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'Extraordinary' Soundtrack Will Be Apple-Exclusive
Isbiten writes "Apple has just gotten the rights to the soundtrack of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. There will be no physical CD and it will only be available from the iTunes Music Store. Cnet has the story."
The majority of the tracks are original compositions by Trevor R. Jones performed by the London Symphony. Two tracks are more ethnic African tunes from Lady Blacksmith Mumbazo...this was all mentioned in the C|NET article.
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However KaZaa has really gone down hill, mainly because of studio action. Most songs I try and download are "tweaked" with yelling in the middle or beeping or are of the wrong sound. It really isn't a good place to find music.
I personally use Direct Connect. You can find a hub with the style of music you like and are more likely to find obscure music. (i.e. blues, jazz, etc.) Further it has a much better selection of TV shows if you are trying to find a show you missed that week. The Mac client is still so-so, but they fixed the memory leaks of the version from the fall.
Well we already know how to get around it...
Burn it to a CD then re-rip it, capture it digitally and re-rip it, hell you can even make a tape of it if you want. I think think this is a good test of "is it still possible to P2P the stuff," because well, obviously it is. Look at how much material comes out pre-release when it gets leaked from the companies themselves.
There will ALWAYS be a way to pirate things, it's just a tradeoff of quality, time, and cost. At $.99 for the original high-quality (AAC 128k arguments aside), I think I'd rather just buy music I'm interested in than mess around with the P2P alternatives.
YMMV, of course.
Chris -- http://www.bitter.net/
I bought the album last night from iTunes Music Store. It's a pretty good soundtrack. If the movie is anywhere near as good as its soundtrack, it'll be exceedingly better than my expectations.
Anyway, $9.99 for 13 tracks of nicely composed orchestral work and two excellent world music songs is pretty good. I'm listening to it on my iPod as I type this.
mbbac
It was in the older thread that I first heard about the iTMS distribution; through one of the other posters, I eventually got in touch with the Fox Music record producer who gave me the info that let me write the article for our site (woohoo, I scooped MacCentral, CNet and the Chicago Sun Times - I'm so obnoxiously pleased with myself... :))
I gather you're interested in getting this soundtrack, as I am; are you into scores?
Apple Computers was originally banned from doing anything music related by their agreement with Apple Records. They were allowed to make system beeps, but nothing more. As you can imagine, that created problems when they wanted to add a software synth to their computers in the form of QuickTime. So, before they actually published anything with MIDI capabilities, they paid Apple Records a fairly large amount of money to rescind the agreement and never sue them again. This is also why the iPod is legal, iTunes is legal, and that system sound is named sosumi (pronounced so-sue-me).
This all happened quite some time before they ever released QuickTime. It's almost as ignorant as asking a Mormon how many wives he plans to have.
While AAC is lossy it supports 5.1 Channel Sound. Lets see your CD and/or FLAC do that.
Sometimes you get what you pay for (which is why im glad i bought a mac).
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You can now get the CD version directly from Varèse Sarabande at their site. The "iTMS-exclusive" means it won't be sold at retail in the US, or through online resellers like Amazon, CDNow or whatever, but those unable or unwilling to use the iTMS can still get a conventional CD directly from the label. It's more expensive, of course, but if the difference is worth it to you to specifically seek this version over the other, presumably it's worth paying more as well.