![]() ![]() The app is clever enough to preserve your songs and playlists the way you organized them in iTunes or Windows Media Player. There’s a free Uploader app that lets you send your existing music files from your Mac or PC to that same online library, so those songs, too, are available from anywhere. Sound quality is excellent (the streaming is the full 256 kilobits a second of the original files, if you’re into that sort of statistic). You can download songs to your computer (they go directly into iTunes or Windows Media Player). You can play back a song, album or playlist, complete with Shuffle and Repeat functions. It’s dominated by a list of your songs, which you can sort and search. The Cloud Player is a simple, clean, polished music-playback page that looks vaguely like iTunes. That way, you can listen to it from any computer - at home, at work, at a friend’s - by logging into a special Web page called the Amazon Cloud Player. This week, the online retailer took the wraps off a slick suite of software and services that solves both problems, and offers some sweet incentives for you to consider it.Īmazon’s big idea is that instead of sitting on your computer, your music collection will sit online ( or “in the cloud,” as hipsters insist on saying). Second, Amazon wishes more people would buy music from its store instead of iTunes. And if your music library is big, you can fit only a portion of it onto your phone. You might buy a song on your phone, but it won’t be on your computer until you do a sync. When you buy a new song at home, you can’t listen to it at work, at least not without copying it manually. First, your music library is messily scattered. If you want to listen to them on the road, you connect your iPod or iPhone to that computer and copy the files to it.Īmazon, whose online music store competes with Apple’s, has two problems with that arrangement. You buy song files from the iTunes store. ![]() For years now, the most popular music system - Apple’s - has worked like this.
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