Digital

Amazon to copy tracks from CDs into customers’ lockers

By | Published on Monday 13 August 2012

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Amazon is planning on expanding its digital locker service so that tracks from CDs purchased via the etail website would also appear in a customer’s cloud storage unit, or so says Billboard, which reckons the new add on could go live later this year, in the US at least.

As previously reported, when it first launched, Amazon’s digital locker had no licenses with the music companies, meaning that users had to upload their own MP3s to their bit of the Amazon server to access them from other net-connected devices, utilising their private copy right under most copyright systems (but not the UK, though the service isn’t available outside America yet).

However, last month it was announced Amazon had got deals with the labels to add scan-and-match, meaning that the cloud set-up scans a user’s PC and automatically transfers high quality copies of any tracks found into their locker. That brought Amazon’s service inline with Apple’s existing locker. Adding the option to automatically have tracks from CDs purchased added to a locker account would be a USP.

According to Billboard, at least two labels and most of the publishers like this idea, and are on board for an autumn launch. We are also still expecting the roll out of the Amazon locker into Europe at some point.



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