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On Tuesday, the folks at Amazon announced a feature that's been added to Cloud Player: Scan and match.
This new feature enables something very similar to Apple's iTunes Match on Amazon's?cloud-based music streaming?service.?You allow Amazon to scan your iTunes or Windows Media Player libraries in order to match songs you own to those in Amazon's catalog. All of the matched songs ??whether they were purchased from iTunes, ripped from CDs, or otherwise acquired ??become instantly available in Cloud Player.
As with iTunes Match, the songs that you'll find in Cloud Player will be 256 Kbps, no matter how low-quality your own versions were (though Amazon hasn't yet confirmed which file format it's using to deliver the streamed audio).?You can access Cloud Player?? and stream?these matched songs?? from a Kindle Fire, Android device, iPhone, iPod Touch or any Web browser.?In a side bit of good news, both Sonos and Roku players will soon get Amazon Cloud Players, too.
When it comes to cost, Amazon's press release contains a little too much ambiguity, which we're hoping to solve with a phone call. It appears that?the scan and match service comes at no additional cost, but it's restricted to streaming songs from the cloud ? in other words, just because it's matched doesn't mean you can download it and play it locally, the way you can on an?iOS device or computer?using?with iTunes Match.?
If you want to upload actual tracks into Amazon's cloud service, that is what might cost you money.?There's a free version of Cloud Player that lets you store all of the MP3s you've ever purchased on Amazon, along with up to 250 songs uploaded from your own collection. But if you want to upload your own collection, again, in order to keep them safe and to be able to download them elsewhere, no strings attached, that will cost you $25 per?year. You'll be limited to 250,000 songs (but that is a lot).
I'm going to give Cloud Player's new scan and match feature a try.?Here's hoping that Amazon got things right.
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