Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-07-08 Thread ezkcdude
Are there any plugins for this now? -- ezkcdude There are 10 kind of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't. SHINYMETAL '*Site*' (http://www.ezdiyaudio.com)| '*RSS*' (http://www2.kumc.edu/students/ezamir/rss/ezdiyaudio.xml) |'*Forum*'

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-07-08 Thread erland
ezkcdude;639775 Wrote: Are there any plugins for this now? Amazon has to release an API first. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-04-07 Thread paulster
jhonsber...@msn.com;622973 Wrote: But Amazon's cloud service is geared for consumer not business music and photo storage. But it has to be engineered to enterprise levels as you can imagine the public outcry if Amazon suddenly 'lose' a load of customers' data, which we all know they wouldn't

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-04-07 Thread pippin
btpier;622785 Wrote: $500/yr for 1/2 a TB of enterprise level data storage is not a bad price. I work for a Fortune 50 company that gets *very* good discounts on enterprise storage arrays and we pay easily 2x this price just to buy the arrays, not to mention the man power to care and feed

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-04-03 Thread jhonsber...@msn.com
btpier;622785 Wrote: $500/yr for 1/2 a TB of enterprise level data storage is not a bad price. I work for a Fortune 50 company that gets *very* good discounts on enterprise storage arrays and we pay easily 2x this price just to buy the arrays, not to mention the man power to care and feed

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-04-02 Thread btpier
jhonsber...@msn.com;622289 Wrote: 500gbs for 500 bucks a year .Geez! $500/yr for 1/2 a TB of enterprise level data storage is not a bad price. I work for a Fortune 50 company that gets *very* good discounts on enterprise storage arrays and we pay easily 2x this price just to buy the arrays,

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-04-02 Thread pski
btpier;622785 Wrote: $500/yr for 1/2 a TB of enterprise level data storage is not a bad price. I work for a Fortune 50 company that gets *very* good discounts on enterprise storage arrays and we pay easily 2x this price just to buy the arrays, not to mention the man power to care and feed

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-31 Thread Dogberry2
Cloud Player and suchlike might be okay for some people, kinda like MP3s, iPods and earbuds are good enough for some people. But I won't be using it. If somebody else has possession of and control over your music collection, then you don't own it, you're merely being granted the use of it. I see

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-31 Thread aubuti
Agreed it would be sheer madness to put one's only copy of something in Amazon's storage or any similar service. But I can't imagine people uploading everything to the cloud and then proceeding to delete all those files from their hard drives. -- aubuti

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-31 Thread jhonsber...@msn.com
aubuti;622286 Wrote: Agreed it would be sheer madness to put one's only copy of something in Amazon's storage or any similar service. But I can't imagine people uploading everything to the cloud and then proceeding to delete all those files from their hard drives. I agree and your comments

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-30 Thread Goodsounds
aubuti;621857 Wrote: And there's no setting, other than the power button on the Boom (or the Boom's remote). On two different Win PCs I've used, WOL was disabled as the default setting. The Wiki WOL page described what needed to be done, it took me longer to find the right information than

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-30 Thread aubuti
Goodsounds;621925 Wrote: On two different Win PCs I've used, WOL was disabled as the default setting. The Wiki WOL page described what needed to be done, it took me longer to find the right information than it ultimately took to make the changes indicated. Sorry, I meant no setting on the SB

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-30 Thread pski
erland;621616 Wrote: Probably, at least S3 seems to be used for the storage, from their description: New MP3 purchases from Amazon MP3 Store apparently doesn't use up any storage space, so you only need to purchase extra storage for stuff you like to upload yourself. Can a Squeezebox

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-30 Thread jhonsber...@msn.com
500 bucks a year to store 500 gb's of data .What a deal!l LOL. -- jhonsber...@msn.com jhonsber...@msn.com's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4438 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-30 Thread andyg
With unlimited transfer (apparently) it's much cheaper than current S3 offerings, and it's great for offsite backup. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-30 Thread Mark Miksis
andyg;622112 Wrote: With unlimited transfer (apparently) it's much cheaper than current S3 offerings, and it's great for offsite backup. But it's still 4X the cost of extra storage on google apps. -- Mark Miksis Mark

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-30 Thread jhonsber...@msn.com
andyg;622112 Wrote: With unlimited transfer (apparently) it's much cheaper than current S3 offerings, and it's great for offsite backup. I think I'll stck to my two portable external hard drives to store my data ,one which is at my office,away from my house. Total cost = 300 bucks . --

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-29 Thread autopilot
So this is basically like MP3tunes? I'm not sure I understand the point. If your going to stream from the cloud, why limit yourself to your own collection and not use Spotifiy/Napster/Rhapsody? (especially considering, from what I read, that you will need to pay for anything over 5gb and

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-29 Thread andyg
It's basically the same as MP3tunes with less format support and no available API. HTTPS streaming would be a problem too, but if it's using S3 it'll hopefully support plain HTTP as well. -- andyg andyg's Profile:

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-29 Thread likescookies
Playing music from the Amazon cloud makes a lot of sense to me. There are times when I'd like to listen to an album that I own but don't want the hassle of going and waking up the computer so the Boom can stream from it. The Amazon system would solve that. -- likescookies

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-29 Thread Goodsounds
likescookies;621814 Wrote: Playing music from the Amazon cloud makes a lot of sense to me. There are times when I'd like to listen to an album that I own but don't want the hassle of going and waking up the computer so the Boom can stream from it. The Amazon system would solve that. With a

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-29 Thread likescookies
Like a wake on LAN setting? Interesting. Will look into this--thank you. Still, having to navigate up the tree to connect to the PC, then at the end putting everything back the way it was so my wife doesn't get mad at me would definitely still lend some appeal to the free Amazon solution. --

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-29 Thread Henry66
Wake on LAN turns my computer on from a cold shutdown (not sleep mode). In fact, this is how I turn my computer on most mornings. I believe there is also a Server Power Control addon that can also turn the server computer off when desired. -- Henry66

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-29 Thread aubuti
likescookies;621843 Wrote: Like a wake on LAN setting? Interesting. Will look into this--thank you. Still, having to navigate up the tree to connect to the PC, then at the end putting everything back the way it was so my wife doesn't get mad at me would definitely still lend some appeal

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-29 Thread Mark Miksis
andyg;621757 Wrote: It's basically the same as MP3tunes with less format support and no available API. HTTPS streaming would be a problem too, but if it's using S3 it'll hopefully support plain HTTP as well. I'm assuming it uses S3, but I don't know. Also, AFAICT, there is no http

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-29 Thread pmerrill
andyg;621757 Wrote: It's basically the same as MP3tunes with less format support and no available API. HTTPS streaming would be a problem too, but if it's using S3 it'll hopefully support plain HTTP as well. I thought that MP3tunes was going to be great but the interface really sucks. I was

[slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-28 Thread Mark Miksis
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_355091782_4?ie=UTF8node=2658409011pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DERpf_rd_s=center-2pf_rd_r=049EMNTK3XADJAYJWC7Epf_rd_t=101pf_rd_p=1291940422pf_rd_i=163856011 Interesting... -- Mark Miksis Mark

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-28 Thread Michael Herger
Is this Cloud Drive the user friendly offer of S3? -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-28 Thread erland
mherger;621612 Wrote: Is this Cloud Drive the user friendly offer of S3? Probably, at least S3 seems to be used for the storage, from their description: Amazon Cloud Drive provides customers with reliable, secure server storage. Each file is stored within Amazon Simple Storage Service

Re: [slim] Amazon Cloud Player

2011-03-28 Thread Mark Miksis
S3, but with no bandwidth charges. So yeah, streaming this to a Squeezebox wold be very cool. :) -- Mark Miksis Mark Miksis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread: