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'Extraordinary' Soundtrack Will Be Apple-Exclusive

Posted by timothy on from the five-parsadigm dept.

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."

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  1. What if? by wowbagger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What if I prefer to buy my music in a more lasting form?

    What if I prefer my music to be compressed with FLAC?

    What if I prefer to compress my music with MY parameters, to meet MY standards of audio fidelity?

    While I am all for Apple being able to distribute this electronicly, while I can accept Apple being given sole electronic distribution rights to this music, I don't like that this won't be available as a plain ol' CD.

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    1. Re:What if? by n.wegner · · Score: 5, Interesting

      >Art isn't public domain

      To paraphrase the US constitution:

      Culture is the public domain. Art is one form of culture, and culture contributes to art. The public has the right to freely enjoy its culture. The US constitution makes it very clear that copyright is only granted, for a limited time, to reward the public for creating and expanding the public domain, and the public's culture. The burden of proof lies with you.

      >Just because you are used to one way of
      >purchasing/enjoying art, doesn't make other
      >methods 'unfair'.

      In the general sense, yes. But when Apple only sells music in a worse (more lossely compressed than CD or Flac), or the Louvre only sells copies of the Mona Lisa on postcards, or Pendant publishing won't even print old liturature, then it's both unfair and unethical to deprive the public of enjoying its culture.

  2. Apple's got something up their sleeves. by sonicsft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you look at surrounding evidence that's popped up recently:
    -Job posting for Windows iTunes developer
    -Numerous bands are being scheduled to play Friday in apple stores, etc....
    -This album announcement

    I'd say Apple is about to release iTunes for windows. But I'm never very accurate on this guesses by it makes sense to me...

    -sonic

  3. Re:It's an original score...not a compilation. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's not true at all. The music for the film is recorded in a completely different set of recording sessions than the music for the soundtrack album. The acoustics of the studio are different, and the placement of microphones is changed to record for a two-channel mix versus a six-channel mix.

    Score albums are entirely different recordings from the scores themselves.