Microsoft amps up Xbox Music app with performance improvements, cloud syncing

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The updates are flowing for Microsoft. Just a day after releasing fixes for its Windows 8 Mail, Calendar and People apps, the Xbox team today announced some improvements to the Xbox Music app. Updates include performance enhancements for Windows RT devices, the ability to add and sync songs from your library to the cloud and… Read More…

Rock out to Modest Mouse in your Mustang: Amazon.com music service arrives at Ford

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Amazon.com is bringing its Cloud Player music service to vehicles equipped with Ford Sync AppLink, including new Mustangs, Fusions and F-150s. That means Amazon Cloud Player users with an Android phone can connect their app to Ford Sync, pulling up their entire music collection. In other words, no more CDs cluttering the glove box. “We… Read More…

Amazon tells music labels it doesn’t need their permission for Cloud Drive, yet

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Billboard magazine has gotten its hands on a letter from Amazon.com to the major music labels that illustrates the philosophical divide over the Seattle company’s Cloud Drive music locker and Cloud Player application. Since its debut two weeks ago, the Cloud Drive service has been the target of questions from the music industry over the… Read More…