Nintendo Music App

[littlelum]

So Yesterday Nintendo made an app for streaming their music. I tried it out, and while the selection is on the small side, the app itself functions fine. I don't like the fact that I can't disable autoplay, though. Has anyone else here tried it? I'll probably be sticking to my slightly buggy third-party YouTube player for now, but it's nice to have an alternative if the game is covered by the app.

[VinnyVideo]

This is cool to see - I'm honestly surprised it took Nintendo so long to make a music app, considering the size and quality of their music libraries.

I don't have a Switch, so I haven't played it yet. I might check it out if I ever get a Switch, though.

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[fireball3k]

I have it installed. It just came out not long ago, but there's not very much on it. That said, access comes free with Nintendo Switch online memberships, which is nice.

I would have preferred Nintendo to release their music on Spotify and such, but the app being part of a Nintendo online pass does make it easier to swallow. Not only do I have online play and some retro games on Switch, but they have music too and I don't have to pay more for it.

[MarioSyndicate]

I have it installed. It just came out not long ago, but there's not very much on it. That said, access comes free with Nintendo Switch online memberships, which is nice.

I would have preferred Nintendo to release their music on Spotify and such, but the app being part of a Nintendo online pass does make it easier to swallow. Not only do I have online play and some retro games on Switch, but they have music too and I don't have to pay more for it.

They tend to gate keep their content. Mobile was large enough for them to make them put Pokemon and Mario, but they haven't dabbled like that since their early PC games.

[Q-Nova]

I don't have a Switch nor a smart phone, so I can't use it, but I think it's kind of neat. Nintendo has such a wealth of good music that spans multiple decades, so it's great that they're giving their customers a way to listen to their music without having to boot up the games and go to the sound test (if there is one, some games don't have that). I know they've distributed CDs with music from some of their games, but they don't seem to be on the market for very long (if they were, I think some had to be ordered?) and some CDs were Japan-only, so like if say you want a Mario Party 3 soundtrack CD but you live in the US, then importing is your only option.

Nintendo has been taking a drip feed approach with their soundtrack releases, which I've seen some criticisms of. They do the same thing with Nintendo Switch Online games, but at least there you can spend quite a while on a game, meanwhile with music you'll go through a whole soundtrack within a day and people usually don't listen to the same soundtracks all the time. On the flip side, though, people seem to be having fun speculating over what game is going to be added next. And who knows, maybe Nintendo will surprise us and sometimes add multiple soundtracks at once, like what they sometimes do in NSO.

Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES) just got added to Nintendo Music. It's nice to see Nintendo acknowledge that the DKC games have such good music, so good that they got the whole SNES trilogy covered in a little over two months! Donkey Kong 64 would be cool to see there; that game has some excellent songs (like Crystal Caves and Hideout Helm). I was looking at the MarioWiki article, and I burst out laughing when I saw that they just added a pre-made playlist for Wrinkly Kong!

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