{"id":1231,"date":"2011-07-07T08:57:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T13:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2011-07-07T09:59:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T14:59:42","slug":"amazon-cloud-rains-free-unlimited-music-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/tablet\/amazon-cloud-rains-free-unlimited-music-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Cloud Rains Free Unlimited Music Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile cloud music is a highly <a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Amazon-Cloud-Player-service-1.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1236 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Amazon-Cloud-Player-service-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Amazon-Cloud-Player-service-1.png 640w, https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Amazon-Cloud-Player-service-1-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a>competitive arena these days, and some of the biggest players in <a href=\"..\/..\/mobile\/google-music-beta-strikes-the-right-notes\/\">mobile<\/a> and <a href=\"..\/..\/mobile\/sony-music-unlimited-isnt\/\">music<\/a> have entered the game. Even a few <a href=\"..\/..\/mobile\/ios\/best-buy-wants-you-to-get-on-their-cloud\/\">surprising<\/a> entries are trying to build a business in the newest entertainment space. Amazon made a big splash when they launched their cloud player with virtually no warning, no deals with record labels, and before the long-rumored competitors from Apple and Google. Now they\u2019re set to make a new splash, with a limited time deal that&#8217;s almost too good to miss for some users.<\/p>\n<p>Right now,\u00a0 you can buy any Amazon Cloud Drive paid plan and get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/?node=2658409011\">unlimited music storage free<\/a>. New Amazon MP3 purchases were already stored free, but this is a nice bargain for those of us who had collections larger than the free 5 GB account when the service launched or like to buy our music somewhere other than Amazon. Now, $20 a year gets you unlimited music storage plus 20 GB of space for storing other files in Amazon&#8217;s Cloud Drive.<\/p>\n<p>The terms of this deal are a little vague. There\u2019s no indication of how long it will be offered for except the ambiguous \u201climited time\u201d. It\u2019s also not explicit that buying in for one year of unlimited music storage means no limits permanently or just for the first year (Amazon\u2019s last Cloud Drive deal, &#8220;buy an album and get 20 GB&#8221;, was one-time-only). Hopefully, Amazon will clarify both points soon.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Amazon, they\u2019re up against some tough competitors. Apple\u2019s iCloud lets you re-download any song ever purchased on iTunes for free, and Google\u2019s Music Beta is free as long as you have an invite (I don\u2019t know anyone who\u2019s actually hit Google\u2019s <del>25,000<\/del> 20,000 song limit). Even with the stiff competition, a deal like this might be enough to draw in some new paying customers.<\/p>\n<p>So, who\u2019s going to head over to Amazon this morning and buy some unlimited music storage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile cloud music is a highly competitive arena these days, and some of the biggest players in mobile and music have entered the game. Even a few surprising entries are trying to build a business in the newest entertainment space. Amazon made a big splash when they launched their cloud player with virtually no warning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,31,46,38,12,40],"tags":[244,349,140,141,139,345,346,348,74,267,81,112,347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}