tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post980555190197462982..comments2024-03-18T22:39:50.137-07:00Comments on A Kindle World blog: Kindle News: Clarifying Amazon Cloud announcements and changes - Update/Revision 3Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-64191079831296150872012-08-12T10:49:16.174-07:002012-08-12T10:49:16.174-07:00I meant "w/o it having to have been purchased...I meant "w/o it having to have been purchased FROM the entity." :-)<br /><br />Keep us up to date if you would.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-89507636182990957082012-08-12T10:48:07.508-07:002012-08-12T10:48:07.508-07:00Jim, I haven't been around much but wanted to ...Jim, I haven't been around much but wanted to ask you to report your problems with this to kindle-feedback@amazon.com AND to <a href="http://amzn.to/kcall_me" rel="nofollow">http://amzn.to/kcall_me</a>.<br /><br /> However, I think the initial problems were that they don't do an immediate conversion but do it on a queued basis as a few checks have to be made re availability and also permissions from the publisher of the recordings.<br /><br />As for why not all of the 11 cuts in one album, the publishers allow only what they'll allow -- partially to avoid people having the full album if they don't already own it. Amazon is not checking whether we purchased our albums or not.<br /><br /> As for upgrading, please wait. I think they have to double check rights and then these take time and they have tons of people doing up/downloading and many people streaming, which I understand (streaming only) is not done by most when it comes to streaming what we happen to have on our hard disks... (w/o it having to have been purchased by the entity).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-68037405116599808422012-08-12T09:37:34.491-07:002012-08-12T09:37:34.491-07:00Another update...now this is all very strange. Yes...Another update...now this is all very strange. Yesterday, I told you about sending 5 songs to Amazon and only one was upgraded. I double checked the 4 downloaded files on the My Music and they were not upgraded. I also viewed the "Recently Added" section of iTunes after the downloads were complete and the four songs were not listed. <br /><br />Later in the day, I was back in iTunes doing some work and I looked in the "Recently Added" section again...and lo and behold, the 4 songs were listed there and all were upgraded. However two of the songs which were recorded at a very low rate, were only upgraded to 128...but still a major improvement, so am not bitching. I have no idea how this all happened.<br /><br />Another odd thing...I did another complete scan, this time choosing one particular album that had 11 songs. Only 9 were listed as being available to be uploaded. Why not all 11? They are from the same album. Upon downloading, only 3 of the 9 showed up in iTunes as being upgraded. While I am grateful, it still does not make sense. This mystery is driving me crazy! Will check back later to see if any other songs show up in iTunes.JR Corkrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14187092277558027838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-70323192749392384692012-08-11T10:42:01.729-07:002012-08-11T10:42:01.729-07:00Update - I continue to experiment with Amazon'...Update - I continue to experiment with Amazon's Cloud Storage, specifically seeing if songs are upgraded to 256, as they advertise. I have had a few successes, but still am not pleased with the results. Today, I sent 5 specific songs up to their cloud. I chose these as they had low bit-rates AND all 5 had MP3 versions on line. 4 came back unchanged, and one came back upgraded.<br /><br />Yesterday I uploaded 4 tunes from the same album (again, the album was listed in their MP3 section). Two came back upgraded, one may have been upgraded, but at a very low bit rate, and one was not upgraded at all. Again, all were from the same album. <br /><br />At this point, I am sad at the results I am getting. It appears Amazon needs to work on their system of upgrading to 256 Mbps. I will not be sending them $25 at this time...but will keep experimenting.JR Corkrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14187092277558027838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-52652581646587552342012-08-09T09:14:44.792-07:002012-08-09T09:14:44.792-07:00I've been experimenting with Amazon's newl...I've been experimenting with Amazon's newly updated cloud storage for music. My main interest was to update all my lower quality mp3's to 256 kbps. I've uploaded several of my lower quality songs to Amazon...then tried to download them to see if any were upgraded. So far, not one song has been upgraded. I get the exact same song with the same KBPS that I sent up. On one set, I even checked to see if they had a high quality MP3's available for purchase...and they did. But that is not what I got back.<br /><br />And there seems to be no way to see the KBPS once they are in the cloud. You get very little information on the cloud site. Needless to say, I am quite disappointed. I use iTunes to catalog all my music and have an iPod Classic for playback (works great on my new Ford Sync equipped car). When I download from Amazon, it opens iTunes automatically, but no music is imported into it, even though Amazon says it has done so.<br /><br />As I said, I am extremely disappointed in this new service, but will keep experimenting.JR Corkrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14187092277558027838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-49744421812667051742012-08-08T12:50:49.044-07:002012-08-08T12:50:49.044-07:00Thanks for the feedback, Randall. Anonymous (1) w...Thanks for the feedback, Randall. Anonymous (1) wrote a note that confused me. S/he gets, for $50 that was paid before this happened, add'l space for up to 250,000 songs but also gets 100 gigs of general storage space. What am I missing about this that might be bad? (I realize I may be missing something easy for others to spot.)<br /><br /> Was it that there was a 1-yr promo for unlimited space? That was clearly going to be over, but the willingness to get the $50 plan for Cloud Drive seems to get as much as was received before under paid plans earlier. <br /><br /> Well, let me know what I'm missing. It has to be something. OH, it could be that one can't play back the music files that make you exceed 250,000 songs... Hmmm.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-35832097608222726712012-08-08T10:31:07.597-07:002012-08-08T10:31:07.597-07:00Good point about the classical music, never even g...Good point about the classical music, never even gave that a thought Andrys. Tom, I totally understand what you're saying, the only reason I use the service is that I've had one too many HD failures and for me it's one way to make sure I don't lose my music, ripped or otherwise. That's a lot of work. @Anonymous, I'd call Amazon, and tell them, they may cut you a break.<br /><br />Randall (Golf11)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-83087097822436761312012-08-06T20:19:21.953-07:002012-08-06T20:19:21.953-07:00Tom,
You and I are in the same boat. My 20gig d...Tom,<br /> You and I are in the same boat. My 20gig deal is up soon and I never used it for non-Amazon music.<br /><br />They DO accept AAC now - that may be one of the changes. See "Importing Your Music" at the <a href="http://bit.ly/cplayer-import" rel="nofollow">Importing Music</a> page.<br /><br /> What is a 'song' when it's classical music? A movement? Some can be 20 minutes long :-)<br /><br /> If it's been in your general free 5GB area was streamable but now wouldn't be? That's what I take from it. But if we want playback on the imported mp3s or AAC (a format which I should mention and will later in yet another update), it'd then be one of the 250 songs. How do they decide what is what?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-64134094036299638732012-08-06T16:58:46.994-07:002012-08-06T16:58:46.994-07:00I currently have 'Cloud Drive 20 GB Promo'...I currently have 'Cloud Drive 20 GB Promo' and 'Cloud Player Premium' by virtue of something I did a year ago. It is about to downgrade to the 5GB/250song free plan. I never used the storage, or uploaded any music (as it is almost all from CDs ripped to lossless AAC and they don't accept that, and I didn't want to undertake the export project). <br /><br />Good thing: the downgrade would have meant I'd lose access after 'a limited time' which they fail to specify. (actually I don't see that they'd enforce this beyond denying further uploads, after all they still offer 5GB+250songs for free, but there's no way to say WHICH 5Gb or WHICH 250 songs...<br /><br />Everybody is pushing the cloud storage thing but right now my money is staying in my pocket. The advantages of having a collection of ebooks in the cloud are obvious, but easily accommodated by 'free' data storage levels. It's not obvious that I need my music or video in the cloud, especially if there is some recurring charge to it.Tom Semplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05127272649086914117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-50608657010032576332012-08-06T13:46:25.611-07:002012-08-06T13:46:25.611-07:00Will add another one here.
The Cloud Player Free ...Will add another one here.<br /><br />The Cloud Player Free option is for 250 imported songs and all Amazon-purchased MP3s.<br /><br /> The Cloud DRIVE still offers 5 gigs of free storage. You just can't play your music -from- that area now that they've split them.<br /><br /> If you buy Cloud Player for $10 and up, you get additional music storage. Only 250 imported songs still, for a $10/yr charge, and 250,000 imported songs if you buy additional storage.<br /><br /> They separated the two but keep them together in the info box.<br />HIGHLY unclear. But they're combining the information.<br /><br /> The $10/yr seems to be in a no-man's or no-person's land, with no label for it, neither free nor premium.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-87164030929090785242012-08-06T13:32:13.046-07:002012-08-06T13:32:13.046-07:00Anonymous,
They split Drive and Player, but the 5G...Anonymous,<br />They split Drive and Player, but the 5Gigs is still free on the Cloud Drive.<br /><br />The Cloud Player (at least on MY page) is also free if you stick with only the 5 gigs on the Cloud Drive. That's key (if my page is not abnormal).<br /><br />If you re-up'd to the $50/yr plan, you get 100 GB instead of 5 GB with the current pricing and get 250,000 imported songs.<br /><br />BUT you can just choose 20 GB and get only 250 imported songs for $10/yr.<br /><br />Am I misunderstanding your situation?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-22945796506986715492012-08-06T13:23:11.387-07:002012-08-06T13:23:11.387-07:00ill admit... im pretty PO'ed about this change...ill admit... im pretty PO'ed about this change. my free cloud drive account expired a few days before this change, and i had just re-upped to the $50 a year plan, then they do this.<br /><br />i didnt give a damn about the cloud drive portion of the service, i just wanted the cloud player. if i had known they were going to split them, id have only paid for the cloud player part.<br /><br />grrrr!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com