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There are soundtracks I listen to outside of their games: Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Chrono Trigger, Shadowgate,... but Minecraft would be way near the end of the list. The music is too generic to be worth the attention, yet too present to work as ambiance. It kinda reminds me of Silent Hill's soundtrack.

"Generic"? Ouch, lol.

I turn off the in-game music while playing. I prefer to listen to my own stuff, including video essays etc, but I do still enjoy a lot of the music, and I've listened to it standalone a decent amount. I would tend to the same in most sandbox games, like factorio

That specific coincidence is a great example of the "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon"

Ah, thank you! Never knew what that was called. Guess I could asked Chat Jippity but there's no fun in that.