

Google Play allows you to keep up to 20,000 songs stored on Google's servers, while Apple’s iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud and matches up to 25,000 tracks (though as we explained in our previous examination of iTunes Match, songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store don't count toward your 25,000 song limit).
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Amazon's cloud locker service, dubbed the Cloud Player Premium, features two tiers: the free version allows up to 250 imported songs, while the premium version costs $24.99 a year but enables subscribers to upload 250,000 imported tracks. Neither of these limits count toward purchases that were made from Amazon MP3 directly, or those old CDs you might actually rather forget you ever purchased. Google Music won’t retroactively match your existing library if you uploaded music to the service before the scan-and-match feature was announced-at least not yet. According to its official Google Play FAQ page, it will automatically match songs “in the next few months.” Any music that you upload now, however, will be matched as it’s available.

If you'd like, and you have the patience, you can delete your music library and subsequently re-upload it to have it all matched.
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Once your music is stored in Google Music, you can listen to it on the Web or via your mobile device-this includes both Android and iOS devices, though the latter is only accessible via an HTML 5-rendered webpage. In iTunes Match, music is accessible through all iOS devices, as well as through the iTunes desktop client.

With Amazon Cloud Player, you can access your collection on the Web or via an iOS or Android app. When I first made my transition from front-end development into back-end development in ~2002, I had two things to learn: a…Īt Crowd Favorite we’re getting ready to hire several developers.How can Google Music be free when iTunes and Amazon are charging an annual fee? According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple and Amazon's strategies are to use the subscriber fee to pay for the payments to the music labels and publishers in order to match some of the songs that may be pirated-often referred to as a "sin" tax. Other Recent-ish Posts of Note on This Site If your Cloud Drive account contains more than 5 GB of files you will be prevented from uploading additional files until you delete enough files to be under the 5 GB limit or subscribe to a storage plan with enough space for your files. You are currently using 0.00 GB (emphasis mine) of Cloud Drive storage.

If your Cloud Player library contained more than 250 imported songs when your subscription expired, you will be unable to access your previously-imported music, but you will still be able to access all of your Amazon MP3 purchases. Hmm, did I ever use this thing? I remember thinking about it… If you would like to review your usage or subscribe to a new plan, visit the Manage Your Cloud Subscriptions () page. Your 20 GB + Cloud Player Premium Promotion subscription has ended and you are now limited to 250 imported songs in your Amazon Cloud Player library and 5 GB of free storage in Amazon Cloud Drive. Received this email from Amazon yesterday:
