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Amazon Cloud Music Service

Just alerting Evo owners (Android owners too) that Amazon just launched their Amazon Cloud Player and Android App. You get 5 GB for free and if you purchase a mp3 (just one will do and for .99 cents pretty cheap storage) you are automatically updated to 20 GB for one year. You can upload your existing music collection to the cloud and listen anywhere; home PC, phone, anywhere with an internet connection. It also allows you to store other files there as well (so they say but haven't checked out that option yet). There is an Android App to go with the program. No subscription fees. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me. Secures your music in case of hardware failure and has the potential to free up a lot of space on your SD card. If you want to pull your music back onto your phone to listen in a premium music player, thats doable too. Great concept and the price can't be beat. This should be especially useful to Sprint users with unlimited data plans. I uploaded 10 GB of music this morning from my computer over Wifi from home and will clean up my SD card from music I don't listen too that often. I think it's a great utility and let's you manage your own library of music pretty liberally.

When they sell flac then I'm in. Until then ill pass
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Im thinking about this but i want see what apple and google offer next.

A whole 20 gig? That wouldnt even house my music with artists starting with A. Do these people really think people have that little music? Ive been buying CDs since the 90s and ripping them. At 320K, it doesnt take long to rack up some space.

aburgthing said:
Just alerting Evo owners (Android owners too) that Amazon just launched their Amazon Cloud Player and Android App. You get 5 GB for free and if you purchase a mp3 (just one will do and for .99 cents pretty cheap storage) you are automatically updated to 20 GB for one year. You can upload your existing music collection to the cloud and listen anywhere; home PC, phone, anywhere with an internet connection. It also allows you to store other files there as well (so they say but haven't checked out that option yet). There is an Android App to go with the program. No subscription fees. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me. Secures your music in case of hardware failure and has the potential to free up a lot of space on your SD card. If you want to pull your music back onto your phone to listen in a premium music player, thats doable too. Great concept and the price can't be beat. This should be especially useful to Sprint users with unlimited data plans. I uploaded 10 GB of music this morning from my computer over Wifi from home and will clean up my SD card from music I don't listen too that often. I think it's a great utility and let's you manage your own library of music pretty liberally.
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Did you buy the one song using your computer or three amazon mp3 app?
I want free upgrade
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This is awesome for my needs.. Thank you for posting!!!!

MadFlava said:
A whole 20 gig? That wouldnt even house my music with artists starting with A. Do these people really think people have that little music? Ive been buying CDs since the 90s and ripping them. At 320K, it doesnt take long to rack up some space.
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you can buy more storage
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You can get up to 1000 GB!
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/manage/ref=dm_amp_as

Those with large collections, subsonic is great for streaming from your house
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Did you buy the one song using your computer or three amazon mp3 app?
I want free upgrade
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I think you have to buy a album to get the 20 GB.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=1000667531

Thank you op.....will check it out.
Via EVO.

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Hi, so If I upload all my songs to the cloud .. is there a mp3 player within the cloud that will play my songs, or do i need to download the song in order for it to play?

You can use the amazon mp3 app on your phone to play the music or use the web app on your computer.
Also if you purchase the $.69 album linked below you'll be upgraded to the 20 GB plan. 20 GB for $.69. EASY....
http://www.amazon.com/Trouty-Mouth-..._shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301412496&sr=301-1

Thanks will try it out
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You can use the amazon mp3 app on your phone to play the music or use the web app on your computer.
Also if you purchase the $.69 album linked below you'll be upgraded to the 20 GB plan. 20 GB for $.69. EASY....
http://www.amazon.com/Trouty-Mouth-..._shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301412496&sr=301-1
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Just bought the Album and got upgraded to the 20 GB Cloud Space until March 29, 2012 cool beans!

No problem....

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The best streaming service I've tried is mspot. It gives you 2GB free space but you can buy more, I fit alot more than 2GB in because it gives you an option of song quality to upload from the original format so I chose the lowest (its just a phone and sounds great even the website through my computer speakers), and best of all its all in the cloud, no need for your computer to be on to act as a server like other services.

I was up very late messing around with this last night. Honestly, I think it's an awesome move, and has thrown down the gauntlet to Google and Apple. Plus, 20GB is enough for me to fit all my most listened to music up there. I like that it streams in the songs original bitrate too.
A lot of people in the comments section on various sites keep mentioning Audiogalaxy as an alternative, but what sets this apart is your home computer doesn't have to be on and connected to the internet all the time.
I may move to Google Music when it comes out, but for now, for me, this is the cream of the crop.

You guys may want to be real careful on what you upload to CloudDrive for a while.
Seems Amazon is taking a "unique" approach to this cloud storage & streaming service. They are arguing that they dont need distribution licenses from RIAA because the service is more like a user saving files to an external harddrive, but in this case its the cloud.
They dont have a license agreement with ANY of the labels, which means that things will likely go south. RIAA and labels are likely going to sue Amazon and issue a C&D letter to get the service to stop. They may even get Amazon to turn over user info and lead to other headaches... Sony for one stated that they are "shocked & upset" over Amazon's new CloudDrive service and others are saying they cant believe a company like Amazon went ahead without securing licenses...
http://http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Amazon-faces-backlash-over-rb-3699819521.html
I would only store music previously purchased from Amazon or CDs that you own, just to be safe. Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I would bet that if Amazon doesnt secure some sort of licensing deal & tighten up their offerings, RIAA is going to bring lawsuits.

Who else got invited to Google Music Beta?

From the e-mail I got from Google, I've aparently been invited because I own the Xoom 3g, and am currently paying for 3g service from Verizon.
But whatever the reason, I got the invite.
I still haven't recieved the update for my Xoom yet, and I don't think you can get the Music app in the app store until the update, so i've been forced to try the beta in "Browser" which is a bunk.
As far as desktop goes, it works well, but on the Xoom, it lags a little, and will only play the music if the tab for the player is open. (which really I guess is to be expected, and why there is an app for it.)
Regardless, it is quite simple to use, and in itself, is a very simple layout. There isn't really anthing special, it reminds me of itunes (as far as strictly listening to music, not including the store and all the extra jazz.) They have what they call "Instant Mixes" which is pretty much the genious mix in apple, except it will only create a 25 song playlist.
One nice thing about it, is whatever player you choose it to upload your songs with, it carries over the playlists.
There is a "New and Recent" section beside Album, Song, Genre, and Artist like on the Xoom. Also, a small but nice selection of free songs that you can choose to have imported into your cloud when you sign in the first time.
I really will have to wait till I can test the app to make any final decisions on this.
As far as I'm concerned, cloud based music storage is pretty much useless to me. I can survive with 5-10 gigs stored onto my Xoom that I can listen too without ever needing to connect to the internet. (I don't need to use my 10$ a gig data from verizon for something that should be free) Once we get our SD slot working, this will become especially true. It is cool to be able to have your music anywhere in the world, but not if you think that you have to pay Google for this service, then pay for the data while using the service.
But I will go at it with an open mind for anyone that would find this of interest, because well, I guess it's part my duty since I recieved an invite. If you also recieved an invite please let me know what you think about it.

I got in the beta as well. The biggest thing for me when it comes to cloud music is not worrying about transferring music to my devices or computers anymore. I'm always worried about backing up my music and syncing across all my computers. Now if I reformat any of my devices be it tablet, phone or laptop I can get my music from anywhere and redownload it if needed.
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Do you have the ability to invite others?
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No, only google can invite.

It is weird... i got on the Music page before the keynote and signed up for the Beta with the same email as the one my Xoom is connected to and I still haven't gotten anything.... kinda sucks.... maybe that caused everyone to assume we were just another user instead of Xoom users

Handshake87 said:
It is weird... i got on the Music page before the keynote and signed up for the Beta with the same email as the one my Xoom is connected to and I still haven't gotten anything.... kinda sucks.... maybe that caused everyone to assume we were just another user instead of Xoom users
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See, I don't think you will get an invite just for owning a xoom..... Here is exactly how the e-mail inviting me was phrased (Please note, i did not sign up for an invite, i just got it)
Hello Motorola XOOM user,
We'd like to tell you about some changes to the Music player on your tablet. The latest app update now supports Music Beta, a new service from Google. As a Verizon Motorola XOOM user, you’ve been extended an early invitation to beta test this service.
Music Beta lets you store your personal music collection online and access it instantly without the hassle of wires or syncing.
Enjoy your music anywhere — listen on any web browser, your Motorola XOOM, or any other device running Android 2.2 or higher.
Save your favorite albums, artists, and playlists on your smartphone or tablet so you can keep listening even when you're not connected.
Create your own custom playlists or build them automatically from a single song.
Note also that is says Verizon Motorola XOOM user... I guess this could be explained by any 3g model, but I actually have my data active, so I imagined that's why I received the invite.

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Not that I can see. I have yet to receive the 3.1 update, but I received the invite, signed up, and also downloaded the updated Music app from the market. I haven't uploaded any songs yet, but I can stream the two dozen or so tracks they gave me for free. Works well, pretty simple, audio quality is actually pretty decent - on the Xoom speakers, haven't tested on my Sennheiser headphones though.

khov07 said:
Not that I can see. I have yet to receive the 3.1 update, but I received the invite, signed up, and also downloaded the updated Music app from the market. I haven't uploaded any songs yet, but I can stream the two dozen or so tracks they gave me for free. Works well, pretty simple, audio quality is actually pretty decent - on the Xoom speakers, haven't tested on my Sennheiser headphones though.
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Oh, so it's just an update to the stock music player I need?

I have active data on my 3G xoom w/ Verizon also, so it's weird they would pull random people, but I guess that may not be weird. I have 3.1 on my xoom after doing the force push update from BRD. I also have the new beta music app on both my tablet and my phone lol. I have not received an invite though...What I do like is the ability to get movies through the Android Market but I don't think that's part of this?
Oh well then

I pay for 3G service on my Xoom as well, and I haven't gotten an invite, or the dam update!
lol

Should be noted my 3g xoom has never had vzw service and I got the xoom invite email.
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Bauxite said:
Should be noted my 3g xoom has never had vzw service and I got the xoom invite email.
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Well I guess they're doing some kind of random invite...

So i guess a good question is, have any WiFi Xoom owners gotten the email with out requesting an Invite?

At I/O, Google said that Music was a beta program with a limited audience initially: all attendees got an invite. There are two components: the new player, and the backend service. I believe they are independent of one another, such that you can download the Music Beta app in the Market but still not be admitted to the beta of the service.
Apologies if this was all already obvious: I just wanted to clarify for folks in case it wasn't clear as there are a few moving parts.

sogrady said:
At I/O, Google said that Music was a beta program with a limited audience initially: all attendees got an invite. There are two components: the new player, and the backend service. I believe they are independent of one another, such that you can download the Music Beta app in the Market but still not be admitted to the beta of the service.
Apologies if this was all already obvious: I just wanted to clarify for folks in case it wasn't clear as there are a few moving parts.
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I believe you are correct. Anyone can download the updated Music app from the Market, but unless you got an invite and signed up, you can't use the whiz-bang features of the Music beta service.
On both my EVO and Xoom, I was able to update the app and signed into it thanks to the invite I received.

Ya I have activated 3g Xoom on Verizon so I am unsure as to WTF is going on lol

I have the 3G Xoom but do not pay for the service, and I've had it since day 1. I'm not rooted, and I have not received the 3.1 update yet.
I requested an invite for Music before the keynote Monday with my main gmail account. I have 2 other accounts tied to my xoom, but I initially signed into my xoom with my main account.
About 30 minutes ago, I got an invite to Music in one of the secondary accounts tied to my Xoom (one I did NOT request an invite with).
Currently uploaded about 500 songs, about 18k to go. This is exciting!
Now I just need my 3.1!

mixpix405 said:
I have the 3G Xoom but do not pay for the service, and I've had it since day 1. I'm not rooted, and I have not received the 3.1 update yet.
I requested an invite for Music before the keynote Monday with my main gmail account. I have 2 other accounts tied to my xoom, but I initially signed into my xoom with my main account.
About 30 minutes ago, I got an invite to Music in one of the secondary accounts tied to my Xoom (one I did NOT request an invite with).
Currently uploaded about 500 songs, about 18k to go. This is exciting!
Now I just need my 3.1!
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Well however they're doing it, I'm glad I got the invite as it works quite well. I don't know about other cloud services as I have not tried them, but the way all the music stored on the cloud and all that is stored on your XOOM blend together in the same app is sweet.
Unfortunately I am still waiting on my update. I just wanted to add that.

Got two invite e-mails (24 hours apart) so ok. But no 3.1 update.

mjpacheco said:
Got two invite e-mails (24 hours apart) so ok. But no 3.1 update.
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Can I have one?
Still waiting for invite and 3.1
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is google music going to stay free?

I got the beta invite a few days ago, and its totally replaced iTunes for me. Fast, clean interface that lets me edit id3 tags and has a bunch of other useful features. Couldn't get any better, and I would hate to lose it.

patass said:
I got the beta invite a few days ago, and its totally replaced iTunes for me. Fast, clean interface that lets me edit id3 tags and has a bunch of other useful features. Couldn't get any better, and I would hate to lose it.
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No they have stated eventually they will charge...but who knows how long that will be

My guess is that they will probably have a free version for a limited amount of songs like 5-10K, then charge for anything above that.

that would be nice to give a limited free version. I'm in the UK so can't get at the Beta

I would hope that they just include it in the Google cloud storage pricing, i wouldn't mind a bit to pay for 200 gigs. I already pay for 100 every year for photo storage in picasa, and that same 100 applies to docs, picasa, and email.
But, if they want to charge above that for it, I will probably just be more selective about what I upload. I think I have a few duplicates up there anyways....
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I don't know but if/ when they do idk...What I mean is idk if it will be 100% safe to upload my downloaded songs. I mean will google delete music downloaded for free?

how could they tell? downloaded music shows up the same as music you rip from a cd.

Google recently commented that 48 hours worth of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute.
I'm supposing that 20k songs will stay free on Google Music beta with songs in excess of that counting against your paid for shared cloud storage (picasa, etc.)
At least, that's what I'm hoping.

[Q] Google Music Beta

How long did it take your guys' music to be uploaded into the cloud. I have a little over 1000 songs and its taking FOREVER. I have a slow internet connection, but this just seems ridiculous.

It takes very long to upload.
From engadget:
engadget.com/2011/05/11/google-music-beta-walkthrough-what-it-is-and-how-it-works-vide/
The bandwidth problem
And this, folks, is the elephant in the room, and it's the same one seen in Amazon's closet. A near-limitless cloud of music sounds stellar -- particularly while it's still priced at $0.00 -- but the toll it'll take on your broadband limits cannot be ignored. 20,000 songs is a ton of information, even if every last one is encoded at a measly 128kbps. Let's say each of your tunes is 3MB -- that's most likely a conservative figure, but we'll use it for the sake of this example. 20,000 of those lands you at around 60GB. For the average broadband user, it'll take days -- if not a full week or so -- to upload that much material, and if you're using a vanilla Time Warner Cable connection, it'll paralyze your web surfing all the while. Granted, you can manually throttle your Music uploads within Music Manager, but doing so will greatly increase the time it takes to get your library in the cloud.

About 5 days
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4-5 days for 30GB

I have over 20,000 songs and quite honestly I didn't pay attention to how fast it was going. I just started it and forgot about it.

Can someone pm me for an invite? I'm really interested in this Google music, but I heard its invite only.
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It's invite only from Google directly if I'm not mistaken. I think I put my name on a list that I was interested a long time ago.

Only took me about 14 hours to upload about 1,200 songs. Started it right before bed, woke up, and went to a class and by the time I got back to my house it was done.

I have 24,000 songs.. just started uploading earlier today using my work computer. Our network is pretty fast, so we'll see. It uploaded about 300 songs within the first 10 mins tho.

Is it a google server thing or the limit of user's broadband? I have Verizon FIOS 30MB upload, haven't used the app yet, but was considering it. Maybe I'll pass.

You dont neet a invite just goto
www.music.Google.com and sign up for a account took about a week for my account settings to get emailed to me
As im from australia i had to.register using a proxy but once registed its working fine with no proxy
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Thanks for the responses. My internet speeds with at&t are pathetic right now so it makes sense for it to be taking so long i guess. Im probably going to leave at&t. Also, I dont want to leave my laptop plugged in overnight while uploading the music because i dont want to mess up my battery.

it took me a couple days to upload my library (2500 songs) to the amazon cloud player... it sucked, but eventually got done... I have an invite to Google music, but I'm not sure if I want to go through the pain of uploading all that again... (I'm running plain old at&t DSL)

I dumped AT&T DSL for cable. Its so much faster.
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Framedtrash said:
As im from australia i had to.register using a proxy but once registed its working fine with no proxy
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I did the same thing to get into the Music Beta, but I can't connect my 10.1v to the same network I used to get into the Beta, so I haven't been able to update the app on my tablet.
Is there any way to get the app updated (APK maybe?) short of getting my tablet onto a North American proxy?
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I'm searching for the APK, have found multiple hits but I mainly see APKs that might be a bit out of date.

I simply attach an HDD to my router and stream stuff over wlan / internet.
Here we have the so called fritz.box , it can do that.
no need for google spyware

RaindancerAU said:
I did the same thing to get into the Music Beta, but I can't connect my 10.1v to the same network I used to get into the Beta, so I haven't been able to update the app on my tablet.
Is there any way to get the app updated (APK maybe?) short of getting my tablet onto a North American proxy?
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I'm searching for the APK, have found multiple hits but I mainly see APKs that might be a bit out of date.
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PM your email address and ill send u it

http://www.4shared.com/file/85Gfqef7/comgoogleandroidmusic-1.html

Took my music hard drive to sister's place with 20mbit FIOS upload ;P 30GB in a few hours
If you have crap upload, consider getting iCloud music for $24.99/year. It will mirror your itunes library online without having to upload anything.

Best MP3 Cloud service

What is the best free mp3 cloud service? Amazon cloud has a nice layout and streams nicely but only gives 5gb free. Microsoft skydrive gives 25gb but the player is pretty crappy and takes awhile to load. Are there any other free cloud drives similar to amazon with more memory?

Google Music. Free. Up to 20,000 songs. Listen on any computer or any Android device. Enough said.

Audiogalaxy IMHO, but you have to keep your computer on to stream your music.

google music sounds awesome but how do i get into the beta? anyone have an invite code?
thanks.

Goggle music beta hands down..... I don't think they're still doing invites (call me out if I'm wrong lol )
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theduce102 said:
Goggle music beta hands down..... I don't think they're still doing invites (call me out if I'm wrong lol )
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I don't think they are :/
But since I have an invite will it stay free even after it gets out of beta ?
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I don't think they are :/
But since I have an invite will it stay free even after it gets out of beta ?
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I'm not sure.... I use beta all the time and would hate to have to pay for it..... maybe they'll keep beta open to the people who already use it and just open up a new server for the paid accounts

theduce102 said:
I'm not sure.... I use beta all the time and would hate to have to pay for it..... maybe they'll keep beta open to the people who already use it and just open up a new server for the paid accounts
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I hope so this is great, would hate to see it go away.
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If you don't have it yet, head to http://music.google.com to request an invite. Might take them a while to give you one though.

And who knows how long it will be in beta status. Gmail was in beta for over five years...and it is still free.

Thank dtugg for the link
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amazon gives you 20gb storage "free" if you buy any album (not 5gb...)...

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I don't think they are :/
But since I have an invite will it stay free even after it gets out of beta ?
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It does say "Music Beta is available free for a limited time." So they are at least implying their intent to charge for the service. If that actually comes to be is anybody's guess.

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It does say "Music Beta is available free for a limited time." So they are at least implying their intent to charge for the service. If that actually comes to be is anybody's guess.
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this could also imply that music beta is available for a limited time as well
trying to be optimistic hahaha

Haven't seen mspot mentioned. It's pretty good, with some odd restrictions (the music has to all come from the same computer, though it does get stored on their server).
I didn't realize you could stream with skydrive.

I really enjoy amazon cloud. It has web and android apps. It has very simple transfer from client to cloud and back. And every time I buy any music from amazon, it's right there for me. Size isn't an issue as I really only need my favorite songs accessable frm everywhere. 5gb would be enough but I easily buy an album a year which will keep my storage at 20gb.
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Google has already stated at I/O that Google Music will not be a fully free service.
Amazon MP3 has a fast uploader, and if you buy a digital copy, there is no upload time at all - just hits your music library almost instantly.
I think the player is clunky and the UI kind of slugish on our phones and the Moto Xoom.
The playlist shuffle feature BLOWS on amazon
Google Music has a really great interface, well integrated with the device, but that damn uploader is so EFING SLOW!
Shuffle actually shuffles and does it nicely.

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amazon gives you 20gb storage "free" if you buy any album (not 5gb...)...
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for a year only. Not sure if you'll have to buy another one to keep 20 Gb, but you'll have to pay for extra 15Gb. BTW the music that you bought at Amazon and store in their cloud does not count toward your total. That is another plus for them.
I do not think Google up-loader is slow. Last time I put two albums in my music folder and switched to Google Music site, they already were present there.
I like both services and wish for a Black/dark theme for Amazon player.

I vote for Google Music, it took me a week non stop to upload 9000+ songs and I have a 1.5Mbps upload speed at home.
I haven't found an easy way to upload via Amazon unless it has changed since I signed up when it first came out. You have to upload each album/song manually which is unlike google music which scans your folder that you select and uploads all the compatible music to the cloud, at it's own damn pace.

pablomentabo said:
Audiogalaxy IMHO, but you have to keep your computer on to stream your music.
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here's another vote for audiogalaxy.