Listeners should recognize that most of the digital rights remain with the studios and are not typically included in the various small soundtrack label's licensing agreements. It's not uncommon that we locate, restore and prepare all these soundtracks and prepare them for release on CD with the understanding that the licensors maintain rights and first options on releasing them digitally after that. The incentives for studios to license all this music is pretty small. Their being in a position to exploit these premieres and expanded albums further via digital platforms is really one of the few things they get out of the deals. So usually they decide on how to present the downloads and streaming audio be it lossless, compressed, truncated and whatnot. Whatever titles we do actually control or share in such manner, we are currently learning about and exploring everything on the horizon as best as we can.
--Doug