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This is not what I thought they would be releasing at all. I was hoping that it would just introspect your personal music collection and allow you access to any track that it found that had a match in their music catalog. I really don't want to upload my entire music collection somewhere else as it would take forever and while it's free now there may be usage fees on transfer in the future.

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This would be great, but I don't think the music industry would in any way allow this. I think I just read something that they are trying to pressure Amazon into actually storing a copy of the same mp3 for every user which is using their cloud service in S3. This is their way of trying to cause pain to Amazon, in that they want a 'physical copy' of each media file for every user which has access to the tune.

i drool to what you thought they would be releasing.

EDIT: by drool i mean salivate. that certainly sounds like an amazing service.

The frustrating thing is that's how lala worked. The upside is that maybe possibly Apple will keep that feature for their version of it.

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