Nintendo has announced and released Nintendo Music – a mobile app packed with music that spans decades of games and hardware at the company. The app is now available for iOS and Android. It requires a Nintendo Switch Online subscription to access.
At first glance, the app is noticeably short on content. However, Nintendo does say it will add more music to the app over time. There are a handful of video game collections to browse through each containing dozens of in-game tracks. Nintendo has also gone as far as to add the Wii app music to the app too.
The app lets you create music playlists of your own, download tracks for offline listening and save curated playlists. You can also loop certain tracks. So you can have the Nintendo Wii Whop Channel song looped and playing the entire day if you want. There’s also a spoiler protection setting that disables music that might spoil boss fight tunes and other endings.
At the moment, the app definitely needs a heavy injection of content. There are no 3DS games or hardware-related songs. In addition, Nintendo has left out all Wii U games and songs too. They will likely arrive later down the line.
The good news here is there’s an official way to listen to Nintendo music without worrying about copyright issues. Nintendo has been clamping down on music rights for years now as the company issues DMCA to YouTube channels and platforms that share unlicensed music.
While it would be ideal to have this Nintendo Music App integrated into Spotify or Apple Music so we don’t have to juggle yet another app and subscription, this is at least a start.
The Nintendo Music App is now available to download. I can confirm the app is available in South Africa and includes all the same music and tracks as the US version. Find it on the App Store for iOS here and Google Play Store for Android here.
