I've been looking for one particular album that as far as I know has only been released on iTunes. I've found at least 5 different download locations, but they all have the same problem. The audio sounds fuzzy, like someone recorded the songs with a microphone. I have some proof of that, because they have all been in odd formats like WMA, in a bitrate of 320, which iTunes does not use. Also, Super Smash Bros. Brawl uses a portion of one track for a song, and comparing the two versions, Brawl's sounds much clearer. The album I'm referring to MOTHER 3i.

Does anyone have any super-rare lossless version of this OST? The iTunes encodes are unfortunately bad.

This would be great.

Someone uploaded the original M4As to Underground-Gamer. Unfortunately, in terms of quailty, it's a worst-case scenario.

However, we may be in luck. LucasTizma, collector extraordinaire, had this to say on Underground-Gamer:


I'm actually getting my hands on a rare FLAC version of MOTHER 3i from someone who downloaded it from a non-iTunes digital source.

This exists:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/f72/lossless-video-game-soundtrack-thread-links-first-64743/441.html#post1598127

I read that you can still buy this on the japanese iTunes.

Anyway, i've found this soundtrack in mp3 v2 quality.
It's on a private tracker that i'm having a hard time keeping a decent ratio with, though, so i'd just like to make sure someone wants it before downloading.

This exists:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/f72/lossless-video-game-soundtrack-thread-links-first-64743/441.html#post1598127

What Hendricks266 requested is available above.

This exists:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/f72/lossless-video-game-soundtrack-thread-links-first-64743/441.html#post1598127

What Hendricks266 requested is available above.

Not quite:


EDIT: Somebody burnt it to a CD and ripped it. [...] it's useless in terms of actual losslessness

I have, however, found and downloaded the original iTunes MP4/AAC files.


Anyway, i've found this soundtrack in mp3 v2 quality.
It's on a private tracker that i'm having a hard time keeping a decent ratio with, though, so i'd just like to make sure someone wants it before downloading.
It's probably a transcode.