But then again, you probably already know that. If you’ve got DRMed music, you’re out of luck. It’ll work with DRM-free MP3 or AAC files, no Vorbis, FLAC, etc. Adding Musicįor starters, you’re a little bit limited in what will work with the Cloud Player. To get your 5GB claimed, just head over to Amazon and log in/sign up (as of this post, the signing up is available for US customers only). This article will focus on the web based portion, as it applies to all readers. You’ve got your choice between a web-based player or an Android app. Cloud Drive alone is all you need to just store files, and it’s Cloud Player which makes it worth the effort for music. The free service gives you 5GB of storage space as part of the Amazon Cloud Drive. I appreciate having this cloud in my backup backyard and I plan to use it a lot as the year unfolds moving forward.First, let’s explain a little bit about exactly what Cloud Player can do. The Amazon Cloud Drive is an excellent service with outstanding pricing. HTML 5 would go a long way to making the Cloud Drive friendlier. There’s no single place to go to download everything all at once. You can download your files from your Cloud Drive to your computer, but there’s lots of mouse clicking and button pushing. Interacting with your files is a little clunky, but I think Amazon sees their Cloud Drive as more storage space than active file server. The service is incredibly fast and responsive. The greatest thing about the Amazon Cloud Drive is its speed. You either upload your junk from the desktop App or via their online web interface. There’s no FTP allowed for the Amazon Cloud drive. You can interact with managing the files from the web interface. When you upload files and folders from your desktop, Amazon will place them in an “Uploads” folder it creates on your behalf. Amazon Cloud Player songs do not count against your purchased Amazon Cloud Storage quota. It’s nice that we finally know just where and how Amazon manages our music uploads and purchases. You have to actually go to the Cloud Player to hear the songs play. You can look in your “Archived Music” folder, but all the songs are greyed out. The “Archived Music” folder is a new account addition - that’s where all your Amazon Cloud Player music is stored if you are on a proper storage plan that includes the music player for free. The online design is stark and a bit ugly - but wholly utilitarian. One you remotely load your files and folders from you desktop, you can login to the Amazon Cloud Drive web interface to manage the results. That wastes a lot of tech time for the trimming. You have to create the folder on the SkyDrive site, and then upload individual files into that folder. Google Drive uploads folders as well, but SkyDrive does not allow you to drag-and-drop a folder for upload. I also appreciate the ability to drop a folder-within-a-folder and have the entire contents uploaded. Amazon’s upload speeds beat Google and SkyDrive by a factor of two. The process is fast and simple and much better than what Google and Microsoft SkyDrive offer. I also now have an easy way to truly drag-and-drop files and folders from my desktop to my remote Amazon Cloud Drive. On my Mac, I can seamlessly upload all my iPhoto images with one click: The Amazon Cloud Drive is a much better service today than it was a year ago. I really like Google Drive and I also have backups to my Google Drive on SkyDrive and Amazon Cloud Drive. I’m huge into hanging all my junk in the cloud.
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