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Amazon Cloud Player adds automatic song match and upgrade feature like iTunes

Amazon unveiled a pretty major update to their Cloud Player service that launched early last year. The update makes the Player more independent from Cloud Drive and offers a free, automatic audio quality upgrade, similar to iTunes Match. The audio upgrade program is pretty neat – music on your hard drive will be scanned and matching songs (that Amazon has the rights to) will be upgraded to a high-quality 256Kbps version and they won’t even have to be uploaded. That will work on songs already in your Cloud Drive (plus you can access the original files). From now on, when you buy a song from Amazon, it will be automatically be imported into Cloud Player too. Songs you’ve purchased previously will be imported too (again, if Amazon has the rights to do so). You can now manually edit track metadata, but you can also just use the data provided by Amazon for your imported tracks. Music used to be stored in Cloud Drive but now the Player will use separate dedicated storage. Your current track...