Nintendo Made a Music Streaming App For Video Game Soundtracks 19
Nintendo has announced a mobile app called Nintendo Music, which lets users listen to classic video game soundtracks from Nintendo games spanning the last few decades, including Splatoon, Animal Crossing, and The Legend of Zelda. According to The Verge, the app is available on iOS and Android but only Switch Online subscribers will be able to stream the tunes. From the report: The app features curated playlists themed around games, moments, moods, or characters, though you can also build your own. It also supports streaming as well as downloading tracks for offline listening. Curiously, it includes a spoiler feature that lets you filter out tracks that, somehow, might spoil a game you haven't played or finished yet. And if you just want some Hyrule white noise, the app also lets you "loop songs or extend select tracks to 15, 30, or 60 minutes for uninterrupted listening." Here's a list of all the regions the app will be available in.
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Not to mention that unless it's a native app coded specifically using the tools that Apple or Google provide for making a native app, I can almost guarantee that it's secretly just a web app. Pretty much every "mobile app" framework that targets multiple platforms is really just an embedded browser. Except for apps written by the platform owners, almost no "app" is really a native app, they're almost all web apps that you run in an app shell to give the appearance of a native app.
Given the mix of iOS and Ma
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https://ocremix.org
Fan-made remixes of videogame soundtracks covering all genres of music. Jenova remixed as a disco tune or for classical piano? Sonic tunes remixed into hiphop with lyrics? Dr. Wily's theme with a full orchestra? All there, all completely free. Some tracks are a bit amateurish, but the majority are mixed to a very professional quality. Downloadable on a per-track or per-album basis from the website, or you can save them some bandwidth costs and download everything in bulk via torrents. Donate via patreon if you can. (I am not affiliated with this site, just a long-time fan).
From the 'about us' page on the website:
Founded in 1999, OverClocked ReMix is a community dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of video game music as an art form. Its primary focus is ocremix.org, a website featuring thousands of free fan arrangements, information on game music and composers, resources for aspiring artists, and a thriving community of video game music fans. In 2016, OC ReMix officially moved under the umbrella and sponsorship of Game Music Initiative, Inc, a 501c3 non-profit charitable organization (EIN #81-4140676).
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The danger is that Nintendo starts trying to enforce game music copyrights on platforms like Twitch and YouTube where people make a living playing their video games.
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Currently people can stream and upload Nintendo games without issue. The problem will arise if they start to set up automatic copyright claims on the music.
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Nintendo's been known to copyright strike streaming videos that were done on an emulator. They insist if you're going to stream a game, it must be done using original hardware.
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Nintendo already has a reputation for taking down video game music youtube videos.
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Nintendo is weird when it comes to copyright. Japanese companies have a long history of tolerating and even encouraging fan works, particularly fan art and cover versions of songs. Cosplay and karaoke are a part of their culture.
But lately Nintendo seems to have decided that it won't tolerate anything that could affect its revenue, which includes emulators and ROM hacks. They are going about it in a very stupid way, such as shutting down a Smash Bros tournament that used a modified version of a Wii game. I
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They're not necessarily superior; as Ormy said, some are quite amateurish. But there's some very well-produced music on OCRemix. I haven't been on there in quite some time, but here's one of my old favorites from Mega Man 2:
https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR0... [ocremix.org]
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Im fairly sure its not embedded browser since I can listen to it in the background while filling out this post. I suspect this product is a by-product of their Alarm Clock. After assembling the sounds and songs for their alarm clock someone probably decided to make it available for those with the online subscription since the work was already done. There is a download option for offline access. I cant see me actually listening to any of this for duration, but I am probably not the target market. Each track
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Its really nothing worth stealing IMO. I find a majority of it nerve grating.
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Do they have a nature sounds from Zelda? They should have a bunch of white-noise like infinite loops from windwaker, zelda, or anything else that generates background sounds that are not repetitive.
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Right now its just breath of the wild and Ocarina of Time. They break those down into categories like Hyrule Life, Overworld, Battles. Each have their own randomized playlists. If your really feeling nostalgic you can listen to NES Super Mario Bros, but my patience is limited for those artificial sounds.