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Nintendo has launched Nintendo Music, a new music download and streaming app for your smartphone with access to a library of the company’s top video game tunes.
Available now via theiPhone App StoreandGoogle Play, the app requires a Nintendo Switch Online subscription to let you mooch around with Mario or pick up your morning jog withPikmin.
Nintendo Music features playlists from dozens of Nintendo games across the years, with more to be added over time.
you’re able to play themes from specific games, or from playlists themed around certain Nintendo characters, music genres and moods.
There’s also the ability to curate your playlists, and hide music from games you haven’t played (or don’t want to hear) via a Spoiler function.
Best of all, tracks can be extended (it’s possible for you to choose from either 15 minutes, 30 minutes or a full hour) allowing you to bliss out to some relaxing Animal Crossing orPikmin 4vibes all night long.
Nintendo has increasingly taken a sterner stance towards the hosting of its music elsewhere on the internet, and the decision to provide an official source for its tunes (and the ability to extend them - an offering that is a YouTube favourite) is an interesting step.
So far, Nintendo Music hosts music from:
Nintendo Switch
Wii
Nintendo DS
GameCube
Game Boy Advance
Nintendo 64
Super Nintendo
Game Boy
Nintendo Entertainment System
So, anything take your fancy?
For a list of all games available as part of Nintendo’s subcription, meanwhile, check out ourfull guide to Nintendo Switch Online.
