{"id":88,"date":"2013-01-27T23:27:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T06:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/?p=88"},"modified":"2013-01-28T00:37:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T07:37:21","slug":"physical-copy-no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Physical Copy? No Thanks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently as a direct result of my story about waiting countless agonizing days after purchasing a physical CD from Amazon before I could first listen to the contents, Amazon made good by enacting <a href=\"http:\/\/phx.corporate-ir.net\/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&#038;p=irol-newsArticle&#038;ID=1773251&#038;highlight=\">AutoRip<\/a>. When I checked in on my Cloud Player I found an extra 20 records I had bought in my entire history with Amazon.com, and that includes a few I had forgotten about. That&#8217;s a really nice gesture and it may save me a step or two in the future in getting the tracks synced to my iPod. From what I have read the MP3s are 256 kbps, which is far above average. However, I&#8217;m still feeling inclined to write a letter directly to Amazon to plead for some kind of option to get albums in lossless (FLAC) format, along a pdf of the full cover art and liner notes. There&#8217;s a lot of personality and even hidden surprises tucked within the clever scribbles and cryptic notes of the little album booklet. I&#8217;d pay if they would just hold onto the physical disc so I don&#8217;t have to keep it here in a junk pile, unopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently as a direct result of my story about waiting countless agonizing days after purchasing a physical CD from Amazon before I could first listen to the contents, Amazon made good by enacting AutoRip. When I checked in on my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/?p=88\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}