Amazon Makes Cloud Player iOS Compatible
iFans chimed in and gave some information on changes made with the Amazon Cloud Player. Among the changes, one of them was noted as Amazon making their Cloud Player software iOS compatible.
“While it isn’t quite as nice as an actual app, it provides nearly all of the functionality that you could ask for. Even the multitasking music controls work flawlessly. Sound quality is said to be ‘great,’ and the only part of it that is a little buggy seems to be the scrubbing capability”
Apple Purchases iCloud Domain Name.
Earlier on in the week, a source gave GigaOM information stating that Apple has purchased the domain name iCloud.com for $4.5 million. It was assumed that Apple is planning to roll out their new cloud-based music service under that particular name. The original owner of the name have renamed the site CloudMe and redirected visitors who try to navigate to the site using the iCloud domain name.
My source, who is familiar with the company, says that Xcerion has sold the domain to Apple for about $4.5 million. Xcerion hasn’t responded to my queries as yet. At the time of writing, the Whois database showed Xcerion as the owner of iCloud.
Apple Signs Deal With Warner Music For Cloud-Based Music Service?
It’s already been reported that Apple and their cloud-based iTunes is “ready to go” at this very moment, however, some have pondered about the dealings that Apple was having with the music labels and the status on those deliberations. Now, CNET is reporting that Apple has recently made deal with the Warner Music Group, one of the four major music labels, to support the new cloud-based initiative.
Apple has an agreement with Warner Music Group to offer the record label’s tracks on iTunes’ upcoming cloud-music service, music industry sources said.
Amazon Launches Cloud Drive/WWDC Sold Out In 10 Hours
Cloud computing is definitely the way of the future, and more than being apart of the movement, everyone wants to do it right and make it unique on how their service uses the cloud. Amazon has launched their quietly talked about cloud storage service the “Amazon Cloud Drive”.
With the new service, Amazon is offering five gigabytes [5GB] of storage space for the users to have free of charge. Additional space on the service is one dollar per gig. A user can buy up to a whole terabyte [1TB], or 1000GB [$1000], of storage space and use at their discretion. In addition to that, any user who purchases music form the Amazon music store can store the content on their cloud service for no charge to wallet or storage space on the service.
Djay Comes to iPod and iPhone.
One of the more popular application from the iPad associated with music makes it’s way to the iPod and iPhone. Algoriddim’s Djay application has debuted on the iPod and iPhone with surprisingly many of the same features that users of the application might recognize from it iPad form. While more DJs and other music professionals would more than likely utilize the iPad version of this application, it still seems to put on a show into displaying how powerful the iPhone and iOS software is.
Pioneer Implements AirPlay and iOS Into New App
Pioneer today announced that it will be placing on the market a new receiver (one of eight) that can utilize Apple’s new AirPlay feature as an output option from iOS devices. The VSX-1021 can be configured to join a home network and play content from an iPhone, iPod, iPad, or Mac.
“Once the VSX-1021 is connected to a home network through Ethernet or Wi-Fi using Pioneer’s optional AS-WL300 wireless LAN adapter (sold separately), AirPlay lets consumers stream their favorite songs to the receiver from iTunes on Mac and PC, or their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. AirPlay requires iTunes 10.1 or later and iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 4.2.
Apple Discussing Unlimited Music Downloads Ahead of MobileMe Remodel.
This week. Bloomberg chimes in that Apple is currently in discussion with a number of music labels into allowing the company to grant users the ability to download purchased music an unlimited amount of times on devices that are registered to a corresponding iTunes account. If Apple and the labels come to an agreement, Apple would be able to allow customers to use the remodeling of MobileMe as a “digital locker” where the user can stream his content to “x” number of devices that are registered to do so
MobileMe Revamp to Allow Remote Access to iTunes.
One of the biggest topics of tech discussion on the Internet lately is Apple’s revamping of MobileMe. A slew of new features is said to be coming into the remodel that will completely extend the way the service is used. One of the many features that is being talked about is Apple allowing remote access to a user’s iTunes content. The Wall Street Journal has been profiling the news for some time now with continuing updates on the matter.
Apple Shifts To 90 Second Preview in iTunes
Apple has started enabling a 90 second preview limit for content in the iTunes Store this week. As of right now a significant amount of the content on iTunes has already been extended but there are still plenty of 30 second previews left. It won’t be long though and those will be modified to give everyone a more complete glimpse/listen before they buy.
You might recall that we recently let our readers know that Apple put all the music labels on notice of the extended previews and gave them the opportunity to pull their content if they chose to disagree with the new policy.
Djay for iPad Coming
When the iPad was introduced earlier in the year, many people expected on the music aspect that a fully fledge DJ application was bound to emerge. Surprisingly, there has been very few applications that have been birthed and the ones that do exist are limited. That might very possibly change with the release of iOS 4.2. Algoriddim, the group who develops the popular djay application for the Mac, has intention in taking full advantage of the new audio capabilities of the new software update. The group has ported their application for the Mac to iOS and is twaeking it to perfection for the iPad. Some of the features that will be included in the new djay app will be.
