Review of Amazon's Cloud Player

Manifest What you Want, Whenever you Want....

Amazon beat most of the compitition out of the gate by releasing their cloud drive which works as a back end for their cloud player.

Their player runs on both a web browser or is available for download on your android phone, allowing you to stream music hosted on their cloud.

Amazon made a wise play, offering their customers a free 5 gigs of storage. Encouraging them to sample the service. Easily allowing you to upload your own music, you can then play it back directly to your android phone or your web player.

They went out of their way to make the web interface simple to use and to upload your files. The only limitation is that you are required to upload files from your computer's web browser and are unable to do it from your mobile device. They do offer a downloadable client which scans your hard drive for music and gives you an option to import your itunes playlists.

Amazon has been hard at work to take on Apple's iTunes. Also rumored that Apple is currently working on a similar solution to offer for their iphones. Amazon has gone out of their way to try to pull customers into purchasing with them, by offering misc encentives. They have offered a free upgrade to 20 gigs of storage if you purchase a online album this year. They also won't count mp3s downloaded from their store against your storage limits. These offers are all designed to help draw customers away from their compeition.

The player's interface is designed well on the android and is clean and easy to use. The setup in general was easy to use, and doesn't take long to master. Like any player they support playlists, album art, etc. However there are a few limitations. The storage cost for size is a bit high for online storage, they only support AAC and MP3 formats, and you are unable to upload files from your mobile device. Limitations or not, the service is more than worth checking out.