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Nintendo made a music streaming app for Switch Online subscribers (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure how I feel about this.

In a vacuum, the app itself is a nice value add for your NSO subscription. I like that they have both single-length and extended versions of each track, so you can loop them seamlessly without an intro/outro. Loopable OSTs can be hard to find sometimes, when I was trying to decide what BGM to use for a li'l video essay I recently put out I had to narrow it down to something I could find an extended version of.

But what's annoying is that this is the only official way to listen to Nintendo music. It's either this, unofficial rips on Youtube (and I would not be surprised if these start getting taken down), or the seven seas.

I just wanna buy an album and listen to it offline, DRM-free. I want to be able to shuffle these tracks in with the rest of my music library.

But that's been a problem since before the new app, so I can't really blame the app for this, can I?