Click the ‘Upload Your Music’ button, and when prompted, download and install the MP3 Music Uploader. Log in to your Amazon account and select Your Cloud Player from the drop-down ‘Your Account’ menu.ī. Log In To Amazon, Open Your Cloud Player And Install The MP3 UploaderĪ. You can go back to the Manage Your Cloud Subscriptions page at any time in the future to unsubscribe from Cloud Player Premium, but if you decide to do so, remember to ensure you have saved or downloaded copies of all your digital music files before your current Cloud Player Premium subscription period ends. Choose the Cloud Player Premium subscription and click Upgrade, then enter payment details as desired
On the Your Account screen, scroll down to the Digital Content section and click on the Manage Your Cloud Subscriptions link.Ĭ. Log in to your Amazon account and select Your Account from the drop-down ‘Your Account’ menu.ī. If either of these situations fits, then the $24.99 annual fee (as of this writing) for Cloud Player Premium will be both necessary and totally worth the fee. There are two reasons why you might need or want to sign up for Cloud Player Premium: 1) your library of digital music purchased from sites other than Amazon is close to, or larger than, the 5GB of free Cloud storage Amazon already provides for all its customers, or 2) you want a reliable, offsite backup solution for your digital music that requires no ongoing maintenance from you. Decide If You Need To Sign Up For Cloud Player Premium Step One: Move Your Music Library Out Of iTunes And Into Amazon’s MP3 Cloud Playerġ. The following tutorial explains how I made the switch from an iPod + iTunes to a Samsung Galaxy Player 3.6 + Amazon’s MP3 Cloud Player, but the same basic steps can be used regardless of the portable player you choose to replace your iPod. I also compared iTunes to Amazon’s MP3 Cloud Player for use as a music player and library management tool, and concluded Cloud Player is a worthy substitute.Įnough about the whys of leaving iTunes, today I’m getting into the how. I’ve already compared the Samsung Galaxy Player 3.6 to the 5th Generation iPod Touch and found them to be virtually identical in functionality (though not in price!).
In the first post I explained why making the switch from iTunes to Amazon’s MP3 Cloud Player is an especially good move for Kindle Fire owners, since it will free them to get full use of their digital music libraries across all their devices, including the Fire. Today’s installment is part 4 in my Escape From iTunes series.