Interesting. I wonder what the thought process was. Ripping CDs to computers is easy enough that I would think that most people who wanted digital versions of their CDs would have done that. I guess it's good for new purchases (waiting for the CD to come in the mail)

I don't see how this would motivate anyone to buy physical who otherwise wouldn't

Originally Posted by Chris92

This does nothing for me at all.

Also, why not offer FLAC? Or at least non-shittily encoded mp3s? When is Amazon gonna get its head out of its ass about encoding?

Amazon doesn't know what FLAC is

Originally Posted by Chris92

Yeah I guess you're right. But seriously, they should hire someone who actually knows at least a little bit about encoding...a lot of their mp3 albums are supposedly VBR but look like whack-as-fuck mutt rips, some actually are mutt rips and are partially 256 and partially VBR, and they've also been known to sell transcoded stuff before. Some shit man, some shit.

I usually only buy digital through Bandcamp or straight from the label for the same reason. I think anything I have on my computer that came from Amazon is the result of one of their $2 mp3 promotions