Amazon Unveils Music-Streaming Service Before Google, Apple
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Amazon.com Inc. joined the ranks of music-streaming services today by unveiling Cloud Player, letting users buy tracks, store them on the company’s servers and play them on computers and Android smartphones.
Music libraries can be uploaded to Amazon’s new Cloud Drive, with 5 gigabytes of memory available free, the company said in a statement. Users who purchase an album from Amazon.com will be upgraded to 20 gigabytes of Cloud Drive space, which can be used to store music, photos, videos and other digital files.