Comments on: Hands on with Amazon Cloud Player for iPad http://gigaom.com/2011/07/07/hands-on-with-amazon-cloud-player-for-ipad/ Wed, 22 May 2013 21:24:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: pk de cville http://gigaom.com/2011/07/07/hands-on-with-amazon-cloud-player-for-ipad/#comment-637954 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:57:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=373203#comment-637954 I think iTunes Match will trump this service…

- $25/yr legalizes all ripped and ‘borrowed’ tracks
- no days-long uploads
- DRM free tracks are downloaded to 10 devices as desired; no streaming hiccups
- unmatched tracks are uploaded and stored
- all tracks are converted to pristine 256kbs (higher bit rate options probable in coming seasons)
- With the format being AAC, Android and the others will support it as the EU will force Apple to open up iT Match to all mobiles and desktops.

]]> By: Aris http://gigaom.com/2011/07/07/hands-on-with-amazon-cloud-player-for-ipad/#comment-637557 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:17:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=373203#comment-637557 I wouldn’t exactly call the iPad implementation a load of crap. Although I have 44 songs in Amazon cloud storage, none of it was availabel in my cloud player. I had to copy the files from the purchased folder to the music folder. None of the songs show up. But the play button is orange. And it will play a song. Cloud Player on the iPad is just an oversized iPod shuffle.

]]> By: henchan http://gigaom.com/2011/07/07/hands-on-with-amazon-cloud-player-for-ipad/#comment-637416 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:43:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=373203#comment-637416 Whilst I can upload files to Amazon’s Cloud Drive, as a non-US user, I am unable to use the CloudPlayer web app on my iPad.

]]> By: Scotty http://gigaom.com/2011/07/07/hands-on-with-amazon-cloud-player-for-ipad/#comment-637335 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:27:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=373203#comment-637335 I tried the new “app” out with my Playbook and HP Touchpad. It works remarkably well on the Playbook, it plays in the background flawlessly. The app has issues but can be made to work on the HP Touchpad.

Based on this testing I immediately took Amazon up on their concurrent announcement of unlimited music storage and started the many day project to upload my >100GB music collection onto their cloud.

]]> By: Jeff Putz http://gigaom.com/2011/07/07/hands-on-with-amazon-cloud-player-for-ipad/#comment-637330 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:22:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=373203#comment-637330 I dropped iTunes like a bad habit when Amazon MP3 went live as well, and regrettably paid Apple the “tax” to convert their AAC files to DRM-free, 256k files.

What I would like to see Amazon do is open up an API for Cloud Player, so we could build apps for it ourselves. They obviously made one for Android already. Would like to build one for WP7 on Mango. I assume that Apple would not permit a player, but since they do allow Pandora, I don’t see how it would be any different.

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/2011/07/07/hands-on-with-amazon-cloud-player-for-ipad/#comment-637321 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:35:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=373203#comment-637321 Which policy: the in-app content policy or another? Streaming web content should be fine, I’d think.

]]> By: Lucian Armasu http://gigaom.com/2011/07/07/hands-on-with-amazon-cloud-player-for-ipad/#comment-637312 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:16:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=373203#comment-637312 Is the app compatible with Apple’s new policy?

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