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Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

Just went hunting for the Serenity soundtrack, released today.

Best Buy: 1 in stock, but they couldn't find it.
Circuit City: not even in their database.
Sam Goody's: 2 on order, no ship date.
Wal-Mart: none.

Can't imagine why I buy almost exclusively from Amazon these days. [Mad]

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

They may start to stock it if the movie is a hit. I'm still hoping for the Firefly soundtrack, too.

Did the same composer do the movie's soundtrack? I think he did, but I have no idea why I think so.

Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :

Nope. David Newman did the film's score.

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

He didn't. Greg Edmondson did the TV soundtrack, but the studio asked for a name composer for the movie and Whedon settled on David Newman.

The Firefly soundtrack went on sale last week at FoxMusic.com. Well worth getting.

Just checked local Wal-Marts and Targets, looked on iTunes. No love. Ordered it from Amazon.

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

It's on sale! [Big Grin]

Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!

Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :

I'm waiting for a full version of the opening song.

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

Check out "Mal's Song" by Michelle Dockrey. Beautiful piece with the same chorus as the theme song. Her group Escape Key uses torrents for downloads after getting slammed with bandwidth, but there are places where you can download it.

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

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Mac users (OS X or earlier) will not be able to play or download the Fox Music digital music files.

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

Ah, sorry. I forgot about that, that aggravated an awful lot of people.

If you know someone with a PC that can download it for you, the files are MP3s and will play just fine on a Mac. They were WMA files, which wouldn't, but they got so much flak about that that by the next day they switched to MP3s.

Posted by camus (Member # 8052) on :

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Mac users (OS X or earlier)

Hmmm...isn't that all there is for Mac, OS X or earlier?

Doesn't iTunes let you convert WMA to AAC or something?

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

I can't buy this soundtrack yet (for Serenity) because of the mondo spoilers in the track listings. I hate it when they do that. [Mad]

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

iTunes lets you convert MP3s and WAVs, dunno if they touch WMA since that's a proprietary Microsoft format.

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

As far as I'm aware, iTunes has no idea that WMA even exists. iTunes understands MP3, WAV, M4A/M4P/AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and maybe another format or two, but nothing with "Windows" in its name.

Back in the OS 9 days I had a Virtual PC licence and a copy of Windows 98. That'd be handy right about now.

Posted by camus (Member # 8052) on :

Is the WMA file protected with some type of DRM? If not, iTunes should recognize and convert it.

From the Apple webpage:

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Convert your existing music collection from unprotected WMA for syncing to iPod

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Hm. I tried to do precisely that just last week and couldn't get iTunes to recognize my WMA files.

Posted by camus (Member # 8052) on :

otherwise, you might try something like Audio Hijack.

Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :

iTunes always tries to convert my WMA files from Napster but then skips them because they're protected. It definitely recognizes them, though.

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

iTunes for Windows may well recognize them, but I couldn't get it to do so on my Mac. I was able to convert the files with the use of a third-party utility, but in this particular case the point is moot since I can't even download the files and they're MP3s anyway.

I'll have to see if any of my Windows-using friends can help me out.

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

Enigmatic, are you reading this thread? You're going to buy this and make me a CD, right? I'll pay half. [Big Grin]

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

The original WMA files for the soundtrack were DRM-protected, but last I heard the new MP3 files were not.