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Streaming seems a bit silly when I've got 16 gigs sitting empty on my phone. I just want synching. I'll use Pandora if I want to stream. And then I'm not restri

by pkulak 16y ago

Streaming seems a bit silly when I've got 16 gigs sitting empty on my phone. I just want synching. I'll use Pandora if I want to stream. And then I'm not restricted to just my library.

CrazedGeek 16y ago
I have around 60GB of FLACs on my hard drive. At LAME's V0 encoding, that's around 20GB of MP3s. And it's ever increasing. Considering that SDHC has a max of 32GB and SDXC doesn't have much support (much less microSDXC), there's definitely a market for something like this. (Probably very niche, but eh... Amazon seems to be positioning this as kind of a Box.net thing with an emphasis on music storage and playback)
davidedicillo 16y ago
Exactly, or Rdio.
roc 16y ago
I'd be very surprised if this isn't step 1 to a whole-phone-data-sync solution. Media, Data, third party app API -- the whole shebang.
- hyperbovine 16y ago
  I think the hype has raced ahead of the technology here. "Streaming everything" on today's smartphones seems to give you about 2 hrs of battery life, a problem for which there does not appear to be a near-term solution. Moreover, no wireless network in America could support that mode of usage on a large scale, and that will also be true for the foreseeable future. Or so it seems to me -- anyone in the know care to comment?
  - MatthewPhillips 16y ago
    There is a solution, which several companies already implement (Rdio and Spotify, at least). You can sync tracks to your device. I haven't used MOG or Rhapsody so I'm not sure if they do it as well (anyone?) but it seems like the obvious solution. It's the best of both worlds, as you can still stream if you want.
  - roc 16y ago
    I wouldn't imagine "streaming everything" is the way to interpret this. Think of it more like Dropbox-style-sync for your whole phone (likely configurable to only happen when in wifi), plus the option to stream if you really want. The average user will be using the wifi-sync by default without even realizing it and probably never even consider streaming all their music.

by pkulak 16y ago

Streaming seems a bit silly when I've got 16 gigs sitting empty on my phone. I just want synching. I'll use Pandora if I want to stream. And then I'm not restricted to just my library.

CrazedGeek 16y ago

I have around 60GB of FLACs on my hard drive. At LAME's V0 encoding, that's around 20GB of MP3s. And it's ever increasing. Considering that SDHC has a max of 32GB and SDXC doesn't have much support (much less microSDXC), there's definitely a market for something like this. (Probably very niche, but eh... Amazon seems to be positioning this as kind of a Box.net thing with an emphasis on music storage and playback)

davidedicillo 16y ago

Exactly, or Rdio.

roc 16y ago

I'd be very surprised if this isn't step 1 to a whole-phone-data-sync solution. Media, Data, third party app API -- the whole shebang.

hyperbovine 16y ago
I think the hype has raced ahead of the technology here. "Streaming everything" on today's smartphones seems to give you about 2 hrs of battery life, a problem for which there does not appear to be a near-term solution. Moreover, no wireless network in America could support that mode of usage on a large scale, and that will also be true for the foreseeable future. Or so it seems to me -- anyone in the know care to comment?
- MatthewPhillips 16y ago
  There is a solution, which several companies already implement (Rdio and Spotify, at least). You can sync tracks to your device. I haven't used MOG or Rhapsody so I'm not sure if they do it as well (anyone?) but it seems like the obvious solution. It's the best of both worlds, as you can still stream if you want.
- roc 16y ago
  I wouldn't imagine "streaming everything" is the way to interpret this. Think of it more like Dropbox-style-sync for your whole phone (likely configurable to only happen when in wifi), plus the option to stream if you really want. The average user will be using the wifi-sync by default without even realizing it and probably never even consider streaming all their music.