amazon Cloud Player a NEGATIVE Review because it won’t play on any of my iOS devices.  Amazon builds these types of apps and knows how to work with everything. They chose to leavout the iOS devices on purpose and I think that is not only stupid and will lose them a ton of money but bad for karma.  It’ll come back to bite them.

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