Dave James Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 (edited) Received an e-mail from Amazon this morning touting their "cloud". If you go on their website, there's an introductory letter from Jeff Bezos with a link to more information. Anyone know much about this? Is it just hype or something worth thinking about? Edited March 31, 2011 by Dave James Quote
Chalupa Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 Received an e-mail from Amazon this morning touting their "cloud". If you go on their website, there's an introductory letter from Jeff Bezos with a link to more information. Anyone know much about this? Is it just hype or something worth thinking about? Definitely worth thinking about. Cloud storage is going to be the next big thing. Or so I'm told. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 It's something people will probably pay for... You know, as opposed to say, reading the NYT on-line. Quote
Dan Gould Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 Clearly there is a value to this kind of music storage - no worries about hard drive or external drive failures - but I'd want to know about streaming rates. If you encode and MP3 @ 320, do you get it streamed back to you at 320? The big issue for me is that I don't listen on the computer very often, only when I pull out a few CDs to listen to on a weekend morning while I read the paper/surf/drink coffee. So cloud listening doesn't do much for me. Quote
GA Russell Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 My understanding is that the sales pitch is the same as lala's - you can listen to your music from whatever computer or smartphone you have handy. Quote
medjuck Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 I used it because I purchased a download of the Pepper Adams "Ephemera". It went to the cloud but not to my computer. To actually download it required another step, which I didn't figure out immediately as it wasn't explained. Sort of pissed me off. Quote
GregK Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 pretty useful with the Android app on my Evo. But I can't see myself ever paying for something like this. I'm interested in seeing what Google is cooking up. Quote
JSngry Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 Put another way, Nat Hentoff's desk is the AntiCloud. By itself, it offers all the advantages of ready access to digital data and none of the privileges of ownership of hard copies of the same data. For me, it would be useful as auxiliary storage, but not much else. I don't like the idea of owning something that's important to me that only exists someplace else, which is pretty much what the "cloud" concept is all about. But as a dump to put stuff of passing/temporary/etc interest, hey, better somebody else's space than mine, dig? Quote
Big Wheel Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 pretty useful with the Android app on my Evo. But I can't see myself ever paying for something like this. I'm interested in seeing what Google is cooking up. Do not hold your breath. My guess is that you will not see anything come out of the kitchen for at least another year. This has been in development for at least 5 years by now. (You can approximate some of the functionality now with Google Docs, but as a real commercial product this doesn't exist yet.) $1000/year for a terabyte is way too expensive for average users with lots of data, but once competition (and bigger hard drives in datacenters) leads to declining prices things will eventually become reasonable. And of course if all you want is a place to back up your dissertation or important documents you probably don't need more than the free 5GB now. Quote
BFrank Posted April 1, 2011 Report Posted April 1, 2011 I've tried it. It seems to work fine. The only problem is the time it takes to upload your MP3s. It's not fast, even with cable. OTOH, whenever you buy MP3s from Amazon, a copy will automatically be put into your "cloud drive". Quote
bertrand Posted April 1, 2011 Report Posted April 1, 2011 (edited) I used it because I purchased a download of the Pepper Adams "Ephemera". It went to the cloud but not to my computer. To actually download it required another step, which I didn't figure out immediately as it wasn't explained. Sort of pissed me off. I had the same problem. The download key was greyed out, so I thought I could not move the tunes to my computer. But then I right-clicked and selected 'download' and it worked. So now the tunes are on my computer and in the cloud. Bertrand. Edited April 1, 2011 by bertrand Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted April 1, 2011 Report Posted April 1, 2011 I had the same problem. The download key was greyed out, so I thought I could not move the tunes to my computer. But then I right-clicked and selected 'download' and it worked. So now the tunes are on my computer and in the cloud. Spared you having to cajole the thing down to your PC, thusly. Quote
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