News Free MP3s of every record you've ever bought with new Amazon Autorip

Cloud player is awesome, even if it does now have my mother's copies of Lionel Ritchie and Ronan Keating in it ...

 

yeah 250 isn't much and it's only music brought directly from Amazon, I've brought several CD's from Amazon listed vendors and their not showing.

Their essentially saying were going to give you a digital copy of any CD you've brought from us and only us as long as you store it on our servers.

It's a nice idea to try and get you to use their service but I'm sticking with Google Music.

 

*points at checkboxes on left of each and every song in the list, then points at "Download" button at the top*

You're welcome.

 

Ah, Linux. Apologies, I'm a Windows man.

 

Why should the OS matter? Surely a download link should be OS independent if the site is even half ways intelligently engineered - a zip file containing the files would work on (almost) every OS.

 

So far none of the CDs I have bought (2) have been added to my account. Thankfully. Not sure I want Pop Party 4 as an MP3.

I'm guessing this service is also not for compilation albums either.

 

I ended up with almost 100 new albums getting added, including a few I guess must have been gifts (Stereophonics? well, ok then).
Oddly, several of the albums were the special editions, when I only bought the standard version, cheers Amazon! You're my favourite tax-dodging monopoly!

 

mp3 is super low quality, it should be long abandoned, unless you don't hear to real music, just NOISE.

 

I'll be honest I think it's a great offer. They didn't have to do it and I'm impressed that they have.

Best of all I've had a My Bloody Valentine album added that I had stolen several years back and never got around to replacing. It's playing now as I type, so thanks Amazon, made my day.

 

Wow it doesn't include music you bought previously as MP3 download. Very odd.

 

I thought that was an already existing feature? It certainly is on my account

 

Never mind took 30 minutes to load my purchase history, but finally its all there. Even the stuff I bought on the mobile app that used to not show anywhere. So yeah first log in it takes a while to compile I guess.

 

I've bought loads of CDs on Amazon but most have been through marketplace sellers. And most I've bought for myself are converted to either flac or 320kbps MP3

 

I can't hear the difference between MP3 and Flac/CD, but that's from destroying my hearing at too many gigs ;0

 

Amazing how many times you hear this trotted out. It's nonsense. Okay, mp3 is not the most efficient codec (ie more modern codecs can deliver equivalent quality in smaller filesize) but at high bitrate (320, 256 - as offered by amazon - or even 192 Kbps) a well encoded mp3 has repeatedly been shown to be indistinguishable from the original in blind ABX tests conducted by audiophiles on very high end equipment. Do you have some sort of magic ears that let you hear the (empirically imperceptible) differences or are you sitting comparing waveforms on a monitor?

 

Well no, because you obviously won't get the full value back, especially after you pay for postage. Anyway, why go to such lengths? You could have achieved the same result before auto rip by buying, ripping and selling the CDs, but then if you're going to be so cheap about skanking "free" music then I'm sure you'll just cut out the intermediate steps and acquire your music from a torrent site.