{"id":644328,"date":"2013-02-27T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=614999"},"modified":"2013-02-27T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:30:18","slug":"amazon-scales-up-its-cloud-player-music-app-for-the-ipad-and-ipad-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644328","title":{"rendered":"Amazon scales up its Cloud Player music app for the iPad and iPad mini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s streaming music service,<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/amazon-cloud-player\/id510855668?mt=8\"> Cloud Player<\/a>, has been<a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/06\/12\/amazons-cloud-player-plays-on-iphone-ipod-touch\/\"> available on iOS <\/a>for more than six months, but designed for an iPhone or iPod touch screen. But as of Wednesday, it&#8217;s now optimized for both the larger display of the iPad and the slightly smaller iPad mini, Amazon announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The service lets you stream music you already own from the cloud or store songs locally. The first 250 songs can be stored for free, but for $25 a year users can store up to 250,000 songs.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud Player was once only available for Android users. 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