If you have ever bought a CD from Amazon....

EndersShadow
EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
edited February 2013 in The Clubhouse
This is a bit old, but still pretty cool. One more reason to keep buying Cd's since you can still get the MP3's to hold you over till your Cd arrives so you can convert it to FLAC....

I have checked this out and it does indeed work....

One of the important parts is in red.....

Amazon to Provide CD Buyers With Cloud-Based MP3s For Free

CNET is reporting that Amazon is planning to launch a reward scheme for CD buyers. When they purchase music in its physical form, they'll also receive a digital copy, which they'll be able to listen to via Amazon's cloud music service.

Update: The service is now live! See below for more details

Codenamed "Auto Rip", the service will automatically deposit the audio tracks into the customer's Amazon cloud account upon purchase. Then, they'll be able to listen to them via whatever device they choose. CNET also suggests that Amazon may roll out the service retrospectively, providing MP3s of past CD purchase, too.

That second—and most speculative—part of the story is the most interesting. While CDs may be dead to some people by now, chances are most of us have purchased a reasonable amount of music on physical media from Amazon in the past. Logging in to an Amazon account which is filled with all that music would be a somewhat of a boon.

The service echoes UltraViolet, a Hollywood version for DVDs which supplies customers with both physical and digital copies of a movie. Given that CDs are far, far easier to rip than DVDs, though, this wouldn't so much seem a matter of making consumers' lives easier—instead, it sounds like more of an attempt to convince people that the digital option is superior to the physical. Still, that's no bad thing. [CNET]

Update: Amazon has now rolled out the service. You don't need to activate the service; instead, just log in to Cloud Player and you should see a notification that Auto Rip is up and running. Your past CD purchases should be populated there for you to listen to without you having to lift a finger. Sweet!
"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,114
    edited February 2013
    I just ordered a few Cd's last night and I seen this feature, after I clicked on purchase now I was told I could listen to my purchases right away on icloud, not knowing what that was I just ignored it do you have to download the cloud player? thanks for the heads up I will log back on to my account and see what I need to do.
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited February 2013
    gudnoyez wrote: »
    do you have to download the cloud player?

    I didnt, I just went to the dropdown list under "My Account" on the Amazon homepage and clicked on "Cloud Player". From there I went to my library and if you click in the box next to a song there is a "Download" button which I am assuming lets you download the song to your computer....
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  • ratster
    ratster Posts: 324
    edited February 2013
    I have used it a few times in the truck,running it through my phone. Nice little feature.
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,479
    edited February 2013
    I've bought most of my CD's from Amazon in the last few years since signing up for Amazon Prime. They have a record of every CD purchased from them on my account, and yes they did place all that are available as MP3's in my Amazon cloud player account. Not all CD's are available for this service, but a lot of the ones I bought are. I've used it on my phone, but I also make heavy use of the Google Play service that lets anyone with an account there load up to 20,000 songs on their servers for free. I'm at 19,000 uploaded from my computer on Google Play, so it is better for me. My CD's are stored in FLAC on my computer, and I think they get converted to MP3 on Google Play.
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  • joeparaski
    joeparaski Posts: 1,865
    edited February 2013
    And as usual, not available on Amazon.ca

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  • ntculenuff
    ntculenuff Posts: 1,146
    edited February 2013
    pretty cool, not sure when i would use it maybe on vacation possibly but cool all the same
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,933
    edited February 2013
    Pretty cool. Too bad they are only 256kbks and not 320kbps, but still...
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,422
    edited February 2013
    anybody buy used CD's? only the New CD's are in mine....
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  • Tbone289
    Tbone289 Posts: 661
    edited February 2013
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    anybody buy used CD's? only the New CD's are in mine....

    Yes, I do. Amazon doesn't sell you those used CDs, so they can't exactly provide you with MP3 copies of them...
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    edited February 2013
    The mp3's they give me are worthless and sound really bad
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited February 2013
    Got it up and running on my phone yesterday, set up on my desktop at work today. Thanks for the heads up!
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited February 2013
    polkfarmboy wrote: »
    The mp3's they give me are worthless and sound really bad

    havent tested it out besides getting my old cd purchases put into mine. Hoping to buy a couple CD's here next week and will find out how it all works then.

    Regardless its nice they are giving them to you for free since they dont have to do and could just make you wait for the CD.

    This way you can at least load em onto a low-fi player to hold you over till your CD comes in....
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,479
    edited February 2013
    Just checked mine on my phone, and it shows 155 albums in the Amazon player. All put there for free based on prior purchases.
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited February 2013
    Sweet deal since I bought so many myself.I would assume this is a good way to get folks to pay for more room on the cloud?
    Don't you get a couple gb's free then pay for additional?
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  • Tbone289
    Tbone289 Posts: 661
    edited February 2013
    You get 5 GB free with Amazon Cloud Drive. That's a lot of room for 256Kbps mp3s (600-700 songs).
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  • wz2p7j
    wz2p7j Posts: 840
    edited February 2013
    What the "cloud player" gets ya seems to be about an mp3 bitrate of about 250. And apparently it's some kind of variable bitrate where "simpler" portions of the music are encoded at lesser bitrates while more "complex" portions are encoded at greater bitrates. In any event, I tried this and just ended up ripping the physical CD music to FLAC. The "variable" bitrate versions just didn't sound that good. And if these tired old ears can hear a difference I'm sure you guys could too.

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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited February 2013
    This is the warning shot across the bow. They are getting us used to them "clouding" your purchases.
    Then the next step is to drop hard media, after that, the downloads. Truly owning physical copies
    is NOT what the music and distribution businesses want. Next step, outlaw all copies by
    consumers.
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