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Amazon Music Ending Cloud MP3 Storage, Streaming Option (billboard.com)
Amazon is planning to retire its Music storage subscription service, the plan that enabled Amazon customers to upload their own music to the company's servers. From a report: Amazon Music Storage subscription plans, which let users upload music from their Mac or PC and stream them alongside the in-app on-demand and radio options, will be accepted until Jan. 15, 2018. Then, the service will run until January 2019, when it will be removed entirely. As of Monday this week, free plans -- which allow for 250 songs to be stored in the cloud -- are no longer able to upload new music to their MP3 locker.
Why is Cloud based servers so bad for people..... This is the reason why. The shut up shop quickly
Wait until everyone buys their Echo for Christmas - and then tell them they can't use it with their music post-purchase. I think that's called bait and switch.
Then you can sell them on your music subscription.
Backup your data to the cloud they said, all your data will be safe they said... /deleted
I absolutely loved this service. I'd upload my mp3s and get to play from the same library no matter what device I happened to be using. It really simplified library management.
Is there anything else out there like it? I'm a little tempted to just go with Plex and run it myself, but I always worry that my hardware will fail or my home internet connection will go down.
I don't and never will use cloud-based services.
gets shut down.
amazon must be hurting if the fringe mp3 'cloud' users here that actually took advantage of 'unlimited' are affecting their margins enough for them to shut it down.
if you use amazon for picture storage or backups, i'd start backing that shit up **NOW**
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Google did it. Amazon is doing it.
From the start I viewed this as a way to get pirates used to streaming services. Now, old pirates that uploaded their music and streamed are faced with a choice to either go back to your old ways are stick with streaming services. Of course they want the latter because they hope that you've somehow changed in this period of streaming music.
But have you?
A clever person could build an mp3 tool to discover, categorize, and play such content.
So when you were 33 years old you just happened to have Patsy Cline CDs lying around? And your supervisor just happened to have a system loud enough for an entire department to hear it? And the entire department fitted in that room?
In effect.
Still have google, for now. And for those that say "just setup xyz at your house", not everyone has the bandwidth, and some companies ban residential IPs so no using it via wifi. Also many out there would not have a clue how to do it. Sure, its a solution, but not for everyone.
Call me a luddite, but why would you want to upload your mp3s to a cloud service? They're not exactly hefty files, and storage is cheap as it's ever been, plus there's software that makes managing libraries pretty easy. Putting them in the cloud seems like a good way to end up sans music when:
1. You find yourself in a place with bad reception
2. The service shuts down or undergoes maintenance
Strikes me as a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Then again, I'd also venture that the decision to shut down the service was influence by the MAFIAA foaming at the mouth over potential piracy, so hats off to Amazon for providing a service that pisses them off.
Fitted?
Oh shit, you're right, this is creimer we're talking about: fatted .
Better?
Amazon, Google, etc. They all launch a service, get people to use it, but not enough people, and then pull the plug.
I have Apple Cloud, whatever its called, for music storage, myself. And it's great, I can stream or pull down my music anywhere I go. But I still need to keep it on my computer (don't save any space), out of fear that they might pull the plug one day. Or just have a server crash.
These companies shouldn't just arbitrarily end services like these. If they have a lot of users, at least put the service up for bids from other developers or companies to take it over.
I just tried to do this exact thing on Monday. Try as I might, I couldn't get the songs to upload. All the web-based tutorials showed upload icons on the Amazon Music app, but it simply wasn't there on my system. Even Amazon's help pages still said it should work.
I have an Echo, and I just wanted to add a few CDs to it so that we could listen to them. The 250-song limit was already extremely restrictive.
What I really want is the ability to stream from my own server. This is a feature that Apple is likely to push, since I believe they've always supported in-house iTunes servers (I'm not really in the Apple ecosystem, so I might be mistaken). If Apple does add this feature and make a big push next year, I hope it forces Amazon and Google to follow suit.
Best country is old country. None of this rap and rockability shit.
Rent a cheap VPS, set up a basic apache install (out of the box in most VPS), throw something like https://github.com/jensdpersson/lystra.html and your music into '/var/www/html/'.
Tada! Streaming remote mp3/flac/ogg player.
(You may want to set up password protection and a cheap domain as well...)
Ha, ha, ha, you poor suckers, believing that the cloud is an actual solution to replace local storage.
You all get what you deserve, idiots.
Having just purchased Amazon's Echo, this immediately removes one major reason for having it. Are they shooting their own foot because of the costs of success? In general, I refuse to store anything in the cloud, because I cannot control the storage. The only related service I use is DropBox, because it will immediately make remote copies on all of my installed machines. That just makes it a smart ftp service.
Well we learned two more things about Creimer today. 1) he's a liar 2) he's a liar.
Wonder what we will learn tomorrow ;)
In no particular order...
Plex
Kodi
Emby
MediaPortal
Subsonic
Servetome
Madsonic
iTunes?
OpenFLIXR
Tvmobili
Mediatomb
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Vox Premium (used to be called Vox Loop): you can store unlimited amount of music in the cloud and stream to your Mac or iPhone. Flac is supported as well
NAS: Synology DS Audio (this is what I use currently and gives you completely control of your music collection): Supports Flac as well.
It's really hard to justify storing your music on someone else's computers. Just how fucking cheap does storage need to get before the holdouts get it? Geez, my intro to Linux 2.2's software RAID was when 80GB drives finally hit sweet-spot prices around the year 2000. Suddenly a small RAID5 could hold my whole collection.
And it's only easier and cheaper, now in 2017. (Now you can store your own video collection!)
...die by the "cloud".
The "cloud" was always a joke/scam. Just a euphemism for storing stuff on other peoples' servers... something people were doing long before the cutesy word was invented, except now apparently it's morally acceptable to rape^H^H^H^Hmine your data for any informational revenue the place hosting it can find. Then kick you to the curb whenever they feel like it later on down the road after you've reworked your life to be dependent on their services.
Not to mention that being dependent on the "cloud" for more and more of your data is utterly incompatible with the increasing dependence on data-limited cell plans. And the FCC wants to consider cellular service equivalent to residential broadband.
I'd say the FCC, cell carriers and everyone else can take the "cloud" and shove it up their asses but that doesn't sound painful enough.
Because I honestly don't get it. I mean don't you guys have smartphones? I just keep all my tunes on a MicroSD in my smartphone and thanks to bluetooth I have no problem playing them anywhere be it at home or on the road and it doesn't cost me a dime or cause me to give my tunes to some third party to snoop and delete at their whim.
Call me old fashioned but I'll take storage I control over some corp any day of the week!
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
If you use Windows 10 sign up for Office365 and get the 1TB account. Go into your user profile folder (C:\users\yourusername), right-click on the Music folder, click on the Location tab and change the location to OneDrive (create a Music folder in OneDrive for it all to go into of course.) The Groove Music app will automatically check that folder for music saving you the trouble of needing to configure anything more. Do the same thing on all of your Windows 10 computers and install the OneDrive app on your iOS or Android phone/tablet.
On some OS's like iOS you will need to download and install a dedicated music playing app if you have music in .flac or some other less popular format. Music can be played from the OneDrive app by tapping the 3 dots at the top right and selecting the option to open with another app, simply select your preferred/necessary music app.
Well, a 48 year old man should be able to do a job usually done by eager 20 year olds. And you got a bonus on the level of a normal paycheck in your area?
Well, Merry Christmas Chris! Enjoy your Panda Express tonight.
The only believable thing about this story is that you deliberately acted like an asshole when someone was trying to do something nice for a group of people you belong to and your paycheck was involved