Topic: Official CV music omitted from iTunes

[Jazz Paladin Productions]

Sounds like their contract's expired if not some other reason. It's a real shame we live in an age were this kind of corporate pandering is commonplace.

I don't think contracts really expire , it's more a matter of the copyright holder deciding to opt out of making it available. At least for the stuff I produced, it's pretty much out there on iTunes or whatever until I decide to pull it.

A lot of the music industry is retaliating against Spotify, iTunes, etc though for not paying enough to the copyright holders. It could be related to this...

Nor is it a matter of iTunes obtaining a license, methinks. No matter how bad Apple wants it, they simply can't publish another parties' work if they don't want to. Ultimately, it's up to Konami and/or the producers to make it available and take the initiative.

Alternatively, it could also be some sort of internal legal dispute that leads to the removal of the content. For example, for all streaming content of "cover" songs, the composer of the song is entitled to a small royalty for each stream. In this case , even if Konami owns the material, for example, Yamane would be entitled to money for each time the music is played. However, if through some circumstance the metadata was set up incorrectly (it happens), the result can be that Yamane doesn't get her money. Once a problem like this is discovered, fixing the problem usually requires pulling the content (since it already has a barcode and metadata assigned an sent to various parities) and resubmitting the entire album and content from scratch...

Under such circumstances, legal actions can easily ensue. I know my wife and I noticed some of our favorite songs vanish from Spotify recently for no apparent reason, and this is content that is getting tens of thousands of streams per month. I can honestly see no reason to pull the content from a financial standpoint other than some sort of dispute...

[Super Waffle]

So in terms of CV music, did the soundtrack for Castlevania IV ever happen to get a cassette release? I'm mainly asking because it came out in the same year as my car, which also happens to have a cassette player.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

because it came out in the same year as my car, which also happens to have a cassette player.

I like the way this carbon-unit produces thoughts.

Regretfully, I have no idea for certain, but I seem to recall someone waaaaaaay back on the Anti-Chapel mentioning a cassette soundtrack release for Symphony -- if they weren't just blowing smoke out their ass, then I'd say it might have been possible. However, that SCREAMS "limited release" so good luck finding a working copy today. Also they might have been fibbing, or even more likely my memory for this is not as reliable as I would like it to be.

So again, no clue in the end.

[Super Waffle]

Stop calling me a carbon-unit. It makes me feel like I'm in Muv-Luv.