Yeah, I also got the first three special song from a thread in 4chan, /jp/ board, METHOD_ALTERNATION is an awesome song.
I heard that only the Limited Edition got the charming play button thing and the regular edition got the normal CD treatment. As of the Ciel nosurge, I am still looking the drama CD where the soundtrack is also headed by Shikata Akiko.
Again, thank you so much for your effort.
In fact there isn't a limited edition for Kurt hymneth; However people who preordered their copy at the Gust online shop got three extra "Pins", and people who bought it of amazon etc. just received the normal Box without the three extra pins;
(Mine was ordered through CDjapan - normal edition without any preorder bonus)
So basically there isn't any CD for the three new songs, only the Playbutton thing.
(However I wonder whether these three preorder pins were Playbuttons as well or just normal metal pins...)
The three new hymmns I uploaded were also downloaded from /jp/ - I found another rip today, but the only difference are slightly better tags, so nothing major;
You're sure it's not the ripper or anything? x-x does the disc say what the quality is anywhere?
I got all of the files the day you uploaded them~ so it'll take some time but I'll get them up soon :o
ty for providing this :3
btw there's lots of ar tonelico
here if you're interested~
I spent some time searching for a lossless rip of the playbutton but didn't find anything - and also asked for it in various places,
however the only thing people were able to share were 320kbps rips;
And as I mentioned before, I wasn't able to extract anything from the device and therefore can't examine the quality of the files myself. Sorry!
edit.
>does the disc say what the quality is anywhere?
Okay maybe I didn't explain it in an appropriate way;
There doesn't exist a CD for the three "new" songs; Instead they were delivered on a "playbutton".
A "playbutton" is basically a locked mp3 player. You plug your headphone into it and listen to the songs.
You (normally) can't connect it to your PC or anything like that, because its contents aren's intended to be copied or deleted;
However some people were able to rip it apparently, so they uploaded the songs...
And as I mentioned before, I wasn't able to find these particular rips as lossless rips, so I tend to believe that the playbutton doesn't contain the songs as lossless files.
edit2:
And no, there aren't any details about the quality of the files on the playbutton anywhere in the CD Box.