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The Nintendo Music app embarrasses Spotify and YouTube

Nintendo finally has a way to officially listen to it's music (only a few titles atm, more will probably be added), and shockingly it doesn't suck. In fact, it's actually great and shows how shit YouTube Music and Spotify are.

!g*mers

The app is snappy, well designed, and has a ton of great features.

  • You can hide games from the entire app if you want to avoid spoilers.

  • Each track has it's own picture making it easier to identify specific tracks.

  • The albums are intelligently ordered based on when they show up in the game. Credits at the end, title screen at the beginning, and such.

  • When you select a game, it shows you related games (Mario Odyssey page suggests other Mario games for example)

  • Each game page also has sub pages for music, for example the FZero page has one for the hard route mission tracks only and the Pokémon one has a page for all the Battle! themes. Pretty cool feature.

  • You don't just have to show songs by game, you can also search by platform or character. For example the Bowser page lists all the songs that are tied to him (boss themese and castle themes) across all games.

  • Games you have played on your Switch are at the top, so if you just played a game and want to check out the OST it's right there.

On top of those exclusive features, the app has a bunch of QoL that you wouldn't expect Nintendo to include. Repeat tracks, shuffle, shareable playlists, thoughtfully picked recommendation playlists, background play, auto extension (YouTube channels that just extend Nintendo music btfo), and total playtime for playlists.

Honestly this is probably my favorite music app, which is crazy considering Nintendo usually is r-slurred with apps and the like.

If you like Nintendo music and have a NSO subscription, download the app.

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>he listens to video game music

:#marseyemojirofl: :#marseylaughpoundfist: :marseyrofl#: :#roflmao:

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:#marseyitsaover::#marseysoyswitchgenocide:

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it's unironically over

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its been over since day one bro im sorry

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>he listens to music on apps

:#xd: :#laughing: :#rofl: :#lol: :#nelsonhaha: :#lolsmiley: :#pepeloser: :#laugh:

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I dont want to listen to chudtendo music :#platydown: i want to listen to the fish cream parlor song from kyrandia 3 :#platydinosaur:

!g*mers :#carpwave:

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>nintendo is drip feeding fricking music

Nintendo release a complete product challenge now (impossible)

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I hate it, but everyone does it now. They wouldn't do it if it didn't work.

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For this in particular it sucks and doesnt make sense. For these types of streaming services you want a lot of content to attract people not less this also wont fit in with my pre-existing amazon music playlists unlike sega and other game companies who have music on there. Meaning there is no option for those of us who wanna listen to multiple music sources. Just seems like typically nintendo BS god I hate this company and their shit butt modern baby games.

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This neighbor pays for nso :marseylaugh:

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I'm just leeching off a family plan lmao, I don't pay a penny.

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does it do hi res audio?

does it work on desktop?

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Seems loseless, so yes.

No desktop app, but you can run Android apps on Windows and Linux these days so nbd.

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>prebigbang maplestory playlist

>shuffle all

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You should be able to make a one time purchase for music files, subscription services for music is very stupid

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I agree, but this is better than Spotify, which I find funny.

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Pros: the app experience is amazing

Cons: you are listening to the donkey Kong 64 soundtrack. If you tell anyone they will block your phone number

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Carp you better r*pe this neighbor hard during DK week

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I believe Bandcamp lets you stream albums that you buy without having them on-device. Idk, I'm one of the holdouts of people who prefers to buy rather than stream, so I still just load up a micro SD.

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The spotify UI and technical performance is IMPRESSIVELY bad. The bar could not possibly be lower.

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YouTube music, the app is terrible. So glad NewPipe exists.

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Spotify's desktop client puts more load on my GPU than some of the older games I play. For what is functionally a (cluttered, schizophrenic, and cumbersome) 2D UI. It's fricking ridiculous.

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I will never not be salty that they axed google play music in favor of youtube music. The google play music algorithm made amazing playlists and youtube just gives up after five songs and filters you back into things you've already heard with no regard to playlist cohesion.

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Yeah, it's insane how often Google kills good projects.

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Technical performance? Shits fast on my phone

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I'm mostly bitching about the desktop client tbh

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That's pretty cool. :marseythumbsup:

So I assume they have the Sutte Hakkun soundtrack? :marseycrystal:

No? :marseyimpossibru:

Do they at least have the music from Kiki Trick? :donkeythonk:

If not, what's even the fricking point? :marseyfacepalm:

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They are releasing more tracks, it wouldn't surprise me if they added those with more well known titles over the coming months.

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Could have just released everything to buy and download on Bandcamp so that I could use MPV instead.

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I do think it's kind of impressive how shit japs are at actually developing software and using cowtools like git, but they always excel presentation and design-wise.

Would hate to see the thing's source code though.

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:#marseymummy:

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