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Amazon Music Ending Cloud MP3 Storage, Streaming Option (billboard.com)

Posted by msmash on from the end-of-road dept.

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.

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  1. Why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

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

  2. Great Job by omnichad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Great Job by quarrel · · Score: 3, Insightful

      This is how I feel.. Have just bought two echos, uploaded 30G of mp3s to Amazon, and now this?

      Damn.

      If nothing else, I have a heap of albums I can't get even with a subscription, that I now just can't play.

      90 day return on the echo though I think, although then I've blown the money on the 1yr storage with Amazon anyway.. fuckers.

  3. Data Stroage by eriklou · · Score: 5, Funny

    Backup your data to the cloud they said, all your data will be safe they said... /deleted

    1. Re:Data Stroage by olsmeister · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you like your data, you can keep your data...

  4. Re:What are good replacement options? by blahbooboo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, Google offers the exact same service.

  5. Re:What are good replacement options? by Diss+Champ · · Score: 4, Informative

    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).

  6. Re:What are good replacement options? by phayes · · Score: 4, Informative

    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...

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    Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
  7. This is why i don't trust the cloud by um...+Lucas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.