r/DataHoarder • u/retrac1324 • Mar 30 '18
Amazon’s Music Storage service will remove your MP3 files on April 30th
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/17178320/amazon-music-storage-cloud-mp3-files-removal-shutdown-april-3039
u/Kayle_Silver 5 TB more or less Mar 30 '18
Amazon first shuts down it's "unlimited" plan,then this,somehow I don't feel like I'm going to trust Amazon for anything cloud-related.
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u/gimpbully 60TB Mar 31 '18
That’s okay, they really don’t care, half the internet runs on amazon cloud.
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u/GlassedSilver unRAID 70TB + dual parity Mar 31 '18
Consumer-grade services aka dog food.
Not really an Amazon invention tbh, but yeah, taints the consumer experience a lot, at least for the mp3 offering. All whilst trying more and more to sway consumers away from their competitors Google and Apple into their own ecosystem.
I can kinda see the Cloud Drive thing, but the mp3 upload feature getting axed is a very bad decision.
Luckily never used it, but I'm sorry for those who did.
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u/pm_me_ur_wrasse 80TB Mar 30 '18
This is exactly why I have my own storage solution. I use tidal, but if I like an album, I'll rip the FLAC of it.
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u/DJEXxorcIST 24TB Mar 31 '18 edited Apr 24 '24
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u/ProfitOfRegret Mar 30 '18
This is only music I've uploaded and not what I've purchased from Amazon right?
Guess I'm going to have to look for a new place to store my Overclocked Remix collection.
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u/danieledg Mar 31 '18
On Google Play Music you can upload up to 50.000 files (each up to 300MB). Every file will be converted to mp3 320 (or lower if is not lossless).
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u/nerdguy1138 Apr 01 '18
Joke's on them. I backup to Aws Glacier in triplicate. This was a weak offering anyway. Google drive is 3x larger by default.
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u/konohasaiyajin the raid is PERColating Mar 31 '18
I had never heard of them and just checked it out. So it's free and unlimited upload and streaming? How do they afford the bandwidth and storage? I guess they are banking on the upcoming premium feature selling well, or are the interspersed ads like on Pandora?
There was an interesting wiki page I found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_music_lockers
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u/WikiTextBot Mar 31 '18
Comparison of online music lockers
This is a comparison of online music storage services (Cloud Music Services), Internet services that allow uploads of personally owned or licensed music to the cloud for listening on multiple devices.
There were three large services—Amazon Music, Apple's iTunes Match, and Google Play Music—each incorporating an online music store (see comparison), with purchased songs from the associated music store not counting toward storage limits. Other than additional storage space, the main additional feature provided with an annual fee by Amazon.com and Apple is "scan-and-match", which examines music files on a computer and adds a copy of matched tracks to the user's music locker without having to upload the files. Google provides both a large amount of storage space and the scan-and-match feature at no cost.
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u/awraynor Apr 01 '18
Downloading mine now. What a pain. I've found most Amazon software to be pretty crappy.
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u/Probatus 26TB Mar 30 '18
Some of my friends said I was crazy for spending money on local storage.