Comments on: Music Cloud

By: jsd

jsd — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:02:53 +0000

- Amazon is being sued for Cloud Drive
- 3G data caps will ensure that you will pay big $$$ to access your music on the go

That said, I hope this sort of thing gets figured out, because it IS a cool idea.

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:39:11 +0000

My guess is blame the record labels for that one.

By: Lee Faulkner

Lee Faulkner — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:07:25 +0000

Why the need to upload anything … all the data is there somewhere already. Surely if the ‘cloud’ can see your original CD or file at the user end, it should just retrieve from an Amazon library of material?

What a waste of bandwidth and space to keep a copy of a song for every user!!

Lee

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:18:03 +0000

I agree right now there is no real connection but imagine Google and Apple in the game with more social features. If I get used to my music all in one place online including my own recordings….

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:30:35 +0000

Hey Oliver. I’m missing the Soundcloud connection. This seems to be more of a place to store and listen to music on one’s phone or iPad or whatever, while Soundcloud’s selling point is the Flickr-like “community.” Unless, that is, one uses Soundcloud merely for the embedding player, in which case I can see the overlap.

By: James Lewin

James Lewin — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:20:29 +0000

Oliver – I’ve been trying it out since it was announced and it technically works perfectly.

Upload time is a huge problem with the service, though, if you’re really into music. I uploaded 1 playlist of a little over 3 GB and it ran overnight and is still going today.

Based on this, it would take at least a week to upload my current library.

This doesn’t seem like a technology/service that’s ready for mass adoption yet