Eorzean Frontiers OST

[Goufunaki]

Will there be any plans to offer this album/music pack on Amazon mp3?

I don't use Apple products in general and have desire to use Itunes due to the locked nature/limited devices it works on without having to burn and rerip everything.

I would much rather buy it at Amazon and use it on my device of choice.

If that can be considered it would be greatly appreciated.

I have Format Factory. Free.

Converts music, videos, and pictures to whatever format you want. Lot of options to keep or lower the size/quality as well.

Works just fine converting apple's music to mp3s.

[Dhalmel]

The full "disc" of Eorzean Frontiers is over 3 hours long...good luck burning that onto a CD that only has 70-80 minutes :P I just have the whole album on my iPhone with the added song Soken just released on the SE blog. If you want the CD collection, you'll have to buy the 4 CDs that make up the whole Eorzean Frontiers off iTunes. Tough luck not wanting to purchase from there, because that's where SE publishes all of their music on. I was lucky and found the original Japanese OST of FFX at a comic book store, so good luck finding a physical copy other than Amazon

Square is not exclusive to iTunes for their albums, they often sell CD collections but mainly in Japan. Often you have to import them from retailers that specific deals with international orders or buy directly from amazon.jp

Again if apple sold a lossless versions of tracks for proper archiving & CD burning I would buy this set immediately.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Square is not exclusive to iTunes for their albums, they often sell CD collections but mainly in Japan. Often you have to import them from retailers that specific deals with international orders or buy directly from amazon.jp

Again if apple sold a lossless versions of tracks for proper archiving & CD burning I would buy this set immediately.

I can confirm with you that having music as AAC quality is nearly as good as lossless audio quality. As I've mentioned on this thread, I have a collection of music with nature sounds. With Bose headphones connecting to my iPhone (I put the AAC audio at 128kbps, which is the same as 256kbps for MP3), I can REALLY hear what is going on in the audio background. Like with the nature recordings, I can hear a ton of different birds and wildlife in the background of the target nature recordings you are supposed to hear along with the music; even listening to a thunderstorm recording sounds like you are outside in an actual one. But when I play music via iTunes on my desktop computer, I have 4 speakers situated around the basement so you can be immersed in audio for when music is playing. You wouldn't believe the audio quality; it's like a concert. I can't get the same effect when playing off Windows Media Player. I like it when I play FFXIV on the desktop with the speakers; it feels like you are actually in the game, too.

But yeah, just give iTunes a try. You don't even have to buy music or pay for it, just try to put your own music on there. My only gripe about iTunes is that when you have music playing continuously on there, it eats up the memory (on my laptop it does, not on the desktop for some reason). I wouldn't go back to using the MP3 format after using AAC.

Oh, and iTunes music isn't DRM protected anymore. It hasn't been for several years now.

[Dhalmel]

I can confirm with you that having music as AAC quality is nearly as good as lossless audio quality. As I've mentioned on this thread, I have a collection of music with nature sounds. With Bose headphones connecting to my iPhone (I put the AAC audio at 128kbps, which is the same as 256kbps for MP3), I can REALLY hear what is going on in the audio background. Like with the nature recordings, I can hear a ton of different birds and wildlife in the background of the target nature recordings you are supposed to hear along with the music; even listening to a thunderstorm recording sounds like you are outside in an actual one. But when I play music via iTunes on my desktop computer, I have 4 speakers situated around the basement so you can be immersed in audio for when music is playing. You wouldn't believe the audio quality; it's like a concert. I can't get the same effect when playing off Windows Media Player. I like it when I play FFXIV on the desktop with the speakers; it feels like you are actually in the game, too.

But yeah, just give iTunes a try. You don't even have to buy music or pay for it, just try to put your own music on there. My only gripe about iTunes is that when you have music playing continuously on there, it eats up the memory (on my laptop it does, not on the desktop for some reason). I wouldn't go back to using the MP3 format after using AAC.

Oh, and iTunes music isn't DRM protected anymore. It hasn't been for several years now.

Oh you can clearly hear the imperfections with the format iTunes use with the proper equipment.
Run your files through a good external DAC to a tube amp to a quality set of headphones, in my case the Beyerdynamic DT 990 or T1 600ohm.

You will then see lossy isn't as good as the original disc, vinyl or lossless file.

[Kraggy]

I tried searching all Final Fantasy music on iTunes over the weekend and there's nothing at all listed for XIV.

[Catapult]

So why not put it up on SE's own online store on their website?

If they can sell a PC version of FFVII online...

[Delsus]

Actually hacking an Iphone, or most phones, was pretty easy before that laptop was compromised. Now it just means it's half a step easier to do so. This is especially true with jailbroken phones, unless if you add a firewall and what-not (because you're more or less giving the hacker admin credentials, at this point).

The second comment just reminds me how people thought Macs were safe from viruses...then it turned to less likely to get viruses...and now we have specific malware and viruses targeted directly for macs, and in all honesty the risk is just the same. The same could potentially be said for Android vs. Iphones...but there's a few variables. For example, it could just be that every 9 year old and his creepy uncle have Iphones, just because it has an Apple logo on it. When you're a hacker (or penetration tester...giggity), what better thing to work on than the most popular phone out? Especially little Timmy's phone, cause who doesn't like dumping inappropriate pictures on a kid's phone and getting him in trouble?

but I digress, my career is showing, sorry ^.^

This is another reason why rooted android > JB iPhone, in rooted android you get a superuser prompt if an app requires root access (full admin rights for none linux people) this is how linux is designed, iPhone however will not prompt and just give the whole phone admin rights (please correct me if I'm wrong) which increases security a lot.

I aren't saying android is immune to malware I even have security software on my phone, just I have heard a lot more of iPhone getting malware more than android, also iPhone is no where near the most popular phone, virus's attack software so that's what matters, and android has the market on that, iOS is second, but a long way back, why do you think Apple goes to courts to get money now, they know they cannot compete fairly with android.

Mac virus's cause huge problems because when people made them they had no security software, so the malware ran rampant, also Apple had no idea how to deal with it, and security patches were slow, Apple has actually given control of Java for Mac security patches to sun because they have no idea what to do after the last back door.

tl;dr Apple don't know how to handle malware, whereas android does.

[Yrusama]

....still no word on a hard copy of this soundtrack? Is it really that hart to publish hard copies? I know nothing of these things.

[Kiara]

To: Forum Representatives,

Please ask if Square can release the New Final Fantasy XIV Soundtrack on CD.

Even if it's Import Only (Japan), we can at least order it via Amazon, etc.

Thanks!

[Darkhaund]

Yah... i also want a physical copy of this