Are there expanded - not complete - Harry Potter scores for Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban? I'd rather not get the complete scores because a lot of those have dialogue and SFX. I know there's an expanded for Philosopher's Stone, so maybe there are others?

Thank you!

Not even a chance. The release for Philosopher's Stone is the recording sessions, and they are absolutely complete as far as I am aware...but that's beside the point. Your only choices for an expanded release for those other two movies are either an abundance of similar sounding DVD rips or nothing at all. Sad, but it's true.

All of your phrasing seems to imply you don't know much what you're talking about. Check the second link in my signature to get more information so you have an idea of what to be asking for in the future.

Oh, I understand now. I mistakenly thought expanded meant released tracks not on the official soundtrack and that complete were DVDRips. My mistake.

Expanded scores can contain unreleased cues. Often a company will put out an expanded version of an already existing OST. And, sometimes, a score is released with smaller cues merged into suites, for listening experience. If someone edits these back into separate cues, then that also is expanded.

Complete scores are essentially the entire score. Now, a lot of these end up being the score as written originally, and not as heard in the film...film edits, which can contain looped tracks, bits of tracks, canned and tracked music etc. Now, many companies will call an album "complete", like the Star wars trilogy, or Superman. These usually contain the original score, and not film edits. If a 2 disc set, they can often contain alternate takes and unused cues. There are a few folks around here for whom "complete" means every cue as heard in the film, the original cues presented as alternates, actual alternates, dvd music, trailer music, you know who you are. I don't really go to such lengths myself, but to each their own.

In a perfect world, dvd rips would be labeled as that--rips. Many people do rips, and then labeling them as "complete", or even worse and more misleading, "recording sessions".

The basic issue is that there is really no standard of labeling. Not on this site, and certainly not on other sites. So, different people label things differently.

So as far as Jurassic Park, there are no officially released expansions for the albums. There are some posted "expansions", which are basically rips. Said cues are said to be clean, but I dunno. And of course there are the game scores, which are actually quite nice.

...this thread isn't a request for Jurassic Park. Just thought I'd put that out there. Does this post contain more detail than the other one I have a link to in my sig, now?

Meh. Willams/Willaims...all the same..:awsm:

There is a legit expanded Chamber of Secrets album out there, just getting to it is the hard part as is the case with most rare scores.

How do you KNOW it is legit if you have not heard it personally? Just curious.

Someone had uploaded clips and posted links to it in the forum I'd say not too long after the Sorcerer's Stone recording sessions leaked. While they were only two or three clips presented, they weren't on the album and didn't have any SFX that I'd heard. That user has since deleted his Youtube account so I can't find the links to prove it but I'm convinced that it's out there.

That wouldn't happen to be the same YouTube account that was showing off his complete score of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, would it? I remember seeing those videos: some short two or three minute video of a guy recording his computer screen, bringing up Windows Explorer or iTunes and running through the track list, waving his mouse around and then playing a couple samples that were too short to really hear anything but long enough to know that it was actual music and not just a screenshot or something...What a dick. That's almost worse than the kind of behavior we've seen from folks like Mr. Jones and Mark G. around these parts.

That wouldn't happen to be the same YouTube account that was showing off his complete score of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, would it? I remember seeing those videos: some short two or three minute video of a guy recording his computer screen, bringing up Windows Explorer or iTunes and running through the track list, waving his mouse around and then playing a couple samples that were too short to really hear anything but long enough to know that it was actual music and not just a screenshot or something...What a dick. That's almost worse than the kind of behavior we've seen from folks like Mr. Jones and Mark G. around these parts.

Yup that's the guy.