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Amazon's Music Storage Service Will Remove MP3 Files on April 30 (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the brace-for-impact dept.

Amazon announced last year that it intends to shut down its dedicated cloud music locker. Now, the company has elaborated on its thinking. From a report: In an email to Amazon Music users, the company says uploaded songs will be removed from a user's library on April 30th, 2018. You can however keep any music in the cloud by proactively going to your Music Settings and clicking the "Keep my songs" button. Back in December, Amazon stopped letting users upload new tracks to Music Storage, which holds up to 250 songs for free. The company said at the time that by January 2019, users wouldn't be able to download or stream tracks they've uploaded to Music Storage, so it sounds like you'll still have many months between April and next January to get your music downloaded and onto a different storage platform or hard drive.

7 of 64 comments (clear)

  1. Cloud storage by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oddly, my $400 Synology server is still serving up my files for over 7 years now. I guess its business model doesn't change and start deleting your stuff.

    1. Re:Cloud storage by nospam007 · · Score: 2

      "I use FreeNAS, but have Plex running on a NUC with an external USB drive that I make internet accessible in a DMZ.

      I'm not wasting my RAIDZ space on FLAAC audio."

      Your acronym generator seems also to be fine.

  2. Re:So easy to walk away by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My guess is they are trying to push you to Prime Music streaming.

  3. Re:So easy to walk away by OrangeTide · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That checks out. Because I have some albums that I bought that now won't play on the Android app until I sign up for Prime Streaming. but if I carefully go into the menus and pick Download I can get around the restriction. Maybe it's a bug, but it's a rather convenient way for Amazon to influence us to buy yet another service from them.

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  4. And yet again... by roc97007 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...we are reminded that it's not a good idea to keep stuff you care about in the cloud.

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  5. Re:Thanks Amazon by Holi · · Score: 2

    Umm April 30th is a month away.

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  6. Re:Thanks Amazon by wjcofkc · · Score: 2

    I am from the future. I came back to backup my files. In the future, I am the last to find out.

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