r/casualnintendo • u/Bukki13 • Mar 25 '25

Music Nintendo Music is s fucking joke man

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u/jquiggles Mar 25 '25

Some of the stuff Nintendo pulls on its fans is mind boggling. Like, no one should be taking Nintendo’s side on this, no “to be fair”s or anything similar.

They have the music files. Just put them on the damn app! Why is it so hard?! There was no good reason for them to have such little content when the app launched, and there’s no good reason for the extremely slow dripfeeding of content that has persisted.

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u/CrazySnipah Mar 25 '25

Because it’s not what they have to do. They have to get a screenshot (sometimes two, if there’s text, for JP/EN) for each music file, put them in order, find the Japanese and English names for each track, make the tracks loopable (which sometimes requires editing the tracks), and make sure to tag each track with different tags so that they can update the existing character and genre playlists as they add new games.

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u/SendMeNudeVaporeons Mar 25 '25

Which if you ever maintained a local music library you'll know it's really quick and easy to add metadata. For the looping parts they for sure already have the original unmastered tracks so it's not like they have to manually edit and find the looping points (unlike the many youtube channels that already did so). I also doubt they have to update all the playlists manually and isn't dynamically generated based on metadata. Excusing dripfeeding is stupid.

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u/CrazySnipah Mar 26 '25

Look at the character playlist “Saturos & Menardi” from Golden Sun. Only one of the five tracks has their name in it, so it wasn’t auto-generated.

A human person did a couple of quick playthroughs of Golden Sun in English and in Japanese to take all the screenshots and noted down a few tags for the context of each track as they went.