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The solution that Amazon, and Apple and Google as well, are betting on is a centralized server that will be the 'real' home of your files your various devices then connect to the server to grab those files.Īmazon may be first to the market among its sizable competitors like Apple and Google, but Cloud Drive in its current form isn’t particularly innovative, nor does it offer many of the features long-standing competitors like Dropbox or MP3Tunes already have. With more than 15 million iPads sold and some 79 million users with three or more devices on their home network (according to a 2010 consumer survey by Forrester Research), knowing which files are where is a tangled nightmare. Web-based services offer a way to access your data from anywhere, whether you're on your phone, your iPad, your laptop or your networked TV. “The functionality is the same as an external hard drive.”

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“We don’t need a license to store music,” Craig Pape, director of music at Amazon, tells the New York Times. Amazon, however, doesn’t believe licensing will be a problem. MP3tunes, which also offers to store and stream your music library, was sued by music labels. The record industry still believes that you should buy a new copy of every song for every device you own, and Amazon has no way to determine whether you actually purchased your existing music files.

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Couple that with rumors of Amazon working on an Android device and it isn’t hard to see how Cloud Drive, though basic at the moment, might one day become a serious iTunes competitor.īut there are possible legal problems Cloud Drive may have to overcome. To encourage that, songs purchased from the Amazon MP3 store and saved directly to your Amazon Cloud Drive never count toward your storage limit and are free to store forever. The Amazon MP3 Uploader can scan your iTunes library and makes uploading a bit smoother, but if you’ve got a sizable music collection - several hundred gigabytes of music - you’re looking at days, if not weeks, to upload everything to Cloud Drive.Ĭloud Drive is much better if you’re buying all your music from the Amazon MP3 Store, and clearly this is what Amazon would like you to do.

Any music you already own must be manually uploaded, there is no automatic syncing like you’ll find in file backup services like Dropbox.

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