I got this email from Amazon the other day:
You may have noticed that songs from 11 CDs you have purchased from Amazon were added to your Cloud Player library. This means that high-quality MP3 versions of these songs are available for you to play or download from Cloud Player for FREE. You can find your songs in the "Purchased" playlist.
In addition, we're excited to announce AutoRip. Now when you buy any CD with the logo,
the MP3 version of that album will instantly be delivered to your Amazon Cloud Player library for FREE.I've been aware of the Cloud Player, but since I don't have a device (other than this computer) to play my songs on, I didn't use it. I download free music from Amazon all the time and have purchased quite a few mp3 albums as well as a dozen or so CDs. I can't remember when they started the Cloud feature, but I reached the limit quite some time back and deleted a lot of the songs that were in my Cloud as so to make room for new ones. I already had them on my computer and couldn't see the need for my Cloud except as backup.
It's nice that my purchased CD tunes are now in my Cloud. That will save me from having to rip the music to add to my mp3 jukebox.
On my Cloud page it says I have room for 250 more songs. I could get more space if I bought it, but...The best thing about it is that it's much easier to download the songs now. The settings were confusing and seemed to change on their own and when I got new songs, they sometimes didn't download to my computer but were instead put into my Cloud Here's what's in my Cloud right now.
There are some duplicates in my mp3 jukebox, but I've been working to get rid of them. Some are dupes that happen to be on two albums by a particular artist or band and some are freebies I got from Amazon that happened to be in different collections. At last count, I had over 21,000 songs. Before updates to Windows Media Player, it tallied up the total size and time of all the mp3 files and I had enough to listen to music non-stop for a couple of weeks.
3 comments:
I will tell Joey about this He loves music and free TY Mike
Yeah, if he hasn't already, have him sign up f/ an Amazon account and then opt in for the mp3 newsletter. They don't give away as many free tunes as they used to, but they still offer them and he could go into the "free" section and d/l the ones that are still available. (I believe that they might have some sort of time limit on their offerings) I've d/l loads of complete sampler albums and while most tunes are from up and coming artists who want the exposure and forfeit a royalty by giving away their music, Amazon does offer some big-name artist freebies occasionally.
thanks for the advice both posted, and in your comment above, man. Dillon has the mp3 habit (which is a reward for completed homework), and loves downloading new stuff. thanks
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