Cloud music lockers: who fricking cares?

I think the piece misses a couple key points: 1. "Physical" ownership of the file - The song file can be downloaded to any computer, including your Android phone. This gives a sense of ownership of the digital file (hopefully Amazon won't change it's policy later). iTunes is much more restrictive, and I'm sure Apple's cloud music service would be just as restrictive.

2. Android integration - IMHO, there isn't a nice music player for the Android OS yet that can sync playlists and such across your devices, but this may be it.

I do and here is why:

Napster.

What we need here is an app that will let you register your collection of music on AWS as an available catalogue.

Then a client app can play music randomly from each registered catalogue through an intermediary routing server.

Sure, there is a ton of work to create a catalogue template so you can get meta-data about the songs available so that you can have some semblance of organization -- but a MVP with just the ability to play randomly from anonymous available stores would be interesting!

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Make it so.

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