Raine Maida - iTunes Canada pre-order bonus tracks.

Post by **faninor** » 11/4/2007, 11:13 pm

Raine's new album comes with two bonus tracks if you're Canadian and you use iTunes and you preorder it. Titles are "21st Century Blues" and "Victim of a Small Town."

I have software to rip the DRM from the files without reencoding the audio, so I pre-ordered the album and will pass these two tracks along to whoever likes since many people either don't use iTunes or aren't in Canada.

reza · Post by **reza** » 11/5/2007, 12:02 am

you're my hero.

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 11/5/2007, 12:17 am

How does iTunes know if we're in Canada or not? I use iTunes but I'm in the US

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 11/5/2007, 1:35 am

I think josh was talking about this a while ago, you need to buy a specific type of itunes card, the canadian version that you can't buy in the USA or something, or have a canadian credit card registered. He was trying to get someone to help him with some canadian tracks, because with his US credit cards or itunes cards the stuff he was looking for wasn't available on the US itunes.

Post by **faninor** » 11/5/2007, 8:49 am

Yeah, there are different iTunes stores for each country, and you can select which one to go into, but in order to buy from a specific country you need a credit card from that country (or an iTunes giftcard purchased in that country).

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 11/5/2007, 9:34 am

Blah that sucks.

Post by **faninor** » 11/5/2007, 8:11 pm

But it doesn't matter how much iTunes sucks because I'll hook you all up with the DRM-free files!

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 11/5/2007, 8:20 pm

And that's one of the many reasons I heart you!! :love:

Teedus · Post by **Teedus** » 11/5/2007, 9:13 pm

Yeah, I actually bought Don't Let it Bring You Down and spent some time today converting it to MP3 so I know it's not hard to do. These songs will get passed. Makes me wonder if I should cancel my pre-order (I want the CD case).

Post by **faninor** » 11/13/2007, 10:03 pm

Hmm, for some reason iTunes is forcing me to update before allowing me to purchase this album.

So either:

1. It is iTunes Plus and didn't bother to mention that, so no DRM

or

2. Apple is stupidly (or evil-y) making people update to purchase new albums so they can't strip DRM away from their files using the security holes in older versions of iTunes.

I'll try to do what I can to get the songs shared though.

Teedus · Post by **Teedus** » 11/13/2007, 10:20 pm

I bought the songs today on iTunes and you don't need to rip it - they didn't lock it at all and it's not limited to just iTunes.

Post by **faninor** » 11/13/2007, 11:34 pm

That's great. At least iTunes is moving towards iTunes plus at regular prices. If you could email the two songs to me at joshua.t.day@gmail.com I'll upload them somewhere.

The iTunes store is giving a lot of people problems. It says my pre-order is no longer available immediately after saying that it's available to download and I confirm that I want to complete the purchase. I can find the tracks listed individually for sale when I search for Raine Maida, but when I click to buy them it says they're no longer available. I can find the pre-order album still listed, but when I click for details it says it will be released in the year 2038.

Post by **faninor** » 11/13/2007, 11:38 pm

teedus18 wrote:Yeah, I actually bought Don't Let it Bring You Down and spent some time today converting it to MP3 so I know it's not hard to do. These songs will get passed. Makes me wonder if I should cancel my pre-order (I want the CD case).

There are actually ways to convert iTunes' protected .m4p files to unprotected .m4a files without doing any reencoding of the audio. It's a little trickier, but a better alternative in terms of quality.

Teedus · Post by **Teedus** » 11/13/2007, 11:54 pm

Yeah, I converted Don't Let it Bring You Down so I know how to do it, but luckily I didn't have to.

http://www.mediafire.com/?bvdfbytorxn

http://www.mediafire.com/?229mfcgbnnz

There are the songs.

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 11/14/2007, 2:07 pm

Thanks teedus!

RobDMB · Post by **RobDMB** » 7/5/2008, 9:44 pm

I know that I'm WAY late on this request... but is there any way you could find it in your hearts to re-up those two bonus songs? I'd really appreciate it.

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 7/6/2008, 9:49 am

Hmm...I don't remember deleting these songs, I wonder why I don't have them anymore!

So...motion seconded (because I couldn't find it on the Hub either)!

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 7/6/2008, 1:41 pm

I am hoping they make it to the AMERICAN RELEASE..

When I saw Raine in March I told him I loved 21st Century Blues. He said something about never knowing. It might make it out there one day. I am hoping they do like what they did when Chantal's cd was released down in the U.S.A. They added one more song to the cd, and you got 2 live tracks from teh Canadian tour.. I know they taped Toronto and Montreal from Raine's solo show.

The cd comes out on Aug 26th

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 7/6/2008, 2:07 pm

21st Century Blues was released on his solo album, wasn't it?

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 7/6/2008, 2:07 pm

Haha never mind, I figured out why I didn't remember deleting them, it's because I didn't XD

These are the songs we're talking about right?

21st Century Blues - http://www.yousendit.com/download/TTdHR ... amZIRGc9PQ
Victim of a Small Town - http://www.yousendit.com/download/TTdHR ... WURIRGc9PQ

And maybe they're hidden tracks on the CD? Because they are both listed as being from the album, and they have track numbers attached to them from when I imported the CD after I bought it...