Better still, you'll get versions of any album you've purchased in the last 15 years. The service will link to over 50, albums with more incoming and you'll be able to grab said digital copy before your new CD even arrives. It's already been activated and, better still, our previous music purchases are already on the Cloud Player ready to go -- no confirmation needed. We did note however, that some of our more obscure albums didn't transfer in full -- in some cases only half the tracks made the transition.
When customers purchase AutoRip CDs, the MP3 versions are automatically added to their Cloud Player libraries, where they are available, free of charge, for immediate playback or download — no more waiting for the CD to arrive.
Additionally, customers who have purchased AutoRip CDs at any time since Amazon first opened its Music Store in will find MP3 versions of those albums in their Cloud Player libraries — also automatically and for free. From this pop-up window, you can immediately play the track by clicking the yellow button, or head into Cloud Player to download the file to your hard drive.
Although I could have sworn I had never purchased CD music from Amazon, I was surprised to find 43 songs had been added for me. One more click on this second notification window takes you directly to those AutoRip tracks. From here, Cloud Player works as usual. As giant companies create mega-databases of information about you and your purchases, and then hand them over often for a fee to governments and others who are interested in learning more about you and your habits, two things are happening: you and your data are becoming much less secure, and you are losing fundamental privacy rights.
This seems especially relevant when it comes to books, movies, music and other brain-food that collectively say a great deal about who you are and what makes you tick. We need to create systems that allow anonymous purchasing in this new world — to recreate cash in a digital format or some other method to recreate anonymity.
The institutions that claim the right to spy on us incessantly — namely, governments and corporations — won't like this. But if cash and anonymous buying do disappear, so will a fundamental freedom, and we'll regret it in the end.
This article is more than 8 years old. Dan Gillmor. If you bought a music CD from Amazon in recent years, AutoRip now lets you download the digital version. But there's a catch. Open the purchase screen for the album or CD to confirm that it includes the AutoRip feature.
AutoRip isn't only available for CDs. There's also a large collection of vinyl albums with the AutoRip logo at Amazon. The AutoRip feature is even more convenient for vinyl recordings than for CDs considering that you have to digitize vinyl or any analog-based music recording if you want a digital copy. It can take a long time to digitize vinyl recordings yourself , especially if any restoration work is needed, such as removing pops, clicks, or hiss.
If you do it yourself, digitizing vinyl involves significant extra costs, such as purchasing a USB turntable or buying oxygen-free audio leads so you can connect from your stereo system to your computer's sound card.
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