September 18, 2012 - 14:54 AMT
Amazon launches Cloud Player in UK, France, Germany

Amazon has launched its Cloud Player in the UK, France and Germany, enabling consumers here to listen to music stored in Amazon’s cloud music service, according to musically.com.

The news comes a few weeks after Amazon launched its non-music Cloud Drive locker in the UK. As in the US, the Cloud Player offers users space to store 250 songs from their existing collections, plus anything they’ve bought from the Amazon MP3 Store.

They have to pay for the Premium tier if they want to up that limit to 250,000 imported songs, but at the time of writing the pricing is still in dollars ($24.99).

The Amazon Cloud Player app has also been updated in Apple’s App Store with support for UK, Germany and France. The timing is no surprise, since Amazon is about to launch its Kindle Fire range of tablets in Europe, and Cloud Player is one of the key features, the report says.