Thanks for finally updating us..... even if it's not what we wanted to hear. I do understand what you mean as far as the OST being very dynamic and hard to loop properly, and with how much quality you put into your loops, I can see how it must be very difficult to rip properly. Also, it's sad to hear you didn't enjoy 3. I personally loved the game, and it also may have dethroned the first game as my favorite game of all time, but I can respect your opinion. I would like to thank you for replying to me directly about this update too. Honestly, I feel kind of honored that I left a big enough impression on you with my interest in your uploads that you would do that! :) I'm sorry if I ever came across as rude or impatient, I was just really excited for your rips and was really wondering where you were. To be honest about my intentions, I was planning on using a YouTube to MP3 program to download your uploads so that I could always have it on my computer and phone to listen to. Not sure if you care if people do that or not, but just wanted to finally make that clear, as it was the biggest reason why I was waiting so long for your rips specifically. Overall, thank you for finally updating us, even if it was, unfortunately, the worst possible outcome. :( But, like I said in one of my comments, I would rather just know now for sure that you won't be uploading the OST, than keep being in the dark wondering what's going on. Am I disappointed that this is the result of all my patience? Yes, but finally knowing what you guys have been up to, and being at peace in my mind more than makes up for that. For now, I will be sticking with the NintendoMelody playlist and downloading that, and when the OST finally gets released from Nintendo, I may just buy it, even if you guys do upload it to here, but we'll see what happens. Thanks for reading this, keep up the great work, and see you guys soon!
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You're the channel I visit to listen to xc1 and 2 music. I'm thankful enough to you to patiently wait until everything's ready. Take your time!
2 years ago | 8
Now that we have the trinity collection with the full OST this seems feasible, thank you for striving for quality in your uploads!
2 years ago | 8
If you’re looking for someone else who’s uploaded it ages ago: Nintendo Melody. They’ve recently resorted their playlist to be in story order and put more focus on the completed dynamic tracks/full versions, whilst still having the cut/incomplete versions. Also this could have changed and it’s hard to tell since I usually use my account with YT Premium but if for whatever reason I can’t: I’ve noticed my Xenoblade playlist only gets ads on the XC1 and XC2 video (uploaded by J.O.E.) and not in the XC3 videos (uploaded by Nintendo Melody).
2 years ago | 51
sad to hear this update, but it is what it is, i'll continue to appreciate the first two soundtracks you uploaded
2 years ago | 4
The Trinity Box Set is finally here! Hope to see you guys rip 3's OST from that onto your channel soon!
2 years ago | 7
Sorry you didn't enjoy the game. There are other places to get the soundtrack, so I don't mind. Keep doing a great job, and enjoy it too!
2 years ago | 11
Well I got good news for you Joe. The official soundtrack for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is coming on July 29th, 2023. This will be easy for you guys to upload the soundtrack whenever you get the chance. I honestly can't wait to listen to them in their full glory.
2 years ago | 10
Honestly I agree with you. I love xenoblade but didn’t enjoy the third as much as I’d hoped. It’s still a great game but I could ramble on about all the problems it has, I can understand how that disappointment can take it’s toll on your motivation.
2 years ago | 8
Thanks for the update, and that's truly unfortunate. I agree with the sentiment of not enjoying the game as much as the other two but the soundtrack is something I will go back to a lot.
2 years ago | 3
You absolutely should have come forward and admitted this months ago. I've downloaded the NintendoMelody playlist now, so I finally have all three OSTs stored locally on my phone. It would have been nice - and saved a LOT of data - to know that a better upload of the soundtrack than theirs wasn't coming months ago.
2 years ago | 7
Honestly, I get it. The last two chapters of that game left much unanswered and was just oddly kinda rushed. I still did enjoy the game but I enjoyed the first two much more. However, I really loved the music, that was honestly the highlight of the game.
2 years ago | 18
Why didn't you enjoy it? Does it have to do with the story?
2 years ago | 6
I honestly agree that I didn't enjoy 3 as much as the other two. It felt rushed in a weird way, and I wasn't as attached to the characters (aside from the main cast of course). It felt like it was riding the coattails of the previous games a bit.
2 years ago | 9
J.O.E. VGM
Hello all, I apologize for not getting to this sooner, life is busy...
We've had a surprising amount of people ask about where the upload for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is. It seems many recognize the quality we put into our uploads and want to have that for XC3 itself and for playlist consistency with the other uploads on this channel.
Our standard of quality takes a lot of time to prepare the actual audio; this is especially true of Xenoblade 3, which unexpectedly has lots of dynamic music that would need to be manually edited together and trimmed. This is not trivial work, and the numerous errors I've noticed in many other uploads are indicative of this. Jass and I have lots of audio editing experience and could certainly do it correctly, we've just never gotten around to actually doing it.
I've also considered digging through the game data to figure out how loop information is stored, and making a tool to stitch it together automatically using that data, but I've had no motivation to do that either as it would still be rather time consuming and largely uninteresting. I've technically had more than enough free time by now to do it all by now, but when I do get free time, I never feel any real desire to do it. A big factor in this is that I ended up not really enjoying XC3, and that makes it difficult to want to spend what little free time I have on it, but that's besides the point.
All that is to say the upload isn't coming, at least not any time soon. The other uploads out there are good enough for the most part, and there seems to be at least one properly edited version of the OST on a certain non-youtube website, though admittedly I haven't bothered to thoroughly check either of those things.
I think the most likely thing at this point is, if the game ever gets an official CD soundtrack release, we'll upload that if it's not officially available on prominent music streaming platforms.
I apologize for taking so long to address this, and I apologize for any disappointment
~Poe
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