Amazon introduces the Autorip service, to get the free mp3 version of CDs purchased on the store. Here’s how the system works and where it’s already valid.
Amazon has just introduced a novelty in the United States that will very soon reach other countries where the online store operates.
For the purchase of a CD, you will also receive the free mp3 version of the album itself.
All thanks to the new system, called “Autorip“: just buy a CD to immediately receive its equivalent in digital version, as a free order.
The mp3 tracks will be archived in Amazon’s cloud player, so they can be listened to immediately on any multimedia device, without even having to wait for the physical copy of the CD just purchased to arrive home.
The novelty does not only apply to orders placed from January 2013 but – to the great surprise of customers and observers – it is retroactive: this means that, at least as far as purchases made on the American store are concerned, the Autorip system will be active for all music purchases made since 1998.
You will therefore find a complete discography in mp3, naturally provided that the mp3 version of that album is already available in digital version.
At the moment, there are about 40,000 albums digitized this way, but the number will grow in the coming months, so as to offer the service to as many people as possible.
Naturally, nothing changes for all those who directly purchase music in mp3 format.
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