remembering privacy and security settings remembering account, browser, and regional preferences The Vinyl Factory Group, trading as: The Vinyl Factory, Vinyl Factory Manufacturing, Phonica Records, FACT Magazine, FACT TV, Spaces Magazine, Vinyl Space, and The Store X, uses cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience, enabling things like: On the plus side, AutoRip may finally give labels the incentive to be more liberal with their download codes. While the news will surely be welcomed by collectors exasperated by the conflict between portability and audio fidelity, the move is another setback for resurgent, often vinyl-only independent record shops, who will see this as an aggressive move by the omnipotent platform to consolidate another chunk of the music retail market. Many of our music customers are vinyl fans and it’s traditionally been very difficult to make digital versions of vinyl records-now customers can enjoy the albums they buy wherever they are, not just when they have access to a record player.” In a press release on the site, Steve Boom, Amazon’s aptly named Vice President of Digital Music said: “We’re thrilled to extend this experience to vinyl records. The extension into vinyl seems like a canny move. (let’s face it, turning your CD into a digital file isn’t rocket science). Since it was introduced for CD’s in January, AutoRip has proved popular if somewhat irrelevant, for linking physical purchases with the digital world. Even more impressively, the service has been made available retrospectively for any records bought since 1998 that carry the AutoRip logo. The online retailer has announced that their AutoRip service will extend to cover vinyl records, automatically uploading digital copies of every purchase into your Amazon Cloud Player. Amazon might have finally solved the portability problem of record collecting in the digital age.

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