'Firefly' Soundtrack Available Now!

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RIVERSBOUNTY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:45 AM

At Foxmusic.com ( http://builder.navio.com/tts/store/index.jsp?id=a0a0164000000ff706071f
000000006&brand=FoxMusic),

Greg Edmonson's score is available for purchase and download as a digital EP for $9.99. There are 17-tracks, most with multiple cues arranged into suites. The only downside is that they are .WMV protected files, but I'm a very happy flan right now.

Go get it!

CANTTAKESKY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:18 AM

I got mine!!!! Thank you for telling us. Boy, it sure took them long enough to get it out. Now if they only had album cover art to print, that would be perfect.

Makes me miss the show all over again. They really should have hired Greg to do the movie. This is soooo good.

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

MOOSHOO72

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:52 AM

Does that mean that I can't put it on my iPod?

My other ship is a Mid-Bulk Transport Standard Radion Accelerator Core Class Code 03-K64 Firefly.

TOMANTA

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:04 AM

Hmm. You can burn the files to a CD...

Does anything stop you from ripping them from the CD into MP3's?

"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."

CANTTAKESKY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:12 AM

To put the songs into your iPOD, you have to burn them onto a CD first, then rip them from the CD to your iPOD. I just got done doing it. It's a pain having to type the track listings manually, but this is better than nothing.

Also, if anyone has trouble downloading, you have to first download one of the listed players, turn off pop-up blockers, and enable downloads. I hate this FOX site (had trouble before downloading the Angel soundtrack too).

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

GORRAMZERO

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:27 AM

Anyone know if there are plans to release an actual album, or if it's strictly download?

CANTTAKESKY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:42 AM

I talked FOX music over a year ago. They said that they would prefer to release it digitally. I got the impression they didn't expect the sales to warrant traditional release, but I could be wrong. I think this is as good as it gets.

BUT...if this sells really well, and Serenity does well, who knows right?

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

LINDLEY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:49 AM

Well, I ain't inclined to buy something protected like that. I'd like to be able to stick it into iTunes.

Sales would be better if they had multiple formats.

TOMANTA

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:54 AM

hmm. I don't know if I like the track order (good thing about digital releases? you can switch them when you burn it to CD).

I just think The Funeral should be the last track instead of track 06. I haven't thought much more about it, and I think I'll listen to it carefully a couple of times before I do burn it to CD.

"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."

PTROPE

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:57 AM

Jeebus cripes! I take back everything I've said - FOX seem to be doing everything they can to piss off and frustrate the fans. Not one gorram link involved with buying, listening to, or even getting the terms of use works, on either IE or Firefox; the downloadable samples don't play in Winamp, and clicking "Buy Now" does nothing but elicit a click.

I'm eager to give these people $9.99 of my cash and they don't do anything to facilitate it; I'd like to see Greg Edmonson and the folks involved get the money they deserve, but if I have to get this soundtrack from somewhere other than Fox Music, it's their own fault, and I think Greg and the rest should be told .

ANTHONYT

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:05 AM

Hello all,

What are WMV protected files? How will my use of this type of format be restricted?

Thanks,

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

WHITEFALL

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:19 AM

Just got mine, and it's pretty awesome. You can indeed rearrange the tracks, so it is no biggy the order it comes in.

The file type is .wma

I can run it fine using windows media player, and got into fox's interface using the SBC yahoo browser, and it worked fine.

When you buy it, according to the rights, you can copy it to 10 CDs.

I survived a day in Whitefall and all I got was this lousy signature!

Terrifying Space Monkey of Destiny

LINDLEY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 6:27 AM

I wonder if it'll let me burn it to a CD using a non-MS program, though. 'Cause I don't know how to burn using Windows Media Player, and I have no other MS software on my machine at all.

Plus, there's the whole "the website doesn't work, so I can't buy it in the first place" issue.

ALEX21

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:46 AM

*hopes for an easy way to get it on his iPod*

PIE!

RELFEXIVE

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:08 AM

*shakes head*

Badly bodged. Are we surprised?

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
I know the secret.
http://www.theshadowdepository.co.uk/index.htm

JARED

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:07 PM

*sigh* That's exactly the kind of crap that makes people "steal" it via file sharing to get plain old mp3 files. No proprietary MS-ass-kissing crap that forces you to use even more MS-crap to actually use it. And where is The Man They Call Jayne? Sorry Fox, I'll stick with watching the DVD to hear the music.

NAKEDANDARTICULATE

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:48 PM

Can somebody burn me a copy?
EDIT---------------------------------
If ya can just email me.Thanks.

"It's about how much freedom you can take away from somebody before they either fold or fight," Whedon says. "It's about the right to be wrong and the nature of human beings, that they need the freedom to be wrong. That they cannot be made to be better or perfect."--Joss Whedon on Serenity

CANTTAKESKY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:56 PM

Listen, guys. All of you's.

YES, you can put this into iTunes and iPod. All you have to do is burn it onto a CD, using whatever program you want. (Windows Media Player and Roxio works fine.) Then, extract it from the CD into iTunes, the same way you do any CD-R. You just have to type in the track listings yourself.

Anyone who has trouble downloading needs to 1) turn off pop-up blockers, 2) check the IE settings to enable downloads at prompts, 3) download, install, and open one of the listed media players.

It'll be all right.

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

JAEDE77

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:01 PM

Agreed. I think we should be gracious and even grateful to Fox for listening to our wants.

I know, it's not ideal... but if we show our support for this ("thank you" e-mails and purchasing) who knows what they will do in the future?

We need to be reasonable Browncoats!

“Can I suggest something that doesn't involve violence, or is this the wrong crowd for that?”
–Wash

SNIPER

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:07 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by nakedandarticulate:
Can somebody burn me a copy?
kevinconn@gmail.com
If ya can just email me.Thanks.

I second that, being that I have dialup...

JediTrilobite@gmail.com

KGAZETTE

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:08 PM

I would much prefer an actual CD to downloading it. I've never downloaded a soundtrack like this in my life, and the whole thing seems rather sketchy to me - I don't like how the download site has a different domain than FoxMusic. Even if it's offical and completely on the up-and-up, it's not a good business practice. I'll never pay for something when I'm redirected like that and can't verify that I'm still on the site I mean to be on.

Pretty much the only way I'll buy it is if it goes to Amazon.

---

Rochester area Joss Whedon fans, join the new message board!
http://s12.invisionfree.com/RVR

MELEAUX

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:16 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Sniper:
Quote:
Originally posted by nakedandarticulate:
Can somebody burn me a copy?
kevinconn@gmail.com
If ya can just email me.Thanks.

I second that, being that I have dialup...

JediTrilobite@gmail.com

Ha ha dial up ha ha ha

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

LINDLEY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:34 PM

Hey, I've now got confirmation. The Fox Music Store is completely, 100% incompatible with Mac OS X.

I've sent off a complaint to them, but I doubt they'll do anything.

SNIPER

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:42 PM

Yeah, yeah. I might end up downloading it here at school, with some faster internet.

NEEDY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:01 PM

I was just about leaping for joy when I got an email from Fox Music with news of the soundtrack. Then after inputting all my details as I tried to buy it, it said my country is not supported!

Stupid piece of fei oo

Why the hell does it need to be supported? All it requires is downloading! I live in the UK, not some obscure country where the internet is outlawed

ITs typical. I had the same problem geting the Millennium soundtrack. I eventually had to download that off a p2p program. And I was willing to shell out as well!

Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny

CANTTAKESKY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:06 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by kgazette:
I would much prefer an actual CD to downloading it.

Don't we all? Listen, I talked repeatedly to the folks at FOX last year. Firefly is NOT a priority with them. This is as good as it gets, guys. If you're holding out for the CD version, don't. After years of emails and calls begging for the soundtrack, we're lucky we have it in any format at all.

There is always hope that if tons of people buy this, they might perk up and invest in the CD format. But judging from the comments on this thread, it doesn't look likely does it?

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

PHYSCHICK

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:18 PM

Yup, I'm on OSX as well and it's not going well at all. Looks like I'll have to just get my brother to download it and burn me a copy. Maybe then I'll just send my ten bucks to Greg Edmondson.

Did anyone else notice in the email Fox sent out announcing the album (I'm assuming this went to everyone who wrote asking for it), they spelled it Josh Whedon? Curse you, Fox!

CEDRIC

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:42 PM

Laugh all you want. I live in the middle of nowhere, and dial-up is my only option. So if there's a kind Browncoat out there who will burn me a CD of this, I will gladly trade copies of my band's CDs, including the upcoming _On the Drift_, an entire album of Firefly-inspired music.

email me at fithelere@aol.com

"You can't take my show from me,
Because I've got the DVD."
www.BedlamBards.com
Ballad of Joss: http://mp3-postcards.com/listen/?888

SNIPER

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:56 PM

Ditto ^

I just got the e-mail.

I have an idea- Since they're not releasing it as a CD, and people want a CD copy, why not just design our own CD album art, front and back covers?

AND, what's the track listing? Can someone post that up?

SHUAIJAN

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:57 PM

The best way to keep up support for the show is to let our $$$ talk for us. You know how the saying goes; "Money talks and bullsh!t walks."

"I do the job. I get paid." - Mal

SNIPER

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:02 PM

Now, if only FOX lived by your sig right there. ;)

SHUAIJAN

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:16 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Sniper:
Ditto ^

I just got the e-mail.

I have an idea- Since they're not releasing it as a CD, and people want a CD copy, why not just design our own CD album art, front and back covers?

AND, what's the track listing? Can someone post that up?

Use this as a .CSV file

Track,Title,Time
1,Firefly - Main Title,0:51
2,Big Bar Fight,2:01
3,Heart of Gold Montage,2:16
4,Whitefall/Book,2:16
5,Early takes Serenity,2:37
6,The Funeral,2:37
7,Rivers perception/Saffron,2:12
8,Mal fights Niska/Back home,1:51
9,River tricks Early,3:31
10,River understands Simon,2:05
11,Leaving/Caper/Spaceball,2:01
12,Rivers afraid/Niska/Book,3:01
13,In my bunk/Rivers eyes/Boom,2:06
14,Inaras Suite,3:01
15,Deserted Ship/Empty Derelict,1:56
16,Books hair/Ready for Battle,2:12
17,Goodbye Early,2:53

"Where you been hidin'? You gone and
got yourself lookin' mighty hideous..." - Jayne

MER

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by GorramZero:
Anyone know if there are plans to release an actual album, or if it's strictly download?

Yea they are going to release it in album format...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000AYYUGQ/qid=112731921
5/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-2052040-0979151?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

I can wait the 7 days...can you? *laughs*

CEDRIC

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ShuaiJan:
The best way to keep up support for the show is to let our $$$ talk for us. You know how the saying goes; "Money talks and bullsh!t walks."

"I do the job. I get paid." - Mal

I'd gladly give Fox a little money if someone will get me a version of this on CD. I don't believe in piracy, but I think it's stupid for Fox not to realize that they have a huge market waiting for this product. Did they not notice how many DVDs they sold?

"You can't take my show from me,
Because I've got the DVD."
www.BedlamBards.com
Ballad of Joss: http://mp3-postcards.com/listen/?888

MRWRIGHT

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:22 PM

I highly recommend sending a comment to Fox with your opinions of this. It appears they DID listen to us (after all, we do have an album now), however, apparently we didn't give them enough information.
If you calmly inform them of how you feel, they MAY listen again.
For reference sake, here is what I sent them.

Quote:
I sincerely wanted to be grateful for this. But after about 20 minutes of trying to figure out the poorly put together site, getting timeout errors, not being able to see what songs are availabe on the EP, learning that I would be downloading files that I couldn't put directly into iTunes and on my iPod and then waiting another 20 minutes while trying to register to the website so I could actually purchase this EP, only to have the site never actually allow me to get to a payment method, I am sorely dissappointed with the experience.
I would like to say thank you for the efforts Fox has put forth to allow the fans access to the music we so love...but I can only ask that the music be released in a different format or simply in a more accessible way than through foxmusic.com

Sincerely,
James Wright

FIREFLYWILDCARD1

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MER:
Quote:
Originally posted by GorramZero:
Anyone know if there are plans to release an actual album, or if it's strictly download?

Yea they are going to release it in album format...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000AYYUGQ/qid=112731921
5/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-2052040-0979151?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

I can wait the 7 days...can you? *laughs*

This is the soundtrack for Universal Studio's movie release of the BDM.

The Soundtrack for the TV Series so far is only going to be released as a download. And it is such a pain in the ass if Internet Explorer is the browser you are using because if you don't mess with the security settings, it blocks the download. grrr...I fought with it for 30 minutes before figuring out what was wrong. Once you download it, you can burn it to a CD so it will become portable.

LINDLEY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:36 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MER:

Yea they are going to release it in album format...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000AYYUGQ/qid=112731921
5/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-2052040-0979151?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

I can wait the 7 days...can you? *laughs*

That's the movie score. This is the series score.

SAKRYSTA

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:43 PM

That's the movie soundtrack. We're talking about the series soundtrack.

I'd really like this music, but I'm very much a CD collector, not just a music collector. Much as I love the music, it's not worth $9.99 to me to have only the files, especially when they're apparently so difficult to manage.

...still a little whimsical in the brain pan...

MER

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:46 PM

ahh bitch....gotta find out if they accept money orders.

I don't like this download only either, buti guess it's this or nothing

(After looking on site- Where is the 'payment options'? O___O Help me. )

LINDLEY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by fireflywildcard1: Once you download it, you can burn it to a CD so it will become portable.

Is it then possible to rip them back as mp3s?

GAZERBEAM

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:25 PM

Ok, so I bought the files, and I'm trying to download them to my computer, but I keep getting a page that says "Requesting content and license..." And has a button that sayts "Download the license". Only problem is, nothing happens. I click the button and nothing happens. My pop-up blocker is off, so I have no idea what the problem is. I'm running Netscape (maybe that's the problem).

Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how did you fix it?

Thanks!

----------------------------------------------------
Shiny!
Bwaa!
The *special* hell...
I'll be in my bunk

IMPULSE

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:33 PM

Well Fox's website is clearly not user friendly and the last thing I want to do is purchase Microsoft restricted files. (not sure if I'd have technical problems burning myself a CD or not) I would purchase the Firefly soundtrack in a second if Fox would release it in a normal form (and yes I already sent them feedback saying this).

Could someone redistribute this in a better format? (feel free to pay Fox for it, I'm MORE than happy to pay for it)

Thanks for the heads up on the soundtrack for the movie from Amazon... I just pre-ordered that! (see Fox wasn't THAT easy?)

I *do* want Fox to profit from Firefly so they realize just how valuable it is. I've got nothing against Fox other than they are idiots!

GAZERBEAM

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:34 PM

nevermind. I figured it out. Netscape wqas the problem after all... F*x and MS

----------------------------------------------------
Shiny!
Bwaa!
The *special* hell...
I'll be in my bunk

SKYSCRAPER

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:35 PM

Well… screw it! As much as I’d love to get series soundtrack (and I’ve been waiting awhile) if the best FOX can do is charge us $10 for a music file I can’t even download into my machine then I guess I’ll wait longer. Move soundtrack comes out on the 27th.

Why give FOX any money for doing the “extreme bare minimal” to provide fans with this great music, just so they can rake in a little more profit by feeding off the movie hype?

------------- edited 9/25/05 ---------------

I started hearing people saying that FOX made the Firefly soundtrack MP3s. Then someone posted an email from FOX. Decided to give it a shot.... and I'm going to have to say....

Thank you FOX! They came through as MP3s and it was beautiful to here the music anywhere I wanted to.

MITHEL

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:44 PM

Grrrr... Argh... Why can't FOX do anything right?

R1Z

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:48 PM

This is how Windows DRM works (as I understand it)

You download the files. When you want to actually PLAY the files, Windows queries the site to see if you are licensed. If you are, it sends an OK and you click "Play".

Some versions let you store the license on your computer, some are only good while you have a subscription to to whatever it is you're watching/listening.

Not sure how it's set up for this download, it's still downloading.

Will keep you posted.

To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. --Robt. Heinlein

FORRESTWOLF

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:58 PM

OMFG!

Nuff said. I'll be in my bunk. With my music.

EEP

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 6:26 PM

Well, THAT took forever...

Thanks to everyone with their tips, and for giving me a heads-up that I wouldn't be able to do this on my Mac at home. Now the disc is all ripped, it's on my iTunes now, and I'll be adding it to the home computer tonight. Yay!

And yeah, that has got to be the least intuitive, most unfriendly interface I've seen in years. Wow.

SNIPER

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 6:49 PM

It does seem to be a pain...

Just out of curiosity, how long will this take to download?

BDJSB7

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 6:53 PM

Welp, here's my experience:
I DL'd the songs, but when I tried to burn em through Windows Media Player, it got all manner of tetchy after track 10 and locked up my PC. Now I cannot even burn a single track.

I wonder if somewhere something got confused regarding the 10 copies we're allowed and "track 10"... doesn't make much sense to me. Contacted support- hoping this can be sussed out soon 'cause I'm mighty annoyed at this point.

WICKEDLESTER

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 7:13 PM

IS there any way i can get this for Cheap...or possibly free? LIke some very, very awsome bowncoat deciding " Hey, i'm going to post this music on the net!" cause 1: I don't trust the internet. dumb shit always happens, and you lose money.2: I don't trust fox. Dumb shit always happens, and you lose yor show.plus i'm cheap

Got a Smoke?

GREENFAERIE

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 7:16 PM

As for me, I spent some time getting through the "process" and for the first time EVER, they crapped out on my credit card. Apparently they don't like my visa. Amazon likes it fine though. Oh well, count me as another fan who has been dumped on by FOX again.

RIMCAT

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 7:35 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MER:
Quote:
Originally posted by GorramZero:
Anyone know if there are plans to release an actual album, or if it's strictly download?

Yea they are going to release it in album format...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000AYYUGQ/qid=112731921
5/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-2052040-0979151?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

I can wait the 7 days...can you? *laughs*

Dumb question, but isn't the Amazon release the movie soundtrack, not the show soundtrack?

DOBSONSEYE

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:15 PM

Quote:
Now if they only had album cover art to print, that would be perfect.

Hi fellow Browncoats! I just registered after downloading the soundtrack. I, too, wanted to find the album cover art. The tiny icon displayed on the FoxMusic pages (99x99 pixels) looks like crap when magnified, of course.

However, after poking around their site a bit, I found this file:

It's decent resolution, but it has a big gorram watermark across it. Any Photoshop experts here who can remove it?

Why in the h*ll does Fox have to make everything so hard???

SLGN

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:30 PM

Yep, I'm torn my own self. Yea: we have FF music... Nay: Digital Ep only with many web & format problems? Eeeewwwwww....

> Windows & IE only (other browsers? forget it)
> No for Macs. Sorry you're arty renegades... no music for you until you participate in the capitalist-imperialist corporate oligarchy.

I want a physical CD not only for myself but to donate to public libraries!!

Even with the copyright clearance to make 10 copies (btw, how do you police that, I mean, "9-Okay, 10-Okay, 11- Two by two, here comes the CCC crew?") a library won't take a home burned cd into their collection. I was going to buy cds for me, families & friends, and many for libraries...

Regardless of my griping, tell Fox how YOU feel whether or or .

Here are various contacts listed previously in 'Versal Board threads:

EM: FoxMusic.Publishing@fox.com
Snail Mail
Robert Kraft, President Fox Music
Geoff Bywater, Exec VP Fox Music
Gregory Earls, Coord. Fox Music Library
- AT -
Fox Music Publishing
P.O. Box 900
Beverly Hills, CA 90213

AND
EM: foxmusic@fox.com
Snail Mail
Fox Music, Inc.
10201 West Pico Boulevard
Building 18, Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90035

DOBSONSEYE

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:14 PM

Ripping it into iTunes now, as well.

But... anyone notice anything missing?

How could they leave out "The Man They Call Jayne" ???

SHINY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by DobsonsEye:

It's decent resolution, but it has a big gorram watermark across it. Any Photoshop experts here who can remove it?

If you can find me a high-enough resolution picture/scan of the front of the DVD case, I think I can do it, since this looks to be just a cropped version of that. I need at least 600 pixel width to match the resolution of this picture, though, and none of the ones I was able to google are wide enough...

---

Serenity is coming. 9/30/05.

DARTHVEGAS

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:09 PM

Any chance of some kind soul puttin' this up on LimeWire?

I'd love to buy it FOX, I truly would, so as you can give my money to help buy some lame laushen reality show or give to Hannity for his fair and ballanced reportin. I surly would.

But since I have a Mac and you dont want my money, guess I am aim to misbehave.

"This is something the Captain need to take care of himself."
"No he doesnt!"
"Oh...Oh!"

PTROPE

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BDJSB7:
Welp, here's my experience:
I DL'd the songs, but when I tried to burn em through Windows Media Player, it got all manner of tetchy after track 10 and locked up my PC. Now I cannot even burn a single track.

I wonder if somewhere something got confused regarding the 10 copies we're allowed and "track 10"... doesn't make much sense to me. Contacted support- hoping this can be sussed out soon 'cause I'm mighty annoyed at this point.

You and me, both. I had the same experience, mostly: the files won't play on any DRM-compatible player on the machine on which they were purchased, but they will play on Media Player 9 on another PC on the same network; the purchase machine returns a "no license" message in every player. On the playing machine, I attempted to burn a CD, using Nero's plug-in, and it crapped out at track 11; after that, it now states that I have exceeded my license for burning CDs.

I have contacted support, and gotten a response. They said they discovered some problems with the files and corrected them, and gave me the direct link to download them again. They still will not play on the purchasing PC, and they still return the "license exceeded" error on attempting to burn an audio CD from the new files.

I've contacted support again, and also asked them to forward my comments and complaints to FOX's marketing department, trying to impress upon them that this market they are targeting is highly interconnected and we will spread the word if these don't work, and they will lose sales as a result. In their defense, the support people seemed genuinely interested in helping me resolve the situation, and prompt in their response; the problem seems to lie in choosing to offer a severely-limited product - both legally and technologically - rather than making it accessible and desirable to the largest possible spread of customers. Sorry, FOX, but DRM is not ready for prime time (nor do I believe it is even technically legal); find a better way to serve your shareholders.

"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."
- Sam Levenson

MITHEL

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:43 PM

SLGN, thank you for posting the Fox music e-mail addresses. I've sent them nice e-mails letting them know I *want* to buy their soundtrack.

"I aim to misbehave"... dang I really don't want to misbehave... I'm a very law abiding person and as a creative developer myself I certainly believe in the proper people getting paid but sheesh Fox... could you screw it up worse?

SNIPER

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:46 PM

Regarding the cover image, I think that if I can find a high res image of the DVD set, I can recreate a CD cover.

RELFEXIVE

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:57 PM

I have had the exact same problems as PTROPE. Well, except that I only have access to the one 'puter to do it on.

I am not at all impressed. But I hope that by spending my hard-earned platinum on this pile of go-se it convinces FOX to release a proper CD.

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
I know the secret.
http://www.theshadowdepository.co.uk/index.htm

HJERMSTED

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:54 PM

I'm torn.

I want Greg E. to get his well-deserved royalties.

I don't want to support the ramming down our throats of some second rate proprietary encoding format (.wmv) regardless of what it can be converted into. The only way it could be worse is if Fox music had aligned itself with Real Audio.

Leaning toward saving my money.

mattro

LADYSHELLEY

Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:09 AM

Well I finally got everything to work and now have my very own copy.

I am so happy The Funeral is there, probably one of teh best pieces of music in the show, and I'll pay good money for just that.

Do wish A Man Called Jane and End Titles were included though.

Lady Shelley
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.redhawke.org

DAEHL

Thursday, September 22, 2005 2:52 AM

This sucks! I must have this soundtrack, but I'm a Mac diehard. Anyone else had any success downloading the crappy WMA files and buring them to CD on a Mac?

I've got OS X 10.4, with Windows Media Player installed and Toast Ti 7.0.1.

I can play the track samples, but am leary about purchasing if I can't burn the tracks to CD.

Also, can anyone who did purchase confirm whether the tracks include the "let's Moon 'em" music from the pilot. I just love that part...

Thanks!

UPDATE- I tried selecting purchase and it states it won't download or play on a Mac.

Leave it to Fox to screw the Firefly fans!

SNIPER

Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:05 AM

w00t! Just got my copy. For all the trouble, it's worth it.

SCRYTCH

Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:29 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by canttakesky:
I got mine!!!! Thank you for telling us. Boy, it sure took them long enough to get it out. Now if they only had album cover art to print, that would be perfect.

Makes me miss the show all over again. They really should have hired Greg to do the movie. This is soooo good.

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

There is cover art you can download. From the page via the link above, right below Mal is a CD cover image. Click on that and it will open a full size one you can download.

Regards,
Shane.

SCRYTCH

Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:13 AM

OK - just found something interesting... I just paid for it and downloaded the ZIP file of the soundtrack, 52.8mb worth - file name "Firefly_Original_Television_Soundtrack.zip".

The weird thing is all files enclosed are 256kb MP3 files, NOT WMA!

Anyone else experienced this? Oh, I downloaded this on my Mac if that makes any difference :)

Regards,
Shane.

BDJSB7

Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:10 AM

Update:
I went home from work, tried downloading/burning from there. I had issues using Firefox to do this, but when I bit the bullet and tried with IE, all was shiny.

Burning copies worked as well.

CANTTAKESKY

Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:25 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by scrytch:
There is cover art you can download. From the page via the link above, right below Mal is a CD cover image.

Shane, thank you! (Though I coulda sworn that wasn't there on Tuesday...)

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

RELFEXIVE

Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by scrytch:
OK - just found something interesting... I just paid for it and downloaded the ZIP file of the soundtrack, 52.8mb worth - file name "Firefly_Original_Television_Soundtrack.zip".

The weird thing is all files enclosed are 256kb MP3 files, NOT WMA!

Anyone else experienced this? Oh, I downloaded this on my Mac if that makes any difference :)

Regards,
Shane.

Really? I shall have to take a look tonight. Hopefully I won't have to pay again to download it again...

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
I know the secret.
http://www.theshadowdepository.co.uk/index.htm

MRPITHER

Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:24 PM

i'm re-downloading now and i too am getting the larger 53M zip file instead of the 37M zip i got last nite. no indication of another charge, but for higher quality drm-free files, i would only mind a little if they did. still want a real cd of this someday, but i will take what i can git at this point.

shiny...

you can't take the sky from me...

DAEHL

Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:28 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by CANTTAKESKY

Quote:

Originally posted by scrytch:
There is cover art you can download. From the page via the link above, right below Mal is a CD cover image.

Shane, thank you! (Though I coulda sworn that wasn't there on Tuesday...)

It definitely wasn't there yesterday.

RELFEXIVE

Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by mrpither:
i'm re-downloading now and i too am getting the larger 53M zip file instead of the 37M zip i got last nite. no indication of another charge, but for higher quality drm-free files, i would only mind a little if they did. still want a real cd of this someday, but i will take what i can git at this point.

shiny...

Bloody hell! I soooo want to get away from work to see if it's true!!

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
I know the secret.
http://www.theshadowdepository.co.uk/index.htm

DAEHL

Thursday, September 22, 2005 2:11 PM

Success!

I just downloaded the Firefly soundtrack using my trusty Mac.

Used Mac OS 10.3.9 with Safari 1.3.1 with Pop-up windows unblocked.

As was reported, it downloaded a 52.8 MB .zip file that contained 17 .mp3 files.

All of the files are encoded at 192kbps except for the Main Theme that is 256kbps.

The weird thing is the ID3 tags!!!

Even though there are only 17 tracks, they come across with the following information:

(BLANK) Firefly_Main Title
2 of 23 Heart of Gold Montage
3 of 23 Big Bar Fight
4 of 23 The Funeral
5 of 23 Mal fights Niska/Back home
8 of 23 Deserted Ship/Empty Derelict
9 of 23 Books hair/Ready for Battle
12 of 23 Early takes the Serenity
13 of 23 In my bunk/Rivers eyes/Boom
14 of 23 Innara’s Suite
15 of 23 River tricks Early
16 of 23 River’s perception/Saffron
17 of 23 Goodbye Early
18 of 23 Leaving/Caper/Spaceball
20 of 23 River’s afraid/Niska/Book
21 of 23 River understands Simon
23 of 23 Whitefall/Book

It's a different track order than what's posted on Fox Music's web site...

...AND HOW DO WE GET TRACKS 6, 7, 10, 11, 19 & 22 ?!?!

KELLAINA

Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:14 PM

Well I guess Fox made the decision for me...

Quote:
INTERNATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

The Service is only available to residents of the United States. This limitation includes, but is not limited to (a) non-US credit cards are not accepted as a payment mechanism, (b) non-US mobile carriers and unlisted US mobile carriers may not be used for delivery.

Changes to these restrictions will occur from time to time without notification to you if such change is an expansion of the Service.

You understand and acknowledge that you may not sign up for, access, or attempt to access or use the Service from countries outside of the U.S. You agree to abide by U.S. and other applicable export control laws and not to transfer, by electronic transmission, any content or software subject to restrictions under such laws to a national destination or person prohibited under such laws.

I know they probably don't hold the international rights to everything on their site and that's why it's limited to the U.S. but I really don't care about logic right now.

If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. -"Angel"

Browncoat? Canadian? Join us:
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/canadianbrowncoats/

CANTTAKESKY

Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:16 PM

I may be wrong, but I *think* these track listings may be the ones on Greg Edmonson's original CD to FOX (when they asked him to put something together for a score album). He used to misspell Inara as "Innara." If that is true, they probably decided to delete the missing tracks from the album.

(I'll try to verify this when I find that original CD...it's misplaced here somewhere...)

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

NEEDY

Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:07 PM

Normally I wouldn't ask this, but could someone make this soundtrack available for us who don't live in the US. Either by uploading it to a site or sharing it using a p2p program.

I hate to advocate this sort of thing, but it looks like it'll be the only way folks like me in the UK will get our hands on it

Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny

RELFEXIVE

Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:13 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by daehl:
Success!

Ditto! WOO!!

Quote:
Originally posted by daehl:
The weird thing is the ID3 tags!!!

Even though there are only 17 tracks, they come across with the following information:

(BLANK) Firefly_Main Title
2 of 23 Heart of Gold Montage
3 of 23 Big Bar Fight
4 of 23 The Funeral
5 of 23 Mal fights Niska/Back home
8 of 23 Deserted Ship/Empty Derelict
9 of 23 Books hair/Ready for Battle
12 of 23 Early takes the Serenity
13 of 23 In my bunk/Rivers eyes/Boom
14 of 23 Innara’s Suite
15 of 23 River tricks Early
16 of 23 River’s perception/Saffron
17 of 23 Goodbye Early
18 of 23 Leaving/Caper/Spaceball
20 of 23 River’s afraid/Niska/Book
21 of 23 River understands Simon
23 of 23 Whitefall/Book

It's a different track order than what's posted on Fox Music's web site...

...AND HOW DO WE GET TRACKS 6, 7, 10, 11, 19 & 22 ?!?!

I noticed that too. Could mean good things are comin' our way soon-ish

........hopefully.

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
I know the secret.
http://www.theshadowdepository.co.uk/index.htm

RELFEXIVE

Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by NEEDY:
Normally I wouldn't ask this, but could someone make this soundtrack available for us who don't live in the US. Either by uploading it to a site or sharing it using a p2p program.

I hate to advocate this sort of thing, but it looks like it'll be the only way folks like me in the UK will get our hands on it.

This is easy to get around if you are still willing to pay.

Just put in your country as "United States" and use a made-up city, state and zip code, like maybe NY98765. Worked a treat for me.

Oh, and it doesn't seem to like Visa much, either.

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
I know the secret.
http://www.theshadowdepository.co.uk/index.htm

AINTWEJUST

Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:53 PM

DId it take a while when you downloaded the Big Damn Soundtrack on your Mac with Safari? I have the "Requesting content and license" phrase up there for five minutes now at fiver optic internet speeds, so i'm a bit befuzzled.

I want my soundtrack, gorram it!

AintWeJust

"Why are We still discussing this when It's already been decided?"

RELFEXIVE

Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:38 PM

Now that the tracks can actually be played/burned/used in the gorram first place, the question is: exactly where does each track (and each cue in those tracks with multiple cues) come from in the series? Cos some are obvious, some, not so much.

River's Perception? River Understands Simon? River's Afraid? River's Eyes?

Hmmm... there's the theme there, it seems...

Anyways, once this gets worked out I might split the multiple-cue tracks down into their constituent parts, the better to use them with, oh, a Firefly RPG session, for example

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
I know the secret.
http://www.theshadowdepository.co.uk/index.htm

KINGPAUSE

Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:40 PM

Forgive if this has already been posted (cover art):

Oops, only meant to post the link. Looks like it's opening the image itself. Hope I'm not breaking any direct-link rules here....

NIKNAK

Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:45 PM

Thankyou for all the info people. I was nearly resigned to not buying it. With a lot of effort I was able to download it. Of course, their website crashed Firefox 1.0.7 but just about worked in 1.5 beta. And that stupid flash application decided to start freezing on my part way through until I cleared my cache and cookies. I lied and told it that I was in the United States (thanks for the tip) .

Thankyou to whoever it was at Fox Music who had the sense to provide it in MP3 format. I bet they must have had hundreds of complaints about the wma DRM. The 192kbps MP3s are not variable bitrate unfortuantely but still thats much better than 128kbps wma.

The music is very nice but there are several great pieces from the series that are missing. I guess that there's just so much music they couldn't include it all.

PTROPE

Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:08 PM

^^

Considering that the album is only 39 minutes long, and a CD is 74, there's a lot they could have included.

Still, it's good that they came around and provided something that works. I e-mailed Customer Support directly (since I already had an ongoing conversation with them regaridng the crap WMA files they initially posted) and thanked them for their help, and asked them to pass along to the marketing department my thanks for quickly resolving the entire issue by providing files that aren't hobbled by DRM. I also suggested to them that they stand a better chance of combating piracy by providing a decent product at a fair price than by treating all of their customers as potential criminals before the fact.

Thanks to the posts here, I went back and dowloaded the zip file - the new one (thankfully, they kept the link the same!) and am now listening to Firefly for the first time on my shiny stereo system, instead of on my tiny PC speakers, and it's great!

I really love Jubal Early's theme; the oboe is perfect for this! :D

RELFEXIVE

Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:17 PM

It just sounds so frickin' great, doesn't it? Not just Early's music, but the whole thing. The first time the bar fight music played I had a big grin on my face! Hee hee!!

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
I know the secret.
http://www.theshadowdepository.co.uk/index.htm

SCRYTCH

Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:10 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by AINTWEJUST:
DId it take a while when you downloaded the Big Damn Soundtrack on your Mac with Safari? I have the "Requesting content and license" phrase up there for five minutes now at fiver optic internet speeds, so i'm a bit befuzzled.

I want my soundtrack, gorram it!

AintWeJust

"Why are We still discussing this when It's already been decided?"

I downloaded it via Safari on my Mac with no issues. I don't have a proxy server set up, am on 1.5meg broadband connection and running Mac OS X 10.4.2 and Safari 2.0.1 (412.5)

I hope things work out... music is fantastic (and yes, 192Kb for songs except Theme song - sorry!).

Regards,
Shane.

DIEGO

Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:16 PM

I downloaded it via Safari on my Mac with no issues. I don't have a proxy server set up, am on 1.5meg broadband connection and running Mac OS X 10.4.2 and Safari 2.0.1 (412.5)

You give me hope, fellow mac-user. Unfortunately the gorram hudan Fox site is still not working for me. Or rather, it worked well enough to take my money and now refuses to let me access anything at all.

NEEDY

Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:25 PM

Done it. Thanks for your advice. Though I was getting a bit annoyed when it wouldn't accept my state. Turns out New York isn't accepted but NY is. I'm downloading the album as I type this.

Can't wait

SCRYTCH

Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:58 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by NEEDY:
Normally I wouldn't ask this, but could someone make this soundtrack available for us who don't live in the US. Either by uploading it to a site or sharing it using a p2p program.

I hate to advocate this sort of thing, but it looks like it'll be the only way folks like me in the UK will get our hands on it

Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny

This is weird - I am in Australia, used my Australian address and phone number etc, and my Australian Visa card and it worked fine yesterday.

You are selecting UK from the Country drop-down box? Yes?

Regards,
Shane.

NEEDY

Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:36 PM

Yeah I did. And another Uk fan here mentioned having the same problem, apparently that it was only available to those in the US

They may have changed it after the emails, I don't know. But I've got it now anyway, I inputted a false US address.

I'm currently listening to the track "The Funeral" Superb!

Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny

BLOODYAWFULPOET

Friday, September 23, 2005 12:29 AM

Can anyone e-mail me the files? I would REALLY appreciate it.

foreverknightlander@yahoo.com

MASKULL

Friday, September 23, 2005 12:33 AM

I downloaded with Safari on Mac OSX 10.2.8 with no problems.
I'm glad they have the MP3's now. They're great!
Is anyone putting together a back cover for the CD?

Just asking,
Gary

CITIZEN

Friday, September 23, 2005 12:36 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MER:
Quote:
Originally posted by GorramZero:
Anyone know if there are plans to release an actual album, or if it's strictly download?

Yea they are going to release it in album format...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000AYYUGQ/qid=112731921
5/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-2052040-0979151?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

I can wait the 7 days...can you? *laughs*

Isn't that the Serenity, rather than the FireFly, soundtrack?

Zen Buddhist to the Hotdog Vendor:
"Make me one with everything."

THETRAINJOBMAN

Friday, September 23, 2005 12:46 AM

Just FYI for the non-US users, I managed to get it downloading using a UK credit card and billing address. I am, however, currently in Canada, so I don't know if that affects it. (I figured that I might as well do it while I'm here, just in case I have problems in the UK).

---------------------------------------------
Kaylee: "No call to be snappy, Jayne."
Jayne: "Are *you* about to jump onto a moving train?!"

MRPITHER

Friday, September 23, 2005 1:24 AM

just got an email from foxmusic announcing:

.mp3 file format now available for Firefly!

guess that makes it official...

---
you can't take the sky from me...

JK

Friday, September 23, 2005 1:47 AM

How do we let Fox know that we're grateful for this? All I can find is a customer service email, and I'm pretty sure they're not the people who want/should get our thanks.

By the way, I'm a UK resident using Mac OSX, and I had no problem downloading the EP.

JK

CANTTAKESKY

Friday, September 23, 2005 1:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MER:
Yea they are going to release it in album format...

The album is for the music from the BDM Serenity, by David Newman. This download is for music from the TV series, Firefly, by Greg Edmonson.

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

DIEGO

Friday, September 23, 2005 2:29 AM

Okay, I broke down and used a friend's PC. After trying another Mac as well as Firefox and IE. It was a pain, but I finally got it! Shiny!

EARENDIL

Friday, September 23, 2005 3:21 AM

I'm sure this is later than heck, but for anybody who doesn't want to deal with license querys all the time...

Use any kind of software audio recorder that can basically record anything and everything that comes through the soundcard. You just recapture the songs when you play them and compress to mp3, ogg, or whatever format you want.

Not that I do anything like that.

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