All Your Music In The Cloud

amazon cloud playerI am an avid music listener. I have an pretty large collection of music. Times have change since the days when you would be asked “How many CDs do you have”? Even before that, there was… Did you get the new Led Zeppelin Album. Now you hear…How many songs do you have?… Or…. Did you download the new Justin Timberlake song?

With all the technology at our fingertips, now you don’t even need to physically own any cd’s, albums, or any other formats of music. Thanks to Apple, Google, and Amazon you can download your song, and store it in their cloud based storage system. I wanted a cloud service as a back up, something for my 50,000 song collection. I went into my search expecting to use iTunes… I was really surprised with my findings…

1) The cloud service needed to have the ability to hold ALL my music. 50,000 songs

Winner: Amazon. – holds 200,000 songs for $25 a year… iTunes is also $25 but will only 25,000. Google holds 20,000 but its free!

2) Needs to play well with my Apple/itunes ecosystem

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