Librarian Gets Burned By iTunes-Exclusive Track, Lives


I've been listening a lot of classical radio in the car lately, part work, part pleasure, and I enjoyed a version of Bach's Prelude in C major BWV 846, performed by Helene Grimaud, so I thought I'd get it for our library.

I opened up iTunes, and went out to the store, and saw that it was available on her disc, Credo. As soon as I saw the cover, I recognized that we already owned it, so I was lucky enough to find it on the shelf. I looked on the back cover, and it only had seven tracks. Bach's prelude is the eighth, according to iTunes. So I popped it in my computer, expecting it to be one of those Easter egg hidden tracks. Nope. Not even the extended track legerdemain, where if you let the album continue playing, after ten minutes of silence, you get another song. Whaaa?

I googled the bejebus out of the artist's name, the piece, the album name, etc. In France, the disc has the track included, so I thought, maybe there's a later version of the disc. I went out to WorldCat and only found my edition, and the SACD edition. What gives?

Finally, I looked up Deutsche Grammophon's website, that happens to be via Universal Music's portal, and I read that the track is an iTunes exclusive. Damn! But wait, I thought, maybe Universal, known for being pissed at Apple, offered it to Amazon for download. No. Credo isn't included in the Amazon catalog at all.

It turns out the track is available on a two-disc DG collection entitled Piano Moods, along with other performers, but it's the first time I ever ran into that. I always thought the iTunes exclusive tracks sucked. lol.

Posted: Fri - November 9, 2007 at 01:12 PM      

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