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1. #WHERE IS MY AMAZON CLOUD MUSIC ANDROID#
2. #WHERE IS MY AMAZON CLOUD MUSIC LICENSE#
3. #WHERE IS MY AMAZON CLOUD MUSIC FREE#

Web-based services offer a way to access your data from anywhere, whether you're on your phone, your iPad, your laptop or your networked TV. “The functionality is the same as an external hard drive.”

#WHERE IS MY AMAZON CLOUD MUSIC LICENSE#

“We don’t need a license to store music,” Craig Pape, director of music at Amazon, tells the New York Times. Amazon, however, doesn’t believe licensing will be a problem.

MP3tunes, which also offers to store and stream your music library, was sued by music labels. The record industry still believes that you should buy a new copy of every song for every device you own, and Amazon has no way to determine whether you actually purchased your existing music files.

#WHERE IS MY AMAZON CLOUD MUSIC ANDROID#

Couple that with rumors of Amazon working on an Android device and it isn’t hard to see how Cloud Drive, though basic at the moment, might one day become a serious iTunes competitor.īut there are possible legal problems Cloud Drive may have to overcome.

#WHERE IS MY AMAZON CLOUD MUSIC FREE#

To encourage that, songs purchased from the Amazon MP3 store and saved directly to your Amazon Cloud Drive never count toward your storage limit and are free to store forever.

The Amazon MP3 Uploader can scan your iTunes library and makes uploading a bit smoother, but if you’ve got a sizable music collection - several hundred gigabytes of music - you’re looking at days, if not weeks, to upload everything to Cloud Drive.Ĭloud Drive is much better if you’re buying all your music from the Amazon MP3 Store, and clearly this is what Amazon would like you to do. Enter your account credentials, and select “Allow” at the next page.Any music you already own must be manually uploaded, there is no automatic syncing like you’ll find in file backup services like Dropbox. Visit and select Get Started, then Sign in with Amazon. To rearrange the order of songs, you’ll need to add track numbers to the beginning of your file names in each folder.)Ģ. (Note: My Pod only plays songs in alphabetical order. Create a folder in Google Drive, Dropbox, or Amazon Drive, then share the folder to create a link that you can copy.

Users with extensive collections should strongly consider Plex or My Media instead, but My Pod can work for playing a small number of songs in a pinch:ġ. The free version is quite limited, though-you can only store a maximum of 10 tracks-and you must pay $3 per month or $35.50 per year for unlimited links. This website lets you drop in a link to any folder on Dropbox, Google Drive, or Amazon Drive, then play the songs from that folder with a voice command. It also has some of the same restrictions: Whole-home streaming isn’t supported, and you must use specific “Ask My Media…” syntax to start listening.īut My Media does have some advantages: It can index playlists from iTunes and play music by genre, and it also offers a workaround (albeit a somewhat clunky one) for multi-room music playback.įor a quick-and-dirty way to play individual songs or playlists through Alexa, check out My Pod. My Media is similar to Plex, in that it requires setting up a media server device for streaming your music files to the Echo. You can also say “Next track,” “Previous track,” “Pause,” “Play,” and “Stop” without having to say “ask Plex” first.