Square Enix just released a third Final Fantasy XIV half piano, half rock arranged album, "Journeys: Final Fantasy XIV Arrangement Album". This follows 2014's "From Astral to Umbral" and 2016's "Duality", and as with those albums is available on Blu-ray audio or digital download.

The first seven tracks are piano arrangements by Keiko, five of which are also on the recently released Piano Collections Final Fantasy XIV. The exceptions are "Beauty's Wicked Wiles" and "Revolutions", which in addition to piano feature vocals by Susan Calloway. The next eight tracks are rock band arrangements by The Primals. My guess is that these themes are mostly from the expansion Stormblood - can any FFXIV fans here confirm?

The final three tracks are "extra" arrangements of earlier FFXIV themes ("Oblivion", "Answers", and "Dragonsong") for piano by Keiko and vocals by Susan Calloway.

1. Crimson Sunset [5:46]
2. Westward Tide [3:37]
3. Beauty's Wicked Wiles [3:46]
4. Old Wounds [5:05]
5. Ink Long Dry [3:11]
6. The Worm's Tail [5:13]
7. Revolutions [8:07]
8. eScape [4:14]
9. Metal - Brute Justice Mode [3:42]
10. Amatsu Kaze [4:59]
11. Metal [2:46]
12. Wayward Daughter [2:47]
13. Sunrise [4:33]
14. Rise [3:50]
15. Exponential Entropy [5:27]
16. Oblivion [6:04]
17. Answers [6:05]
18. Dragonsong [8:08]

eScape, Amatsu Kaze, Wayward Daughter, Sunrise are from Stormblood.

Metal-Brute Justice Mode, Metal, Rise, Exponential Entropy are from Heavensward.

Haven't had a chance to give it a listen yet, but it appears that unlike the previous two arranged albums, this one is longer than the maximum amount of time you can put on a CD so maybe (MAYBE) it's justified putting it on a STUPID BLU RAY (would I still prefer two discs I can actually play on the sound systems set up in my house?  Yeah. But at least this doesn't feel quite as moronic as the last two).  I'm also a little conflicted because I bought the piano album because that's the part of these arranged things I generally like, while the Primals stuff is a little too... hard(?) for me...?  I don't know how to describe it.  Will definitely give this one a chance, though.

I didn’t buy this one because there’s not enough new piano for me to want to bother and I don’t like the rock arrangements or vocals.

Even if it’s longer than a standard CD that’s not the justification they’re using. They want to put videos to accompany the songs so that’s why they do Blu-ray a lot. For all these Revival Discs it’s kind of stupid because it’s just lame images or game play videos. The FFXIV OST Blu-ray releases I actually am okay with because there’s an absolute massive amount of music in each OST. I think across the 6 expansions they have like 30 hours of music. So one BD is more convenient than 8 CDs.

Yeah, as much as I'm still a dork who's willing to shove a bunch of CDs into a CD changer, you're probably right on the OST thing.  Since PSO2 is finally going to get localized, I actually started looking at what's out there for soundtrack releases for that, and it appears that they're up to 23 CDs worth of OST for that sucker?  (though I wonder - HOW??? the original PSO ended up with... what, 4 discs between episodes 1 and 2?)  The rereleases on Bluray of the other old FF albums seem extraneous and dumb, though.