How long until one of the labels sues Amazon because one of the tracks they gave to a customer is one of a CD that was bought as a gift and the purchaser no longer owns?
I really wish they would do this for physical books, get the audio book for free.
Cool concept. I can't remember the last time a I bought a physical CD though.
I got most of mine too, just checked. Heck, I don't even remember a couple of those CDs
People whine for the sake of whining.People still by CDs?
Indies and soundtracks is most of what I didn't get.
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People still by CDs?
Additionally, customers who have purchased AutoRip CDs at any time since Amazon first opened its Music Store in 1998 will find MP3 versions of those albums in their Cloud Player libraries
To all the dimwits who keep posting "how hard is it to just rip the CD lol":
You get the digital files right away.
You get free cloud access to those files.
You presumably get a reasonable rip of those files that's error-free and standardized (as opposed to 96kbps rips you still have from '99, glitchy tracks, etc.).
I usually hate the 'hope competition makes Apple do better' meme (hurr) but I've always wanted the option to convert my ripped CDs to iTunes versions permanently, so I can access them in perpetuity, instead of paying an iTunes Match fee every year. Say 50 to 75 cents a track, basically free money for Apple.
Now, if the price is the same (assuming buying through Amazon), you might as well buy the CD version. You get the same instant gratification and delivery of your digital content, plus a free CD
I'm wondering how many people are ending up with free mp3 copies of CDs they bought for others. If they were specifically marked as a gift, you apparently don't get a copy, but if you just bought the CDs and had them delivered to you so you could wrap yourself-- say as Christmas gifts, Amazon wouldn't know and presumably will give you copies for eligible CDs.
Need to check with my Dad to see what (if anything) he might have got.
SourceSince [1998], weve sold hundreds of millions of CDs to tens of millions of customers a lot, a lot of music, Amazons Steve Boom tells TechCrunch, adding that the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Japan are high on Amazons priority list to get AutoRip in 2013.
Yes they do. The last CD i bought from Amazon was because it had 4 or 5 more tracks than the digital download version. Also, there is of course some stuff on CD still that isn't available digitally yet.People still by CDs?
I was t hinking the same thing or the purchaser sold off the CD.How long until one of the labels sues Amazon because one of the tracks they gave to a customer is one of a CD that was bought as a gift and the purchaser no longer owns?
I also had a small fraction of the CDs I had bought in the past available from the AutoRip. What was even more interesting is that half of them weren't even the full CD To quote Amazon: "Please note that some songs from the above CDs are not eligible for this feature and may not be available in your Cloud Player library.Over the years I've bought far more than 14 CDs from Amazon, but that's what I got from AutoRip today.
WAV, seriously?!? You must have HD space to burn or not rip many CDs. If you really wanna rip losslessly, why not ALAC? When ripping with other software (eg EAC), I've sometimes ripped to FLAC for backup and aac for iTunes/iPod. XLD is great for batch-converting and automatic iTunes import. I find 160kbps AAC plenty for my purposes, at 256 even audiophiles with quality equipment have a hard time making a distinction from CD. If you sat through a blind test, I doubt you could, either.Turn a sweet CD into awful MP3 formats? Sorry I will keep using WAV formats in iTunes.
they said autorip, i said ooo! they said you buy and get BOTH, i said oooooooo! then they said... mp3, i said oh?...
Nice feature and all, but mp3 kind of makes the whole thing pointless if you have to burn your own version for higher quality.
What I'd like to see is "auto rip" books. I've moved on from physical media with music, but would like to still have actual books, but be able to have a Kindle/PDF version as well. They actually charge more for the Kindle version than the physical book in some cases which makes no sense, let alone requiring you to pay full price for both.