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EA To Sell Game Music on iTunes

Posted by Zonk on from the do-do-do-do-do-dee-do dept.

J. Charles Holt writes "Electronic Arts has announced that they're going to start releasing themes to popular computer games on online sources such as iTunes." From the article: "Those who doubt the hit potential of video game theme songs probably haven't seen Billboard's Hot Ringtones chart lately, where Koji Kondo has sat right near the top for 55 weeks. Who's Koji Kondo? He composed the theme for 'Super Mario Bros.,' which ranks this week right between the Black Eyed Peas and Bow Wow featuring Ciara."

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  1. Conducive to productivity by jsorbie · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I find that PC video game music is nice to listen to while programming. No doubt because the score should be written to hold a mood while at the same time not be intrusive or distracting. It drowns out the office chatter quite nicely.

    I personally wouldn't go buying it twice though. Many games have it in an ordinary directory in mp3 or ogg format, ripe for fair use. Others embed it into libraries or executables, which require some third party tool to extract (if at all). My feeling is that if I buy a game fair and square I should be able to pull the music out.

  2. Um... by Blaaguuu · · Score: 3, Funny

    Isn't the music in EA games usually just random popular songs? Aren't those already on itunes?

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  3. Not a bad idea... by FreakyControl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There was a game company a while ago called The Logic Factory that had released a turn based strategy game called Ascendancy, and followed with a rather artistic RTS called The Tone Rebellion. When I purchased Tone Rebellion, I received the game soundtrack free of charge, since I had registered my copy of Ascendancy.

    Having never owned a game soundtrack before, my original thought was, "Wow, that's useless." This soundtrack, however, turned out to be one of the best relaxation/study CD's that I have. While Tone was rather unique at the time for having so much effort being put into the musical score, many game makers spend a great deal of time and money to create good (and sometimes excellent) music to go with the game. I know I've owned more than one game that I wished I had the soundtrack. This sounds like it's really worth checking out.