Amazon cloud drive now offers unlimited music with paid plans

[Pete C]

I just noticed this today, and it seems like a great deal for offline storage of music files. Amazon is now offering unlimited storage of mp3 and aac files with any paid cloud drive plan, and that includes the $20 a year 20 gig plan. I decided to jump on it and am now uploading the 225 gig of music on my hd. So regardless of the plan, mp3 and aac files don't count toward your storage limit.

edit: I guess I've been under a rock. This has been operative since last July.

Edited May 20, 2012 by Pete C

[Pete C]

They've finally added song matching, like Apple. If I had waited it might have taken less than a month to get all my music up there. But now I can have anything available in their catalog upgraded to 256k from any lower bitrates I might have.

[BFrank]

I decided to buy into the $25 plan. Seems reasonable enough to be able to have all that stuff available in the cloud.

Nice to have the ability to store an unlimited number of other types of files, too.

[rostasi]

I'll have to look into this. I've got ca. 6TB of tunes coming their way.

[Harold_Z]

Just went for the $25.00 plan. Nice to have this stuff backed up off premises.

[AllenLowe]

question - can I back up personal cd collections on the Cloud?

[BFrank]

question - can I back up personal cd collections on the Cloud?

answer: yes

[John L]

When I first saw this thread title, I thought that we may have already arrived at what could be the next stage of the music market. How long will it be before places like Amazon offer unlimited streaming of everything that both they and you have for a monthly fee?