Original zip file copied from the Blu-ray
SQEX-20008~9 | FINAL FANTASY Orchestra Album (Limited Edition / Blu-ray) - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/36001)
Released: December 26, 2012
Size: 291 MB
Tracks: 23

Uploaded, FileFactory, FreakShare, Rapidgator and Mediafire

Track List:
01) "Medley – 2002 (Final Fantasy I – III)" (メドレー2002 [FINAL FANTASY I~III], ?)
02) "Medley – 2004 (Final Fantasy I – III)" (メドレー2004 [FINAL FANTASY I~III], ?)
03) "Memory of the Wind (Final Fantasy III)" (風の追憶 ~悠久の風伝説~ [FINAL FANTASY III], ?)
04) "Golbez and the Battle with the Four Fiends (Final Fantasy IV)" (ゴルベーザ四天王とのバトル [FINAL FANTASY IV], Gorubēza Shitennō to no Batoru?)
05) "Theme of Love (Final Fantasy IV)" (愛のテーマ [FINAL FANTASY IV], Ai no Tēma?)
06) "Final Fantasy V Main Theme (Final Fantasy V)" (ファイナルファンタジーV メインテーマ [FINAL FANTASY V], Fainaru Fantajī Faibu Mein Tēma?)
07) "Dear Friends (Final Fantasy V)" (親愛なる友へ [FINAL FANTASY V], Shin'ai Naru Tomo e?)
08) "Opera (Final Fantasy VI)" (オペラ「マリアとドラクゥ(完全版)」 [FINAL FANTASY VI], Opera「Aria di Mezzo Carattere」?)
09) "Phantom Forest (Final Fantasy VI)" (迷いの森 [FINAL FANTASY VI], Mayoi no Mori?)
10) "Final Fantasy VII Main Theme (Final Fantasy VII)" (F.F.7 メインテーマ [FINAL FANTASY VII], F.F. VII Mein Tēma?)
11) "One-Winged Angel (Final Fantasy VII)" (片翼の天使 [FINAL FANTASY VII], Katayoku no Tenshi?)
12) "Aerith's Theme (Final Fantasy VII)" (エアリスのテーマ [FINAL FANTASY VII], Earisu no Tēma?)
13) Eyes on Me with Crystal Kay (Final Fantasy VIII)
14) Liberi Fatali (Final Fantasy VIII)
15) Balamb Garden ~ Ami (Final Fantasy VIII)
16) Vamo Alla Flamenco (Final Fantasy IX)
17) "Unrequited Love (Final Fantasy IX)" (とどかぬ想い [FINAL FANTASY IX], Todokanu Omoi?)
18) "To Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X)" (ザナルカンドにて [FINAL FANTASY X], Zanarukando Nite?)
19) "Suteki da ne Orchestral Version (Final Fantasy X)" (素敵だね-オーケストラ・ヴァージョン- [FINAL FANTASY X], ?)
20) Ronfaure (Final Fantasy XI)
21) "The Dalmasca Eastersand (Final Fantasy XII)" (東ダルマスカ砂漠 [FINAL FANTASY XII], Higashi Darumasuka Sabaku?)
22) "Fang's Theme (Final Fantasy XIII)" (ファングのテーマ [FINAL FANTASY XIII], Fangu no Tēma?)
23) "Battle Medley 2012 (Final Fantasy I – XIV)" (バトルメドレー2012 [FINAL FANTASY I~XIV], ?)

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Mediafire:

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Thanks, man!

Wow, good stuff! Thanks!!

Umm, yummy. More info about this?

Thanks for sharing :)

"Phantom Forest" - amazing arrange, just WOW! The same goes for wonderful tour the FF history in "Battle Medley". Thanks for share!

p.s.

I have no idea what is played during second half of "opera" (starts at about 8:05) but I love it :D.

Thank you! Any idea how I can buy this?
Many thanks again

Thank you!
Yet, I still crave for a full blu-ray release

Firstly, thank you soo very much, DS, for uploading this.
Secondly, would someone be soo kind as to upload this elsewhere? Maybe to Mediafire, perhaps? :)

Yeah, can we please have a mirror in Mediafire?? =D

I refuse to download because of MP3...

Butt fucking One winged angel. -_-

Thanks a lot. I'm been waiting for
this album, but in Ukraine it is not
sold (Nobuo Uematsu fans around
the world.)

"Phantom Forest" - amazing arrange, just WOW! The same goes for wonderful tour the FF history in "Battle Medley". Thanks for share!

p.s.

I have no idea what is played during second half of "opera" (starts at about 8:05) but I love it :D.

They redid the opera to sound more like the Black Mages version! :D

Also, THANK YOU OMFGFG.

Thanks alot!!!

Thank you, but isn't there a second disc?

Thank you, but isn't there a second disc?
SQEX-20008~9 | FINAL FANTASY Orchestra Album (Limited Edition / Blu-ray) - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/36001)

The second disc is a Vinyl... and it has a few tracks already available on the "regular" CD.

Mediafire limits the max file size to 200 MB for free accounts. I wanted to upload the untouched zip that is copied from the BDM to PC, so I had to use somewhere else. I can do Mediafire, but it will have to be in 2 separate parts.

The MP3's are obtained from the BDM through a home network. I don't have a Blu-ray drive other than my PS3 so I'm not able to rip anything from the disc. The BDM also has selections of original, non-orchestral (think 8 bit, I guess) music that can be played. I would like to have those to carry around (yeah, I play lossless from my phone) so if anyone could rip the lossless tracks that would be greatly appreciated.

damn thanks for this, really looking forward to the a couple tracks.

SQEX-20008~9 | FINAL FANTASY Orchestra Album (Limited Edition / Blu-ray) - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/36001)

The second disc is a Vinyl... and it has a few tracks already available on the "regular" CD.

So the only thing different is that there's a different woman singing Eyes on Me? Hmmm. I'd still love to have that version of Eyes on Me if anyone has it, but I guess not having the second disc isn't as tragic a loss as I thought. It mainly just irks on me due to OCD and wanting to have the complete collection of whatever there is.

thank you very much!!

Could someone please mirror it to anywhere when they have the chance, thanks.

Here's a new link to download: http://video.2yxa.mobi/import/2yxa_ru_fforchestra_imp6150.zip will
be available until 31.12.2012 01.31

Thank you for the music!

It took a while but I uploaded to Mediafire as well. These are RAR; use winrar or similar to extract.

Thank you very much! :D

Something worth listening to in a while :) Thanks !

Thanks for the upload! Personally, I prefer mp3s simply because they don't eat up as much memory.

Thanks a lot!!

Thank you

This is one of the best orchestral
album ever Final Fantasy!
Composition "Unrequited Love" is
gorgeous!

Wasn't the Battle Medley supposed to have a FFXIV music?
There's no FFXIV music after Blinded by Light (FFXIII).

Many thanks!

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I refuse to download because of MP3...

Butt fucking One winged angel. -_-

Not sure if that sentence has an extra "t" or is missing a hyphen. :P

download limit reached on the Mediafire one. Sadness.

Thank you

Thanks!

REUPLOAD PLEASE D: It won't let me download. Something about the limit has been reached. NVM the First link works.

Thank you!

This deserves more mirrors:

Download links for FF_Orchestra.zip - Mirrorcreator - Upload files to multiple hosts (http://mir.cr/4TIMWTXX)

thanks :)

Oh wow this is great! thank you so much!

Adding a couple more links. Hopefully these don't have a limit like Mediafire does.

Thanks SO much for the upload!Loving the music!

Distant Worlds : music from FINAL FANTASY au Palais des Congr�s les 12 et 13 Janvier 2013 !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLY9bcLcT5k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLY9bcLcT5k

Thank you for sharing :)

Thanks!!

thank you so much !!

Thank you so much!!!!!!

Thanks for sharing~~ You are awesome!!!

Bravo, Nice song ^.^

Thank you so much!

Thanks for this :)

Is this a new recording or mostly old stuff with a few new songs added?

All new recordings, except Fang's Theme from Final Fantasy 13, which is the original Warsaw recording... presumably because the workaday FILMharmonic orchestra couldn't wrap their heads around Yoshihisa Hirano's stupefyingly complicated orchestration in time! I'd love to hear them take a bash at Nascent Requiem... :-O

A few somewhat elderly arrangements, though...

Is this supposed to have a video release too? I've never seen an audio blu-ray release before.

Wow, many thanks!

It is indeed a video release. The Bluray has a bonus feature of all the music as MP3s, which is what this is. Nobody has ripped the video yet AFAIK. I'm going to buy this myself next month so if nobody does so by then...

The video is only a short behind the scenes documentary type thing. There are also picture slide shows, trailers for other SE music related releases, and an option to play retro music. In general, this is mostly a music release. Sorry, I can't rip anything else from my PS3. Audio blu-ray releases (BDM) are somewhat new, I think. The only other BDM I've seen is a version of FIVE by Ayumi Hamasaki.

So, what's on the screen when the music is playing?

The name of the song, the logo of whatever game the music is from, and sometimes lyrics; all on a black background. All the video clip/slide show stuff are in extras.

Jesus, really? I thought they were going for the "concert with no audience" style presentation... Bugger. I may not purchase, then... Thanks for the warning...

Well then the purpose of the blu-ray is to present you with HD audio I guess.

...Which is all a load of complete nonsense... so effectively it's a stupidly expensive CD...

I wouldn't say 24 bit is a load of nonsense but good luck ripping the audio from it. Still, it seems blu-rays are the next wave of 24 bit audio releases. At least people tend to have systems that are able to handle them if they can play a blu-ray. It makes no sense that they would have 24 bit audio and then only give you 320kbps from it though.

You may not say so, but it remains the truth. ;)

16-bit recording already preserves all dynamic range audible within the human hearing spectrum (and 99% of modern recordings do not use even a tenth of that dynamic range anyway) and a sample rate of 44.1khz is more than sufficient to preserve all sound audible to humans with an extra 2khz on top for safety.

The people who designed the CD format in the late seventies chose their bit depth and sample rate very carefully and with a very simple intention in mind; that it should reproduce sound equal to a human listener's perceptive abilities. Absolutely anything else is pure nonsense, with the exception of recording at 24-bit in the studio, editing and mastering at 24-bit, and dithering down to 16-bit for final distribution, which does have a proven purpose. :)

People will want to play the "bigger number is better" game for the rest of eternity... and most of them will fail to respond to common sense.

We live in a world where somebody can take a 16-bit master, run it through a dynamic expander, add some high frequency distortion, sell it as an "audiophile" 192khz 24-bit download, and have thousands of idiots queuing up to buy his miraculous new thing that's a "night and day" difference when compared to crappy old CD and anybody who thinks otherwise obviously has hearing problems, mental retardation, or hasn't invested in a sufficiently overpriced hifi system... ;)

It is very possible that the CD reaches the limits of human perception. It still remains that albums that were destroyed by poor mastering sound much better in 24 bit when the destruction that was done to the recordings is done away with and opened up to proper dynamic range. As to how many 24 bit recordings are properly taken from the 24 bit masters, who can say. I don't even have the proper equipment at home yet to play the few 24 bit recordings I bought.

Still, as for this release, I am glad that Square Enix is releasing it in 24 bit and I hope they will release the 24 bit as a digital download in the USA. Even still, this is delightful and I am really enjoying this much more than the Distant Worlds recordings. The detail in the orchestra here is so fantastic.

Sorry to argue constantly with you, but it's not "very possible" that CD "reaches the limits of perception" - it is a fact that CD surpasses human perception in every way.

I don't disagree with that, but they're not inherent plus points of 24-bit... if a guy masters the 16-bit release to sound like shit and the 24-bit release to sound slightly better, we're talking about different issues here.

We have people buying vinyl again instead of CDs because vinyl sounds better. Vinyl doesn't sound better... but the vinyl pressing is often from a better, less mutilated master simply because the brickwall limiting and dynamics compression that's de rigueur today simply cannot be physically accommodated by a vinyl record or adequately reproduced by a turntable.

Rather than end the loudness war and start mastering albums at sensible levels with dynamic range, we are now seeing CDs sounding worse than ever before and producers dangling less-bad LPs and stupidly high resolution FLAC downloads as the way forward. Very clever. Make your new worthless crap seem useful by degrading the alternatives. They have to sell this garbage somehow...

Incidentally, about Distant Worlds - I have the 24-bit version. I have a feeling it may have come from your good self. (If so, thank you very much!)

The dynamic range is identical to that of the CD release, and there is absolutely nothing above 22khz except noise, electrical hum at 24000hz, strange pulsating tones between 30000 and 35000hz in the right channel only, and harmonics outside of human hearing spectrum.

I would put cold, hard cash on you not being able to tell the difference between the two in a controlled environment. ;)[COLOR="Silver"]

I'll get back to you once I have been able to get my speakers to the point where I can truly enjoy 24 bit and have been able to do a double blind test of 24 bit and 16 bit lossless of decent recordings. I think this might be possible at a friend's setup but certainly not at home.

Don't get me wrong, I still buy CD quality releases. I have not yet seen the evidence that 24 bit releases sound significantly better. In fact, if this release was on CD AND this blu-ray, we wouldn't be having this discussion because you could just buy the CD version and be done with it.

Again, your speaker setup will not help you because it is physically outside of your ability to hear. Spend �100,000 on super-duper speakers if you like but you still have the same ears at the sides of your head. ;)

You cannot hear it, I cannot hear it, nobody can hear it - because we are humans and our ears can't process that level of dynamic range. (And no recording ever made by anybody anywhere EVER has taken full advantage of the dynamic range afforded by 16-bit sampling anyway let alone 24-bit. Recording hardware can't do it, microphones can't do it, and ambient noise in a room will be over the threshold anyway.) There is no evidence that 24-bit releases sound better because they don't. That's not a matter for debate. It's a straight fact.

This conversation would still be taking place as long as inaccurate information about the alleged benefits of distributing music at higher bit depth and sample rates is spread.

Obviously if a 24-bit release has received a better mastering than the 16-bit release, it will sound better - but, again, this is not down to any inherent benefit of 24-bit. It's because the 24-bit release was engineered differently.

Apologies for going on about this mate, but I'm only arguing facts and common sense here.

Trouly great conversation, tangotreats and Sirusjr, I'm wondering if the blu-ray literally has mp3s, or lossless audio on it. As always, I'm asking for FLAC. It's funny that they use higher bit depths and frequencies. DVD audio is 48 khz, but that means nothing to the human ear. I doubt they even record at 48 khz. I've headphones that go to 30 khz and the only difference I find by having support for higher frequencies is the waveform. Maybe a bird or a dog could tell the difference, but no audiophile could. I like how Nintendo puts their music in a lot of their games at 32 khz, sometimes to save space, and sometimes because that's what they recorded at. They've even used 22 and 16.
I love how well the post preceding mine is put into words.

I do hope somebody rips this release! I don't have a Bluray player nor a good speaker system for it, only headphones, so I can't buy it. And the 320 has nice arrangements.

Anyway ...

I just listened to some HD releases of some old CD releases I had and the difference is amazing.

But not because of the sampling rate. They cleaned up the original master 3-tapes and edited it better.

Of course, that's way easier to do at higher bit depths and sampling. If the original record has issues, 192 is mandatory to clean away the noise with filters and software.

However, on CD releases, I've seen lossy 320 mp3 audio burned to CDs and sold as CD quality sometimes. Other times, they clearly wanted to clean it and edit it but lacked a higher sample source than 44 kHz and did not bother to get one. I agree that its a question of mastering.

Also, many of the more expensive DAC chips upsample if the audio is less than 192 kHz. I've listened to to 44 kHz max DAC, except one chip per channel, and that sounds as good as it's ever going to get for a person so long as the source audio was properly mastered.

Wow, that was some conversation! I wanted to thank everyone especially DarkShinigami for sharing!

My comment was just due to my unfamiliarly with Blu-ray for audio...I just assumed there'd be video of the recording process or something to go along with the audio.

See Tango! Some people do appreciate our banter. :D

Thanks for sharing.

Too bad this doesn't have the "real" complete opera from FF VI, all 23 minutes of it. :(

Thank you for posting this! I loved every minute that I listened to; I'm saving the rest for when I'm in the ideal listening mood with a little bit of special brownies.

Please, fix mediafire DL's!

Thanks a bunch!

After listening to this several times, maybe is one of the best (if not the best) FF compilation/arrange album i've ever heard. The FF7 pieces are fucking awesome.

thank u for sharing

I hope the second album will be!

DarkShinigami,
You rock! I was in Chicago for the concert and heard the extended version of the opera. I cried. Now, I can listen to the whole thing on my iPod. Awesome upload! Thanks again!

Nice work.

Thanks a million! Can never go wrong with FF orchestras!

Final Symphony: Barbican - Final Symphony (http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=14201)
Distant Worlds THE CELEBRATION: Distant Worlds THE CELEBRATION ??????? ??????????? - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0_Jvr1oqPw&feature=youtube_gdata_player)

super amazing! Thanks

Thanks alot! :)

Final Symphony: Final Fantasy VI - Born with the Gift of Magic - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7zDD43TSkU)

Thanks a lot :)

awesome

Thanks thanks!

Thanks so much! I was looking forward to this!

nice 1

Please reupload

yes! would really appreciate a re-up!