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The really interesting thing is that this indicates that Amazon really is copying the bits around to everyone's locker, rather than just saying "user x has righ
by smackfu 15y ago
The really interesting thing is that this indicates that Amazon really is copying the bits around to everyone's locker, rather than just saying "user x has rights to song y". Otherwise why would it take so long (12 hours+) just to give me access to these songs?
- ktsmith 15y agoI'm curious if they really are doing that. It could lend some weight to their claims they don't need the music industries permission to launch a music service as they aren't streaming things, the users are accessing their own files.
- whyenot 15y agoI think they are. I bought the album and at first my locker had only a few of the songs marked as playable, a few minutes later, more were playable, and after maybe 5 minutes they were all playable. To me, the best explanation for this behavior was that it was taking some time for Amazon to copy all my purchased songs over to my locker. ps: I'm not a big Lady Gaga fan, but for 99 cents I figured I'd give it a whirl.
- mikiem 15y ago...and is the assumption that the Amazon music service uses AWS or something like it, and the speed of EBS or something like it is too slow at this scale for the songs to be instantly playable?
- dustingetz 15y agoamazon cloud player is fast enough to stream songs to my 3G droid without skipping.
- rudiger 15y agoWhat is the reasoning behind not performing de-duplication of common files? It seems incredibly stupid to copy a popular song hundreds of thousands of times when a "single" canonical copy would do. Multiple people can stream music from a single file and people with large music collections would wait seconds instead of hours waiting for their songs to upload.
- msg 15y agorevanchist copyright laws on performance of music
- Niten 15y agoIronically requiring that they make more copies, if this is true.
- cake 15y agoYep that must be because of copyright reasons as someone once pointed to me, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com
- wazoox 15y agoAmazon tags the mp3 you bought from us with your customer ID. I suppose this is why each customer gets a very slightly different file in this case too.
- acqq 15y agoIf it would be only a tag, the web server could be modified to deliver most of the song from the same file (at least I'd do that). However if they do "watermarking" in audio data, there's no escape for them, every purchase is really demanding on CPU's.