The Nintendo Music app embarrasses Spotify and YouTube

Nintendo finally has a way to officially listen to it's music (only a few titles atm, more will probably be added), and shockingly it doesn't suck. In fact, it's actually great and shows how shit YouTube Music and Spotify are.

The app is snappy, well designed, and has a ton of great features.

• You can hide games from the entire app if you want to avoid spoilers.

• Each track has it's own picture making it easier to identify specific tracks.

• The albums are intelligently ordered based on when they show up in the game. Credits at the end, title screen at the beginning, and such.

• When you select a game, it shows you related games (Mario Odyssey page suggests other Mario games for example)

• Each game page also has sub pages for music, for example the FZero page has one for the hard route mission tracks only and the Pokémon one has a page for all the Battle! themes. Pretty cool feature.

• You don't just have to show songs by game, you can also search by platform or character. For example the Bowser page lists all the songs that are tied to him (boss themese and castle themes) across all games.

• Games you have played on your Switch are at the top, so if you just played a game and want to check out the OST it's right there.

On top of those exclusive features, the app has a bunch of QoL that you wouldn't expect Nintendo to include. Repeat tracks, shuffle, shareable playlists, thoughtfully picked recommendation playlists, background play, auto extension (YouTube channels that just extend Nintendo music btfo), and total playtime for playlists.

Honestly this is probably my favorite music app, which is crazy considering Nintendo usually is r-slurred with apps and the like.

If you like Nintendo music and have a NSO subscription, download the app.