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PokéCommunity Daily: Nintendo Music app shadowdropped today

Nintendo Music app shadowdropped today

Nintendo Music app shadowdropped today

Nintendo Music is available now, and has the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet soundtrack!
Yeah, I know it just came out, but I still wish they added more than the absolute bare minimum for this release.

Hopefully it's not a 6 month wait for the other pokemon soundtracks to be released. Right now it's only Scarlet/Violet.

...i'm really hoping this is regularly updated and won't be a dripfeed service.
 
I just installed it and there's a lot of good stuff on there, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the size of their library. Hopefully there will be more to come, though, and that they add good soundtracks. I do like what's already there at least, but this is definitely a welcome surprise, and something that wasn't on my 2024 bingo card, either.
 
But I fear this means Nintendo will go crazy on OST available on YouTube.
It's already started. I only listen to one Nintendo OST, and even before this app was announced, the playlist that I had saved on Youtube was deleted. The one I found after that has also now been deleted, and I'm so glad that I found another way to get this one OST without having to rely on Youtube. Other people have found the same with other OSTs.

Which I get why Nintendo is doing this, but it's going to be a long time before I'll be willing to pay for this service. (I don't have a NSO account at any rate.)

I am curious as to what the upload rate will be to this app. And if there will be any patterns to it.
 
It's already started. I only listen to one Nintendo OST, and even before this app was announced, the playlist that I had saved on Youtube was deleted. The one I found after that has also now been deleted, and I'm so glad that I found another way to get this one OST without having to rely on Youtube. Other people have found the same with other OSTs.

Which I get why Nintendo is doing this, but it's going to be a long time before I'll be willing to pay for this service. (I don't have a NSO account at any rate.)

I am curious as to what the upload rate will be to this app. And if there will be any patterns to it.
Well, the day it launched it had a small selection, and then like 24 hours later they added Mario Wonder to the app, so it looks like they're working on getting their popular titles up on there.
 
I don't really care about OSTs to be honest, so I'm not interested in the app. But I fear this means Nintendo will go crazy on OST available on YouTube.

Yeah, that's my biggest worry too. Nintendo are really trigger happy with that sort of thing and way too eager to keep things under their purview. I don't hate this idea conceptually though at the least and it is free if you've already got Nintendo Online which - lbr - most of us do. So it's not like it's an unreasonable service or anything at least. I'm just concerned for the wider implications.
 
I really hope they hurry and add, like, a ton of backlog to this app. I like some of its features--the ability to mark games as spoilers is nice although I wish it were more comprehensive so I could still listen to earlier music and not worry about, say, a champion theme showing up with a spoiler title but it spoilers the entire game if you mark it. It's also neat that they've embraced some things like having official 1 hour loops of songs lol.

But the fact that there's like 15 games total or something really hurts it. If they'd released this with basically every song they've ever taken down from Youtube it'd be phenomenal but as it is there's basically nothing I wanna listen to and I worry they're gonna release new games onto it at the snail's pace that we get virtual console titles on Switch. :/

Also it's annoying they don't have proper song metadata. Show me composers! Let me find other songs by the same composer or arranger! I understand for more proprietary music like Wii Shop Channel music or something they may not have that data on hand or want to share it but for games that have an official album release where that information is already embedded into music files if you buy the CD, I should absolutely be able to see it on their streaming app.
 
Yeah, that's my biggest worry too. Nintendo are really trigger happy with that sort of thing and way too eager to keep things under their purview. I don't hate this idea conceptually though at the least and it is free if you've already got Nintendo Online which - lbr - most of us do. So it's not like it's an unreasonable service or anything at least. I'm just concerned for the wider implications.
Same here, Nintendo's already not exactly been merciful when it comes to their OSTs; and them being an actual part of their business now could incentivize them to kick things up a notch and go full nuclear.

As for the actual app, I don't really have a strong opinion outside of thinking they should've been created 20+ years ago when iTunes came out. They could've earned millions if they put out their OSTs shortly after games came out for like $5 a pop, or gotten killer deals from streaming platforms if they went that route instead.
 
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