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Cloud Music: Almost there

21 points by filipmares 15y ago

sorbus 15y ago
> Pros: Expensive storage cost (Google offers 20GB for $5/yr) Somehow I feel like this article could use a tiny bit of editing, as expensive storage feels more like a disadvantage than an advantage.
- filipmares 15y ago
  Thanks for the catch. I've updated the post.
  - dangrossman 15y ago
    What does this refer to anyway? The word Google appears nowhere else in the post, what is their cloud music service with this pricing?
    - ydant 15y ago
      Amazon's storage costs seem to be more directly marketed as the cost to store files, not to store music files. In terms of direct competitors in the web-based file storage offerings, Google Docs / file storage seems to be a fairly close one, if you ignore the music playback capability. Since the music playback capability it just an add-on to the file storage aspect, it seems reasonable to compare them to me.
sssparkkk 15y ago
It's articles like this that make me realize how fortunate we are to be having Spotify in Europe. Streaming my music from the cloud for quite some time now, I actually wondered for a second whether the blogpost was a few years old!
- filipmares 15y ago
  Still waiting for Spotify here in the US.
kacy 15y ago
Maybe I've become an Rdio fanboy, but I think it serves all of my needs when compared to the other services. I never really liked Grooveshark because of its incomplete interface. I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem as though there's enough money from a free service to support the artists. I'm also not a fan of cloud storage because I really don't "own" much music, and there's currently not an iPhone app for the Amazon store. So why do I love Rdio? Well, for $10/month I'm able to stream and locally cache pretty much any song I'm into at the time. They've also done a stellar job at signing indie labels, especially the ones here in NC. It also has my network of friends, so I can see what they're into. Like I said, I'm really biased but hopefully you'll find some useful info there. :-)

21 points by filipmares 15y ago

> Pros: Expensive storage cost (Google offers 20GB for $5/yr) Somehow I feel like this article could use a tiny bit of editing, as expensive storage feels more like a disadvantage than an advantage.

filipmares 15y ago
Thanks for the catch. I've updated the post.
- dangrossman 15y ago
  What does this refer to anyway? The word Google appears nowhere else in the post, what is their cloud music service with this pricing?
  - ydant 15y ago
    Amazon's storage costs seem to be more directly marketed as the cost to store files, not to store music files. In terms of direct competitors in the web-based file storage offerings, Google Docs / file storage seems to be a fairly close one, if you ignore the music playback capability. Since the music playback capability it just an add-on to the file storage aspect, it seems reasonable to compare them to me.

sssparkkk 15y ago

It's articles like this that make me realize how fortunate we are to be having Spotify in Europe. Streaming my music from the cloud for quite some time now, I actually wondered for a second whether the blogpost was a few years old!

filipmares 15y ago
Still waiting for Spotify here in the US.

kacy 15y ago

Maybe I've become an Rdio fanboy, but I think it serves all of my needs when compared to the other services. I never really liked Grooveshark because of its incomplete interface. I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem as though there's enough money from a free service to support the artists. I'm also not a fan of cloud storage because I really don't "own" much music, and there's currently not an iPhone app for the Amazon store. So why do I love Rdio? Well, for $10/month I'm able to stream and locally cache pretty much any song I'm into at the time. They've also done a stellar job at signing indie labels, especially the ones here in NC. It also has my network of friends, so I can see what they're into. Like I said, I'm really biased but hopefully you'll find some useful info there. :-)