The Nintendo Music app is awesome. The chance to listen to official Nintendo music from Nintendo might not seem like too big of a deal, but after all these years of asking, it certainly feels like one.
However, with a library of iconic soundtracks now at our fingertips, some have started to reminisce about when Nintendo did this before. Not in an app, but in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Come on, don't tell us you had forgotten about the music player!
It was during the 2018 Smash Ultimate Direct that we got our first in-depth look at the game's 'Sounds' section — a library of over 800 tracks, arranged by series and available for your listening pleasure. You could even compile your favourites into a playlist (ringing any bells?) and listen to them on the go with your Switch screen off. "It's kinda like using your Nintendo Switch as a music player," Sakurai proudly told us during that Direct. Yeah, sure it is.
It's a very cool but, admittedly, pretty easily forgettable feature when you think about it. And the reveal of Nintendo Music has only highlighted its inconvenience:
Okay, so perhaps very few people actually used the Smash Ultimate library as a Spotify stand-in, but it was still pretty neat! Who knows, perhaps we'll start curating playlists over there and taking our Switch on a jog while we wait for more tracks to arrive on Nintendo Music (we won't).
Just another sign of Sakurai being ahead of the curve, we guess.
Did you ever use the Smash Ultimate music player? Let us know in the comments.
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I mean I can listen any music including the Nintendo games music from YouTube, doesn't even need to subscribe Nintendo Music app.
I'm 3rd party gamer.
I listen a lot of diversed music from 80's, 90's, Super Eurobeat, Hardcore, Trance, Techno, Dubstep, House, Ballads, etc, not just only Nintendo games music.
Admittedly, it would be pretty nice if Nintendo Music were also available as a Nintendo Switch app.
For use at home, obviously.
smash ult/3ds were genuinely the only music players in a game to do it right. cause yes i want the songs to play on loop and shuffle, make playlists, play them with the screen off, ect. not the perfect way to listen to music, but just enough for a kid like me to use on the go with my 3ds
that said with the excitement calming down, a nintendo music app is more of a novelty than full replacement. all the more stingy we have to wait for them to add songs, have it be available in our countries, keep a yearly subscription, ect
At least Smash Bros. credits the composers. Might have to carry around my switch just a little longer as God intended.
Yeah, for listening to music outside your phone is definitely more convenient than the Switch (and so also the Sounds section of Smash Ultimate), but I have my fingers crossed they'll eventually make Nintendo Music available also on Switch for when you use it at home - also, hope the app will take a page from Smash Ultimate and properly credit the composers sooner rather than later as others and I have already mentioned here and in other comment sections!
I actually have a lot of nostalgia with this music player.
During lockdown, I hosted a little "Guess The Smash Music" quiz every day with a small group of friends where you would have to guess the franchise that the track was from. If you got it right, you would be able to risk your point for 5 by guessing the specific game it was from or sometimes the name of the track. It got a lot deeper over time but that's the general gist of it lol.
I used this music player, for some reason, to record the music onto my phone. Sure there were better ways of doing it, but it was the quickest way of getting a little 15 second snippet and sending it out. So I ended up spending hours on this thing!
Looking back though, all the tracks in Smash are understandably quite compressed so it doesn't make for a particularly pleasant listening experience, for me at least
Add the smash bros music (at least the music Nintendo fully owns) to the music app
Not having the app on Switch is a bit of a letdown. I really hope they'll be adding it there too. Especially since it's part of the SWITCH ONLINE MEMBERSHIP...
And also, please add the Smash Bros soundtrack. Nothing beats that, besides the Xenoblade Chronicles OSTs.
I loved Smash Ultimate’s music player. I made quite a few playlists like a gigantic one of all my favorites, music I used for my custom stages, boss battles and more. It was great for car trips. All in all, easily Nintendo’s best music player for a game.
The thing about Nintendo Music is that it seems to just be first party music. Smash obviously has its selection of third party tracks.
Y'all forgetting that Smash 4 and Xenoblade 3D have music players that work with a closed 3DS.
@Steel76 DMCAs: exist
Also, it just doesn't feel right listening to music from YouTube. That, and the fact that it's usually not at the right volume, length, or even quality you want it
I would put money down that this app will factor into the tracklist curation for the next Smash Bros now that Nintendo can look at what songs people play and extend the most and prioritize adding/keeping in Smash.
Reminiscing? I NEVER FORGOT! I NEVER WILL!!!
@Steel76
Used YouTube as a surrogate but you have to deal with advert interruptions, copywright strikes on channels, not being able to turn the screen off, not being able to download stuff to listen offline.
This has many perks buddy.
Gonna go for a drive in a bit. Hope it has CarPlay integration. Best thing is no ads
@1UP_MARIO I also hope that CarPlay works, guess I’ll see when I leave in an hour lol
I love video game soundtrack players in the game, especially on Switch (ds and 3ds too)! I've used that type of thing for car rides and casual listening many times, and Smash Ultimate is a good one. I even have a whole group about it on my Switch. I've used the D.A. Garden in Sonic Mania and the soundtrack players in the Mega Man Legacy Collection (especially X and Zero/ZX) a lot.
Personally, I think the ability to listen to the game OST is a feature every game should have. Even when the soundtrack isn't that great, it's nice to go through a soundtrack to appreciate it and find some really good tracks.
@Nintoz that sounds like a fun idea! I should try that with my discord party.
While this is true. The Smash Bros player is still king...they offer different renditions of certain songs. Also, songs that are not Nintendo properties. So, I wonder how long before Nintendo runs out of tracks to include on the platform.
So not only is Nintendo Music not available on the newly released $100 alarm clock it’s also not available on the $200 - $350 Switch? Nintendo is so not good at this.
We got a 2 CD set of Smash music from Club Nintendo, back when that was a good thing, we copied over to a thumb drive to listen to in the car all the time. All for free. Nintendo did used to be good at this stuff.
She does have great hair, which seems to honestly be the point of that sequence.
Also, gosh yes, why isn't this also a Switch app??
Now that I think about it, will they ever actually add most of the Smash Bros. soundtracks to this app? Getting the rights to all that third party music seems like a massive hastle for something they're not making any money off of.
I did this all the time lol!
On that note, Smash's soundtrack isn't currently on Nintendo Music, so I guess (I hope) they'll add it later?
The smash music player still has the better selection.
For Guile's Theme alone.
Probably for the best since the Switch probably isn't powerful enough to play it in the background anyway. That said I loved booting up my Switch in the past just to play game music while I go about my morning routine. Tabletop mode turned into kitchen mode for me! Would still enjoy the app on Switch to play standalone of course.
However Switch 2 will easily be powerful enough, so being available on Switch 2 to play in the background is a must!! I'm desperate to overlay any Nintendo songs over any game I'm playing, I will beg for this endlessly Nintendo!1!!
For anyone saying oh I can just use YouTube - you do realise that has ads and Thurs is ad free. And you can play this in the background and download music unlike YouTube on music. And this is a selection curated by Nintendo not Johnny69 so the audio quality is ideal.
They could litterally import the. SSBU OST and call it a day...and I actually listened to the music in Smash Bros often btw. GOAT'd soundtrack.
I mean, I used Smash's sound test constantly to listen to random music while out and about...oftentimes I'd just use my 3DS's music player but, still...lol
Lol this made me play smash again today 🤣
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