Nintendo Music – Announcement Trailer (www.youtube.com)
from simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 22:13
https://lemm.ee/post/46187801

Rather than actually include their soundtracks on popular platforms, Nintendo graciously offers their own mobile app locked behind the Switch online subscription…

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Cris16228@lemmy.today on 30 Oct 22:25 next collapse

Fuck Nintendo

NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 22:28 next collapse

Nintendo sucks ass.

Sanctus@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 22:34 next collapse

So looks like we continue to pirate Nintendo music

icecreamtaco@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 22:44 next collapse

This could be good if they properly use their whole library.

iamjackflack@lemm.ee on 01 Nov 10:10 collapse

No it won’t, they will dcma all Nintendo music everywhere. That means covers, jazz remakes, other style changes, and numerous other types of variants are going with it. Those types of things won’t be in their library and could go away completely. This is not a good thing

daggermoon@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 23:10 next collapse

Nintendo is fucking ass. I bet the soundtracks aren’t even lossless.

i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk on 30 Oct 23:32 next collapse

It’s a bit odd, but it only needs the basic subscription. It’s fair enough, I guess, gives a bit of extra value for the subscription. I can see why they wouldn’t want to give access to their entire music library for free.

PunchingWood@lemmy.world on 31 Oct 10:07 collapse

Even if they had put it on Spotify they would’ve gotten royalties from there. Which would be a nice bonus for them, because I can’t imagine anyone paying Nintendo Online just for the music.

maxprime@lemmy.ml on 31 Oct 11:18 collapse

I thought Spotify gave shite royalties.

PunchingWood@lemmy.world on 01 Nov 06:48 collapse

Well the entire music industry is using it, can’t be that bad.

And like I said, I imagine it would actually bring more money to the table than being a Nintendo Online exclusive.

PunchingWood@lemmy.world on 31 Oct 10:05 next collapse

Of course they’re not doing it on Spotify, and instead choose to lock it behind their own subscription service.

Nintendo is such a greedy shitty corporation. I wouldn’t even be surprised if now they are gonna go after people that posted their music elsewhere.

This would’ve actually been a perfect to be included with the alarm clock they recently released.

Glytch@lemmy.world on 31 Oct 12:14 next collapse

I’ve tried it and have a few thoughts:

Initial selection is only 23 games, not sure why they’re not just releasing everything. I guess they’re planning on parceling the music out like their emulators.

The choices of games are also kind of strange, like why 2 versions of Metroid? Why starfox 64 and not like Mario 64

The ability to extend songs up to 60 minutes is pretty cool

The idea of character specific playlists is interesting

It crashes semi frequently, not a good sign.

It does add value to the Switch online membership, but not much at this point.

MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world on 01 Nov 08:18 next collapse

This was something i noticed too. I probably won’t be using the app much because i already have all their music i want in my iTunes cloud library but the selection is odd and the choice too release the music selectively feels strange too me. I feel like they’d get more profit if they had most of their stuff on their from the get go

DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works on 01 Nov 19:14 collapse

Initial selection is only 23 games, not sure why they’re not just releasing everything.

It’s to keep people returning to the app by artificially boosting the amount of updates.

Either that or licensing issues, but I just wanna have my conspiracy theory.

Glytch@lemmy.world on 02 Nov 08:39 collapse

I think Nintendo already owns the rights to most (if not all) of the music for their games so I’m pretty sure your conspiracy theory is correct.

If they don’t own the rights to that music they’ve certainly been militant in taking down any other platform that makes it available.

tiz@lemmy.ml on 31 Oct 15:02 next collapse

I’ve been using it today. And it’s great fwiw

MIDItheKID@lemmy.world on 31 Oct 16:19 next collapse

Cool. So now I can expect Nintendo to start a DMCA takedown campaign of all their music on YouTube, and completely destroy the playlists I made.

Coolcoolcoolcool

Aielman15@lemmy.world on 31 Oct 20:54 collapse

I’m pretty sure they were doing that already.

LiveLM@lemmy.zip on 01 Nov 09:13 collapse

Make sure to download any fan songs/mashups/remixes you like off of YouTube, because if Nintendo haven’t striked the fuck out of it already, they will now.