Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me upload my stuff to Amazon Cloud

Dear Auntie TUAW,

Amazon gave me a free 10 GB in their cloud to upload my music. It won't all fit since I have about 15 GB of music, so I was wondering if there was a way to upload just certain playlists without have to go to each folder and upload all the songs separately. Perhaps an automator action?

Thanks and kissies,

Patrick

Darling Patrick,

It's wonderful to hear that you have an interest in streaming music! Did you know that your great-great-great-grandfather Henri subscribed to a streaming music service in 1892?

Unfortunately, Amazon has not released an API for its new Cloud service. Nor did Amazon Web Services (AWS) reply to TUAW when pinged about any upcoming plans for developing such a feature.

But those wild and crazy AWS fans didn't let that stop them. Auntie tracked down a very promising discussion thread over at the AWS forums. Looks like Cloud, which is built on Amazon's S3 storage-in-the-clouds service, uses the same API calls as S3 does. Some enterprising developers have put together a Python-based set of scripts that offers a third-party library to access your Amazon Cloud Drive.

Coding on this project hasn't quite finished yet, and Auntie hasn't found any OS X developers yet who are working on client software to integrate your iTunes media with Cloud storage (ping me if you are working on this!), but hey, it looks like all the major technological roadblocks have been leveled, and it's just a matter of effort to go from point A to point B now.

So can you upload playlists directly from iTunes to Cloud? No. Not yet. Possibly not ever. (Especially since Apple seems poised to move into this space on its own.) But with third-party support? It looks like it's just a matter of time.

Love,

Auntie T.

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William Luckie

There is a Mac App called ARQ which uses Amazon S3 storage for online backup.

May 23 2011 at 2:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sunnycyclist

The Amazon Cloud Uploader already lets you upload songs based on iTunes playlists, or artists. Just click the plus sign to expand the choices in the uploader. Problem solved :)

May 23 2011 at 1:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Ryan

Indeed, the Amazon Uploader will scan your iTunes library and allow you to upload music from specific iTunes playlists.

May 23 2011 at 5:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

OlsonBW

I'm trying to find software for my iPad (preferably) or my Mac to write music with. I've found some that sort of do what I want but not what I need.

One of my friends can't read music at all, he can only read tablature. So I'd like to be able to write everything once and be able to click from "normal" to tablature and back. And I'd like to be able to write multiple parts for each song but have to always have all parts showing all the time. We are just a garage band that is just starting out and while we are learning existing songs, I was hoping to use my iPad, or my Mac, to automate the process of writing music but I'm just not finding what I want/need in either the iOS store or the Mac Store. Maybe someone that reads this will know of a good app.

May 23 2011 at 1:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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John.B

@Sabon: The problem with wanting an app to "write everything once and be able to click from "normal" to tablature and back" is that there is more than one place to play most notes on the guitar.

The same pitch of 'C' at the 2nd string (B string) first fret can also be played on the 3rd string (G string) at the fifth fret, on the 4th string (D string) at the tenth fret, the 5th string (A string) at the fifteenth fret, and -- depending on the guitar -- on the 6th string (low pitched E string) at the twentieth fret.

Also be aware that guitar is a "transposing" instrument. That means that music for guitar on a treble clef staff is written one octave higher that the concert pitch that is being played on the instrument.

May 24 2011 at 10:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

OlsonBW

Hi John B.,

Very true. But at least it would be a start. The app could be setup so that any changes to tablature would stick with comments about any notes that change on other "views" which would allow them to change the tabs to the version of the note that they want.

Maybe there could be a settings to choose where on the neck the guitar player, "normallly" likes to play with the ability to slide everything up or down the neck ...? Nothing is perfect. At least it would be a place to start. Right?

May 25 2011 at 9:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeremy Edwards

Download Lady GaGa's $.99 album today and Amazon will upgrade you to 20 GB of storage. Hurry though. it's $.99 today only

May 23 2011 at 1:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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MacGuru

Thanks Jeremy for the tip. For others, search "Lady Gage" under MP3 Downloads at Amazon in order to quickly find this special 99Â¢ album.

May 23 2011 at 1:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MacGuru

Oops, search "Lady Gaga" --not "Lady Gage" as in my last oops-post.

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