Thursday, January 10, 2013

Amazon's AutoRip Goes Live! Gives Customers Free MP3s For CDs They Purchase

Amazon's AutoRip service has gone live and allows customers who have purchased CDs from Amazon's Music Store (all the way back to 1998) to get free MP3 versions of CDs they purchased.  The MP3's will be stored in user's "Amazon Cloud Player" accounts, Amazon's answer to iTunes, Google Music, and other such services that store users' music in a cloud.



The service currently offering over 50,000 albums from Amazon.com with more on the way, including backlog and most new releases. Thanks to deals made with record labels and music publishers, Amazon, can offer this service to its customers. Steve Boom, Amazon’s VP of Worldwide Digital Music, said the company now has deals in place with the three major labels (EMI, now part of Universal, Sony, and Warner) as well as hundreds of independent labels. Amazon has participation from all the major music publishers and “hundreds, if not thousands,” of smaller publishers, says Boom.

AutoRip will automatically be available to customers, even if they never signed up or downloaded the cloud player software, who purchased a CD from Amazon. Those customers will receive an email shortly after today's launch informing them that a digital copy of that purchase is available free on the cloud.

-Alex Pardo - Geekstrap's Contributor


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