Now Cloud Player provides free access
to all past and future Amazon MP3 purchases. It can also scan your iTunes and
Windows Media Player libraries and match the songs on your Mac or Windows PC
with those in Amazon’s catalog of 20 million songs.
Songs that it matches don’t need to be
uploaded, which saves you lots of time and bandwidth assembling your music
collection in the cloud.
This is exactly how Apple’s iTunes
Match service works (albeit with AAC files instead of MP3s). The big difference relates
to how many tracks you can store. iTunes Match, which costs $25 a year, lets
you upload or match up to tracks (excluding any items purchased from the
iTunes Store).
Amazon's Cloud Player Free version
stores all of your Amazon MP3 purchases and gives you space for 250 tracks;
but for the $25 a year that Apple charges, Amazon offers Cloud Player Premium,
with room to store tracks 10 times as
many as iTunes Match holds.
Cloud Player works on Android devices
(including Amazon's own Kindle Fire), the iPhone and iPod Touch, and via a Web
browser on your computer. But Amazon says that it will also bring Cloud Player
support to Roku and Sonos streaming hardware in the future.
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