Amazon Introduces iPad-Friendly Cloud Player, Offers Unlimited Storage

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In order to ensure its service has the best chance of competing with rival cloud-based music services, especially those that may be coming from Cupertino, Amazon has just introduced an iPad-friendly version of Cloud Player and expanded the music storage capabilities of Cloud Drive.

Although users shouldn’t expect to see a native Cloud Player app appear in the App Store anytime soon, a new web-based player optimised for the iPad can now be accessed through your device’s web browser. This will allow you to listen to all of the music you have stored in your Cloud Drive while you’re on the go.

In addition to this, Amazon has announced unlimited storage space for music for all customers who subscribe to a paid Cloud Drive storage plan — even those on the lowest price plan at $20 per year. While storage for other files remains capped depending on your plan, you can upload as many music files (MP3 and AAC) as you wish.

There’s also a little bit for customers on the free Cloud Drive plan: although you won’t have unlimited storage for all music, tracks purchased directly from Amazon won’t count against your 5GB storage quota.

This move gives Amazon’s cloud services an advantage over rival Google Music, which doesn’t currently offer unlimited storage. However, it is a limited time offer and won’t be around forever. Therefore, if you’ve been meaning to sign up to the service, now would be the best time to do it.

For iOS users then, Amazon’s cloud services look a little more attractive than the upcoming Google Music.

Apple has already announced ‘iTunes in the Cloud‘, but unlike Amazon Cloud Drive and Google Music, the service doesn’t allow users to stream their tracks from the cloud. Instead, the service will sync a user’s entire music library across all of their devices for $24.99 a year, but it will still eat away at your previous local storage.

[via MacRumors]

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