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Originally Posted by boswd
Yeah weeks to download made me laugh. But on the Amazon you can also download to your device as well, what I like about the amazon cloud service better is you have more control on what you want to be downloaded and uploaded to the cloud. Google uses a Cache (pinned) system when you aren't streaming, which is pretty cool feature, doesn't use any internal or sd card memory but you can use it when you have a bad connection etc. And the fact you do have "true" cloud service by being able to stream from the web page really means your music is everywhere.
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With Amazon you can download to your device, but it doesn't get pushed like it does with the iTunes Cloud service. I thought that was kind of cool.
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Originally Posted by boswd
I don't like how Apple will charge for 'substituting" your music that wasnt' bought from iTunes. I would say 80% of my library is ripped. I'm a yard sale scavenger during the summer. buy cd's for like .50 a rip away.
I would have to pay Apple $25 a year to listen to my own music.
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True, but that's not too different than what you'd be doing with Amazon, if your collection is over 5GB.
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Originally Posted by boswd
At least with Amazon I have more control over the storage.
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That certainly seems to be true.
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Originally Posted by boswd
but if someone who lives basically in iTunes and all their songs are iTunes then this is good. For people with more advanced music library and wider range of sources, Amazon is a better option for you IMHO.
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Yeah. It really seems tailored to someone living in the iTunes ecosystem (which makes sense, I suppose).
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Originally Posted by boswd
google will be interesting to see. So far it's Invitation only Beta for Free. I signed up, I like it, it's android application is wonderful, very visually striking. but we'll see when they do their pricing. So far the whole thing is free. so that wins, for now.
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I signed up for Google Music, but I haven't gotten my invitation yet. I really want to try it. If it's got all the features they say, it's more full-featured than Amazon's offering.
I've been happy with the Amazon Cloud Player so far. I think it would be prohibitively expensive (for me) to put my entire library on it, but the service itself seems to work fine. And the idea that I could pay $100 and have a 100GB music player on any device I want sounds like a pretty good deal to me. (That might change if Google Music turns out to be cheaper.)