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How to Play Amazon Cloud Drive Music on iOS
Amazon’s new Cloud Player and Drive service for storing and streaming music is a great way to back up your music and stream it to almost any computer. There is an Android application for playing music on those devices. But for now iOS devices are not supported. But there is a way to play one song at a time. We show you how.
We assume you have set up your Cloud Drive with at least one music file. If not, see our first look at Amazon Cloud Drive.
From your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch go to your Cloud Drive and sign if if you haven’t yet.
How to Play Amazon Cloud Player Files on the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch
- Select your music folder and then choose the playlist
- On the left sidebar you will see the music folder. Open it by tapping the link.
- A list of all of your music will be revealed.Select the group you want to hear.
- The albums will show up below the name.Select the album and all of its songs will be listed in the main window.
- Select a song and tap the Download button at the top of the list.
- The song will be downloaded and start playing in Safari after a short wait.
This the only way we know of to play songs on an iOS device until either Amazon or someone else creates an app for iOS. We expect that to happen, but don’t be surprised if Apple rejects it on the grounds that it mimics built-in functionality or some other bogus reason. It won’t be true if they do, but don’t be surprised.
LG
03/31/2011 at 9:04 pm
iPhone/iOS users can already put their music in the cloud: mSpot has been offering a music cloud service since June 2010 (for Android) and since December (2011) for iPhone/iOS users. The service already has over 1.2 million downloads already. Full disclosure: I work with mSpot.
Drefees
04/02/2011 at 6:42 pm
Does not work for me-Safari says no.
Clever and Son
04/11/2011 at 2:03 pm
An alternative way of listening to cloud player on the iPhone:
1. Download wifi2hifi app
2. Open Cloud Player
3. Stream the audio from the computer to the iOS device
snapathletics
05/02/2011 at 4:16 pm
For only $3.99!. Nice to see vendors trolling for free ad opportunities.