
Make playlists more robust and easier to use Cloud Player needs a built-in playlist that shows such songs.Ĥ. With Cloud Player, you have to examine each track, click the little triangle next to it, and look for the words Fix incorrect match-your only indication that a song has been matched in the first place. With iTunes you can create a smart playlist to show these files. The big problem here is that you have no easy way to see which tracks have been matched or upgraded. Matching is great, but only if you can tell when it has happened. One the best parts about this and similar services is that they can not only save you time and bandwidth by matching songs in your library with theirs (obviating the need to upload them), but also provide you with potentially higher-quality versions than, say, your decade-old CD rips. Getting your music into the cloud shouldn’t be one of the most frustrating parts of using an online service.Ģ. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, but the uploader didn’t think it was any different from my original CD-you’re out of luck. And when the app refuses to upload something-I tried again and again to add the remastered version of Sgt. Even if you have only one album, the app takes several minutes to get to the point of being able to upload it. It can scan your iTunes or Windows Media Player libraries and start the upload/match process with all your content, but when you want to add anything new, your best bet is to choose the Browse manually option and select a folder (which can contain subfolders) to upload. When you finally get it going, using the importer is frustratingly slow. (Technically you can launch the app by itself, but a message just tells you you’re doing it wrong and makes you go back to the browser to start the process as described.) For one thing, you can’t just launch the app you have to log in to your Amazon Cloud Player account on the Web and then click the Import your music button to start up the app. The Amazon Music Importer is an Adobe AIR app, which is one strike against it right from the start.
