Amazon is planning to end support for its online MP3 locker
Once upon a time the future of streaming music looked like this: you bought… or acquired… MP3 files. Maybe you purchased them through an online service, maybe you ripped them from a compact disc you owned, maybe you downloaded them off Napster (shame on you.) They lived locally on your computer and you could play them with software like WinAmp and iTunes. If you wanted to access them elsewhere, you could upload them to a cloud service, then stream them from any device with an internet connection.
These days most consumers use services like Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. You don’t store any files on a local device, you just stream from a massive library of tracks. If you want to take some songs offline, you can download them to…
