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Amazon "Cloud" Player

So I just bought a CD from Amazon for like $4.99 and it says you get a free download of your CD on the Amazon Cloud Player. So I download the player and go to listen to a preview on the Cloud player and when I open it up - there's a sh!tload of music in there. But familiar music. Hmmmm. Then I realize, Amazon loaded every CD I bought from them into the Cloud player. Years of cd's are automatically and instantly loaded in there. Really incredible. Unfortunately, it sounds like sh!t. Worse than MP3 quality I think. At least that was my initial impression. Still, it's a very nice gesture on Amazon's part. The average person wouldn't know the difference anyway. I'm definitely impressed with their effort.
chayro
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mofimadness
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Amazon did the same thing with my account. I have over 500 CDs in my Cloud player. On my tablet and computer it really doesn't sound too bad. Yes, it is not "hi-rez", but for it's intended purpose, it works and sounds decent and it was FREE!!!

Thanks Amazon.
don_s
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Precious little is FREE. If it costs Amazon money then rest assured prices will be increased somewhere to pay for it. Maybe the cost will just be pennies/CD but the cost has to be covered somehow. Great, something else to pay for that I will never use.
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mofimadness
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Don_s...if you really feel that way, don't buy anything from Amazon. Then you won't have to pay for something you'll never use. Pretty simple huh?
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onhwy61
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It's something that I only would use once or twice a year, but it's still a nice feature. It cost Amazon little since it's simple linking your account to music they have already setup to stream.
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