{"id":19213,"date":"2012-08-01T11:42:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T09:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=19213"},"modified":"2012-08-01T11:45:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T09:45:24","slug":"amazon-tops-itunes-match-offer-with-more-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/19213\/amazon-tops-itunes-match-offer-with-more-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon tops iTunes match offer with more storage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon.com Inc. has updated its cloud music player to mimic Apple Inc.’s iTunes Match, but is offering 10 times more storage space for the same price.<\/p>\n

Songs purchased on Amazon.com have always been stored for free on its servers for playback on mobile devices. Now the online retailer will scan a person’s computer and automatically match songs found there on the person’s storage space in the cloud.<\/p>\n

Like iTunes Match, Amazon will upgrade songs of lesser quality found on computers or existing cloud lockers to files encoded at 256 kilobits per second.<\/p>\n

The price is the same as iTunes Match at $25 a year.<\/p>\n

But Amazon.com offers free storage for 250 songs bought elsewhere, and will store 250,000 songs for paying customers. ITunes Match tops out at 25,000 songs.<\/p>\n

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Amazon wants you!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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