That is, if you use your Cloud Drive to hold MP3 or AAC encoded music files, those will be automatically available to Cloud Player, and can be streamed to nearly any browser. Cloud Player is a web-based media player that has access to the files uploaded to your Cloud Drive. The real killer here isn’t Cloud Drive by ’s the associated Cloud Player and the model that Amazon is using for the connection between the two. There's no reason that Amazon couldn't move this direction, however, and release a program that would allow more direct access. For Cloud Drive, you have to do all file interactions (uploading/downloading) within your browser, which isn't as convenient on traditional computers as a locally-mounted drive. While 5GB free is more than Dropbox's 2GB, and way less than SkyDrive's 25Gb, for raw storage in the cloud I still think Dropbox has everything else beat in usability. Amazon is giving everyone 5GB of space for free, with the ability to purchase additional storage for $1 per Gigabyte in chunks: 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, or 1000 GB levels are all available. The first is Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon's answer to other consumer-facing cloud storage, is similar to Dropbox or Windows SkyDrive. The two services are connected, but distinct in capabilities and effects, so let's look at them separately: On March 29th, Amazon launched two major new services, both of which seem to speak directly to my post guessing at an Amazon Tablet.as well as being shots across the bow of both Apple and the music industry.
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