westrock2000
[H]F Junkie
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Amazon just released the Cloud Player in the App store. Its awsome! It works very similar to iTunes so you can double tap the home key to get basic controlls and it will play in the background while you do other non-sound related stuff.
And most importantly it PLAYS OVER PROXY! So you can use it on the Wifi at work.
What makes it great is that Amazon charges $20 a year for 20GB of cloud storage (the lowest tier aside from the free 5GB), but for the paid tiers anything thats MP3 or AAC does not count towards your data. So I uploaded my entire collection of music which is 60GB and it still says I have 20GB of free space. I can have my most played music locally on the iPhone, but when I get a hankering to listen to something I don't usually listen to I have access to it as long as the phone can get to the Internet.
A god send, since as you all know, Apple charges a massive premium on storage space.
On the desktop side, the Amazon Cloud uploader (I use Windows) let you drag and drop folders into the application to upload. Whats nice is that it will ask you if you want to "replace existing" or "upload new files only" so you can just keep dropping your main music folder onto the app and it will only add new songs you've added instead of doing the whole thing everytime.
Maybe this will push Apple to make the iCloud not so crazy expensive and make it more usefull.
I'm very happy with the Amazon service now. I don't know if you ever tried to load the Amazon Cloud Player website on the iPhone before this, but it was terrible terrible terrible.
And most importantly it PLAYS OVER PROXY! So you can use it on the Wifi at work.
What makes it great is that Amazon charges $20 a year for 20GB of cloud storage (the lowest tier aside from the free 5GB), but for the paid tiers anything thats MP3 or AAC does not count towards your data. So I uploaded my entire collection of music which is 60GB and it still says I have 20GB of free space. I can have my most played music locally on the iPhone, but when I get a hankering to listen to something I don't usually listen to I have access to it as long as the phone can get to the Internet.
A god send, since as you all know, Apple charges a massive premium on storage space.
On the desktop side, the Amazon Cloud uploader (I use Windows) let you drag and drop folders into the application to upload. Whats nice is that it will ask you if you want to "replace existing" or "upload new files only" so you can just keep dropping your main music folder onto the app and it will only add new songs you've added instead of doing the whole thing everytime.
Maybe this will push Apple to make the iCloud not so crazy expensive and make it more usefull.
I'm very happy with the Amazon service now. I don't know if you ever tried to load the Amazon Cloud Player website on the iPhone before this, but it was terrible terrible terrible.