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.

Comments

Why

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is Cloud based servers so bad for people..... This is the reason why. The shut up shop quickly

Re:What are good replacement options?

[blahbooboo]

Yes, Google offers the exact same service.

Re:What are good replacement options?

[Diss Champ]

I have my music uploaded to Google Play, has worked well for me.

I also have a NAS at my house with everything on it, which both lets me stream at home without using bandwidth getting it from the cloud. It also means if Google pulls an Amazon here, I still have everything backed up (both on the NAS and my backups of the NAS).

Re:What are good replacement options?

[phayes]

iTunes Match is still around and if the songs are recognized (about 2/3rds) adds the benefit of upgrading those old 128kbit MP3s to 256kbit AACs by erasing the original copy and then downloading the "matched" copy.

iTunes exists on all major platforms but iTunes is far from the best music player...