Best Online Cloud Music Service - Online Mass Music Storage

Do you love to hear Music every day? But suffering from little mass storage for your media? Than you won't have to worry about your storage media. Now you can choose between many of Online Music Service providers providing Cloud Mass Storage Media for users worldwide. Google has also recently launched its Google Music Service in United States so do you upload all your music to Google Music? Did you checked other Online Music Service providers like Spotify? Rdio? Mog? Rhapsody? iTunes? Amazon Cloud Music? Google Music? Which ones are free, and which ones cost money? Or do you just forget about online music storage and just go back to listening music on CD' and DVD's.

We have summerize some of Best Cloud Music Service Providers who are offering various Music Albums, Artist Albums, Popular Music Albums etc through online storage. Following are some of Best Cloud Music Service providers you should check out.

Comparison between several Online Cloud Music Service Providers:

Rdio Music Service:

Rdio is a new social music service, founded by Janus and Niklas. Rdio making a music service that takes the work out of deciding what to play next follow friends and people with great taste in music, get inspired by what they're playing, and listen to their playlists. With Rdio's mobile apps, music on your computer and mobile phone is finally connected without needing a cable. Collections and playlists are instantly updated and you can sync music and listen, even when you're offline.

Spotify Music Service:

Spotify broke onto the scene in a big way in July 2011, when it was finally released in the U.S. Spotify offers tight integration with Facebook; songs I listen to in Spotify show up in real time on my Facebook Timeline (which can be a good or bad thing, depending on what embarrassing thing I happen to be listening to). In fact, when I open my Spotify desktop app, more than 50 of my Facebook friends are actively using it. By comparison, only seven of my Facebook friends are using Rdio, (which I'll get to later), with only a couple actively using it.

Rhapsody Music Service:

Rhapsody is, quite simply, the ultimate digital jukebox: For $10 a month you can listen to whatever you want, whenever you want, on whatever gadget you choose, from the hottest new releases to our decades-spanning catalog of 13 million - yes, 13 million - songs. And if you're not sure exactly what you feel like listening to, allow our crack team of musical experts to ply you with personally tailored recommendations, playlists, cheat sheets, essays, arguments and delightfully random tangents, holding forth on everything from the highlights of Hank Williams' massive oeuvre to the albums that directly influenced Nirvana's Nevermind to a detailed beginner's guide to the music of Colombia to the biggest hip-hop releases in the last month or so - and that's just one day's work.

Mog Music Service:

MOG Inc. is a next-generation music media company founded in June 2005 by David Hyman, former CEO for Gracenote. MOG has one simple goal: to perfect your music-listening experience. MOG�s all-you-can-eat, on-demand listening service provides access to a deep library of over 13 million songs and a million albums through its mobile apps on iPhone and Android, as well as on the Web and streaming entertainment devices for TV. It surpasses all other music subscription services in its ease-of-use, discovery features and audio quality.

Amazon Cloud Music Player:

Amazon beat both Apple and Google to the punch when it released Amazon Cloud Player hand in hand with Amazon Cloud Drive. Amazon Cloud Drive allows you to upload 5GB of any type of file, including music files (MP3, AAC), to Amazon's servers for free. After that, there's a tiered-pricing plan, and music you purchase from Amazon doesn't count against your storage limits and is automatically added to your Cloud Drive. At the time of this writing, Amazon is offering unlimited space for music, which doesn't count against your total storage space. So for only $20 a year, you get 20GB of storage space, and unlimited music storage space.

iCloud and iTunes Match:

With iCloud, all the music you purchase through iTunes and your Apple ID will be available on all your iOS devices. So if you buy a song on your iPhone, it'll be available on your iPad and on your computer. For $25 a year, iTunes Match allows you to store music (MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4, AAC) that you didn't necessarily purchase from iTunes. Any music that's matched is automatically stored in iCloud; whatever music isn't available through Match, is uploaded. Since most of your music can probably found among iTunes 20 million songs, you won't have to upload from scratch, thus saving you tons of time.

Google Music Service:

Google Music came out of beta recently with a splash. The Android Market offers hundreds of free songs and millions you can buy. You can also upload up to 20,000 of your own songs (MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC) to Google's servers, and play them on any device with a standard Web browser. That's right: Google's offering its music services outside the Google ecosystem. Imagine that?

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Malaysia football on the up? MEH.

As I write this, Malaysia just defeated Indonesia in a SEA Games football group match, which means they have booked a place in the semis. Just another step to defend their title I'd say. Another step to wait for it...... World Cup - most of Malaysian fans would reply.

Malaysia fans, being err.... Malaysians, are having a good time, taking a piss at our neighbors who prior to the match, weren't much of a sport anyway.

Come on. Calling us Malingsia? Not cool. Anyway, I'm here not to talk about Indonesians (who are actually totally sore losers). I only know a few personally and they are a nice lot (pretty girls too!). Probably because they don't give much shit into football.

I'm here to talk about Malaysian football team and its fans, and how, to a certain extent, we are not much different than the English when it comes to supporting our national team.

I read somewhere on Twitter where a friend compared the Malaysia-Indonesia rivalry to the English-German thing in Europe, with Malaysia being, due to high influence of the colonial times and exposure to the BPL, England. Correct comparison? Possibly yes. Then our rivalry with Singapore should be like between England-Scotland and the one with Thailand is akin to the one the English have against the French perhaps.

You know why we are like the English? It's because Malaysian fans walk on a very fine line when it comes to the support for national team. A fine line that divides them to die-hard (so called ultra) supporters one second then a very pessimistic observer the next (moi)

Every win is greeted with "This is the change of fortune we need. We can only go up from here. This is our year. Hello WORLD CUP! (In England's case, winning it. In our case, qualifying past the second round).

Surely nothing is wrong with being a little optimistic. Heck, us football fans are all like that. Hey, I know that. This is Liverpool's year, i tell you! But what shits me is how high expectations are set, even when the foundations are so bloody wobbly at best.

Instead of taking it one game at a time, they're already setting targets - next, Asia Cup, then Olympics, THEN, World Cup! Seriously? With the quality you saw on the field? We only got through because the Indonesians took a leaf from Luis Suarez' book on how to miss sitters.

I was at FAM a couple weeks ago and to quote a friend who share the same feeling about the place - it is a shithole. Dilapidated state. You know how bad? Remember that abandoned block in secondary school where the school stashed all the broken chairs, tables and where the smoking kids go to take a puff but during recess, you kinda missed the whole thing because you happen to look the other way? That's how it was.

The only 'high-tech' thing I could point at FAM was the artificial pitch. Apparently they've had it for a while now. Really cool. Balls travel much more evenly, you don't get weird bounces and hardly hurt yourself if you fall on it.

Hold on. Weren't we complaining about the artificial pitch in the Jalan Besar stadium when we lost to Singapore? Kenapa dah tau, tak pulak training awal-awal?? Ah. Malaysians and their excuses.

It doesn't matter. Old story. The team is playing 'well' now.

Confidence is so stupidly high, that the commentators were like "Why are they giving chance to Cambodia in the second half?" during the 3-1 win a few days back. Hello! All goals, except for the third one, which was a beauty but in stoppage, were flukes, aite. They were running around like headless chickens and wayward passes that makes me question - budak-budak ni ada training basics of passing and trapping the ball ke???!

The team was all over the place and whoever thinks Ong Kim Swee is doing a good job probably thinks Roy Hodgson ought to be allowed a full season at LFC. Fact is, the reason Malaysia is 'up there' at the moment because other teams are shit. Hey, so quick to forget we lost to Singapore who fielded washed-out imports kan? Only highlight naturalized players, yet forgetting, they were old and overweight.

Deep down, I do hope Harimau Malaya prove me wrong, and really, succeed in "membawa kembali kegemilangan bolasepak zaman lampau" soon, starting with successfully defending their Gold in Sea Games. The hardest game is always the next. So keep your head straight, and take one game at a time. Focus one tourney at a time la. And stop the 'Japan used to be lower than us,' shit. It's pathetic.

Would be cool to one day, be able to take my kid to a World Cup match and watch the boys in tiger stripes play but judging on how they are progressing at the moment..... we might have a better chance of spotting a Malaysian-born referee running around. Fingers crossed for a better future in Malaysian football.

And stop playing that Hitam Kuning song. It's stupid.

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The difference between a vet and a n00b.

Don't worry. No one stays a n00b forever. Well... unless your name is Leeeerrroooooyyyy Jennnkinnnnnnnnsssss!




Go get em, n00b!

Which reminds me... i still havent played MW3...need to upgrade my PC first. Arrrggghhhh....

Over thinking/ over analyzing bit - you'll remain a n00b as long as you stick with an M4A1 carbine. Upgrade to a SCAR, godammit.

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Charity Auction For items In The Players Lockers

LONDON �  Players competing at this year's Barclays ATP World Tour Finals are coming together to support charity in a unique worldwide player locker auction. 

As the season-ending tournament, featuring the world's top eight singles players and doubles teams, gets underway at The O2 in London this Sunday, an online charity auction is being launched which will see fans bidding for the contents of their favourite player's locker. The lockers will be personally stocked by each of the top eight singles players, including Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Roger Federer, who are competing in this year's tournament.  

All money raised is being split between each respective player's charity of choice, with 50% of all the proceeds going to the tournament's charity partner Save the Children.

"This is a fantastic opportunity for tennis fans to get their hands on some amazing tennis memorabilia and help the world's poorest children. You could win Andy Murray's racquet, Roger Federer's shoes or personal photographs and know your money will be helping children the world over. Please get bidding!" said Save the Children CEO Justin Forsyth.

To take a look at the lockers and the personal possessions of the players up for auction, bidders are invited to visit the exhibition taking place in the Fan Zone during the tournament at The O2. 

From signed racquets, clothing and shoes, to personal items such as signed autobiographies, calendars, photographs and more, the auction provides a memorabilia goldmine for tennis enthusiasts worldwide. Bidding on the eight lockers will open throughwww.BarclaysATPWorldTourFinals.com/charity on Saturday 19 November at 5PM GMT,running throughout the course of the tournament before closing on Monday 28 November.

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"Facebook is my agent"

When traditional agents fail, try social networking

Historical fiction author Linda Collison (Star Crossed, Surgeon's Mate) had problems selling her sequel.  Agent and publisher weren't interested.  Desperation reigned.  Then lo, her problems were solved in the most intriguing manner possible.  A post on Facebook worked most unexpected magic, and just like that, she had a new publisher.

As she wrote:

Months pass. A couple of years, actually. And then, miraculously, my prince charming finds me on Facebook. Actually, it’s more like a blind date set-up thing in which a British chap named David Hayes who administers a lively blog and encyclopedic website www.historicnavalfiction.com seeks me out on Facebook. Sees I’m an author of historical nautical fiction. Recommends me to Tom Grundner, editor-in-chief of Fireship Press a small publisher of historical fiction and nonfiction based in Tucson, Arizona. Who loves my work, who gets it, who wants to publish my entire series! I sign the contract and although I get no advance, I don’t care. I get the standard percentage of royalties. I have beaucoup editorial freedom. My editor answers my phone calls and emails. Strike the bell, fire a salute, serve up an extra ration of rum!

Read more about this little miracle HERE.

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Artist's review of TUPAIA

Review from acclaimed artist David Stones

It is always a huge delight to get an unexpected review from a reader, and this one had the bonus of being from a well regarded artist.  David has a hideaway studio in the backwoods of beautiful Nelson, in the sunny top lefthand corner of the South Island of New Zealand.  You can see a gallery of his work on his website.

David very kindly gave me permission to publish his letter.

Hello Joan

I have enjoyed reading 'Tupaia' so much I felt I must contact you and thank you for the experience. It is a most beautiful book to look at and feel. Saskia Nicol's design is extraordinarily beautiful-the book feels nice to hold. The typeface is perfection, the shape of the page is lovely. The illustrations compliment the story but also have a beauty of their own. The cover is one of the best I have seen anywhere.

Quite apart from the professionally and sensitively produced publication, you have created a thoroughly researched and deeply considered work on Tupaia and his interaction to and impact on the professional sailors and 'enlightenment' research 'team' of the Endeavour. Perhaps it is the impression of Tupaia on the New Zealand Maori of 1769 that is so interesting. Tupaia's mana and knowledge seemed to have lasting consequences on all who met him and heard what he had to say.

Do you think the history of the Pacific could have been somewhat different, if the 'Endeavourists' had realised the quality of the man, on board, in Tupaia?

Congratulations Joan on this most professional work, also Random House and your whole team.

Kia kaha

David

In answer to David's question, I think Tupaia's genius was too easily dismissed back then, just as it has been since.  If he had survived the Endeavour voyage and gone on to the Resolution with Cook, the history of European/Polynesian contact would have been different, and the life of James Cook could very possibly have been saved.

 

And thank you, David, for writing.

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The Authors Guild and the Kindle Lending Library

Authors Guild Says Kindle Lending Library Is "Outside the Bounds of the Publisher's Authority"

In a strongly worded memo issued Monday afternoon, the Authors Guild took issue with Amazon's Kindle Lending Library for Prime customers, in particular those titles available without express permission from publishers and authors.

"How can Amazon get away with this? By giving its boilerplate contract with these publishers a tortured reading," the Guild said, adding that permission appeared to be dispensed with "because, as Amazon apparently sees it, its contracts with these publishers merely require it to pay publishers the wholesale price of the books that Amazon Prime customers download."

 The reasoning is "nonsense", from the AG's understanding of Amazon’s standard contractual terms: "publishers did not surrender this level of control to the retailer. Amazon’s boilerplate terms specifically contemplate the sale of e-books, not giveaways, subscriptions, or lending." In other words, the Guild asserts Amazon "appears to be boldly breaching its contracts with these publishers."

The way I see it, the Kindle Library is lending out books that haven't been purchased.

No regular library lends out books that have not been paid for, first.

The Authors Guild recommends that authors who find that their publishers have given the Kindle Lending Library permission to lend out their works without consulting with them first should be asking them some probing questions.

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