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Originally Posted by Catlady
Only the music I purchased from Amazon is stored in the cloud--mostly classical music bought with mp3 credits.
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Same here. Thanks to those credits and others offers, I now have over 1,000 songs.
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Frankly, I'm completely confused by the e-mail today from Amazon. I don't understand the "improvements" the letter claims they've made, and I don't understand the difference between the Cloud Player and the Cloud Drive. But as I was only taking advantage of the free backup, so as long as I don't need to do anything or pay for anything, I don't much care what they do.
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The Cloud Player is designed to not only store your music, but also to play it through the built-in player. The improvement is the premium service. Instead of uploading your collection to the player, Amazon scans your hard drive and identifies your songs. It then matches those songs from its vast catalog and places them in your player as 256 Kbps MP3s. This is very similar to Apple's iTunes Match.
The Cloud Drive is designed to store documents, pictures, videos, and music. Music stored here can't be played from here. It needs to be downloaded to a player first. The Cloud Drive is Amazon's version of DropBox.