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Topic: Who to talk to to re-release Goldsmith titles on mp3?
Widescreen
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Ok, so I e-mailed varese's retail help e-mail to see if U.S. Marshals could be made available in iTunes.Why iTunes? Because as much as I love Goldsmith and having physical copies of his music - I'm running out of CD shelf space (what little I have), and there a lot of his titles that are out of print and available as digital copies.
For example, I picked up Executive Decision this way. I see no reason why U.S. Marshals couldn't be made available unless the rights have lapsed.
Further, I wouldn't know who to e-mail on the Disney end, because I'd love to get Deep Rising and The Ghost and The Darkness this way, too.
Anyone know how to give digital product suggestions to companies like Disney?
The only other alternative is to suggest all three of these as titles to iTunes (which I've done in the past).
In the case of Gremlins and InnerSpace, I can wait until they get re-released in some way physically...
And before I get rapped in the mouth for suggesting AAC/MP3 as alternatives to audiophiles, I guess my ears fall short by comparison to such naysayers. But, personally, even though I encode at higher bitrates, I've never heard REALLY horrible responses from 160 kbps in either format. I haven't heard that at 128, either. Plus iTunes offers higher bit rates now.
[Message edited by Widescreen on 02-02-2009]
posted 02-02-2009 03:31 PM PT (US) TimT
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I understand your points, but my answer is NO.
If you have the CD you still would be able to rip and encode the music to MP3 yourself.
But for those who want the CD, they would'nt have any options with an iTunes release.[Message edited by TimT on 02-03-2009]
posted 02-03-2009 08:58 AM PT (US) Widescreen
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Thanks TimT, but my problem is these CD's are getting harder to find, and if I'm just going to buy the used version of the CD's just to rip them and end selling them used again, there's little point to that process as opposed to the convenience of buying them digitally. Doesn't even have to be iTunes, it could be Amazon's mp3 service. All I want is the music in these cases. I may be forced to find them used and go from there. Wished I'd had the money the first time around to be discretionary with these ten years ago.I snoozed and lost, I suppose.
[Message edited by Widescreen on 02-03-2009]
posted 02-03-2009 10:35 AM PT (US) scoreguy16
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Sadly (and I know this doesn't help much now) Overstock.com had these both for $3.99 a long time ago, back when Oversock.com wasn't a rip off. I picked both of them up...Truthfully, I wish pretty much all OOP would get some sort of release be-it download or some other form.
posted 02-03-2009 11:35 AM PT (US) BigT1981
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Why would you want mp3? They tend to degrade after a while. Give me lossless and I'll be happy.Actually I would rather still get the titles on CD. That's why there's Amazon Marketplace. Just keep an eye out for titles you're looking for you'll be able to get some good deals there.
It's sad there's more people in this day in age willing to accept mp3 as the main format.
[Message edited by BigT1981 on 02-03-2009]
posted 02-03-2009 03:42 PM PT (US) tjguitar
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Why would you want mp3? They tend to degrade after a whileNo they don't. There's no further loss after the initial compression.
posted 02-03-2009 05:07 PM PT (US) Kirkinson
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Yeah, an MP3 is like any other data file, it's just a container of information that your player (whatever it may be) interprets as music. The only way to experience quality loss over time is if the information has been corrupted somehow, and that's just as likely to happen to an uncompressed WAV file (or anything else stored on your hard drive).
posted 02-03-2009 08:27 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB