Amazon Cloud Player Data Usage Question

[andoird213]

Hi all,
I'm thinking about starting to upload my library to the Amazon Cloud since I'll likely need it due to the GNex not having expandable memory. I've been looking around to find the best cloud solution and this seems to be the best one (excluding Google Music but that's not publicly open yet). The only question I have about the Cloud Player is how much data does streaming music use? I'd likely be streaming a good deal of it and I'm on a 2 GB plan.

 

[alostpacket]

One easy way to tell would be to divide your data plan by the size of the average song.

So 2GB / 5MB = (roughly) 410 songs.

Now remember you will be loading webpages and using the data connection for other things as well. So maybe subtract about 200 MB from that (to be on the conservative side). So now you'd roughly be at 370 songs. Divide that by 30 days, puts you at about 3-4 songs per day.


Of course depending on how long the songs are, and/or how high a bitrate they are encoded at, the average song might be closer to 7-10MB. This could drop you closer to 2-3 songs a day.

I think the trick is to bring stuff with you when you can and download on WiFi when possible. If you bring you favorite songs by manually loading them on to your phone, then you wouldnt need to rely on streaming as much.

Hope that helps

 

[andoird213]

Thank you very much, indeed it does! If you have/use it, is there an easy way to download and then uninstall music from it? For example if I know I'm gonna be on the road all day and I wanna download let's say an album for the road, would I then have to go in to a file manager and uninstall it after or is there a way to do it that's as easy as the one click "save to device" button? Like an un-save to device button? Lol

 

[alostpacket]

I think there are ways to store stuff for offline use. Same with Google music. But I have not used Amazon's much at all and Google Music only a little.

I'd play around in the settings and see what you can find

 

[andoird213]

I was looking at Google Music but it's still not open to the public and I saw Amazon's having a great offer for unlimited music storage so I decided to go with them. I know there's an easy way to download for offline use just wondering if there's an easy way to get it back off. Thanks for your help!

 

[Deleted User]

I was looking at Google Music but it's still not open to the public and I saw Amazon's having a great offer for unlimited music storage so I decided to go with them. I know there's an easy way to download for offline use just wondering if there's an easy way to get it back off. Thanks for your help!

To remove offline songs (songs on your device), open the Amazon MP3 app, go to "on device music", long press an artist / album / song and choose delete. That just deletes the song from your device, not from your cloud drive.

 

[andoird213]

Thanks!! That sounds simple enough!