Amazon just announced its cloud-based music service.
“Cloud” is the latest in technology jargon. It basically is a way of storing data — documents, photos, music files — on the Internet.
The advantage of storing files on the “Cloud” is portability
and, by providing access to friends and colleagues, sharing. Online music storage also is a way to back-up files that otherwise might be lost in a computer malfunction or meltdown.
Amazon’s offering is designed to be a place to store all your personal music files and then play them via an Internet browser or an app that works on Android phones.
Yup, this don’t work on the iPhone. Amazon is taking aim at competitors Google and Apple with the new Amazon Cloud Player.
People get 5 gigabytes of storage for free, plus purchases made on Amazon don’t count towards the storage limit. It’s a nice way to free up memory space on jammed-packed computers.
“Several experts in digital music say that the music locker business is still legally ambiguous,” The New York Times said today. “We don’t need a license to store music,” Craig Pape, director of music at Amazon, told the Times. “The functionality is the same as an external hard drive.”
While you’re trying to decide, the folks at Yahoo! Music came up with a list of cloud songs. The #1 cloud song is “Get Off My Cloud” by the Rolling Stones.
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