The Well-Tempered Ear

Classical music news: You can now store music in Amazon.com’s “cloud.” But how good is it? And how does it work?

By Jacob Stockinger

The BIG news in distributing music — including classical music — is that Amazon.com has beaten the competition to setting up a “cloud” storage space for the music you buy in its remote servers.

Sounds like iTunes has just gone cosmic of or something like that.

Anyway, if you buy some digital music from Amazon.com and you get up to 5 gigabytes (that’s 5,000 megabytes) of free storage.

Then you can download anywhere or anytime to the appropriate device.

Don’t you love Brave New World!

Anyway, The Ear wondered what it meant, how it works and how good it is.

And so I figured you might want know too.

So here are some links to stories about it.

Happy reading.

Happy listening.

Happy buying.

And, most of all, happy storing and downloading.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore

http://www.amazon.com/b/?ie=UTF8&node=2658409011&tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=10397006259&ref=pd_sl_7gnp2sxnhk

WHY DO IT?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/03/30/134961216/why-put-your-music-in-the-cloud

HOW IMPORTANT IS IT AS NEW TECHNOLOGY?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/03/29/134939719/amazon-unveils-cloud-based-music-service

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_17787587?nclick_check=1

http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/29/technology/amazon_cloud/index.htm

DOES IT BENEFIT CONSUMERS?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2011/03/30/134961173/music-in-the-cloud-whats-in-store-for-consu

WHAT DO CONSUMERS AND USERS THINK OF IT?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/forum/cd/discussion.html?ie=UTF8&cdForum=Fx20DX5GEB7TUX8&cdThread=Tx2QYTCKTAD44V8

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2011-03-29-amazon-cloud-based-storage.htm

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE, JUST GO TO GOOGLE AND TYPE IT “AMAZON.COM CLOUD MUSIC.” YOU’LL SEE A LOT OF LINKS AND STORIES.

Have you used Amazon.com’s new cloud system for purchasing music?

What do you think of it?

Do you recommend it for others?

The Ear wants to hear.

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