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Piping New Music: From Amazon to iTunes to Google Music to Spotify

Yesterday, it was announced that Spotify will tightly integrate with Facebook.  That’s great for sharing music, but if you want to buy music instead of just taste-testing on Spotify, then you should really check out the Amazon.com MP3 Store.

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Amazon Cloud Player Review

I just spent the last four days continuously uploading all my music to the Amazon Cloud Player.  I had previously spent days uploading all my music to Google Music Beta.  Now I have my entire iTunes library backed up in two separate places.  I like the Amazon music upload interface better than Google’s because you are updated every moment about the status of your uploaded songs.

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Bye Bye Pandora and iTunes: The Spotify Review

I signed up for Spotify on Friday, and after only a few days of use, I’m ready to forsake my years with Pandora and iTunes.  Spotify covers those music services with ease and then beats them in the belly of the very beast in which they long to live: Customizability and Variety. With the $10.00USD a month Premium version of Spotify, I can stream high bit rate music and download 3,333 songs each to three separate portable devices like an iPad or an iPhone for non-streaming, offline, listening.  The Spotify library has more than 15,000,000 songs and using Spotify makes me feel as I did when I was using Rhapsody before I had to give up that music service in my move to Mac computers.

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Blues, Blues Christmas Review

Yesterday, I was hankerin’ for a hunk o’ Blues holiday music.  I hopped onto iTunes and found — “Blues, Blues Christmas” — a collect of 52 songs recorded between 1925-1955.

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Vox Mobile Catalog Review

I was toodling around the iTunes App store this morning, and when I did a search for “guitar amps,” I discovered the “Vox Mobile Catalog” for my iPhone and I was hooked the moment after the free download.

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