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How Amazon has Trumped iTunes

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I don't download much music from iTunes anymore and that is thanks to Amazon and what they call Auto-Rip. With Amazon Prime I have free 2 day shipping. Because of this I have started to purchase CD's again. I can have my cup cake, and later my Austrian pastry too. Many of the CD's offered at Amazon come with Auto-Rip which automatically loads an MP3 copy of my CD purchase to my Amazon Cloud account which I have configured to go right to, resentful to be on a PC, iTunes, so neener neener :butt1: Apple :D And most of time I spend about the same amount of money. :yes: When I receive the CD it gets ripped to FLAC, ah life is good. :thmbsp: Who needs iCloud when I have the hard copy.

What is really hilarious about this is I just spent $800 dollars on an iPad, so who is really laughing :deal:
 
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How I trumped both amazon and iTunes. I just by CDs and LPs from a local merchant. :D


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I don't download much music from iTunes anymore and that is thanks to Amazon and what they call Auto-Rip. With Amazon Prime I have free 2 day shipping. Because of this I have started to purchase CD's again. I can have my cup cake, and later my Austrian pastry too. Many of the CD's offered at Amazon come with Auto-Rip which automatically loads an MP3 copy of my CD purchase to my Amazon Cloud account which I have configured to go right to, resentful to be on a PC, iTunes, so neener neener :butt1: Apple :D And most of time I spend about the same amount of money. :yes: When I receive the CD it gets ripped to FLAC, ah life is good. :thmbsp: Who needs iCloud when I have the hard copy.

What is really hilarious about this is I just spent $800 dollars on an iPad, so who is really laughing :deal:
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Yep, Amazon is my go to music source.
 
What is really great about Amazon is they are a clearing house for used records, CD's, tapes, etc. I have found a lot of long out of print CD's there at very good prices. It is really hard to declare you have a rare one of a kind CD on Amazon , as you see on eBay, when this rare and special CD is listed by 10 of 15 other people. :yes:
 
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What is really great about Amazon is they are a clearing house for used records, CD's, tapes, etc. I have found a lot of long out of print CD's there at very good prices. It is really hard to declare you have a rare one of a kind CD on Amazon , as you see on eBay, when this rare and special CD is listed by 10 of 15 other people. :yes:
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Amazon marketplace has some very good sellers of used vinyl. I have bought dozens of nice LP's with a 90%+ success rate. I have had two turkeys and they were promptly refunded, without returning the record. There are several sellers that know their product, and have earned my trust. There is a seller in Germany that gets the product to me in less than 10 days, and guess what, they are all German pressings.

My best purchase has been the MP3 of Dire Straits "On Every Street", it was a 320 kbps download and sounds fantastic when I burned it to a CD, for $4. Plus there customer satisfaction and return policy are the best in the business.
 
I do the same thing except I ignore the Auto-Rip feature as I have no need whatsoever for the mp3 files.
 
one of my favorite things. many new Records do this as well. I've got a kindle fire HD so streaming of album is nice. I have the phone app as well.

Lossless would be nice. maybe in the future seems like something amazon could pull off.
 
i wish amazon would do something to straighten out the album reviews. they are all bunched together, regardless of release, rather than sorted according to the actual release that was purchased. i rely on those reviews before buying, in order to determine which remasters are worth pursuing. sometimes i have to cross-reference the amazon description and/or reviews with info at discogs and allmusic. on top of the reviews being screwed up, amazon often lists incorrect release dates and labels, further complicating the process. i ignore the auto-rip as well. i can do it myself, if necessary and i have no need to store anything in a 'cloud'...
 
When I bought people CD's for Christmas, I got the auto rip versions automatically for me! That was rather nice. Peace and goodwill.
 
I like buying on Amazon but it bothers me that you can't combine shipping from the same seller. Still, with patience, it seems everything shows up after awhile.
 
I don't use either service. So I can't vouch for one over the other but IMO them giving me a MP3 copy of a CD isn't really all that big of a deal. I mean all that does is save me the 32 seconds it takes my computer to rip digitally in the format I want and saved where I want. Auto ripping of CDs from amazon or any of the other retailers that do it has never really been a feature that I've seen as useful. It's not like it hard to do yourself. Now auto rips of vinyl that's a different story.
 
wow, I use Prime primarily for watching Amazon TV programming. Some real good stuff on that there. I may use them now for looking for records. I used eBay and Discogs.com for many recent purchases.
 
I've typed this before in another thread, but I can can remember back in the 90's when the Internet was starting to boom, and this little company called Amazon was an online Book Store, nothing more. I bought a few books from them just for the "Novelty" of actually buying something online. I had purchase things online before. Actually in the 80's with Compuserve, but that was without pictures and without knowing exactly what you were going to get. This was the first time you actually saw a book, clicked on "buy" and it shipped to you. Wow. Who would have thought how absolutely HUGE they were going to get. I really didn't. If I had, I would have bought WAY more of their stock than I did. WAY more.

I was one of the first to embrace Bezos and his Kindle. I had a Gen 1 and a Gen 2. I now have a Paperwhite and a Fire. Genius really. Especially the Kindle with the built in FREE 3G worldwide cellular. I have to admit, the man knows how to turn an idea into gold.

Amazon Prime was marketing GENIUS. Many of his ideas are.

Every single woman I run into that sees my Kindle says the same thing, "Oh, I LOVE Amazon!" Every single one. Some guys, but EVERY woman. If Bezos has the female market alone, he'll be King Midas.

What am I saying? He already IS!
 
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I agree. This is fantastic.

I like to load the auto rip versions onto my phone to use in the car. It really is an excellent value for me b/c I otherwise have no computer-based music, so ripping a physical CD to my computer and then moving it onto to my phone where I would actually use it is something I just wouldn't take the time to do. So the Amazon Cloud system is a real free bonus for me.

It's also remarkable to see that sometimes a CD with the Auto Rip version is actually cheaper than the straight-up mp3. So sometimes they essentially give you a discount if you agree to have a physical CD shipped with your instant MP3. Crazy.
 
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