blogs.chron.com : For months, rumor and speculation have pitched Apple and Google against each other in a race to offer a service that would let people store their music collections online for playback anywhere. But while the two rivals were allegedly planning, plotting, building and testing, Amazon.com beat them both to it.
On Monday night, the online retailer launched the Amazon Cloud Player and a media storage service called Amazon Cloud Drive. You can upload up to 5 gigabytes of music free to Amazon's servers, then play it back anywhere via your Mac, PC or Android device. Cloud Drive also lets you store video, photos and other files.
You can can also pay for more storage - $20 a year for 20 GB, $50 for 50 GB, $100 for 100 GB, and so on, at the rate of $1 per gigabyte. If you buy an Amazon MP3 album, you'll get 20 GB of storage free for a year. More about that deal in a moment.
To begin using the service, sign in to your Amazon.com account. At the Cloud Player page linked above, you're prompted to upload music. You'll need to download and install a music uploader, which searches your hard drive for tunes.
The uploader takes note of how much space you're allotted, the size of your overall music collection and tells you how much space you need if you want to upload all of it. It will also tell you how long this will take.
Now, I've got a pretty zippy connection, but to upload all 3,668 songs the uploader found would take almost 15 hours and require nearly 20 GB of storage. If your connection is slow, uploading a lot of files could take days. In addition, uploads count against most Internet provider's data caps[...] View More...>>
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