Cloud Player and Cloud Drive are now two separate services; and the prices for storage in Cloud Drive have been cut in half.
--- IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION --- (03 Aug 2012)
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Thanks to information I learned from Atunah, it's come to my attention that Amazon has different pricing plans for different people. Why, I have no idea. Anyway, the subscription options for Atunah show plans where music is a separate plan priced at $25 per year on top of the data plan prices (see below). For further details, see the thread starting with post 106.
Clearly, this is a significant increase in cost for those who are not offered the bundled plans. They may wish to consider Google's free 20,000 song plan.
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Cloud Player has two versions - free and premium. Free will allow you to import up to 250 non-Amazon purchased songs. Premium will allow you to import up to 250,000 non-Amazon purchased songs. The import is similar to Apple's iTunes Match. Songs purchased from Amazon don't count toward these storage limits.
Prices for Cloud Player Premium start at $25/ year and include 50GB and up of Cloud Drive storage.
Cloud Drive Pans & Pricing per Year
- free = 5GB + Cloud Player Free
- $10 = 20GB + Cloud Player Free
- $25 = 50GB + Cloud Player Premium
- $50 = 100GB + Cloud Player Premium
- $100 = 200GB + Cloud Player Premium
- $250 = 500GB + Cloud Player Premium
- $500 = 1,000GB + Cloud Player Premium
By contrast, Apple only allows up to 25,000 non-iTunes purchased songs in iTunes Match. The $25 yearly fee for music is the same for both, but Amazon also includes 50GB of Cloud Drive storage; whereas Apple only includes 5GB. An additional 50GB of cloud storage from Apple will set you back another $100.
Complete details can be found here:
Amazon MP3 Store and Cloud Player Support