Music player the Amazon Cloud with compatibility Android launched only, but an update of the service continuously deployed this weekend quietly introduced basic support for Apple iOS. If you have an account Amazon Cloud Drive (5 GB free, more an upgrade to 20 GB) free if you purchase an album via Amazon MP3, you can now stream music on iOS devices too.
There is no native iOS app for cloud player Amazon, such as that for Android smartphone owners, but instead, you can listen to your songs stored online through Safari, the browser integrated iOS. And as noted by TechCrunch and Engadget, it works like a charm.
To get this working, you have just to point Safari on an iPhone or iPad to the Amazon Cloud player site. A warning page say you that your browser is not supported, but you need to simply ignore that. Once you're past the warning screen, you are in: you can see all your songs stored on servers in the Amazon.
You then just select the song or playlist that you want to play, and music will begin streaming on your device iOS. It works even with the multitasking iOS and volume controls (play/pause/skip songs), so you can listen in the background while playing your favorite game. If a notification of appeal or push comes, music will pause, just as you could be listening to the application native iPod.
Using the Web Player for the cloud interface iOS Amazon has its caveats: you cannot drag and drop to rearrange songs in playlists, and unable to download files because it requires Flash. The latter should not be a big problem, as probably most of the users of Amazon Cloud Player download their songs via a regular computer. But this iOS base compatibility should be sufficient for the iPhone and iPad owners up to what Apple unveils its own cloud music service.
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