LordChadwick

Stefancos (or anyone), do you know what the problem might be with my post above? I would love to try this out but so far I have all audio track that I cannot split up for just music. Thanks! -Chad

OK, I took the Fellowship of the Ring EE disk I and I got the Smart Ripper to work. It is the Besure that is not splitting up the tracks appropriately, I follow all the steps but I cannot get the command prompt screen to come up and it says "Encoding Finished" like 1/2 second after I click on the "OK" button. I am able to hear the isolated audio track in RealOne player, is this correct? If it is do I then Magix Generation 6? Please help a total idiot on this subject. Thanks!!! -Chad

Hey all, I was wondering, besides www.howardshore.com if there were any good Shore fan sites out there like JWFan? Thanks for any input you can provide! -Chad

I agree whole-heartedly with Jeff. Yes, I know, it has been waaaayyyy too long since I have posted last, but I have been reading these posts and I must say is life so boring that you have to come up with a post like this? Do not blame Shore for winning. I am by no means a soundtrack expert and I cannot even write music, but I know it if I like what I hear, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the LOTR music. To be honest with you, I never saw or listened to FOTR until Blockbuster had that 10week rental card for the release of the movie. By that time Shore had already won the Oscar and like many of you I was hoping for Harry Potter or AI to win but I figured they cancelled each other out being from the same guy. But I hardly hated Shore for it, how could I when at that time I had never even heard of him? After watching FOTR for the first time (keep in mind I have never read the books, either) I was very impressed with both the movie and the music so I decided to purchase the soundtrack as well. What a nice surprise, after listening to many JW scores, that the tracks had been for the most part unaltered. This is a major gripe that I have with JW in that he tries to make the album more listenable but in the process hacks up a good majority of the album with mismatched and incomplete cues. The LOTR albums are for the most part (correct me if I'm wrong) un-hacked and are in the order of the movie. Like Jeff had said earlier, the respect that Peter Jackson & Shore have for these movies and scores is very refreshing. Their main goal is to make the diehard fans of these books the best movie interpretation that could be, and I believe that they have pulled it off magnificantly. I own both the 2-disc and extended editions of the first two films and if George Lucas or John Williams gave one tenth of the care that these two do I would be shocked. The recent announcement of the SW DVDs is going to be a joke. I am 30 years old and grew up on those movies and for Lucas to take those away from me is heartbreaking, it makes me want to get a laserdisk player and get the original versions on that format. For Shore to go back for the extended editions and compose another 30-45 minutes for EACH movie is pretty unheard of to me and that earns him a hell of a lot of respect in my opinion! If you ask me Peter Jackson had a hell of a lot more vision for LOTR than Lucas had when he created SW, it shows in the prequels how much of a money grubber he has become, throwing out totally uninspiring movies to make millions off of the original trilogy fans. The news of a possible (near) complete box set of the LOTR trilogy would be another first for film scores, considering how short of a turnaround time between the release of the movies and the box set coming out. TWELVE HOURS of music would be simply awesome, something that JW fans usually have to wait 10-20 YEARS for any expanded or complete release to come about. Well, I didn't mean for my post to be this long LOL but to put it short, I think it is time for everyone to check themselves and ask if this is really necessary. I will step off of my soapbox now and post again in another 6 months! OUT! -Chad