The Daily Swarm

Digital Music News:

Rdio – started by the founders of Kazaa and Skype – promises to deliver a streaming, cloud-based solution. The top-level description sounds a lot like Spotify, Lala, and other cloud concepts, though given the entrepreneurial pedigree, some innovative twists are probably in store. “Rdio is like carrying a giant MP3 player in your pocket – you have unlimited and unrestricted access to all the music, and you get to select exactly the song, album or artist you want to hear,” the app description reads.

That appears to include content personal uploaded into the cloud, and Rdio-provided libraries. “And you can skip, pause, fast forward as much as you want,” Rdio continues.

Kerascene:

Many in the digital music space believe that Apple’s purchase of Lala is an indication that iTunes will soon be helping consumers move their music into the cloud for everywhere access. So yesterday’s announcement that Amazon had added media streaming to its online content delivery service CloudFront caught my eye.

Amazon CloudFront is primarily in the business delivering content for other online media companies like video sharing site Vidy; and the new feature enables streaming of audio and video, providing an alternative to progressive downloads where users have to download the full media file.

If Amazon can offer this service to other sites, it would not be much of a stretch for them to also offer it to consumers. With Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), the company already has already become a leader in cloud based storage and delivery.