I was wondering where that CD went. Seems like Amazon had it all along.
I never looked at my Cloud before today. Before Christmas I bought a special MP3 deal they had, 18 hours of Christmas music for 99 cents (that somehow I ended up getting for free). Thank goodness they don’t charge for saving stuff I’ve purchased from them because my Cloud is a gad-awful disaster with all those Christmas songs in there. :eek:
Is there additional Cloud storage included with Prime?
Well alrighty then, I will have to revise my Amazon Cloud Conspiracy Theory if they don’t actually count purchases against your cloud space allotment.
I still wonder about why their direct downloading procedure has become such a butt-pain. Maybe incompetence and stupidity play a bigger role than I’d thought.
Still, Amazon’s not as bad as the Itunes store, which constantly requires you to re-sign away your life via lengthy customer contracts which no one in their right mind would ever read in toto, and which has approximately 1 free song for every 250,000 in the store.
Didn’t even know I had a cloud player (and for that matter, haven’t the faintest idea what it even is), but I now have 165 songs from 11 albums loaded into it, going back to a Chad Mitchell Trio CD I bought back in '02.
Looks like it worked at least partially for me, I have Johnny Cash “At Folsom Prison” and Metallica “Death Magnetic” in there, I know I own those CDs. I remember the Death Magnetic CD because the coffin on the cardboard CD jacket is inset into the cover.
Of course I already ripped the CD years ago as soon as I received them. I don’t see the point really, just saves me uploading them to cloud player, if I ever used cloud player, which I don’t.
But it’s not like they’re storing a separate copy of the album for each user so the pointers from my account to those MP3s aren’t going to waste any significant space.
Edit: Just checked my e-mail, Amazon e-mailed me that 16 albums I purchased on CD have been AutoRipped, including several that I bought as gifts…including Jackson Browne “Solo Acoustic”, I don’t remember buying that, gift or not. Huh.
And, you have a(n extra) backup if you ever need it.
Ditto. Now I have 19 CDs and 227 tracks.
About a third of which I had forgotten I bought.
So what exactly is this “cloud player” thing?
If you want Amazon’s own answer, you can go to their website and read their explanation or watch their cute little two-minute promotional video.
But basically, instead of (or in addition to) having your music stored on a physical device, like your computer or your iPod or your CDs, it’s stored in the clouds up in the sky (not really), so that you can play it from anywhere you have a decent internet connection, and some device (a computer or tablet or smartphone or some such) running Amazon’s Cloud Player app/software. Think of it as having your music stored online and being able to log in and access it from anywhere.
Hmmm…
This is both very cool and very annoying. I had no idea I had a cloud player but, sure enough, as soon as I logged in (for the first time) it starting populating. I’ve got 136 albums and 1363 tracks.
The problem is I KNOW I’ve bought more CDs than 136 in my >10 years as an Amazon customer, so where did the rest go? For instance, none of the CDs I bought this Xmas season showed up. Also, it’s annoyingly sporadic as to whether the full CD will show up on the cloud.
According to their Autorip terms & conditions:
But I can’t figure out why they would only include 1 track off “Electric Version” by The New Pornographers, only 3 tracks off “Mermaid Avenue” by Billy Bragg & Wilco but include the full album “Summerteeth” by Wilco. Why did they only include the 1st mvt of Chopin’s Concerto No. 1 by Martha Argerich on one album, but show both complete Chopin concertos on another Argerich recording? The missing tracks are REALLY annoying for the live albums. Concert CDs by Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Keith Jarrett and Mark O’Connor are all missing tracks.
If their licensing rights are so scattershot and piecemeal that more than half of my CDs have irritating gaps in them, I doubt I’ll be bothered using their service. Filling in the missing tracks alone would probably put me very close the 250 free song limit.
I think I’ll be sticking with local copies for the time being. Although I admit I’m curious about Google’s Music Player. They allow 20k free tracks and provide music matching which should put a big dent in upload times.
Can I just say that, every time I see this thread title, I get a mental image of Amazon forcing the OP to sing and dance and wear an eyepatch and a pegleg and a parrot on his shoulder.
I finally signed into my Amazon Cloud player.
Wow!!! They have albums I bought two years ago ripped and available on my cloud player. Pretty impressive effort for old purchases.
I’ve started playing some of my Cloud music at the office. Pretty convenient because my mp3 player is at home.