Amazon Cloud Drive

[FulciLives]

Check it out people ... this is WAY kewl !!!

http://androidforums.com/android-lounge/307737-amazon-announces-cloud-drive-music.html

I got it working on my cricKet Ascend running Icarus 1.1

The thread above explains it but basically you can upload music to AMAZON that you have OR if you buy music from AMAZON then it goes there directly anyway.

But basically you upload music to the cloud and it streams to your Android (or computer ... they have a Windows application anyway).

Why am I so excited? This is the first cloud music streaming service that I've found which DOES NOT re-encode your music.

I think it only supports MP3 and AAC-LC (iTunes) and not lossless formats like FLAC but you can encode your music yourself and get it back the same way.

The few other similar services I looked at all wanted to re-encode the music to VERY low bitrates (after you uploaded it).

This AMAZON thing is a big deal ... plus it works like DropBox (another great service) in that you can store ANY kind of file on it.

But for now it does seem very geared towards music playback which is FINE BY ME.

 

[Zoos]

You should try Audiogalaxy. If you have any computer, that always online, you can use it as "cloud". And you will have it on your PC, not on some amazon server.

 

[Dsanders77]

I'm cool with Amazon doing the storage work. I buy enough music from them anyway. More bang for the buck is always a good thing in my book.

 

[Gmash]

Theres a thread on this in the android lounge if you are interested in more feedback.