**Testing Cloud Services: Amazon Cloud Player**

In the past month or so, I've been using iTunes or similar services to test and see how they work on the cloud. I'm really quite impressed with the experience of having all my data and music online on the cloud.

As I use multiple computers on a daily basis, it's nice to have all my music available online. This feature is not specific to Amazon Cloud Player but rather a general benefit of using cloud services.

**Amazon Cloud Player Interface**

Let's talk about what makes Amazon Cloud Player unique. The interface is fairly similar to other cloud music services, with a basic and plain design. However, this is not a significant issue.

The bottom bar displays the playlist, where you can play songs, adjust volume, and perform other actions. You also have access to the Songs menu, which allows you to scroll through your entire song collection and view artist, time, and other information.

One nice feature of Cloud Player is that you can add a song to a playlist or delete it if you no longer want it. Most importantly, you can download songs from your library, which is convenient since they are your personal music files.

**Performance and Features**

While the performance and loading times might be slightly better on Google Music, Amazon Cloud Player works well with minimal issues.

The key features that I like about Cloud Player include:

* 5 GB of standard storage

* 20 GB of free storage if you buy any MP3 album from Amazon

I'm a big fan of buying music from Amazon, and this feature is convenient for me. Having the option to purchase albums and have them immediately available in my Cloud Player account is a nice perk.

**Comparison with Google Music**

While I personally prefer Google Music, I still enjoy using Amazon Cloud Player. The interface might be slightly more basic, but it's not a significant drawback.

One of the main advantages of Google Music is its faster performance and better integration with Android devices. However, both services support Android, so this might not be a major factor for everyone.

Ultimately, the choice between these cloud music services depends on your personal preferences and needs.

**Conclusion**

That's my comparison of Amazon Cloud Player and Google Music. If you're interested in trying out either service, I'll have links to sign up in the description below.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys so today I'm here with a comparison between music beta by Google and Amazon Cloud Player now these are two of the newest and best ways to store your music online so you can listen to it on your computer or on a wide variety of mobile devices so what I'd like to do for you guys today is give you some of the pros and cons of each kind of tell you you why you might want to use one over the other and all that kind of good stuff so the first one I'm going to take a look at is music beta by Google which I'm just going to be calling Google music because that is way easier to remember uh so Google music works very similarly to Cloud Player and again if you're not familiar with how it works it's very simple download a program to your computer uh it picks out you know your songs from your iTunes or your Windows Media Player or wherever you keep your songs it allows you to upload it to the cloud and then listen to it from a wide variety of devices now there are a couple of key differences though I want to go ahead and show you guys this one of the number one ones that are between them is the fact that Google Music beta Google Music whatever I knew I'm going to SCP that name a bunch but Google Music allows you to upload up to 20,000 songs now that's really quite impressive Amazon Cloud Player on the the other hand is a is Max of 20 GB as far as the free if you buy an MP3 album it's only 5 GB if you don't buy anything and you just get the totally standard free version so uh I definitely have to give the edge to Google Music here um but of course that's not everything now another really cool thing I like about Google music is the fact that the interface is really quite nice so you have quite a few things you can go through your songs artists albums so let's say we want to take a look at some Blue Oyster Cult click on it we can take a look at our songs uh you know it's very simple if we want to play we just double click you can see here on the bottom here we have our previous song next song we can scroll scrub around through the song we can thumbs up it so if you'd like to do it through your ratings you can do thumbs up and down and take a look at your automatic playlist which have the uh Thumbs Up and Down songs um you can also you know shuffle songs repeat volume all the kinds of standard stuff now one thing I really like about Google Music however is the fact that it comes with a lot of free songs uh so while Amazon Cloud Player is just strictly for you know uploading your own stuff uh Google does give you a fairly decent selection of free music when you first download it so the first thing you'll see is when you when you first get Google music is it it's going to pull up a little prompt saying what kind of music do you like do you like you know maybe techno or rock or metal or whatever there's quite a few different uh genres and varieties and then you pick whatever you want or you can pick them all and they will actually have automatically downloaded quite a few free songs so as you guys can see here this is just a small selection you see there's some Blue Oyster Cult System of a Down uh Incubus five for five in Elvis Presley Santana I mean there's a lot here and it's really pretty cool cuz this is all just totally free now I will say that most of this right here is live music so it's not going to be quite the exact same songs as you would expect you know the standard Studio versions or whatever but still it's free and of course it is the legit music it's not like you know covers or anything like that so it's definitely really nice now let's take a look at Amazon Cloud Player now before we begin I do want to say one thing I've actually been using Amazon Cloud Player almost exclusively for my music for the past month or or so so I been using you know iTunes or anything like that just to kind of test and see how it works on the cloud i' got to say I'm really quite impressed I use multiple computers on a daily basis and it's really nice to have all my data and all my music online on the cloud so uh that's less to do with Amazon just as a general kind of thing if you guys are kind of on the fence about switching to either of these Services uh you really ought to give them a shot but getting away from that let's talk a little bit about what are specific to Amazon Cloud Player uh so as you can see the interface is fairly similar it's a little bit more basic a little bit more plain but you know to be honest it's not that huge of a deal um so along the bottom you'll find your playlist so if you're listening to a song of course you can hit play you do your volume all that kind of good stuff uh now of course you have your songs menu here so you can scroll through all your songs um you take a look at the artist the time all that kind of stuff but one nice thing about Cloud Player is let's say uh Kelly's Last Stand well if I want to click on this I can add it to a playlist I can delete it but most importantly I can download it now that's very nice of course since it's your music it's not like it's have to be locked up or anything you can just download it and do whatever you like with it very simply so that's really quite nice now there are a couple of other things you can take a look at albums artists genres and all that kind of stuff um I've noticed that the scrolling and the performance well maybe not scrolling but just the performance and loading is a little bit better on Google Music but again mostly kind of splitting here is there everything works pretty nicely and with no major issues uh now there are a couple of key things I do like about Cloud Player for one you have while it's not you don't have 20,000 songs like on Google Music uh you do have five gab standard and you have 20 GB if you buy any MP3 album on Amazon uh now I really like buying my music on Amazon that's the only place I really buy it from so I was able to do that pretty quickly and as you guys can see I have about 19 gigabytes left so even though 20,000 songs is really good for the vast majority of people I would expect that you could get in with that at 20 gigs but of course you know it's entirely up to you now another thing and this is kind of not extremely uh uh related to Cloud Player but of course it is connected with the Amazon MP3 store so again if you guys are like me and you like to buy all your music on Amazon you have the option to have it immediately just go into your Cloud Player uh account and it doesn't count against your storage so you can buy as much as you like and it's not going to hurt so of course it really kind of comes down to you know what platform are you on what kind of where you like to buy your music all that kind of stuff uh personally I like Google music while I still will buy all my music on Amazon I still do like the general interface Google music is just a little bit faster of course they both have support for Android but Google has a little bit better and uh more integrated support for Android and on top of that it's really nice to just be able to have all my stuff in one place without having to worry about you know running into any you know storage problems or anything like that and of course it's a big bonus that comes with a lot of free songs I mean hey who doesn't like free music so anyway guys that's about it for my comparison if you're interested in either of these Services I'll have links into the in the description you can sign up for Cloud Player all you need is an Amazon account which I'm sure most of you guys have but if you're interested in getting Google music you can go ahead and sign up for an invite uh like I said it took me a couple weeks to get mine so hopefully you guys should get yours about that timehey guys so today I'm here with a comparison between music beta by Google and Amazon Cloud Player now these are two of the newest and best ways to store your music online so you can listen to it on your computer or on a wide variety of mobile devices so what I'd like to do for you guys today is give you some of the pros and cons of each kind of tell you you why you might want to use one over the other and all that kind of good stuff so the first one I'm going to take a look at is music beta by Google which I'm just going to be calling Google music because that is way easier to remember uh so Google music works very similarly to Cloud Player and again if you're not familiar with how it works it's very simple download a program to your computer uh it picks out you know your songs from your iTunes or your Windows Media Player or wherever you keep your songs it allows you to upload it to the cloud and then listen to it from a wide variety of devices now there are a couple of key differences though I want to go ahead and show you guys this one of the number one ones that are between them is the fact that Google Music beta Google Music whatever I knew I'm going to SCP that name a bunch but Google Music allows you to upload up to 20,000 songs now that's really quite impressive Amazon Cloud Player on the the other hand is a is Max of 20 GB as far as the free if you buy an MP3 album it's only 5 GB if you don't buy anything and you just get the totally standard free version so uh I definitely have to give the edge to Google Music here um but of course that's not everything now another really cool thing I like about Google music is the fact that the interface is really quite nice so you have quite a few things you can go through your songs artists albums so let's say we want to take a look at some Blue Oyster Cult click on it we can take a look at our songs uh you know it's very simple if we want to play we just double click you can see here on the bottom here we have our previous song next song we can scroll scrub around through the song we can thumbs up it so if you'd like to do it through your ratings you can do thumbs up and down and take a look at your automatic playlist which have the uh Thumbs Up and Down songs um you can also you know shuffle songs repeat volume all the kinds of standard stuff now one thing I really like about Google Music however is the fact that it comes with a lot of free songs uh so while Amazon Cloud Player is just strictly for you know uploading your own stuff uh Google does give you a fairly decent selection of free music when you first download it so the first thing you'll see is when you when you first get Google music is it it's going to pull up a little prompt saying what kind of music do you like do you like you know maybe techno or rock or metal or whatever there's quite a few different uh genres and varieties and then you pick whatever you want or you can pick them all and they will actually have automatically downloaded quite a few free songs so as you guys can see here this is just a small selection you see there's some Blue Oyster Cult System of a Down uh Incubus five for five in Elvis Presley Santana I mean there's a lot here and it's really pretty cool cuz this is all just totally free now I will say that most of this right here is live music so it's not going to be quite the exact same songs as you would expect you know the standard Studio versions or whatever but still it's free and of course it is the legit music it's not like you know covers or anything like that so it's definitely really nice now let's take a look at Amazon Cloud Player now before we begin I do want to say one thing I've actually been using Amazon Cloud Player almost exclusively for my music for the past month or or so so I been using you know iTunes or anything like that just to kind of test and see how it works on the cloud i' got to say I'm really quite impressed I use multiple computers on a daily basis and it's really nice to have all my data and all my music online on the cloud so uh that's less to do with Amazon just as a general kind of thing if you guys are kind of on the fence about switching to either of these Services uh you really ought to give them a shot but getting away from that let's talk a little bit about what are specific to Amazon Cloud Player uh so as you can see the interface is fairly similar it's a little bit more basic a little bit more plain but you know to be honest it's not that huge of a deal um so along the bottom you'll find your playlist so if you're listening to a song of course you can hit play you do your volume all that kind of good stuff uh now of course you have your songs menu here so you can scroll through all your songs um you take a look at the artist the time all that kind of stuff but one nice thing about Cloud Player is let's say uh Kelly's Last Stand well if I want to click on this I can add it to a playlist I can delete it but most importantly I can download it now that's very nice of course since it's your music it's not like it's have to be locked up or anything you can just download it and do whatever you like with it very simply so that's really quite nice now there are a couple of other things you can take a look at albums artists genres and all that kind of stuff um I've noticed that the scrolling and the performance well maybe not scrolling but just the performance and loading is a little bit better on Google Music but again mostly kind of splitting here is there everything works pretty nicely and with no major issues uh now there are a couple of key things I do like about Cloud Player for one you have while it's not you don't have 20,000 songs like on Google Music uh you do have five gab standard and you have 20 GB if you buy any MP3 album on Amazon uh now I really like buying my music on Amazon that's the only place I really buy it from so I was able to do that pretty quickly and as you guys can see I have about 19 gigabytes left so even though 20,000 songs is really good for the vast majority of people I would expect that you could get in with that at 20 gigs but of course you know it's entirely up to you now another thing and this is kind of not extremely uh uh related to Cloud Player but of course it is connected with the Amazon MP3 store so again if you guys are like me and you like to buy all your music on Amazon you have the option to have it immediately just go into your Cloud Player uh account and it doesn't count against your storage so you can buy as much as you like and it's not going to hurt so of course it really kind of comes down to you know what platform are you on what kind of where you like to buy your music all that kind of stuff uh personally I like Google music while I still will buy all my music on Amazon I still do like the general interface Google music is just a little bit faster of course they both have support for Android but Google has a little bit better and uh more integrated support for Android and on top of that it's really nice to just be able to have all my stuff in one place without having to worry about you know running into any you know storage problems or anything like that and of course it's a big bonus that comes with a lot of free songs I mean hey who doesn't like free music so anyway guys that's about it for my comparison if you're interested in either of these Services I'll have links into the in the description you can sign up for Cloud Player all you need is an Amazon account which I'm sure most of you guys have but if you're interested in getting Google music you can go ahead and sign up for an invite uh like I said it took me a couple weeks to get mine so hopefully you guys should get yours about that time