I was scanning through my emails today and found out about Amazon AutoRip. It sounded too good to be true, so I had to look into it.
What is Amazon AutoRip?
With Amazon AutoRip, if you purchase an eligible CD, you will instantly receive the MP3 version of the album for FREE. Seriously. Even your past purchases since 1998 that are eligible, should automatically be added to your Amazon Cloud storage. How cool is that?
Benefits of Amazon AutoRip
- Instant gratification
- Free MP3 version of album
- Save times (no uploading CD to computer)
Finding AutoRip Eligible Albums
The easiest way to know if your desired album is eligible is to search for it on Amazon
You can also go to Amazon’s AutoRip Page and browse the eligible albums.
Example of Eligible Albums in Search:
Example of Eligible Album on Product Page:
Potential Downfalls of Amazon AutoRip
- Couldn’t people just buy CDs, score the free MP3 version of the album and then sell the unopened CD?
- People buying the CD, getting the free MP3 version and then trying to return the unopened CD. I’m assuming that Amazon would remove the MP3 album, but what if somebody already backed it up somewhere else? *Please don’t do this, because it’s just like stealing.
Notes: If you are purchasing a CD as a gift, which I believe means you check the “this item is a gift” box during checkout, then you will NOT get the free MP3. If you want the free MP3 version of the album for yourself and want to give the physical CD as a gift, just ship it to yourself and wrap it yourself.
For more information about Amazon AutoRip, or to view the videos, you can go here.
This makes me wish I had bought all my old CDs from Amazon. I’ve been far too lazy to convert them all to mp3 myself, this would be perfect. Unfortunately nowadays when I buy music I just buy the MP3 download in the first place, so I don’t know that I’d get much out of this in the future.
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I’m the same way, I don’t even know when the last time I bought an actual CD was.
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great time saver. I remember the start of mp3s when I ripped all my Cd collection it took hours. You make a good point about people selling a brand new CD but it is like free refills and people ordering one drink for a party of 6, many will be honest, some won’t, and in any case, Amazon will profit.
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Interesting, except I don’t think I’ve bought a CD in over 7 years.
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Exactly, me too.
Apparently there are still people out there who buy them though.
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I haven’t gotten into downloading music too much as I leave that up to my wife. She has gotten used to iTunes and she doesn’t adjust well to change, so I’m sure we’ll be using that for years to come (regardless of savings by going other routes). This does sound pretty cool though…
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I used to use iTunes exclusively too, until I started finding the free MP3 codes from Amazon. I can’t turn down free music.
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That’s not a bad side gift for buying a CD. Usually the first thing I do anyways is rip my CD to mp3!
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Yeah, it’s pretty cool.
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I am going to have to check this out. Not that I have bought a CD in years, but you never know.
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Yeah, I’m in the same boat.
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Many CDs are available for download from torrent sites, some legal others not so. What Amazon is saying is that if you have bought a CD (through them) then you have paid for it so you can have an mp3. Of course they are in a head-to-head with iTunes over this which means that the corner music shop is going down the tubes even faster than before.
I guess they have sorted out the IP with the music industry. I doubt they are paying the musicians any more.
But it sort of ‘legitimises’ stripping your CDs to mp3!:-)
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Hmmm.
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I have not heard of this service before on Amazon, Jen, so thanks for the heads up. In general I am pretty pathetic when it comes to following tech-y stuff, and I still fondly remember the golden oldie days of my first vinyl. (It was The Monkees, if I recall. Hah!)
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As far as I know, it’s brand-new. The only reason I know about it is because I’ve been trying to clean out my inbox.
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Should increase the revenues of artists and musicians by quite a bit! No one likes to have to wait to listen to music.
Especially impatient people. 😀
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