Amazon has pulled the trigger on a new service called AutoRip [1] , which effectively gives CD buyers a cloud-based MP3 version as a free bonus, making it unnecessary for music buyers to do the dirty work themselves.
While the move may be a head scratcher for those who stopping buying CDs long ago, AutoRip isn’t strictly about compact discs you purchase today â€" eligible titles you’ve purchased in the past will also appear like magic in your Amazon Cloud Player, where they’re stored for free.
Sure enough, as soon as we visited our own Amazon Cloud Player this morning, AutoRip presented us with 196 songs added from past CD purchases, including those we originally bought as gifts for others, which was a nice surprise.
AutoRip tracks are available to download via Cloud Player any time, effectively giving users a free backup of their CD purchases without the need for a paid service such as iTunes Match.
So what’s the catch? There really isn’t one, with the exception that not all of your past, present or future CD purchases will be eligible. But we were pleasantly surprised by how many of ours were, including oddities like a few James Bond soundtracks and discs that are long out of print.
To see what pops up in your own Cloud Player, head to your account and click on the Recently Added section, then wait for the AutoRip notification to pop up; AutoRip tracks are denoted by the blue and green arrows in a new column at right, so you’ll know at a glance which tracks were eligible.
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