LWW Special Edition Soundtrack and iTunes

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I have recently started adding my CD's to iTunes, and have found that the LWW Special Edition soundtrack will not add itself to iTunes.
When I manually select "add file to library, it tells me that it can't convert the .wav files into .aac files as the .wav files are protected.

Has anyone else found this, and if so, does anyone know of a solution, as I want to add the LWW Sountrack to my iPhone.
 
I have found that the files are actually .wma files, but I'm trying to find a program which will convert them into mp3 files.
 
I think so.

It says "Content Protected" on the CD sleeve, and on the back it suggest that iPod's can't use it.

That seems a bit unfair.
 
I had a look at some iTunes support material, and it appears that .wma, being a microsoft thing, has issues with iTunes, being an apple thing, because microsoft won't allow apple to use it's codec to get the licensing agreement for protected data, so it will work with microsoft based programs, but not apple based ones.

It appears that apple are trying to work at a solution to this, but how long that will take I don't know.
 
It's weird. The tracks for this used to be on Ares, and http://imeem.com but now they are not. Not even the previews. Those aren't illegal. It's like the soundtrack doesn't exist anymore.
i'm sitting here listening to the soundtrack of a movie (Transformers) I've never seen before (yea yeah throw something at me:P).
 
Soundtracks tend to get rarer to find when no one buys them... take Transformers! ;) The score, not the album. On Amazon it costs over $70 now, since production was stopped. (Good thing I bought it when it was normally priced!)

Are they still selling the LWW Special Ed. OST?
 
I have the one disc version with the holograph cover. I remember seeing the extended disc version that had two discs and I'm assuming that it's the special edition? I didn't get it because I just wanted the music and songs from the movie. I heard the special edition is like the one disc version except with more inspirational songs. Is that how it is? I was just curious. I don't intend on getting it, but I was just interested to know more about it. :)
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I believe it's the same songs as the normal version, with some extra DVD content, which is all on the DVD of the film
 
THere's no point in really looking for an LWW extended edition soundtrack, because they mainly just looped the music for the extra 10 minutes of scenes.
 
Aravis Kenobi said:
THere's no point in really looking for an LWW extended edition soundtrack, because they mainly just looped the music for the extra 10 minutes of scenes.
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I disagree. :rolleyes: The recording sessions isn't an extended soundtrack, but rather a version with mostly unreleased music, or else the music the way it was played in the film. Some tracks are ommitted entirely. But trust me, there's a whole lot more than just looped music. ;)

...I could send you over some samples. :)
 
Well, it was unreleased music that isn't copyrighted so... It wouldn't be illegal. :) This website has an article written somewhere (from 2005) about this 2-disc version. The extras still haven't been officially released, so most consider it to be "public sharing" when it comes to downloading. Same thing with the soundtracks of the "Independence Day" bootleg, the "Hook" 4-disc version bootleg, "The Mummy Returns" bootleg, the "Transformers" 60-track version-of-the-score bootleg (I love that one!! :D), the "Spider-Man 3" bootleg, etc.... Actually, there's a petition online right now for releasing the Spider-Man 3 score; it was never released to the public.
 
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In the United States, items are implicitly under protection of copyright from the moment of creation.

Bootlegs are therefore actionable torts.

In fact, under the DMCA, they are also criminally illegal if the transfers occur online.
 
Exactly. I agree. But this music was uncopyrighted because it was never released. Even with the "Independence Day" bootleg, David Arnold gave copies of to his family without consent from the producers who owned his music (the composer rarely ever owns his own film score) because there were never any rights held to the unreleased parts of the score, since they were never put into public circulation. The same exists with "The Recording Sessions" of LWW, as well as the other titles I mentioned. In fact, on SoundtrackCollector.com you'll find quite a few bootlegs listed on the website as "official" since the owned rights to the music were never claimed by any production company.

Plus, no royalties are ever collected for the unreleased score, so no profit is made either way: not from the consumers, and not from the producers. The unreleased music is sort of in a business-based "Twilight Zone" (if you will), because no one profits off of it. :) And if no one makes money off of it, then it's useless to the music business. That's why there are never any crackdowns on score bootleggers or websites that share or even list such music. It's never been done.
 
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