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

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

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Post by TylerE »

wmf wrote: post #59
dustingetz wrote: post #18

I speculate they're just trying to de-dup content.

An interesting point. If you buy the CD, rip it, and upload the MP3 to Amazon, then it costs Amazon to store that. With matching Amazon has to pay the label for another license for that song, but they can just symlink it into your locker instead of storing another copy. Which is cheaper? Amazon has probably done the math.

and if they're REALLY smart they have a deal worked out where they don't have to buy the license until you play a track for the first time.

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Post by j_s »

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #50
Gmo wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it does not do the same thing, Apple doesn't sell CDs.

It doesn't need to. iTunes Match doesn't care about where you purchased your CDs. If you want to continue buying CDs at Amazon, that's fine. Rip them in iTunes, and iTunes Match will keep them in the cloud.

It is fair to point out that with iTunes match you will not have the pressed CD shipped to you. In addition to the hassle of burning your own, burned CD's can degrade over time. The nice thing about both services is that you can always burn another!

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Post by smackfu »

majormajor wrote: post #63

This is pretty awesome, but I can't help myself see it rather cynically in that I don't expect it to expand to books or movies any time soon. Especially not books. Ripping a CD is so trivial and such an old practice at this point, and so many MP3s can fit on a portable device, that buying a CD already de facto gave you the MP3s for free (except for the bit where you'd have to pay to get more Cloud Player storage if y…

Well, it is here for movies. A lot of them come with a digital copy.

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Post by bjustin »

ghshephard wrote: post #52
ubercow13 wrote: post #28

On clicking through to the eligible CDs many of them seem to cost less to purchase than buying the MP3s to begin with. Isn't that a bit silly? If you just want the MP3s it's sometimes cheaper now to just buy the CD anyway. Edit: am I right in thinking the difference is that this offer only nets you the tracks in your cloud player account whereas buying the mp3s means you can download them too and do what you like wit…

A significant majority of the time when I want to purchase MP3s from iTunes it is cheaper for me to purchase the CD from Amazon and have it shipped to me, then iTunes match it. I've got about 80 or so CDs I've done this with. I don't know if I'm exploiting a loophole or not, but I figure because I have the physical CD at my desk, it's legit. I'm still uncertain if this is shady behavior on my part or not - but I save…

They have said that Match is for getting high quality versions of songs that you ripped from CDs, so no reason to feel bad here.

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Post by brandonbica »

chimeracoder wrote: post #67
majormajor wrote: post #63

This is pretty awesome, but I can't help myself see it rather cynically in that I don't expect it to expand to books or movies any time soon. Especially not books. Ripping a CD is so trivial and such an old practice at this point, and so many MP3s can fit on a portable device, that buying a CD already de facto gave you the MP3s for free (except for the bit where you'd have to pay to get more Cloud Player storage if y…

I wish that they'd do this for books. The biggest thing keeping me from buying more ebooks is that they're usually the same price as the physical book - and, in some cases, more expensive than the physical book. At that price, I'd just as soon buy the physical copy. On the other hand, it would be nice to know that, when I buy a physical copy, I also have access to a digital version if needed. In the case of technical…

More than likely, given the option to buy an ebook for $x or a physical book with the addition of the ebook for 1.5*$x, I would probably spend the extra money for the option.

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Post by mbrundle »

ubercow13 wrote: post #28

On clicking through to the eligible CDs many of them seem to cost less to purchase than buying the MP3s to begin with. Isn't that a bit silly? If you just want the MP3s it's sometimes cheaper now to just buy the CD anyway. Edit: am I right in thinking the difference is that this offer only nets you the tracks in your cloud player account whereas buying the mp3s means you can download them too and do what you like wit…

I just tried buying an AutoRip-eligible CD and it treated the AutoRip mp3s just like a regular mp3 purchase - I was able to download them using the Amazon MP3 Downloader app.

Wonder if Amazon will soon lower the prices of MP3 albums which are pricer than the CDs to match the CDs, or if they're somehow prevented from doing so.

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Post by cdjarrell »

majormajor wrote: post #63

This is pretty awesome, but I can't help myself see it rather cynically in that I don't expect it to expand to books or movies any time soon. Especially not books. Ripping a CD is so trivial and such an old practice at this point, and so many MP3s can fit on a portable device, that buying a CD already de facto gave you the MP3s for free (except for the bit where you'd have to pay to get more Cloud Player storage if y…

I'm looking forward to the day when I can have a physical library at home and the exact same digital library on my Kindle wherever I go. I too think the bundle is a major step in the right direction
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