Pushin' the Cloud

kennyc · 10-30-2011, 07:01 AM

Just got this in my email from my friend Amazon.

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

With Kindle Fire, you can enjoy your music wherever you are. Start adding music to your Cloud Drive now so you can play or download it on your Kindle Fire when it arrives. You can add music by saving your Amazon MP3 purchases to Cloud Drive, plus you can upload even more music from your computer by visiting www.amazon.com/cloudplayer. Right now, get unlimited storage for music + 20 GB of Cloud Drive storage for only $20/year. Once your music is saved in Cloud Drive, you can play or download it on your Kindle Fire, Android device, PC, or Mac with Cloud Player.

Blossom · 10-30-2011, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Just got this in my email from my friend Amazon.

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

With Kindle Fire, you can enjoy your music wherever you are. Start adding music to your Cloud Drive now so you can play or download it on your Kindle Fire when it arrives. You can add music by saving your Amazon MP3 purchases to Cloud Drive, plus you can upload even more music from your computer by visiting www.amazon.com/cloudplayer. Right now, get unlimited storage for music + 20 GB of Cloud Drive storage for only $20/year. Once your music is saved in Cloud Drive, you can play or download it on your Kindle Fire, Android device, PC, or Mac with Cloud Player.

I got my year for free in July's promo. After using it I will pay $20 next year to renew.

I do like their music cloud. They need a better uploader though.

tubemonkey · 10-30-2011, 06:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blossom

I got my year for free in July's promo. After using it I will pay $20 next year to renew.

I do like their music cloud. They need a better uploader though.

I have the free 20GB deal also, but it's going unused. I might put some videos on it; but music is extremely unlikely. For me, a tablet is too large to be used as an MP3 player.

When it's time to renew, I won't do so.

nynaevelan · 10-31-2011, 01:43 PM

I too will renew as long as it is reasonably priced, I don't plan on using my music on the fire but I like having it backed up on the cloud.

Nyn

Synergi · 11-05-2011, 11:50 AM

20 dollars a year is really reasonable. I'd like to sub to Dropbox and get more storage but their prices are outrageous. 50gb at 10 a month is the cheapest plan they have. SugarSync is a little better at 30GB for 5 dollars a month.. Amazon's is 20Gb for roughly 1.67 cents a month at 20 dollars a year. It sure beats out iCloud at 10GB for the same 20 dollars a year, though I suspect iCloud is going to be much easier to use with iDevices.

Amazon really needs full integration so their cloud service is easy to use. I'd like to see a set up like Dropbox for Amazon's cloud services. I've been using Adrive (owned by AOL) for at least 3 years and its a free 50GB of cloud storage. That service actually saved me after I misplaced a 10 year old file I needed and I remembered I probably had saved it on Adrive lol. It was there so I do like the cloud, but they need better pricing.

kennyc · 11-05-2011, 12:16 PM

Thanks for that comment/comparison Synergi!!

sirmaru · 11-05-2011, 01:09 PM

I don't plan on using the Cloud. I'll sideload my music to my Fire and watch Prime movies (free) by WiFi. I will download my eBooks by WiFi.

Most places I visit do not have a free, unlocked WiFi. Thus, everything I use outside my house must be on my Fire's drive.

beckywc · 11-05-2011, 05:06 PM

I'm thinking about getting this to use with the Fire, if it works. Does anyone know what type of connection this is? I know the fire will not connect peer to peer or ad hoc, but I'm hoping the fire will communicate wirelessly with this. What do you think?

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Satell...=2TNBSF0DC0L7E

kennyc · 11-05-2011, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beckywc

I'm thinking about getting this to use with the Fire, if it works. Does anyone know what type of connection this is? I know the fire will not connect peer to peer or ad hoc, but I'm hoping the fire will communicate wirelessly with this. What do you think?

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Satell...=2TNBSF0DC0L7E

I'd be very doubtful. What would be required would be the ability to connect/play/access network drives from the fire itself. Sort of like the ability to be a drive host. I've not seen any indications that it is capable of doing that.

I do expect that it will show up as an external drive when connected via USB so that ebooks, files, etc can be loaded onto it ... but that is the opposite of what you'd require to use an external (or network) drive.

beckywc · 11-05-2011, 07:45 PM

From the info I've read and the videos I've seen the seagate acts like an adapter/network and you connect to it using your wifi through the wifi settings on the device. Then using the established ip address you are able to access the files, videos etc. on the seagate.

Since I don't understand what a peer to peer or ad hoc network is, does this make this setup one. Because the only limitation is that the Fire will not connect to either of these two type of networks.

kennyc · 11-05-2011, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by beckywc

From the info I've read and the videos I've seen the seagate acts like an adapter/network and you connect to it using your wifi through the wifi settings on the device. Then using the established ip address you are able to access the files, videos etc. on the seagate.

Since I don't understand what a peer to peer or ad hoc network is, does this make this setup one. Because the only limitation is that the Fire will not connect to either of these two type of networks.

Right, but your device still has to have the ability to access remote drives. I don't think the Fire will do that. My Xoom won't do that, nor my DroidX using straight Android. There might be an app of some kind that would allow it, but I'm not familiar with one off the top of my head.

beckywc · 11-05-2011, 09:44 PM

Can you check out this video because it says any andrioid device. Link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egt85...eature=related

I'm sorry if I'm dense, just trying get a clear understanding.

kennyc · 11-05-2011, 09:51 PM

Well it apparently acts as a wifi -- but, but, but, you'd still have to have apps that would use it, I'm still very skeptical that the Fire Movie player will play from it and that sort of thing. Now I may be completely wrong, but I personally would not be willing to take a chance on it working (certainly not without rooting the Fire).

The other issue I see is that if it is acting as your wifi device then your browser etc is not going to work properly. Again, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm still betting against it working the way you are thinking.

I'd suggest you post your question on Amazon in the Kindle Fire section and see what they say. Maybe here:
http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle/r...TxETMG4G5L19AW

beckywc · 11-05-2011, 09:57 PM

You will not have access to the internet while being hooked up to the device, but I wanted to use it for file storage when I go to places that didn't have wifi access in order to gain access to my files, videos etc that I have upload to the cloud.

I would keep a duplicate copy on this and when I'm traveling and can't get wifi access I could still have access to files, videos, etc. especially since it's pocket size. I can just drop it into my purse and pop it out while traveling in a car, etc. It would solve the problem of a SD card access.

I just wanted to make sure that this wasn't considered a peer to peer or adhoc type network.

kennyc · 11-05-2011, 10:01 PM

Ask Amazon and report back.

I'd like to know what they say myself.

10-30-2011, 07:01 AM	#1
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,891 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Pushin' the Cloud Just got this in my email from my friend Amazon. Dear Amazon.com Customer, With Kindle Fire, you can enjoy your music wherever you are. Start adding music to your Cloud Drive now so you can play or download it on your Kindle Fire when it arrives. You can add music by saving your Amazon MP3 purchases to Cloud Drive, plus you can upload even more music from your computer by visiting www.amazon.com/cloudplayer. Right now, get unlimited storage for music + 20 GB of Cloud Drive storage for only $20/year. Once your music is saved in Cloud Drive, you can play or download it on your Kindle Fire, Android device, PC, or Mac with Cloud Player.

11-05-2011, 09:51 PM	#13
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,891 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Well it apparently acts as a wifi -- but, but, but, you'd still have to have apps that would use it, I'm still very skeptical that the Fire Movie player will play from it and that sort of thing. Now I may be completely wrong, but I personally would not be willing to take a chance on it working (certainly not without rooting the Fire). The other issue I see is that if it is acting as your wifi device then your browser etc is not going to work properly. Again, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm still betting against it working the way you are thinking. I'd suggest you post your question on Amazon in the Kindle Fire section and see what they say. Maybe here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle/r...TxETMG4G5L19AW Last edited by kennyc; 11-05-2011 at 09:55 PM.

11-05-2011, 09:57 PM	#14
beckywc Addict Posts: 272 Karma: 1050426 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: California Device: iPad Mini w/Retina, Kindle 3, Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, & Asus Transformer	You will not have access to the internet while being hooked up to the device, but I wanted to use it for file storage when I go to places that didn't have wifi access in order to gain access to my files, videos etc that I have upload to the cloud. I would keep a duplicate copy on this and when I'm traveling and can't get wifi access I could still have access to files, videos, etc. especially since it's pocket size. I can just drop it into my purse and pop it out while traveling in a car, etc. It would solve the problem of a SD card access. I just wanted to make sure that this wasn't considered a peer to peer or adhoc type network. Last edited by beckywc; 11-05-2011 at 10:02 PM.

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nynaevelan eBook Junkie Posts: 1,526 Karma: 1464018 Join Date: May 2010 Location: USA Device: Kindle Fire 2020, Kindle PW2	I too will renew as long as it is reasonably priced, I don't plan on using my music on the fire but I like having it backed up on the cloud. Nyn

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Synergi Addict Posts: 341 Karma: 4683770 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle PW, iPadPro, Galaxy Note 5, 8 (tab) & Galaxy Tab S3	20 dollars a year is really reasonable. I'd like to sub to Dropbox and get more storage but their prices are outrageous. 50gb at 10 a month is the cheapest plan they have. SugarSync is a little better at 30GB for 5 dollars a month.. Amazon's is 20Gb for roughly 1.67 cents a month at 20 dollars a year. It sure beats out iCloud at 10GB for the same 20 dollars a year, though I suspect iCloud is going to be much easier to use with iDevices. Amazon really needs full integration so their cloud service is easy to use. I'd like to see a set up like Dropbox for Amazon's cloud services. I've been using Adrive (owned by AOL) for at least 3 years and its a free 50GB of cloud storage. That service actually saved me after I misplaced a 10 year old file I needed and I remembered I probably had saved it on Adrive lol. It was there so I do like the cloud, but they need better pricing.

11-05-2011, 12:16 PM	#6
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,891 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Thanks for that comment/comparison Synergi!!

11-05-2011, 01:09 PM	#7
sirmaru Wizard Posts: 2,426 Karma: 6561538 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Kindle PW 2013, HDX 2013, Galaxy S5 2014	I don't plan on using the Cloud. I'll sideload my music to my Fire and watch Prime movies (free) by WiFi. I will download my eBooks by WiFi. Most places I visit do not have a free, unlocked WiFi. Thus, everything I use outside my house must be on my Fire's drive.

11-05-2011, 05:06 PM	#8
beckywc Addict Posts: 272 Karma: 1050426 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: California Device: iPad Mini w/Retina, Kindle 3, Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, & Asus Transformer	I'm thinking about getting this to use with the Fire, if it works. Does anyone know what type of connection this is? I know the fire will not connect peer to peer or ad hoc, but I'm hoping the fire will communicate wirelessly with this. What do you think? http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Satell...=2TNBSF0DC0L7E

11-05-2011, 07:45 PM	#10
beckywc Addict Posts: 272 Karma: 1050426 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: California Device: iPad Mini w/Retina, Kindle 3, Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, & Asus Transformer	From the info I've read and the videos I've seen the seagate acts like an adapter/network and you connect to it using your wifi through the wifi settings on the device. Then using the established ip address you are able to access the files, videos etc. on the seagate. Since I don't understand what a peer to peer or ad hoc network is, does this make this setup one. Because the only limitation is that the Fire will not connect to either of these two type of networks.

11-05-2011, 09:44 PM	#12
beckywc Addict Posts: 272 Karma: 1050426 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: California Device: iPad Mini w/Retina, Kindle 3, Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, & Asus Transformer	Can you check out this video because it says any andrioid device. Link below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egt85...eature=related I'm sorry if I'm dense, just trying get a clear understanding.

11-05-2011, 10:01 PM	#15
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,891 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Ask Amazon and report back. I'd like to know what they say myself.