Will soundtracks ever be released on CD?

[Tiamat.8254]

Hmm I will try again. Thank you

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

You'll need to click the '...More' option. 

[TheQuickFox.3826]

I think only the Collector's Edition had a soundtrack CD. And it was quite a hassle to get it because you could get it signed from DirectSong.com / Jeremy Soule but Direct Song had all kinds of issues in delivering the item.

[Donari.5237]

8 hours ago, TheQuickFox.3826 said:

I think only the Collector's Edition had a soundtrack CD. And it was quite a hassle to get it because you could get it signed from DirectSong.com / Jeremy Soule but Direct Song had all kinds of issues in delivering the item.

Yep.  I got mine, but after launch instead of a few weeks before as promised.  Many others did not get theirs, and their requests for refunds were ignored.  It was at a level worthy of reporting as fraud.  Subsequent composers have done much better music for the game to boot, so count me out of offering *any* praise to the first one.

[SexyMofo.8923]

Let me ask my CD player after I rez it. 

[Arnox.5128]

CDs provide the following advantages:

 

- Assuming they don't compress the songs, the songs are MUCH better quality. People talk about vinyls but CDs have the same or are at least very close to the audio quality of vinyls.

- You own the songs. They're not linked to some stupid online-only service.

- They're good for collecting. Yeah, anyone can burn a CD, but 99% of people aren't gonna be making custom CD cases and CD covers. IF they make a CD at all, they'll probably just write the title of the collection on it with a sharpie and call it a day.

- With a vinyl record player, they're often big, expensive, and heavy. In fact, I can't recall the last time I've even seen one. CD players/rippers/burners in comparison are small, weigh nothing, are dead easy to set up, and are a dime a dozen.

- CDs can be pressed in the thousands for really cheap so they're great on the manufacturing end. The packaging probably costs more than the CDs themselves.

Edited May 31, 2021 by Arnox.5128

[TheQuickFox.3826]

9 hours ago, Arnox.5128 said:

CDs provide the following advantages:

 

- Assuming they don't compress the songs, the songs are MUCH better quality. People talk about vinyls but CDs have the same or are at least very close to the audio quality of vinyls.

- You own the songs. They're not linked to some stupid online-only service.

- They're good for collecting. Yeah, anyone can burn a CD, but 99% of people aren't gonna be making custom CD cases and CD covers. IF they make a CD at all, they'll probably just write the title of the collection on it with a sharpie and call it a day.

- With a vinyl record player, they're often big, expensive, and heavy. In fact, I can't recall the last time I've even seen one. CD players/rippers/burners in comparison are small, weigh nothing, are dead easy to set up, and are a dime a dozen.

- CDs can be pressed in the thousands for really cheap so they're great on the manufacturing end. The packaging probably costs more than the CDs themselves.

 

A CD will still work fine after 20 years. Your average streaming service will probably be dead by then. Downloaded music may work if it has no DRM and if it uses a widely supported format like MP3. Most people who bought soundtracks off DirectSong, which used to have WMA music with DRM, will have noticed that it fails to play now because WMA support is limited outside of Windows and because the DRM stopped working.