Question regarding the Realm Reborn OST

[TheUltimate3]

I was reading the page and it says the "Initial run" comes with the minion Wind-Up Bahamut.

So does that mean if I order now, I won't get the minion?

[HakuroDK]

Well, from what I gather, it'll push out a bunch of them for a first-run print. Then when they run out of those, that'll be the end of the initial run. It's hard to say WHEN they'll run out, but you'll have a better chance of getting it if you order sooner rather than later.

[Theodan]

If it's anything like the initial run of 'Before Meteor' then there should be quite a few available and it will be just down to bad luck and timing if you wait and then don't receive your minion.
TBH before I ordered my 'Before Meteor' sountrack I actually emailed SE store to check if the minion was still included and they said 'yes'.. so I ordered it lol. (and that was a couple of months after initial release date)
For this 'R/R OST' I actually preordered, and it actually arrived first thing this morning lol.
Cant wait to be able to use it hehe.

[HakuroDK]

Call me old-fashioned, but it is a shame that you can't stick one of these OSTs in a CD player and let it run on shuffle.

[Rizon]

Call me old-fashioned, but it is a shame that you can't stick one of these OSTs in a CD player and let it run on shuffle.

An even bigger shame that you cannot buy and download this from a service like I Tunes. Instead we have to rely on the compatence ( or lack thereof )of Digital River to get your copy.

[HakuroDK]

An even bigger shame that you cannot buy and download this from a service like I Tunes. Instead we have to rely on the compatence ( or lack thereof )of Digital River to get your copy.

I like to think their competence is hit-or-miss. I got my FFXIV: ARR CE from them right on time, and I got my LR:FFXIII CE from them two days early. Maybe I've just been exceptionally lucky.

[ispano]

Call me old-fashioned, but it is a shame that you can't stick one of these OSTs in a CD player and let it run on shuffle.

You would need like, 5+ discs if my math is right. Tech changes, BDs, as much as I dislike Sony, have more space and they can include 24 bit audio for those who want it.

[HakuroDK]

You would need like, 5+ discs if my math is right. Tech changes, BDs, as much as I dislike Sony, have more space and they can include 24 bit audio for those who want it.

Fair enough. Though isn't there some kind of... I dunno... blu-ray audio disc player or something? I just feel like the playback feature for these OSTs is, while absolutely gorgeous and nice to have in the background, just seems otherwise arbitrary. Like... if there were digital picture frames with speakers that had a blu-ray reader, these OSTs would be the greatest things ever. But... I dunno.

...and I'm not trying to diss the OSTs. I'm just trying to figure out what the heck to do with it besides rip the MP3s off the disc and stash them in my music folder.

[ispano]

Fair enough. Though isn't there some kind of... I dunno... blu-ray audio disc player or something? I just feel like the playback feature for these OSTs is, while absolutely gorgeous and nice to have in the background, just seems otherwise arbitrary. Like... if there were digital picture frames with speakers that had a blu-ray reader, these OSTs would be the greatest things ever. But... I dunno.

...and I'm not trying to diss the OSTs. I'm just trying to figure out what the heck to do with it besides rip the MP3s off the disc and stash them in my music folder.

The main issue is they didn't make it a BD-A disc, which is what you would likely be looking for. And this is likely due to needing it to work on the PS3 as well. Could be other reasons though. What I did was rip the 24 bit audio and encode it to flac, so I have lossless copies on my file server. No, you can't have them, for obvious reasons.

Edit: BD-A my not actually be a thing, it may just be straight audio in the standard BD format. Which would be why you can't shuffle anything since it treats it just like a video disc.