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Amazon today announced the launch of a free, ad-supported music service in the U.S. that will be available to anyone who wants to play free music on their Echo speaker.
Until today, Echo owners who wanted to stream music from Amazon could either pay for an annual Prime membership for access to Prime Music or they could pay $3.99 per month to stream from Amazon Music Unlimited (or $9.99/month to stream on non-Echo devices, as well.)
The new service has the same catalog as Prime Music, which today has just over two million songs. Amazon Music Unlimited, meanwhile, has 50 million songs.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/18/amazon-music-echo-ads/
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 22 2019, @06:03PM
I think 5-8 MB per minute of FLAC is typical. Maybe bump that to 10 MB. A 14 terabyte hard drive could hold 1.4 million minutes of music, about 2.66 years.
Estimates of the number of songs in the world: 79 million to 97 million (probably a lot more if you count user-uploaded stuff nobody has heard). Song length is typically 3 to 5 minutes. You'd need a 4 petabyte drive to store 400 million minutes (100 million songs), 40 petabytes to store 1 billion songs, etc.
Obviously, most people don't need or want every recording ever made. But it would be nice to have a complete collection with well-curated metadata on stamp-sized rewritable 5D storage.
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