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Amazon Music phasing out MP3 upload storage

Flint

Flint

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https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/20/amazon-wont-let-you-upload-your-own-mp3s-anymore/

Dang! This was one of my favorite features of Amazon Music. I have about 100, or so, CDs and many songs which are not available through any normal channel - music I created, different mixes of released songs I got to keep, a ton of underground stuff from my time in the business, and so on, which I like to have access to through Alexa and other streaming devices I have around. I have just over a year to continue enjoying them through Amazon Music, then they take it all away.

They are basically saying that non-published or out of licensed music is no longer supported. So, those of us with gobs of great unreleased music have to go backwards and carry that music around on local memory or find another service - but who wants more than one streaming audio service?

That sucks.
 
Google still offers an equivalent service.

You can also serve up your library with Plex, which has a really nice local sync feature.
 
Haywood said:
Google still offers an equivalent service.
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I get that... hence my frustration. I don't use Google Music and have no intention of doing so, ever. I hate Google passionately as I think they are nefariously using my personal info to manipulate me and their paying customers to their advantage. They aren't as bad as Facebook, but they are pretty damn bad.
 
Flint said:
I get that... hence my frustration. I don't use Google Music and have no intention of doing so, ever. I hate Google passionately as I think they are nefariously using my personal info to manipulate me and their paying customers to their advantage. They aren't as bad as Facebook, but they are pretty damn bad.
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Take a look at Plex. It has very good music library management and works on every device known to man (including Android and Fire TV). It also supports both streaming and local storage, with a great sync engine and storage management solution.

I use a lot of Google services (Android, YouTube Red, YouTube TV, Google Play Music, Android TV, Google Home, Google Drive, Google Calendar, etc.) and I know that all of this feeds into the advertising I see online. The joke is on them though, because I completely ignore online advertising.
 
I've got news for you, what Google does goes WAY beyond just posting advertisements targeting you and their profile of you. I've dug into it from the inside, as a marketer, for years, and every time I get too deep I freak out at what they are collecting and how they are using it. I do have an Android phone and I use Waze and Google Maps, but I attempt to refrain from their products and services as much as I can. For instance, I never use Google Search or click Google Banner Ads. They are developing their AI based on machine learning based on your behavior and that of billions of people on the Internet. If anyone is the evil overlord, it is Google.

I don't see myself installing Plex. I love how I access content today and aside from this issue with cloud storage of my personal non-released music with access from my streaming apps, I love what I've got. I will just have to ensure I have methods to access that music easily enough, most likely through flash storage. Your travails with Plex, while very impressive and apparently very fulfilling, I stopped doing my own programming a decade ago.
 
Flint said:
That's too long a discussion for a forum. Let's grab a drink sometime and get into it.
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Actually, I would be interested in your take on Google also. I've read a lot about what they do, but I would like to hear the info from someone more familiar about it.
 
Wait! What?

Others are concerned with privacy issues?!!!

Say it ain't so.

:)

Jeff
 
rammisframmis said:
Personally I don't give a rat's crap about what internet companies know about me, since to them at least my life is so utterly, supremely and massively boring that their punishment would be that they would have to know every detail. Bore themselves to death, please!
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+1
 
Flint said:
So Google has the most advanced large scale Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning platform on the planet with more data in it than can be comprehended. They find patterns not only in your behavior, but in that of everyone and those you interact with and others like you. As they learn more about you, they experiment with ways to interact with you to see how you react and that over time hones their knowledge of you, your overt actions and your unconscious ticks. Eventually they know so much about the way you respond to the internet and the world that they can get you to at least check out virtually anything they want you to check out, and they will do it in a way that you think you intentionally made the choice to go find whatever it is they want you to check out. You don't have to click their ads for them to succeed. All they need is for a trusting marketing campaign owner to let them do their magic and after the campaign is over the results that
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OMG you mean a large corporation is doing things for their own profit /advancement and not for the greater good?

Makes one think that if given a large tax break (Oh wait that just happened) they may not invest in creating more jobs and boosting the economy but just keep it to give to their investors.
 
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mzpro5 said:
OMG you mean a large corporation is doing things for their own profit /advancement and not for the greater good?

Makes one think that if given a large tax break (Oh wait that just happened) they may not invest in creating more jobs and boosting the economy but just keep it to give to their investors.
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Where’s a good eye roll emoji when you need one?
 
And now you can see why I didn't consider this a good topic for an online forum.
 
mzpro5 said:
Why because it runs counter to your continued insistence that corporations have our best interests at heart?
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What? I never interpreted Flint’s statements as corporations have our best interest at heart. I agree with him and accept that no business exists solely to serve our best interests. They all exist to earn profit and the good ones can usually do that by also serving our best interests. A doctor doesn’t actually care about your health. He treats patients to the best of his ability because other wise nobody would pay him. Mechanic dont fix your care because he’s out for the greater good. He fixes it right the first time because otherwise nobody would pay him.
 
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