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Amazon Customers to Receive Free MP3s on Vinyl Purchases

By Kevin Chen, The Motley Fool

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Amazon.com  has expanded AutoRip to vinyl records purchases since 1998. 

Introduced in January, AutoRip provides Music Store customers with free digital copies (MP3s) when they make a CD purchase. Similarly, customers who now buy a vinyl record will also receive a free digital copy added to their Cloud Player libraries. This extends to all Amazon customers who have bought from the Music Store since 1998. Moving forward, prospective customers can receive free MP3s by looking for the AutoRip logo.

As part of the AutoRip service, customers can stream the MP3s on Kindle Fire, Android phones and tablets, iOS devices, Samsung TV, Roku, Sonos, and Ford SYNC Applink-equipped vehicles. Furthermore, customers will receive free storage and backup on all AutoRip MP3s. 256 Kbps MP3

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Amazon AutoRip Extends to Vinyl—Customers Now Receive Free MP3 Versions of Vinyl Records Purchased F

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Amazon AutoRip Extends to Vinyl—Customers Now Receive Free MP3 Versions of Vinyl Records Purchased From Amazon—Past, Present and Future

Customers who purchased vinyl records from Amazon dating back to 1998 will find MP3 versions automatically added to their Cloud Player libraries – free of charge

AutoRip eliminates the challenge of making a digital copy of your vinyl records

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)– (NAS: AMZN) —Amazon today announced it has extended its popular AutoRip service to vinyl records. AutoRip was introduced in January of this year to give customers free digital copies of CDs they purchase. Starting today, when customers purchase an AutoRip vinyl record, a digital copy of that music will be automatically added to their Cloud Player libraries where it will be available, free of charge, for immediate playback or download. Customers no longer need to go through the hassle of making a digital copy of a vinyl record. Additionally, customers who have purchased AutoRip records at any time since Amazon first opened its Music Store in 1998 will find digital copies of those albums in their Cloud Player libraries – also for free. Thousands of records, including titles from every major record label, are available for AutoRip, and more titles are being added all the time—just look for the AutoRip logo.

“AutoRip has been wildly popular with customers since it launched earlier this year,” said Steve Boom, Vice President of Digital Music for Amazon. “It’s a fun experience to suddenly find CDs you purchased just today—or 15 years ago—added automatically and free of charge to your digital library. We’re thrilled to extend this experience to vinyl records. Many of our music customers are vinyl fans and it’s traditionally been very difficult to make digital versions of vinyl records—now customers can enjoy the albums they buy wherever they are, not just when they have access to a record player.”

AutoRip features include:

  • Free digital copies: Amazon customers who purchase AutoRip vinyl records get free MP3 versions of the albums delivered directly to their Cloud Player libraries—automatically, immediately, and at no cost—no more hassling with finding a way to get them onto your favorite devices.
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Amazon AutoRip service bundles digital copies, CD purchases

Amazon wants to breathe life back into CD sales by offering free MP3 versions of your Amazon CD purchases including any discs you’ve bought since 1998 with a new program called AutoRip. Your free MP3s are automatically stored in Amazon Cloud Player after you purchase a new CD and are available for playback or immediate download. Past purchases that are eligible should automatically show up in Cloud Player. The free digital tracks do not count against your Cloud Player storage limits as with purchases from Amazon’s MP3 store.

More than 50,000 CDs are AutoRip eligible including albums from every major label with titles such as “Babel” by Mumford & Sons, “Red” by Taylor Swift, “21” by Adele, “Some Nights” by Fun, and “Girl On Fire” by Alicia Keys. You can browse a list of AutoRip albums on Amazon .

All AutoRip MP3s have a bit rate of 256 Kbps, making them equivalent to the high-quality tracks Apple offers with iTunes Match and that Google offers with the new scan-and-match feature on Google Music. Amazon also offers a scan and match service for Cloud Player that puts 256 kbps versions of your personal library in the cloud.

“I’m excited to see Amazon…embrace models that acknowledge the importance of both [physical CD and music downloads] to music fans,” said Preston Austin, cofounder of Murfie, an online marketplace that lets you buy, sell, and trade physical CDs online. “Liberating the music fan to get the most out of online and offline technology is where Murfie competes and where we want the industry to be.” Amazon’s new service puts the online retailer in competition with Murfie’s service that also includes ripping physical CDs and creating digital copies of your CD collection.

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Amazon Launches 'AutoRip' Service For CD Purchases

By Eric Savitz, Forbes Staff Amazon.com this morning announced a service called AutoRip, which gives customers free MP3 versions of CDs they buy from the site. “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 […]
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Google Music adds scan and match feature

Up to now, Google has been the poor boy of online music, but that’s about to change. It rolled out a scan and match feature on Wednesday for Google Music users that gives the search giant a leg up on Amazon’s Cloud Player service and Apple’s iTunes Match. Here are some things you should know about Google’s matching service.

What is it?

Google’s service scans a user’s computer, giving them online access to the songs it finds, provided Google can match those songs on its servers. If the songs cannot be found, they will be uploaded to a user’s online locker.

The service saves you the time of manually uploading your music to Google Music by scanning the files in your library and comparing them to songs in the Google Music library.

If your song is in the Google Music library, Google will copy it to your cloud account. If it isn’t in Google’s library of approximately 13 million songs, Google will upload to your cloud account. (In comparison, Amazon and Apple claim to have about 20 million songs in their respective libraries.)

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