I’ve been backing up all my music online for a long time. I guess one excuse for doing this is so that I can stream it from wherever I am, which sounds good in theory; but I’ve never actually had an opportunity to do that.
Along comes Amazon Cloud Drive this week which gives you a free 5GB and the ability to stream any music you upload to your Cloud Drive to your Android device. Cool, sounds interesting but I’ll probably use up all my data rather quickly. Plus, when I tried it, I can’t actually download the player or use the (web-)streaming capability in Canada. Not so cool.
It might be a game changer because of the free 5GB, but what I like the most about it is if you buy MP3s from Amazon, they’ll automatically be available on your Cloud Drive (and won’t count towards your storage limit). Let’s see how iTunes does this – if you buy a song you’ll be able to download it twice; once initially and once in case you lose it. That’s it. If your HD goes or for some other reason you lose your songs, then you’ll have to buy everything again.
That’s a horrible and outdated method of selling online. Even Microsoft does better – if you buy anything from XBOX, you are free to download it as many times as you like, anywhere you like!
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