Nice surprise from Amazon Prime!

[rhinochopig]

justanother5tar said:

Bullett said:

I still buy CD's

What are they?

Those things for scaring birds in allotments.

[Shaoxter]

Is the unlimited pictures cloud storage truly unlimited? I have about 1TB of photos... And do RAW files count as pictures?

[Wyvern971]

Shaoxter said:

Is the unlimited pictures cloud storage truly unlimited? I have about 1TB of photos... And do RAW files count as pictures?

You get 5Gb of cloud storage IIRC, photos do not count to this, (that includes RAW files).

I have about half your total uploaded to Amazon Cloud Drive, obviously the initial upload will take donkeys years.

[audi321]

Shaoxter said:

Is the unlimited pictures cloud storage truly unlimited? I have about 1TB of photos... And do RAW files count as pictures?

Jesus - Good luck with the initial upload, that will take literally months!

[JonRB]

audi321 said:

Jesus - Good luck with the initial upload, that will take literally months!

I went looking for a calculator, as I was about to pull you up on the word "literally", and I found one here. At at 1.5MBPS uplink I (pretty standard for ADSL) it is around 65 days which does actually qualify as "literally months" so I will give you that.

Luckily for me, I get 13MBPS uplink with my Virgin fibre though. So a mere 10 days instead.

[R8VXF]

JonRB said:

audi321 said:

Jesus - Good luck with the initial upload, that will take literally months!

I went looking for a calculator, as I was about to pull you up on the word "literally", and I found one here. At at 1.5MBPS uplink I (pretty standard for ADSL) it is around 65 days which does actually qualify as "literally months" so I will give you that.

Luckily for me, I get 13MBPS uplink with my Virgin fibre though. So a mere 10 days instead.

PistonHeads: Pedantism Matters

[audi321]

JonRB said:

audi321 said:

Jesus - Good luck with the initial upload, that will take literally months!

I went looking for a calculator, as I was about to pull you up on the word "literally", and I found one here. At at 1.5MBPS uplink I (pretty standard for ADSL) it is around 65 days which does actually qualify as "literally months" so I will give you that.

Luckily for me, I get 13MBPS uplink with my Virgin fibre though. So a mere 10 days instead.

Isn't it their end which also causes the problem?

[Shaoxter]

Wyvern971 said:

You get 5Gb of cloud storage IIRC, photos do not count to this, (that includes RAW files).

Awesome, thanks for confirming
My backup drive just died so looking for a cloud solution which doesn't cost millions, this would be perfect!

JonRB said:

I went looking for a calculator, as I was about to pull you up on the word "literally", and I found one here. At at 1.5MBPS uplink I (pretty standard for ADSL) it is around 65 days which does actually qualify as "literally months" so I will give you that.

Luckily for me, I get 13MBPS uplink with my Virgin fibre though. So a mere 10 days instead.

I have around the same upload speed so not too bad...

[38911]

In my experience it's often not ISP bandwidth that is the bottleneck in large volume Cloud uploads. The throughput at the 'receive' end of the Cloud providers infrastructure is usually the limiting factor...

e.g. I have a 10 Mbps upload bandwidth but my Cloud upload rate is closer to 1 Mbps at best. This applies to Amazon, Microsoft OneDrive and Apple iCloud and DropBox. In fact from memory, Microsoft OneDrive is absolutely dire, usually less than half a Mb at best.

Oddly enough, Flickr (the free one!) is the fastest I've found - at least 5Mbps.

I've not tried Amazon.

[bakerstreet]

I'm getting really tempted with Amazon Prime. I was going to go for Netflix, but now want to watch CHM on Prime, so I shall probably give the 30 day trial a go in the next couple of days.

[audi321]

There's no way you'll get 15mbmps upload to these things. More like 2. I'll say it again but it will literally take months to upload 1TB to a cloud based storage site! I'm going to say 6 months constantly uploading lol

[JonRB]

audi321 said:

Isn't it their end which also causes the problem?

This is true. One would hope that they would have a nice fat pipe though.

Edit: Although 38911's post would suggest not.

[smn159]

R8VXF said:

JonRB said:

audi321 said:

Jesus - Good luck with the initial upload, that will take literally months!

I went looking for a calculator, as I was about to pull you up on the word "literally", and I found one here. At at 1.5MBPS uplink I (pretty standard for ADSL) it is around 65 days which does actually qualify as "literally months" so I will give you that.

Luckily for me, I get 13MBPS uplink with my Virgin fibre though. So a mere 10 days instead.

PistonHeads: Pedantism Matters

'Pedantry'

[R8VXF]

smn159 said:

'Pedantry'

That's the one, I blame Man Flu.

[GetCarter]

rhinochopig said:

justanother5tar said:

Bullett said:

I still buy CD's

What are they?

Those things for scaring birds in allotments.

They are the things that sound much better than streaming, but sound worse than records and much worse than AIF's.

The worst, by far are MP3's and streaming, which kick the fk out of all the work we do in recording studios.

God knows why we bother. People seem to accept the worst possible option.

[JonRB]

GetCarter said:

God knows why we bother. People seem to accept the worst possible option.

And then play it on the worst equipment. Like the tinny (and tiny) little speakers on their mobile phones.

[Shaoxter]

GetCarter said:

They are the things that sound much better than streaming, but sound worse than records and much worse than AIF's.

The worst, by far are MP3's and streaming, which kick the fk out of all the work we do in recording studios.

God knows why we bother. People seem to accept the worst possible option.

So do you suggest carrying around 12 inch records or 30MB files per song?

Most of the time I listen to music I'm on the tube and the format wouldn't make any difference.

[Kermit power]

Does anyone happen to know if there's a family option for Prime Music?

I've got a Spotify Premium family subscription which covers me, my wife and my daughter for £19.99 per month, which satisfies all our music requirements.

I've also already got Prime, and my wife can use that for the next day postage, but not, for example, for the Kindle library. If I could give them access to music through Prime, it's worth considering cancelling Spotify, but if I can't, it isn't.

Add to that the Spotify Connect on my A/V amp, and the wonderful seamless connection between Shazam and Spotify, and I'm going to take a bit of convincing!

[Bullett]

Took me about 4 months to upload around 1TB of various stuff to my online backup provider (not amazon).
I have 8mb upload.


50gb of photos took about 4 days on amazon.

[GetCarter]

Shaoxter said:

GetCarter said:

They are the things that sound much better than streaming, but sound worse than records and much worse than AIF's.

The worst, by far are MP3's and streaming, which kick the fk out of all the work we do in recording studios.

God knows why we bother. People seem to accept the worst possible option.

So do you suggest carrying around 12 inch records or 30MB files per song?

Most of the time I listen to music I'm on the tube and the format wouldn't make any difference.

Yes... It's what I do. (not the 12 inch records!) I use http://www.hifiman.com - so you can have decent quality if you want.

Though I understand that people don't have either the money or the inclination to get this sort of quality. I just wish Mr MP3 had not decided to squash the fk out of music when he invented the software.

Edited by GetCarter on Wednesday 5th August 17:14