Physical Heavensward OST instead of itunes?

[Lucke]

Slightly off-topic, but any chance of seeing ARR/Heavensward songs on RockBand 4?

[LunaHoshino]

iTunes doesn't use a proprietary system. All files are encoded in AAC and can easily be re-encoded to whatever format you wish (MP3, WMA, OGG, etc).

It's proprietary in the sense that A) you can't even purchase music without first downloading iTunes, and B) you have to re-encode it to put it onto a non-Apple MP3 player, neither of which are things I wish to do. With Amazon and Google, you click a button, and boom, you've got an MP3. No program download or re-encoding needed.

[Laraul]

It's proprietary in the sense that A) you can't even purchase music without first downloading iTunes, and B) you have to re-encode it to put it onto a non-Apple MP3 player, neither of which are things I wish to do. With Amazon and Google, you click a button, and boom, you've got an MP3. No program download or re-encoding needed.

If you purchases games thru Stream you have to download and install that too.. Would that make Steam proprietary?

iTunes distributes music encoded using the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) encoding standard. It's widely supported across a wide range a portable players and devices. Android and Windows Phones both support AAC. As the PS3, PSP, PSVita, Nintendo 3DS, Microsoft's Zune. Blackberry does too. It's a widely supported standard.

Seriously pull your head out from under the ground once in a while...

[Twilite]

I didn't know they offered FFXIV's various sound tracks over iTunes. This sounds so much more reasonable than distributing it on Blu-Ray. The only Blu-Ray devices I have are the PS3 and PS4. Not ideal machines for music. And no way of getting the songs off those onto my iPhone.

A physical Heavensward soundtrack isn't going to be available until they have enough tracks to make a physical copy worthy of purchasing. No one's going to bother purchasing a physical copy if it only contains seven tracks!

Correction: No one is going to buy a physical copy of an OST if it only contains seven handpicked tracks and purposely leaving out the tracks everyone is looking for.

Anyone who is an avid OST owner like me, knows what I'm talking about.

[TheUltimate3]

If you purchases games thru Stream you have to download and install that too.. Would that make Steam proprietary?

The fact that you must run these games through Steam, and Steam itself acts as a form DRM I believe yes, Steam is proprietary. They can, if they so choose to, remove a game from their library and make it so that you are unable to download it again should you for whatever reason, remove it from your library. I'm also pretty sure they can simply make it so you can't download it even if it was in your library, but thankfully that has never been an issue (for me).

[Twilite]

Itunes is also DRM too. You own nothing lol.

[Millerna]

iTunes doesn't have DRM, and you can just copy the songs to whatever device you want and transcode them if you want. If you buy an album and download the songs, you do actually own them, and you can keep listening to them even if they're removed from iTunes as long as you keep a local copy of the songs.

And to be honest, if a physical OST had only 7 tracks, and those are 7 tracks I like, then yes, I'd buy it.

[Lucke]

The fact that you must run these games through Steam, and Steam itself acts as a form DRM I believe yes, Steam is proprietary. They can, if they so choose to, remove a game from their library and make it so that you are unable to download it again should you for whatever reason, remove it from your library. I'm also pretty sure they can simply make it so you can't download it even if it was in your library, but thankfully that has never been an issue (for me).

To be fair, Steam has said that if it fails for whatever reason and needs to shutdown, it would release code that makes Steam games playable in offline mode/without steam should anything happen. Also I dunno about iTunes, but if they shutdown and make all your purchases useless, they would get a ton of flak and their business would prolly be ruined, so, they probably have some form of contingency plan allowing you to play the songs in any music player.

Again, the moon would need to collide with the earth sending it head-long into the sun for those 2 companies to fail.

Reference: https://www.quora.com/What-would-hap...-service-today

[Wildsprite]

comparing itunes to steam is a bit like comparing a turd to a delicious tender steak. itunes is a digital media marketplace and a terrible one at that. steam is a digital market place that also happens to be a launcher this believe it or not makes it a bit like xbox live and or PSN in that respect(not in looks or exact functionality).

[Colorful]

comparing itunes to steam is a bit like comparing a turd to a delicious tender steak. itunes is a digital media marketplace and a terrible one at that. steam is a digital market place that also happens to be a launcher this believe it or not makes it a bit like xbox live and or PSN in that respect(not in looks or exact functionality).

Eh, not really. Both platforms launched their respective media into the digital age so to speak. iTunes was one of the first digital music platforms around, wasn't it? Instead of buying a lot of CDs from random places, you just bought them off iTunes. The same can be said for Steam, if not for Valve and Steam PC Gaming wouldn't be where it was today.

The key difference being is that there's no plenty of better alternatives to iTunes, from Amazon, Spotify, or Google Play Music. Steam is still the best and really the only viable PC marketplace and it'll be like that for long time as no one is going to up and abandon their entire collection which (for me) has cost over $5,000 so far. Apple has locked themselves into mostly Apple products officially. This is way off topic though, I don't see why SE wouldn't just release the OST on their website and allow us to buy it that way, Google Play Music even.

PS. Both iTunes and Steam are "turds", well; at least until Steam improves their non existent customer support.