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Cloudy with a strong chance of great tunes: new MINI Connected-ready app brings the Amazon Cloud Music Player into the MINI.
Fri Nov 22 00:00:00 CET 2013 Informação à Imprensa
The latest addition to the range of apps designed especially for MINI Connected allows MINI drivers with iPhones to access their personal music collections.
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Munich. The latest music app to launch on MINI
Connected offers Amazon customers a convenient way of accessing their
audio files on the online store's Cloud server, using their smartphone
in conjunction with the MINI hub. It can be downloaded for free from
the App Store and installed in the vehicle via the customer's Apple iPhone.
As with other MINI Connected compatible apps the connection
works using an iPhone, is operated in the usual safe, convenient and
intuitive way using the MINI joystick, the steering wheel buttons and
the high-resolution colour display of the in-car monitor. To use this
or other MINI Connected apps and services the car must be fitted with
the MINI Visual Boost radio or the MINI navigation system in
conjunction with the MINI Connected option.
The Amazon Cloud Music Player can play audio files stored on the
smartphone as well as those saved in the data cloud. The collection
can be searched using criteria such as music genre, album or artist.
Other functions include the ability to repeat individual or multiple
titles, to play songs in a random order, and to compile favourites
lists. Current song information – artist, title and album – is
displayed on the in-car monitor.
To access a personal music collection in the Cloud, an Amazon
customer ID and password is required, once this is entered, all audio
files stored there will be available for online streaming. The online
store offers its music customers a choice of around 26 million songs,
which can be downloaded and simultaneously saved in the Cloud. Any
music that the customer has purchased from Amazon in the form of a CD
or vinyl LP can also be saved digitally in the Cloud and accessed from
the MINI via the app.
The Amazon Cloud Music Player is just the latest in a long line
of music entertainment apps and online services to launch on MINI
Connected, with more to come. Others include AUPEO! Stitcher, Deezer,
Audible, Napster/Rhapsody and TuneIn, as well as web-radio services
and RSS news feeds. MINI is the only car brand in its segment offering
customers such a wide variety of apps and services.