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Like Dag said on another post..
That release date is a bit stupid. We all know the album could not be released on iTunes in 1992. (but that's actually the date you can find on iTunes) We just need to find the date it was posted on iTunes but it's probably hard. |
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Maybe you could send the 'iTunes staff' a mail or something and ask about this specific release?
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Here's the official press release from May 10, 2005 for archival purposes: Quote:
By the way, it's interesting to note which tracks they omitted on the iTunes releases. For FF8 and FF10, it was clearly licensing issues with "Eyes On Me" (long rumored as such) and the voice acting of Masakazu Morita and Mayuko Aoki (Tidus and Yuna's VAs, respectively). And they got rid of all the MC tracks from 20020220 which also featured Morita and Aoki, also removing "Tuning" as they probably didn't consider the iTunes release a complete concert recording anymore. The other album changes take some more explaining to do. For FF5, they might have removed the bonus tracks/jingles 2.23 to 2.33 because they didn't add much to the album and there might have been a risk of licensing issues without extensive research on the original composers (Uematsu arranged some classical music with these tracks). For FF1, they did away with 1.01 to 1.03 and 1.23 to 1.35 from the PlayStation soundtrack. Meaning, they kept the exact tracks that were already on the Famicom soundtrack, in that same exact order. You might infer that the other tracks and the PlayStation arrangements were indeed done by Tose employees (see this post of mine for an earlier analysis). For FF2, they removed 2.01 to 2.03, 2.20 and 2.21, and 2.25 to 2.27, again using the track order from the Famicom soundtrack. 2.01 to 2.03 and 2.25 weren't in the Famicom version, so it's the same situation as with FF1. 2.20 and 2.21 again were probably omitted out of fear of licensing issues as it's classical music. Now, 2.26 and 2.27, those are the most interesting ones with their album credits: "Original phrase by Nobuo Uematsu, Music & Arrangement by Tsuyoshi Sekito". I take it that means Uematsu actually did some minor composition work on FF2's PlayStation version and he might have renegotiated his contract with Square ca. 2000 to receive royalties for his new compositions. This is speculation, of course, but it would explain why these tracks were omitted once Uematsu had left the company. Anyway, I'll go ahead and correct the FF5 OST and 20020220 digital release dates and add notes on the digital release dates wherever needed. Edit: I'm done. I didn't list the iTunes release date on most of the physical albums as I have a feeling it's policy not to list the information in the notes field in most cases. I also tried creating a new entry for the digital FF10 album with the "Copy to Draft" system, but once I deleted the artist links for Masakazu Morita and Mayuko Aoki and clicked on "Preview" under "Preview Draft", I got the following error message: "This album could not be displayed. Either an invalid album identifier was specified, or the album has been removed from the database." "Existing Entry Type" was at "Album" and had ID 0. I retried by changing ID to 8 but that then created "Artist Draft" 10405 rather than an album draft. I gave up after that so as not to muck up the database any further. Someone else do it. Here's the note field I prepared: "Digital album originally released on iTunes. The listed release date of August 1, 2001 is based on the album [album=8]SSCX-10054~7[/album]. Tracks 1.01 "Zenbuhanashiteokitainda" and 4.20 "Omoidashitekudasai" which featured voice actors Masakazu Morita (Tidus) and Mayuko Aoki (Yuna) respectively were removed from the digital album." Last edited by zierts; Aug 28, 2022 at 05:00 PM. |
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