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Amazon Autorip launches today.
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amazon have launched autorip today. the idea is you buy a cd and whilst the cd is in the post the mp3 is added to your cloud player, and you can download it immediately.
it's a good service. gives them a real advantage.
what's weird is on some older albums the download is twice the price of the cd. so if you buy the cd you get both. they must have found some legal loop hole that it is your cd you're downloading not a digital download.
also weird is that they are encoding with lame 3.97
amazon have launched autorip today. the idea is you buy a cd and whilst the cd is in the post the mp3 is added to your cloud player, and you can download it immediately.
it's a good service. gives them a real advantage.
what's weird is on some older albums the download is twice the price of the cd. so if you buy the cd you get both. they must have found some legal loop hole that it is your cd you're downloading not a digital download.
also weird is that they are encoding with lame 3.97
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Looking at the top 20 on amazon. in most cases the cd is cheaper. plus free cd.
I always buy the cd. don't feel like i own it otherwise. then i rip it and stick it in a pile behind the tv.
I don't normally buy MP3s, I buy CDs and I play them, better quality than MP3. the reason I rip CDs is for my phone so I can listen to music as I am walking back and forwards to work. I also do store the rips on my Ps3 and will use that is I am doing house work. but if I am sitting down listening to music, I either use Cd or Vinyl.
I will delete everything off amazon cloud service, Maybe time to find another place to buy my CDs from.
Why? It's free and does not cost you anything and you don't have to use them.
Are you just having a random moan or something?
Incentivizing music buying from Amazon adds to the UK finance black hole.
It is paradoxically strange how the big tech companies are moving us towards being like a 3rd world country.
You might not even own the CD anymore, and you might never have ripped it to a computer. But the digital version will be there waiting for you.
Once again, time for you to get the tin foil hat out.
If you don't have Amazon Cloud Player enabled, it won't affect you in any way whatsoever. You can continue to buy CDs from Amazon as normal.
If you are a paranoid, it's going to **** you right off that all your previous purchases are automatically imported in to your cloud player when you open it.
What have tin foil hats got to do with it?
The problem is I enabled amazon cloud player ages ago and I don't think there is any way to disable it.
Anyway, maybe it is time to have a look elsewhere.
They say that but I checked mine and only the few albums I actually bought MP3s off are there. Guess it won't be instant as I've checked my history and I've definitely bought stuff Amazon sell with Autorip available.
It's a good idea but I can see it eating up data allowances
i think we are all a bit confused by what the problem is in having music in the amazon cloud player?
You have to have bought the cd not the mp3 for autorip to work. but i guess downloads should be there anyway.
i opened mine and it said it was importing songs from my cd purchases and then they were there.
you have to have bought the cd actually from amazon too. not through amazon. this is another way in which they have shafted their 3rd party sellers. previously it would give you the 3rd party price if it was cheaper, it still does but you have the option of buying from amazon with autorip at a higher price.
It isn't as free as people think. You have to pay to use the cloud if you have over 5gb of music.
It says I have space for 250 more songs before I have to start paying for Cloud Player Premium.
The ones you but from Amazon don't count towards that limit though. So it is free
Me too.
Most CDs are like a quid.
I pop into the local Smack Generator, oops, sorry, Cash Generator and buy CDs and DVDs for next to nothing. I've had a problem with three and no problem they let me swap for other disks. I buy anywhere between 1 and 10 DVD/BDs a month usually off Amazon but these cheap disks give you the opportunity to buy a film you may not fancy spending £10+ on but for a pound you'll give it a go.
What are we meaning by allowed.
But legally. No, you aren't.
There's another German Music Magpie type seller out there called momox co uk which are very similar. It's a good way of getting hold of recordings cheaply, even when they're deleted.
Or you can buy the CD, rip it and put it in the cloud.
I was actually talking about CD purchases not being there - might've been slightly unclear
Ah well, ne'er mind, eh?