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Originally Posted by Blossom
It's not a conversion. It's a match service. What it does it scans your copy and see if it matches one of their copies. Amazon then adds their copy to your Cloud. Your copy does not get converted or uploaded. iTunes does this I am told as well for a fee.
It does not need to be a Amazon purchase song for it to be matched. Amazon just needs to have the rights. This is great for older music ripped in 128kbps before our ears knew any better.
Conversions from tapes are always sucky. I tried to buy the CD if it's available but I've had years to replace my tape collection.
I would never use WMP to transfer to the Fire. It sounds to me it may be that program screwing up your ability to drag and drop.  Or if you do not have the correct driver installed so your PC sees the Fire in the right transfer mode. It could also be a Administrator issue with Windows....
That's very odd you can't redownload your music to your PC. I can. Maybe you have to pay for that option. I download from my collections all the time.... |
You are paying the $ 25 fee to Amazon for unlimited songs on the Cloud. I am not paying that fee and still have about 90 song slots unused from the free 250 slots which will never be used. Maybe that gives you extra rights. Since all new songs are purchased from Amazon by me, I will never use anymore of those slots.
Actually, I have not investigated the downloading thoroughly. Maybe I can do it. I usually play songs on my PC using Media Monkey - not Windows Media Player. The combinations of MM, WMP, Amazon software may be complicating things as well. Plus, I have Windows 8 which also changed some things.
Are you getting free sample songs from Amazon? I am getting those. Maybe that led me to the belief I could not use them on my PC. In any event, I prefer to listen to all music on my HDX over the PC. I like it much better since I can carry it around with me.
When I attach either the HD or HDX, it appears as a Music Player, not a removable disk. Maybe WMP sets up that appearance and that causes the difference in handling from a flash drive.