CINEMATIC SOUND is proud to announce the creation of a brand new segment called THIS JUST IN. THIS JUST IN is a new condensed one hour program where we present only the newest film music albums as they come in. On this inaugural episode you will hear music from THE LEGEND OF BUTCH AND SUNDANCE (Poledouris), THE FILM MUSIC OF PHILLIP LAMBRO (Lambro) and HORTON HEARS A WHO! (Powell)

Go to http://www.geocities.com/cinematicsound to listen to the program.

Here is the playlist: http://www.geocities.com/cinematicsound/playlists/thisjustin_001.html

Hopefully, these shorter programs will be updated more frequently than the longer three hour programs. Also, we are looking for your feedback as to what we should air on future installments of THIS JUST IN. What new releases do you want to hear next? Let us know at cinematicsound (at) yahoo.com.

Thanks and enjoy!

Your program is probably the only film music related program I've seen that (as far as I can tell) doesn't give us any option to download the program as a self-contained audio file in any format. This - in my opinion - is a death blow to the listenability of the show. I simply can't stay at a computer for an hour or three and listen to a program, and coupled with the fact that iTunes doesn't allow pause/resume when playing these streams, it renders it nigh impossible.

On the occasions where I was determined to find a way to listen to it, I actually had to start playing the stream when I wasn't going to be using the computer for several hours, and then set my audio hijacking program to record the computer's output into AAC. After all that is done, I open it up in a wave editor, edit out the silence, and finally transfer it to iTunes so I can listen to it on my iPod. To say the least........ not convenient.

Is there a specific reason why a download system hasn't been implemented? I don't mean to sound terse, but I'm baffled.

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Originally posted by NeoVoyager:

Is there a specific reason why a download system hasn't been implemented? I don't mean to sound terse, but I'm baffled.

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I don't allow direct downloads of the program because that would essentially be file sharing. If I did offer downloadable programs you would get to download my show which includes COMPLETE and UNEDITED tracks. Now YOU own them, for FREE, on your computer. This I cannot allow.

I know that other shows... including soundtrack related programs... offer programs for direct download but maybe they have a deal worked out with the labels, composers, copyright holders, etc to do so... but I doubt it. So, I'm not sure how they are getting away with it.

Does that make sense?

As for Podcasts... those programs are only ALLOWED to play 30 seconds of music under fair use guidelines... that's how FSM gets away with it. But as for something like FILM SCORE FOCUS - http://www.kmfa.org/listen_archive.htm#FSF - I'm not sure how KMFA gets away with archiving complete programs in MP3 form with complete and unedited copyrighted music.

Does that make sense?

-Erik-

But yes, everything makes sense now. I'm all too familiar with the recording industry rules and legalities, but I simply didn't know that your program plays complete tracks.

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Originally posted by NeoVoyager:
With this information, I imagine you have to pay some considerable royalties to allow this streaming, eh?

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In Canada... no... not yet at least.

-Erik-

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Originally posted by Stargate:
Thanks for Cinematic Sound Erik, it's caused me to buy many scores! Keep up the good work.

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It's a pleasure. Glad you are enjoying the programming and I'm glad that I've been able to help you with your purchasing decisions.

-Erik-