Amazon introduces AutoRip CD service in USA - Internet - News ...

A new service for Amazon customers in the US debuted yesterday. It?s called AutoRip and it means that, on an eligible selection of CDs, when you buy a music CD you will automatically get the digital version for free. The eligible selection is quite vast, I found some of my favourite obscure late 1980s CDs in there, and also the service is retrospective back to 1998, so many CDs you have purchased from Amazon before will now be available for you download or stream.

The AutoRip service, now live in the US, automatically adds your purchased CD music to the Amazon Cloud Player and lets you download tracks as 256kbps MP3s. CDs that are included in the AutoRip service have the AutoRip logo next to them and you can filter your CD music searches on Amazon to include the AutoRip feature.

If you have already signed up for an Amazon Cloud Drive you will be aware of the free 5GB of storage provided with that service. However the AutoRip service won?t start chomping away towards those data limits because Amazon will provide extra space for your AutoRip CDs at no extra charge.

Amazon hopes this service will help spur people to maintain a CD collection, bought from Amazon, and not give up on physical media for other services like iTunes. All of your Amazon AutoRip music will be available to Cloud compatible smartphones, tablets and PCs (as well as simply being downloadable) you will also own the physical CD media, packaging, artwork etc. It sounds like the best of both worlds...

So far the service is only for US residents and we have no information about when it will come to UK customers.

Source: http://hexus.net/business/news/internet/50477-amazon-introduces-autorip-cd-service-usa/

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